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TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Aug. 4, 2026 — The University of Alabama has received a “green light” rating from the Foundation for…
UMass Dartmouth recently rescinded the student newspaper adviser’s contract, and student journalists suspect the decision is part of a broader effort…
PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 2026 — U.S. colleges are increasingly eliminating or narrowing restrictive speech codes, continuing an encouraging trend that…
This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.If you follow politics, you’ve probably seen an ad…
Michelle Liao is a rising senior at the University of Michigan studying psychology and political science.Last summer, a former student…
A few years ago, the Supreme Court reaffirmed a basic free speech principle: “the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to…
When former University of Pittsburgh student and freelance journalist Henry Bard tried to get records from his campus police department…
Max Friedman is a rising third-year law student at the University of Memphis.Censorship in the name of combating antisemitism has…
Athena Rem is a rising junior at the University of California, Los Angeles.When Bud Selig famously wrote that “baseball is a…
New research from the Oversight Board reveals a troubling trend: Leading AI models will manipulate and censor their outputs to…
When Satvik Shubham became editor-in-chief of The State News, one of the first things he learned was that good journalism depends…
Court rules that Florida professors are not mouthpieces for the government and that the ‘Stop WOKE Act’ violates the First…