This post—one of two on Livingston Manor—provides facts that problematize a case pitting a minor’s freedom to exercise online speech rights in a non-student, off-campus capacity against a school’s ...

The story of Phillip Michael Hook, a tenured art professor at the University of South Dakota (USD), fits snugly within this fire-Kirk-haters framework. More importantly, his successful lawsuit against ...

Jane Fonda is reviving the Hollywood advocacy group to meet the high-stakes challenges to free expression in the Trump era. Jane Fonda accepts her Lifetime Achievement Award at last winter’s Screen ...

Political divisions have always existed in the United States. Most of the time, even with sharp differences, debates have been civil. This clearly is not most of the time. Even without the backdrop of ...

An annual survey published by the Freedom Forum shows this year that American's understanding of their First Amendment rights remains low. Even as the First Amendment takes centerstage after the ...

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers. The First Amendment is a ...

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...

Columbia University reached a $200 million deal with the Trump administration in July. The Knight First Amendment Institute was among those concerned that it would hamper the school's autonomy. Though ...

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion but not every practice is automatically protected. From prayer in public schools to vaccine exemptions and workplace dress codes, some acts of faith ...