#AcademicFreedom

“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…

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…

This essay was originally published in The Dispatch on Feb. 26, 2026.“The FTC is not the speech police,” FTC Chairman…

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, newspapers and pamphlets overflowed with essays signed “Publius,” “Brutus,” and “A…

We’ve said it before. We’ll say it again. Ending online anonymity is not some magical cure to “fix” whatever problems you…

Texas Tech leaders have somehow convinced themselves that race and gender are not legitimate topics to discuss in a psychology…

Sheridan Macy is a policy analyst at FIRE with a policy background in human rights as well as environmental and…

Statement on grand jury’s refusal to indict lawmakers over video urging troops to ignore illegal orders Read the full article…

Last night, federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon in connection with an anti-ICE protest inside a Minnesota church earlier this month.…

 This essay was originally published by Persuasion on Jan. 28, 2025.On Oct. 17, 1961, tens of thousands of Algerians marched…

Grok, the AI system integrated into X, has reportedly been used to turn real pictures of people — including minors —…