As a legal scholar who has studied political movements, free speech and privacy, I realize the government can regulate speech ...

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President Donald Trump doesn’t appreciate it when anyone sets fire to the American flag. I don’t either. Yet, I value the First Amendment more. On Aug. 25, Trump signed an executive order that seeks ...

The zealous safeguarding of individual expression is a recent innovation. What sparked it? The need to curb violent societal ...

Critics slammed President Donald Trump on Monday for saying he’s “not so sure” about a basic right guaranteed by the Constitution. The moment came during an Oval Office appearance as the president ...

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President Donald Trump and some high-profile allies are downplaying the importance of protecting free speech rights at this ...

The First Amendment, as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, specifically protects offensive words, phrases and actions; even ...

A new survey by the Freedom Forum shows that people largely do not understand their First Amendment rights, even as free speech dominates headlines.

The turnabout of attitudes toward free speech was so violent and so obviously unconstitutional that even far right-wing Texas Senator Ted Cruz, supported by North Carolina Republican Senator Thom ...

About mile three of my walk, I remembered a 35-year-old story about the time when the Sioux City School Board tabled the ...