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The Daily Gamecock's Feb. 25 issue. Campus police are investigating the theft of 500 copies of the student newspaper at the University of South Carolina, according to a report on the paper’s website. ...
Last week, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed into law S.B. 156 , a law that significantly improves free speech protections for students at institutions of higher education in the state. The bill pas...
Statement by FIRE President Greg Lukianoff: Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow should take this controversy as an opportunity to do what is now all too uncommon for university leadership: tak...
In 2016, Justice Anthony Kennedy provided the fifth vote to strike down a Texas law that required doctors who perform abortions to have “admitting privileges” – the right to admit patients – at a loca...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Feb. 26, 2019 — Today, Northern Arizona University earned the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s highest rating for free speech, bringing the total number of institution...
FIRE has written about Sex Week at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville since 2013 because the event has been a lightning rod for censorship attempts . Unfortunately, it still is — and now, the st...
Harvard Law professor and Winthrop House faculty dean Ronald Sullivan has joined the legal defense team of notorious Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who stands accused of numerous instances of se...
I hope you will join us on this journey into Legal Insurrection 3.0. We cannot do it without you. Today marks the launch of the Legal Insurrection Foundation , an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) tax-exempt org...
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. ( McKee v. Cosby, Jr. , Feb. 19, 2019, concurring op...
Last week, FIRE announced the institutions that earned the unenviable distinction of making the 2019 list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. Often, universities will argue that they don’t deser...
HATTIESBURG, Miss., Feb. 19, 2019 — The University of Southern Mississippi revised its speech policies to join an elite group of just 47 colleges and universities nationwide that earn the Foundation f...
Related: SJP discontinues use of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine poster after students complain. At Cornell University, a coalition of student groups led by Students for Justice in Pales...
Credit: Big Joe / Shutterstock.com Loyola University Chicago’s “ Mission and Vision ” is to be a “world-renowned urban center … that values freedom of inquiry.” In order to “protect and enhance” that ...
Every January, FIRE staffers convene to compile our list of the previous year’s worst colleges for free speech. Reviewing the lowlights of the year reminds each of us that campus censors can be pretty...
FIRE submitted its formal comment today on the Department of Education's proposed Title IX regulations . As we noted shortly after the proposal was initially circulated at the end of November, the res...
“Critics say their gender identity amounts to an unfair advantage” There is a debate raging in the sports world about the role of transgender women athletes, with sports superstars like Martina Navrat...
Lt. Gov.’s Future less certain after sexual assault accusations, but he’s still hanging on. What a difference going on groveling apology tours can make for Democrats. Results from two recent Virginia ...
“Many of the courses and descriptions listed in this year’s report may seem comical at first glance” This doesn’t happen when a Democrat like say, Obama, becomes president. This is an excellent illust...
“Tamika, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, our sister with the Me Too movement, Black Lives Matter – the women shook the world …” The United Center in Chicago, IL, home to the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks,...
“also planned to pressure the Massachusetts attorney general’s office to investigate Hampshire trustees’ decision not to admit a full entering class” Protests aren’t going to change the financial outl...