[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.) Thirty years later, I ...

What are your First Amendment rights? Are they exercised regularly, or are they lazy, flabby and neglected? The current Salt Lake Art Center exhibition Liberties Under Fire—in accordance with its ...

A federal district court discusses how the First Amendment limits liability for "hostile environment harassment" based on "speech on matters of public concern" in universities (public or private). And ...

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...

While we write from opposite ends of the political spectrum—one of us is a progressive democrat, the other a staunch conservative—we both agree that corporations were never intended to have as much ...

The Freedom Forum is expanding its support of First Amendment journalism. A First Amendment Reporters initiative has expanded to include reporters at The Arizona Republic, The Indianapolis Star and ...

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers. The First Amendment is a ...

The New York Times announced it is suing the Pentagon on First Amendment grounds over a new press policy that led to a slew of news outlets losing their security credentials to be in the building. The ...

An annual survey published by the Freedom Forum shows this year that American's understanding of their First Amendment rights remains low. Even as the First Amendment takes centerstage after the ...

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of New Jersey’s effort to subpoena donor information from “crisis pregnancy centers” without federal court review, fearing that the probe may ...

The city council passed a motion banning the two terms on July 30, saying they were the "most frequently used offensive and injurious epithets" at its meetings. Some local neighborhood councils ...

The First Amendment has come into a national spotlight in recent months, as Americans across the nation aim to check powers of the government or challenge policies that may impinge on free speech. At ...