#ConstitutionalRights

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

Core among the rights protected by the First Amendment is the right to demonstrate. No matter what our message is,…

Dr. Harsini is a biomedical and food system scientist, an animal rights activist, and founder of the nonprofit Allied Scholars…

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

FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…

Public universities don’t get to pick which political viewpoints are safe to express. But administrators at two major universities are…

Free speech has always been America’s most revolutionary idea.As our nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, FIRE is proud…

Riona Sheikh walked onto the University of Maryland’s campus her freshman year not knowing a soul. “I was a little…

One year into Trump 2.0, we examine the administration’s record on free speech and how it compares to the president’s…

This essay was originally published in The Free Press on Jan. 21, 2026. Three days later, ICE agents shot and…

On Saturday, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse named Alex Pretti was shot and killed by United States Border Patrol agents in…

In 2023, FIRE raised the following question: What’s going on in Florida? In light of recent affronts to academic freedom in…