The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...

Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens pointing out examples. To the Editor: Re “Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again,” by Bret Stephens (column, Sept. 24): It is true that a number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The history of humanity is one in which smart people say things that challenge narratives, and then dumb people kill them for it.

Free speech is a privilege that many of us hold dear. But as machines become increasingly capable of generating words, ideas and arguments, should this fundamental right be extended to them too? This ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Needless to say, this writing campaign has been almost entirely in vain. The liberal side of American politics ...

As ASU students and faculty from both sides of the political spectrum react to current events involving freedom of speech, they wrestle with the current state of the First Amendment. During a "Prove ...