A National Security Presidential Memorandum criminalizes speech through an executive initiative that goes beyond criticism of ...
Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that purports to address the recent spate of political violence. But the order is remarkably one-sided, taking the apparent position that ...
In an emotional TV return, Jimmy Kimmel said he didn’t intend to “make light” of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Kimmel also used his monologue to criticize President Trump and the FCC Chair for attacks on ...
It isn’t only late-night TV hosts who have the freedom to criticize the powerful. It’s not just the press that depends on the First Amendment. Yelp restaurant reviews, snarky T-shirts, police reports ...
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...
President Donald Trump incensed his critics Wednesday for the way he described his executive order on flag burning. “We took the freedom of speech away because that’s been through the courts and the ...
Joe Gorton is emeritus professor of criminology at the University of Northern Iowa. The views in this essay are his own. Many Americans recall a time when Republicans regarded the free market as the ...
NASHVILLE − There's turmoil over the state of free speech in America. The issue took center stage as free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world convened recently at Vanderbilt ...