The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which comes into force on August 1, 2025, means universities in England now have a new duty to uphold "robust" strategies to ensure freedom of speech on ...

History has examples of freedom of speech and press that were abused by politicians to accomplish an agenda that resulted in serious consequences. The Weimar Republic constitution in Germany ...

A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was overturned in 1935, arrives at NYC’s ...

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about freedom of speech. The text of the First Amendment establishes this freedom. Here’s the text: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment ...

President Trump is taking advantage of an unsettled aspect of the law. By German Lopez The Trump administration has tried in recent weeks to deport several immigrants who spoke out against Israel.

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...

Freedom of Speech in India: Imagine a country where people can’t question authority, share opinions, or criticise policies; the democracy would collapse. That’s why the framers of the Constitution of ...

Mahmoud Muna looked on in disbelief as plain-clothes Israeli police officers rifled the shelves in his decades-old bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem. The officers were looking for books they deemed ...

The “fire in a crowded theater” case involved neither a fire, nor a theater, nor a crowd, and resulted in one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever reached. But the phrase fire in a crowded ...

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the ...