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Jeff Kosseff (Naval Academy, moving this year to Minnesota) will be guest-blogging Monday to Wednesday about their new book, ...

Conservatives are champions of free speech — and they shouldn’t lose sight of that fact. When woke leftists wielded institutional power and squelched campus free speech, the right defended students’ ...

Free speech is a privilege that many of us hold dear. But as machines become increasingly capable of generating words, ideas and arguments, should this fundamental right be extended to them too? This ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

The First Amendment protects citizens from government censorship, not from actions by private companies or individuals. Social media platforms like X and Facebook can legally remove posts or ban users ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

What are the politics of free speech? 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 ...