Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court's Wednesday decision reaffirmed a 1963 decision about what's required for government speech to violate the 1st ...

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That’s when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored ...

In November 2025, the Trump administration announced a special park pass commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary that featured images of two presidents: George Washington and Donald Trump. With ...

In yet another case, Florida's government is arguing that book removals in public schools are "government speech," meaning they are unrestricted by the First Amendment. It's a controversial legal ...

The article is here; the Introduction: We are awash in lies. Misinformation has always been with us, but the endemicity of social media and the depth of political polarization in the United States and ...

Let’s be clear about one thing: seditious conspiracy, the charge levied against many of those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol protests, isn’t a real crime to anyone but the U.S. government. To be ...

Freedom of speech is fundamentally about protecting people from government. The First Amendment is designed to prevent the government, not private actors, from suppressing speech. This is because ...

The Supreme Court's Wednesday decision reaffirmed a 1963 decision about what's required for government speech to violate the 1st Amendment. (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press) As a dean of a public ...

As a dean of a public university law school, do I violate my students’ free speech rights when I encourage them to speak respectfully to one another, to demonstrate civility and to refrain from ...