Freedom Index#StudentActivism
This essay was originally published in The Free Press on Jan. 21, 2026. Three days later, ICE agents shot and…
In 2023, FIRE raised the following question: What’s going on in Florida? In light of recent affronts to academic freedom in…
On Thursday, a federal judge unsealed internal government documents shining a light into how the Trump administration targeted pro-Palestinian foreign students…
On Jan. 7, the House Oversight Committee approved a subpoena for Seth Harp, an investigative journalist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, for…
For more than 80 years, the law has been clear. The government can’t force public school children to stand and…
Leslie Dunton-Downer has spent much of her career asking a deceptively simple question. How do ideas travel across time, languages,…
Last week, Emily Suski, a law professor and associate dean at the University of South Carolina, was named the next…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is moving to dock Senator Mark Kelly’s captain rank and retirement pension after Kelly…
Sourcing is one of the most foundational skills any journalist learns. But at Morgan State University, the student press is…
Last year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch, a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the…
Defending the rights of students and faculty to speak freely has been part and parcel of FIRE’s mission for 26…