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FIRE statement on congressional leaders smuggling unconstitutional Antisemitism Awareness Act into a must-pass defense bill

Congressional leadership is aiming to add the Antisemitism Awareness Act to this year’s defense bill. FIRE has consistently warned about the threat to free speech posed by the act. Below is a statemen...

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Central Washington University

Ellensburg, Washington Search all Schools Central Washington University has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one am...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not submit

Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in a culture of conformity. She was beaten and mutilated. She was told who she must marry. Eventually, she rebelled. "You don't speak up at first," she told us. "First you leav...

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The Hochul Hoax: ‘Only Hochul Would Call a Toll Going From $0 to $9 a Tax Cut’

Hochul lies to New Yorkers: “I’m proud to announce we have found a path to fund the MTA, reduce congestion and keep millions of dollars in the pockets of our commuters. You heard that correctly: It wa...

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149 days and counting! Will the White House grant a posthumous pardon in the D.M. Bennett Case? — First Amendment News 447

First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. The clock is ticking, and the free-speech world is w...

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University of Texas at Dallas: Administrators Fire Editor-in-Chief, Run Roughshod over Editorial Independence, Press Freedom

University of Texas, Dallas Search all Cases On September 13, 2024, the University of Texas at Dallas’s Student Media Oversight Board voted 3-1 to remove the editor-in-chief of The Mercury, UT Dallas’...

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VICTORY! Maine hospital backs down from defamation threat over teen’s criticism

Samson Cournane BANGOR, Maine, Nov. 7, 2024 — A Maine hospital conglomerate forfeited its ability to sue a teenage critic, after the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression jumped to his defen...

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Trump Nominees – Be Happy Kamala’s Not Picking A Cabinet

My “hot take” on the whole nominee thing can be summed up as: Don’t Worry, Be Happy (that Kamala is not the one picking a cabinet). Last night we had an hour-long podcast discussion of Trump’s nominee...

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University of Texas, Austin

Austin, Texas Search all Schools University of Texas, Austin has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous pol...

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Commitment to democracy doesn’t end at the ballot box

Shutterstock.com Here’s some good news this Election Day: Americans actually agree on a lot. The bad news? They’re afraid to say it. That’s according to a new survey by the nonpartisan think tank Popu...

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Columbia needs to stop doing politics and start doing higher education

Lev Radin / Shutterstock.com Students and faculty rally as pro-Palestinian supporters set up a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University on April 22, 2024 Last month, FIRE released a rep...

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Trump Picks North Dakota Gov. Burgum as Interior Secretary, Chairman of New National Energy Council

The National Energy Council includes “all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, of ALL forms of American Energy.” Presi...

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University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico Search all Schools University of New Mexico has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambigu...

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After 4 Years of Plotting, Trump’s Picks are Exactly What You’d Expect — Episode 16: Legal Insurrection Podcast

Four years of plotting have led to this moment. Join us as we break down Trump’s handpicked nominees, his strategic moves, and what it all means for the future of American politics. A chunk of Trump’s...

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After Trump’s Victory, DEI Is On Life-Support – Pull The Plug

Our Op-Ed in The NY Post: “Trump’s win, driven by a broad multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious coalition, puts DEI on life support. It’s time to pull the plug and let DEI die.” Donald Trump was...

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Trump Picks Todd Blanche, Who Represented Him in New York, as Deputy Attorney General

Blanche gained national attention with his stony glare behind Trump as he talked to the press during his trial. President-elect Donald Trump picked Todd Blanche to serve as Deputy Attorney General. Bl...

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Trump Picks Robert Kennedy Jr. to Lead Health and Human Services

HHS is also responsible for unaccompanied children the border patrol agents encounter at the border. Oh, boy. President-elect Donald Trump chose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead Health and Human Services...

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Professor Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit Returns to Twitter/X for the ‘New Era’

Great news. Professor Glenn Reynolds of the popular Instapundit blog posted a message on Twitter/X last night, announcing that he has returned to the social media site after a long hiatus. This will i...

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CDC Reports Small Decline in Sexually Transmitted Infections for 2023

The trend may continue, especially in 2025, if woke women are successful at implementing 4B Movement. Finally, I have some good news to report from the realm of biology. For the first time in years, o...

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MSNBC Pivots Back to Concern About ‘Norms’ and a Weaponized DOJ Following Trump Win

“The thing about that is that it would violate five decades of norms, post-Watergate, which said that the Justice Department should be independent from the president.” The people at MSNBC have no sham...

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