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WHALE DONE: Animal rights club approved by public university after FIRE’s First Amendment uproar

Truman State student Naomi Mathew's animal rights group has been approved after FIRE advocated for fairer club recognition policies. (Rivera Eye Photography for FIRE) KIRKSVILLE, Mo., Feb. 10, 2020 — ...

2020-02-10

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So to Speak podcast: Guns, addiction, and the press

First Amendment scholar Luke Morgan, author of "Addiction and expression" and "Leave your guns at home." Is carrying a weapon during a political demonstration protected by the First Amendment ? What a...

2020-02-06

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Northwestern University in Qatar partner claims controversial event was canceled due to ‘Qatari laws’, ‘cultural and social customs’

Northwestern University in Qatar is located within Doha's Education City complex, also home to several other prominent American satellite campuses. (EQRoy/Shutterstock.com) When Northwestern Universit...

2020-02-05

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Clinton Adviser James Carville Panicked Over 2020 Democrats: “We’re losing our damn minds”

“We’re like talking about people voting from jail cells” The Ragin’ Cajun is back and he’s not happy about the direction his party has taken. Bill Clinton adviser James Carville has been making the me...

2020-02-08

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Northwestern University cancels event featuring openly gay musician on Qatar campus

Northwestern University in Qatar is located within Doha's Education City complex, also home to several other prominent American satellite campuses. (EQRoy/Shutterstock.com) FIRE has repeatedly questio...

2020-02-03

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First Amendment News 240: Section 230 Now Part of United States-Mexico-Canada Treaty

Recently, a version of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act found its way into the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement . Section 230 protects internet platforms from liability for publishin...

2020-01-29

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Fired faculty member speaks out as Babson College lands on FIRE’s 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech

Babson College fired professor Asheen Phansey for a social media post poking fun at President Donald Trump’s Twitter response to the Iran controversy. (Credit: Asheen Phansey) As Babson College lands ...

2020-01-29

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With Bernie rising, it’s time to bring back Reagan’s Soviet jokes

Soviet humor has special significance given Bernie’s embrace of socialism and socialist tyrants — and it offers a fatalistic window into the reality of a Bernieconomy and your health under Berniecare....

2020-01-13

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FIRE names America’s 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29, 2020 — Who are the worst campus censors? The competition is stiff, but today the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released its annual list of America’s ...

2020-01-29

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After controversy over dissent program’s cancellation at Singapore campus, Yale faculty call for academic freedom protections

Yale University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate passed a resolution last month encouraging President Peter Salovey to develop procedures to respond to alleged academic freedom violations at its ...

2020-01-27

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When a judge tells you twice in one week that you are violating students’ constitutional rights, it may be time to listen.

Shutterstock.com A federal court in Connecticut handed the University of Connecticut a stinging rebuke yesterday, holding that the university likely violated an accused student’s due process rights wh...

2020-01-24

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Bernie v. Trump is the battle we need, just as Britain needed Corbyn v. Johnson

We need a clarifying moment, not a mushy Biden v. Trump election. Let’s choose, capitalism or socialism, western society or the red-green alliance. Bernie is staging a major comeback in fundraising an...

2020-01-04

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Public records reveal Wright State used unconstitutional Facebook page policy to censor pro-union speech during historic faculty strike

Imagine this: You are a senior at Wright State University about to begin your final semester in January 2019. After returning from winter break, you learn that WSU’s faculty have voted to authorize a ...

2020-01-24

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University of Minnesota student’s arrest in China a warning to international students abroad

Luo Daiqing was arrested in his hometown of Wuhan, China (pictured) over tweets he wrote while studying in the U.S. Axios reported last night that University of Minnesota student Luo Daiqing was arres...

2020-01-23

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First Amendment News 239: A New Text for a New Generation: First Amendment Coursebook for $16, "keeping access to knowledge affordable"

First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. With admirable clarity and brevity, First Things Fir...

2020-01-22

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Legal Insurrection’s 10 Most-Viewed Posts of 2019

We broke many records this year, with one post getting over 500,000 views. Three of the top 10 posts were about the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case — RIP David Gibson. 2019 was a boom year for...

2020-01-02

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New Department of Education First Amendment grant regulations have real promise, but require caution

Yesterday, the Department of Education released a proposal for a new rule that would, among other things, tie grant funding from the department to compliance with the First Amendment. FIRE welcomes ef...

2020-01-17

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After scandal, questions remain about Central Washington University’s new promise to support student media

Barge Hall at Central Washington University. (Bobak Ha'Eri / Wikicommons CC BY 3.0) It isn’t every day that public officials appear on video discussing how to get away with violating the First Amendme...

2020-01-16

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Brett Sokolow criticizes live hearings and cross-examination, suggests there may be ‘clever work-arounds’

Today in Inside Higher Ed, higher education risk-management specialist Brett Sokolow shares his thoughts on the changes coming to campus sexual misconduct adjudications when the Department of Educatio...

2020-01-15

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New York’s Bail Reform Policies Are Setting Anti-Semitic Attackers Free to Attack Again

The suspect in a Friday anti-Semitic attack on three Jewish women in NYC was set free Saturday with no bail, only to be arrested after another attack that happened on Sunday. In the aftermath of the h...

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