Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading. NPR's Morning Edition has talked to legal experts, activists, immigration lawyers, scientists, students, teachers ...
Obscene Speech is speech that appeals to prurient interests, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Subversive Speech ...
This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom on the internet in 35 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the ...
Free speech isn’t just political—it’s essential to mental health. A free speech culture strengthens cognitive resilience, ...
The “fire in a crowded theater” case involved neither a fire, nor a theater, nor a crowd, and resulted in one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever reached. But the phrase fire in a crowded ...
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the ...
In a commencement ceremony at a Catholic university, the justice said that fundamental principles were in peril at universities and American society. By Adam Liptak Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned ...
President Trump is taking advantage of an unsettled aspect of the law. By German Lopez The Trump administration has tried in recent weeks to deport several immigrants who spoke out against Israel.