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Big win for students, faculty as Furman University adopts free speech statement

Bryan Pollard / Shuttestock.com Good news out of Furman University ! Last week, Furman joined more than 100 other colleges and universities that have codified the expressive rights of their campus com...

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Speech Protected Under the First Amendment

“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagree...

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FIRE: Gov. Ron DeSantis must veto social media censorship bill

K M H P H O T O V I D E O / Shutterstock.com The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression urges Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto House Bill 1 , a social media censorship bill that violates the...

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Education Rot: Massachusetts Teachers Association To Host Anti-Israel Webinar Led By Anti-Zionist Jewish Voice For Peace

The virtual event is another leftist Jew-baiting hate-in, sponsored by the people in charge of educating your children. On Thursday, March 21, the Anti-Racism Task Force of the Massachusetts Teachers ...

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FIRE tells Ninth Circuit that social media companies cannot be forced to weigh in on culture war.

Michele Ursi / Shutterstock.com What is a state legislator to do when he wants to change how social media companies decide what speech to permit (or limit) on their platforms, but knows the First Amen...

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Supreme Court Justices raise First Amendment concerns in NetChoice oral argument

Chief Justice John Roberts, shown here at the 2023 State of the Union Address, cut to the heart of the First Amendment questions at stake in the NetChoice hearings before the Supreme Court today. Toda...

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The Supreme Court, Big Tech, and the dark art of politics

This term, the Supreme Court will decide a cluster of cases — the most consequential in my 40-year career practicing First Amendment law — that will markedly shape the relationship between the govern...

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CDC Responds to FOIA Request on Myocarditis Data for Covid Vaccinations With Over 100 Blank Pages

Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, co-author of Great Barrington Declaration: “This information will eventually come out. It’s not top secret.” Last month, I reported that a large, multinational study o...

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Indiana’s SB 202 holds promise, but needs changes to protect academic freedom

Nagel Photography / Shutterstock.com The House of Representatives chamber of the Indiana state capitol building. Today, the Indiana House of Representatives Committee on Education voted to advance Sen...

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Laura Beltz

Laura has spent a decade on FIRE’s Policy Reform team, working with colleges to create a better foundation for free speech on their campuses. Through her role as director, she heads up efforts to assi...

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Speech codes subvert higher ed’s core purpose. Here’s how to fix them.

Shutterstock.com Each year, FIRE releases a report on the trends we see in our Spotlight database of speech codes — which compiles the written policies that govern student speech at nearly 500 college...

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New York City Spending an Eye-Popping Amount on Illegal Immigrants Every Day

“New York City is spending about $387 per day per migrant to provide food and shelter to the 64,800 migrants in the city, according to data from NYC City Hall.” The amount of money that New York City ...

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Cornell falls short with new expression policy and guidance on faculty political speech

Gil C / Shutterstock.com Cornell University talks a big game on free expression. It named freedom of expression the theme of its 2023-24 academic year. Its president, Martha Pollack, has repeatedly af...

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Whether you call it institutional ‘neutrality’ or ‘restraint,’ the Kalven Report is the best way forward

Stephen Lewellyn / University of Chicago Library / Special Collections Research Center Harry Kalven Jr. delivers a lecture at the University of Chicago Last week, FIRE, along with the Academic Freedom...

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10 Worst Censors: 2024

It’s that time of year again — time for the first spring showers, a forecasting groundhog, flowers and chocolates, king cake, and an annual skewering of America’s worst censors. Each year, FIRE names ...

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Chicago: Eight Measles Cases at Illegal Immigrant Shelter and Ten Confirmed in the City

Two children of those eight cases attended a Chicago Public School. I’m going to check the Chicago measles outbreak until it ends. Yes, it’s an outbreak. One case of an easily preventable disease is a...

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VICTORY: Columbia University Law School Student Senate grants recognition to Law Students Against Antisemitism

Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com On Jan. 23, the Columbia Law School Student Senate denied official recognition to a student group called Law Students Against Antisemitism after some student senators ...

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Georgia Judge Throws Out Six Counts Against Trump, Five Other Defendants

All of the counts regard allegations of telephone calls to Georgia’s secretary of state, members of the Georgia Senate, and Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives. Fulton County Superior Cour...

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Medical School DEI Crisis: “It’s up to us to fight these battles … It’s not the students’ fault”

My appearance on the Sandy Rios show: “It’s really up to people like me to call attention to it…. It’s up to us to fight these battles. It’s not fair to expect a second year medical student with their...

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Rhode Island Lawmakers Consider Law to Advance DEI Ideology In Public Schools

RI H7722 requires the department of education to develop DEI materials for public school curricula. But it’s up to local school committees, which will be under enormous pressure to adopt this state po...

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