Like many other aspects of our democracy, the First Amendment is under direct attack by the Trump administration. Donald Trump has sued the New York Times for writing stories that are critical of him.

President Donald Trump has turned his wrath on The Associated Press in an attempt to bend the global news organization to his will. In February, Trump declared the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed the ...

(CNN) — Eight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

From sit-ins to social media, student protests have long tested the limits of campus free speech. When do universities have the power to act — and when does the First Amendment stand with students?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yet, the First Amendment has not always been potent enough to protect the right to ...

Our rights to practice religion, talk about the president or curse the Hawkeyes are protected in America, writes Randy Evans.

As the United States faces increasing incidents of book banning and threats of governmental intervention – as seen in the temporary suspension of TV host Jimmy Kimmel – the common reflex for many who ...