The First Amendment is alive and well, which is a reassuring note about the basic legal protections for free speech. Unfortunately, it's not enough. The world is full of countries with written ...

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 ...

There is a back-to-the-future cloud hovering over America. Other countries see it and are laughing at what they see. The American people have got to take their blinders and sunshades off. America is ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi, America’s highest-ranking law-enforcement official, declared in an interview posted to YouTube yesterday that federal law enforcement will “go after” Americans for hate ...

And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...

Graham Linehan has begged allies of Donald Trump to hold Britain to task on free speech. The Irish comedian, speaking before ...

But note the end of the Hebdo affair: the gala went ahead, the surviving journalists received a thunderous and prolonged standing ovation from American PEN.

Re “Colleges Must Keep Hosting Difficult Speakers,” by Laura Ann Rosenbury (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 18): I agree with Ms. Rosenbury when she writes that free speech must be protected on college ...