See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. U.S. Vice President JD Vance sent shockwaves across Europe in February ...

Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. The best instance of free speech I’ve observed at Harvard came long ago when I was an undergraduate. I attended a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, Vice President J.D. Vance lectured European leaders about their troubling retreat from free speech, calling their actions "shocking to American ears" and a threat to democracy itself. Yet ...

Do those with the biggest megaphones value free speech more than the rest of us? Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg proclaim censorship to be evil, even as the algorithms on the platforms they ...

American officials are waging a multifront attack on Europe’s approach to free speech. This month, a congressional delegation traveled to Dublin, Brussels, and London to probe and decry European ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

Conservatives are champions of free speech — and they shouldn’t lose sight of that fact. When woke leftists wielded institutional power and squelched campus free speech, the right defended students’ ...