Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

Freedom of speech -- the right to express opinions without government restraint -- is a democratic ideal that dates back to ancient Greece. In the United States, the First Amendment guarantees free ...

Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.... What exactly did the Framers mean by “freedom of speech, or of the press”? Little is definitively known about ...

and other types of artistic expression are protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. In 1957, in Roth vs. United States, the Court determined that prosecution for ...

Doesn’t the Constitution mean what it says? Doesn’t no law mean no law? Regrettably, today, no law means whatever the court ...

Another limitation on freedom of expression is national security. Freedom of speech and the press do not protect the disclosure of key information about troop movements during wartime, for example.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that he said aims to restore freedom of speech and end ...

Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring ...

Lippmann was a regular in my caffeine-fueled conversations with classmates in grad school, generally popping in when ...

The Oklahoma Free Speech Committee is working to encourage free and lively debate of public issues in a climate of mutual respect for all views.