With countries like France moving to ban all pro-Palestine protests, we can count ourselves lucky to live in a country with a more concrete commitment to free speech, even that which we find hateful ...

The White House is following an old authoritarian playbook to suppress dissent. In his previously unreleased preface to Animal Farm, discovered by Ian Angus in 1972 and published later that year by ...

For most of the past decade, many professors lived in fear of challenging progressive beliefs on elite college campuses, beliefs that, as linguist John McWhorter argues, have often attained religious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AP/AFP/Getty) Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, schools across America have been grappling with two great, related ...

Salman Rushdie’s 2012 memoir, Joseph Anton, closes as its author emerges in 2002 from years in hiding; he bids goodbye to members of the security detail that has guarded him since Ayatollah Khomeini’s ...

A new report finds that most U.S. college students support free speech, but nearly half fear speaking up about controversial issues like affirmative action and transgender rights. Among 2,618 students ...

Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech.