Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

“The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar,” argues Eric R. Mandel at The Hill, brings “an understandable impulse to end the war immediately, presumably in exchange for release of the ...

As the broad American consensus in favor of free speech erodes, we have seen a similar unsatisfactory form of disputation proliferate. Critics of “free speech absolutism,” as it is condescendingly ...

8, 2024. AP The most consequential issue on the ballot this November is the fate of free speech. At Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaped on the stage and urged the ...

The politics of speech on the American campus. Freedom of speech on campuses has long been under attack, but now more than ever. In retrospect, WilmerHale, the law firm that prepared Harvard ...

Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss free speech. Next we’ll ask, “What, if anything, should be done to prevent TikTok from pushing harmful content to teenage users?” ...

Bravo to the University of Chicago for its $100 million gift in support of free speech. The donation, which comes from an anonymous source ... A concept most associated with 20th-century British ...

For a while in the early 2000s, thanks to the "cheap speech" made possible by the internet, everyone seemed to own a printing press capable of producing and distributing thousands (sometimes ...

Charlotte Kates, a New Jersey native and Rutgers Law School graduate who co-founded the pro-Hamas organization Samidoun, has become the focus of an ongoing legal debate: When does free speech ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. It is a common response among visitors to Israel, even before the war in Gaza. They see the “teeming cafés ...

Cardi B delivered an impassioned speech in support of Kamala Harris and condemning Donald Trump’s stance on women’s rights at a Milwaukee rally Friday. “I’ve been waiting for this moment ...

House Republicans, who blamed college presidents for failing to protect Jewish students against hate speech, said a policy would have helped avoid the fallout. “Institutions should have long ago ...