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Sixth Circuit properly finds that University of Michigan bias response team could chill students’ speech

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the judgment of a federal district court that dismissed a case brought by Speech First. In a victory for student speech rights, the Un...

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University of Wisconsin policy issue demonstrates need for regents, legislators to help promote campus free speech

Bascom Hall at University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Ken Wolter/Shutterstock) FIRE often hears from state legislators, regents, and trustees that they care about campus free speech and would like to promo...

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Penn Law dean attends student town hall to ‘address the Amy Wax situation’

University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Amy Wax has been at the center of ongoing controversy over her comments on race and immigration policy. Yesterday, Penn Law’s student government held a ...

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Corey Lewandowski Trolls Befuddled Democrats on House Judiciary Committee

Lewandowski treated them like a joke because that’s what they are. A joke. Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and answered questio...

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Legislation can protect free speech rights on college campuses: here’s how

FIRE works closely with legislators at the state and federal levels to fight censorship on college campuses. As our readers know, threats to free speech in higher education manifest themselves in many...

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FAN 224: Case in Progress — The Man Who Was Criminally Cited for Filming in a Federal Park

Gordon Price is a music store owner and part-time independent filmmaker; he lives and works in Yorktown, Virginia. Last year, Price and a colleague released an independent feature film about a York Co...

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Student journalist thanks paper-thieves for bringing tons of attention to story they tried to trash

From left, University Press managing editor Kristen Grau, news editor Israel Fontoura, editor-in-chief Cameren Boatner, News Editor, contributing writer Kimberly Swan, and creative director Madison Bo...

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Secret Service Arrest El Paso Shooting ‘Hero’ Due to Arrest Warrant and Police Refute His Heroic Story

This is just sad. Chris Grant, 50, received praise from the media and Robert O’Rourke due to his heroic actions during the El Paso Walmart shooting in August. But Secret Service arrested him just befo...

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FAN 223: Just Released: Free Speech E-Textbook with Hundreds of Links, Just $2.99

This is a special issue of FAN to announce a new book I've written with my coauthors identified below. Another issue of FAN will be posted later this week. — RKLC Welcome to the new world of electroni...

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Professor who fled Egypt over censorship at American University in Cairo: ‘There’s still an accounting that needs to take place’

Adam Duker on the campus of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. (Megan Haley for FIRE.) Professor Adam Duker puts his faith in faith. Specifically, the transformative power of teaching world relig...

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Western Illinois University’s ‘zombie’ free speech zone resurrected to shut down satirical ‘pot’ brownies event

Western Illinois University's free speech zone was declared dead 16 years ago — but it still lives on in university speech codes. (IlliniGradResearch via Wikimedia Commons, CC-By-SA-3.0/Modified from ...

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Think Progress Union Threatens ‘Legal Options’ Against Center For American Progress After Site Closure

Instead of being used by the Center for American Progress think tank arm, the site will be archived The left and their unions… Last week, far left site Think Progress announced it would be closing up ...

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University of Colorado Board of Regents endorse freedom of expression in letter to all first-year students

Sometimes FIRE’s Newsdesk can feel like a parade of bad news, from reporting on administrators suppressing speech on campus to detailing unconstitutional policies. So it’s a great occasion when we hav...

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Congressional resolution defends the right to boycott

Shutterstock.com History has demonstrated that boycotts can be powerful agents of change. In our country, they have most famously been features of the civil rights movement and of protests against the...

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FAN 222: Stone and Bollinger to Edit Major Book on Leaks, National Security, and Freedom of the Press -- Distinguished Lineup of Contributors

Shutterstock / Inked Pixels When it comes to organizing and editing timely and important books on freedom of expression, Geoffrey Stone and Lee Bollinger make for an impressive duo. Simply consider tw...

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Think Progress website, which led smear of Tea Party, shuts down

Think Progress is now a zombie website, much like the purportedly progressive ideas on which it was built. We have not written a lot in recent years about Think Progress, the left-wing website owned b...

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LAWSUIT: Campus police said he should’ve been ‘smarter’ than to exercise his First Amendment rights. Now he’s suing.

Mike Brown sued his college to defend student free speech rights. ELLISVILLE, Miss., Sept. 4, 2019 — When Mike Brown tried to poll his fellow college students about legalizing marijuana, he hoped to s...

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Ismail Ajjawi, a freshman initially denied entry to the U.S., begins classes at Harvard

(Marcio Jose Bastos Silva / Shutterstock.com) Last week, I wrote about Ismail Ajjawi, an incoming Harvard freshman who was denied entry to the United States despite possessing a valid visa. Ajjawi tol...

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Emory Law Professor faces termination hearing for using 'n-word' in discussion of civil rights case, discussion with student

Last September, we covered the suspension of Paul Zwier, a white professor at Emory University School of Law, after he used the word “nigger” while discussing the facts of a civil rights case . After ...

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Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Paints Mt. Rushmore as Monument to White Supremacy

“The faces of the four presidents (white conquerors) peer southeast toward a reservation housing vanquished Lakota, who mostly live out forgotten, impoverished lives…” Last Friday, Professor Jacobson ...

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