Freedom IndexCampus & Education
Campus & Education examines how free speech and censorship debates play out in schools, universities, and academic institutions. From campus protests to classroom policies, this category explores the challenges, opportunities, and evolving standards of expression in educational environments.
Another week, another instance of Texas censorship. Administrators forced assistant history professor Aaron George to alter his course content not…
“It’s like clockwork. War breaks out. Then come the calls for censorship,” my colleague Nico Perrino warned last week about calls…
Several stories have put government power over speech and technology back in the spotlight.In this episode, we break down the…
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…
Last night, FIRE filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. District Court of Northern California arguing the Department of War’s…
Raeba Pradhan is a FIRE program associate for legislative and policy.On Feb. 12, a group of Maryland legislators introduced HB 1322,…
When the Trump administration demanded changes to Anthropic’s AI system and backed it up with a threat to seize the…
“They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” associate biology professor Allyson Friedman said during a public Zoom…
Atheist and Kurdish-Armenian asylum seeker Hamit Coskun has emerged triumphant from a year-long legal battle after he burned a Quran in…
Hamit Coskun secures important victory against UK prosecutors, but threats to free expression linger
Atheist and Kurdish-Armenian asylum seeker Hamit Coskun has emerged triumphant from a year-long legal battle after he burned a Quran in…
It’s like clockwork. War breaks out. Then come the calls for censorship.After the war with Iran began over the weekend,…
This essay was originally published in The Dispatch on Feb. 26, 2026.“The FTC is not the speech police,” FTC Chairman…