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Last week, anti-Israel activist group Palestine Action won a victory in the courts as the High Court of Justice in London…
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…
The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.The federal government strong-armed…
Last Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced an investigation into Signal group chats that Minnesotans are using to track ICE activity.…
The chill in the air on Texas’ campuses isn’t just the winter storm sweeping the nation. The state’s public university…
On Thursday, a federal judge unsealed internal government documents shining a light into how the Trump administration targeted pro-Palestinian foreign students…
Recent events in Minnesota — where anti-ICE protesters interrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul, targeted pastor David Easterwood…
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…