There was more freedom of speech 2,500 years ago than in Britain today - In recent years successive governments have sought to close down free speech. If we are to avoid the enslavement of our ...

Larry Sanders walked away from a $44 million contract and a promising NBA career not because he couldn’t play, but because he couldn’t stay true to himself.

Free Speech 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.

People love to accuse me of hypocrisy on campus speech and antisemitism, given my longstanding support for speech over conflicting antidiscrimination laws, but my position remains consistent ...

News about Freedom of Speech and Expression, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Many Americans worry freedom of speech is fading, while others feel empowered to say what they want. NPR's Morning Edition, which airs on LAist 89.3 FM, explores this dynamic in a new series, The ...

Burt looks at how issues of distribution affect freedom of speech. In Freedom of Speech - Part 2, Burt takes a look at the history of our right to be heard. The right to Freedom of Speech is not ...

They believe that right-wing speech should be sacrosanct, and liberal speech officially disfavored.

To some of the framers — the Federalists, who wanted a leviathan central government as we have today — infringing upon the freedom of speech meant only silencing it before it was uttered.

Today, no law means whatever the court says it means. That happened last week when the Supreme Court upheld congressional legislation silencing TikTok.

The courts have long recognized the freedom of speech as a natural human right. James Madison, who drafted the Constitution and wrote the First Amendment, understood that the right comes from our ...

Free speech in America won’t survive if this Supreme Court decision is overturned New York Times Co. v. Sullivan has set the standard for freedom of the press for more than six decades ...