Freedom Index#CivilLiberties
This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Times on Aug. 1, 2026. According to Times editorial policy, the newspaper…
When Ben Mueller started searching for news in California’s Marin County, he immediately thought of Jeffrey Epstein. He figured America’s third-richest county…
This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.If you follow politics, you’ve probably seen an ad…
A few years ago, the Supreme Court reaffirmed a basic free speech principle: “the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to…
In 1999, a college dropout named Shawn Fanning and his friend Sean Parker released a piece of software called Napster…
Amuda Balu is a rising senior at the University of Texas at Austin where she studies government.“The first thing to…
Free Speech Dispatch covers censorship trends and challenges around the world. If you want to know where free expression is under…
New research from the Oversight Board reveals a troubling trend: Leading AI models will manipulate and censor their outputs to…
Censorship is often associated with authoritarian governments. But throughout history, efforts to control ideas have taken many different forms –…
When Satvik Shubham became editor-in-chief of The State News, one of the first things he learned was that good journalism depends…
By Dylan Hembrough, The Alestle editor-in-chief The pattern of baselessly discrediting the press to justify refusing to speak to them is familiar to…
A quarter of a millennium ago, the American project began in FIRE’s birthplace of Philadelphia.In a boarding house at Market…