#FirstAmendment

Leslie Dunton-Downer has spent much of her career asking a deceptively simple question. How do ideas travel across time, languages,…

As lawmakers kick off the 2026 legislative session, a new and consequential phase in the conversation about free speech and…

This essay was originally published in The Dispatch on Jan. 9, 2026.Accounts differ, but sometime between late November and the…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is moving to dock Senator Mark Kelly’s captain rank and retirement pension after Kelly…

On January 7, 2017, The Associated Press announced that “Free-thinking author and columnist Nat Hentoff is dead at 91.”For well…

NASHVILLE, Dec. 17, 2025 — On Sept. 21, the police came for Larry Bushart. They handcuffed him and hauled him…

The City Club of Cleveland’s creed, written in 1912, begins, “I hail and harbor and hear persons of every belief…

Defending the rights of students and faculty to speak freely has been part and parcel of FIRE’s mission for 26…