The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the government from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, prohibiting the free ...

Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing.

There is a widespread assumption in American political discourse that individual rights are due to us because we are human beings. In his Second Treatise of Government, John Locke anchored the right ...

Calls by Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer to restrict core American speech protections have ignited a fierce argument over who should control what people say online. His suggestion that ...

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 ...