Freedom Index#StudentActivism
Core among the rights protected by the First Amendment is the right to demonstrate. No matter what our message is,…
Dr. Harsini is a biomedical and food system scientist, an animal rights activist, and founder of the nonprofit Allied Scholars…
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…