What does it mean to be American? For many, it means freedom.  In the United States, the First Amendment outlines five ...

From social media bans to campus protests, Americans often claim their “free speech rights” are being violated. What does the ...

Views Editor Denise Perez argues free speech must be protected, even for offensive opinions. Otherwise, it risks becoming a ...

Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do.

The First Amendment is meant to protect freedom of speech for the nation's people and press. But this week, that protection was tested.

Today, in AAUP v. Rubio, federal district Judge William G. Young (appointed by Ronald Reagan) ruled that speech-based deportations of foreign students and academics violate the First Amendment. Here ...

A few important reminders about the First Amendment’s protection of the right to free speech, given several recent uproars.

The initial excitement stemmed from results produced by an unmanned underwater drone scanning more than 5,200 square miles of ...

Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words.

In the wake of the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Connecticut professors and leaders are concerned ...

So we asked a cross-section of the Aspen community, including our own staff, “What does FREEDOM mean to you?” The answers we received are as diverse as our nation itself, with every individual sharing ...