Freedom Index#DueProcess
For 16 months, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley professor Clyde Barrow has been getting paid not to teach. On…
Many of the free speech fights today rest on the question: How do we protect kids online? But some of…
Last week, Polk State College proudly announced that its Board of Trustees had adopted a statement committing the school to institutional…
Payment comes after federal appeals court held university violated Prof. Stuart Reges’s academic freedom rightsSettlement includes guarantee of no further…
Free Speech Dispatch covers censorship trends and challenges around the world. If you want to know where free expression is under…
**Editor’s note: This episode was recorded before Meta settled a social media addiction trial with a coalition of state attorneys…
Across the country, school libraries have become a recurring front in political and cultural fights, with controversial books drawing objections…
A Nebraska school district censored a student newspaper over an anti-ICE cartoon. After FIRE objected, the district adopted a new…
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11, 2026 — They may not agree on much, but Americans who identify as “very liberal” or “very…
This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.In 1988, two mushroom enthusiasts took their trusty copy of The…
Michelle Liao studies psychology and political science at the University of Michigan.At the University of Michigan’s May 2 commencement, history…
Axios reported Monday that the Trump administration finalized its framework to evaluate advanced AI models, “but it won’t say what the…