Freedom Index#StudentActivism
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…
We have a jawboning problem in New York City.Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the president of Manhattan borough, just wrote a letter demanding…
Public universities don’t get to pick which political viewpoints are safe to express. But administrators at two major universities are…
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2026 — For almost a year, the Federal Trade Commission has unconstitutionally used its broad regulatory powers…
Can a state bar public school teachers from talking to a student’s parents about their minor child’s gender identity without…
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…