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WATCH VIDEO: Hong Kong, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Lebanon are among the many countries clamping down on free speech in recent months. This year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch , a...
Search all Cases In 2023, the Florida Department of Education issued inaccurate guidance on a state law concerning K-12 school library materials. The guidance incorrectly claimed the law categorically...
Chris Pietsch / The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK Pro-Palestinian protesters march at the University of Oregon campus in support of a cease fire in Gaza. The Israeli-Palestinian protests that hav...
A detailed review of the realities of methane and its impact on the environment. The last time I wrote about cow farts, it was a warning that the Environmental Protection Agency was likely to use meth...
Aaron E. Martinez / Austin American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK Police arrest a protester at the University of Texas at Austin on April 29, 2024. FIRE has been actively tracking pro-Palestinian enca...
Aleksandar Malivuk / Shutterstock.com UPDATED (June 5, 2024): VICTORY! The eSafety commissioner dropped her legal action against X for refusing to globally suppress content that allegedly violates Aus...
Shutterstock.com For the second time in two months, Montgomery College President Jermaine Williams has threatened free expression on campus with his speech-chilling public comments. In March, Williams...
Among the others infected, four were from Peru, two from Ecuador, one from Chile and a further one whose origin country was not known. The last time we checked on reports of a major measles outbreak i...
Commencement season is here, and if the past is any indicator, we’re bound to see students rally to disinvite controversial speakers . That is, if administrators don’t do it first — preemptively scrub...
Shutterstock Hats off to Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth for taking an important step to protect intellectual diversity at MIT despite the school’s spotty track record ...
Shutterstock.com UPDATED (July 1, 2024): As the Supreme Court rules on these cases, we will update this article accordingly. The 2023-2024 Supreme Court term will be remembered as one that redefined t...
“The Late Republic, between 200-27 BCE, was defined by the collapse of the system of government.” “The Late Republic, between 200-27 BCE, was defined by the collapse of the system of government.” I wo...
The second edition of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s National Speech Index, released today , finds that both liberals and conservatives are concerned about the future of freedom...
PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 2024 — A new poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression finds that no matter which major candidate wins the 2024 presidential election, Americans are fearful ab...
Imagine asking police officers questions about local news — only to have them throw you in jail for it. Or envision yourself surrounded by police at your home simply because you posted an obvious joke...
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney. I thank the Board for its thorough investigation, and I ...
Ricardo B. Brazziell / American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK Police lines and protesters meet at the University of Texas Austin campus on April 24. Student journalists across the country have been un...
To ensure students have equal access to educational opportunities, all schools covered by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — public and private — are required to investigate and prohibit anti-Semitic ...
Yannick Peterhans / USA TODAY The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCLA on May 1, 2024. As several members of Columbia’s leadership prepared to testify before a congressional committee on anti-Semitism o...
Complaint: EEOC exceeded its authority and improperly expanded Title VII to create a de facto accommodation for gender identity Well that was fast. As we predicted in last week’s post , a coalition of...