Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The First Amendment protects the public against the government suppressing speech, especially speech it doesn't like. But with ...

Following disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in spring 2024, the federal government, state lawmakers and college officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on student speech, resulting in a wave of ...

It has been, by every measure, a challenging year for free speech on college campuses. Widespread student protests, legislative efforts to control what is taught and how, and a growing movement to ...

One week before the 2024 election, a small group of students at James Madison University acted as agents of good. They stood on the heavily trafficked campus Quad wearing sandwich board posters that ...

With campus protests against the war in Gaza as a backdrop, President Biden last week rightly denounced incidents in which “Jewish students [were] blocked, harassed, attacked while walking to class.” ...

Participants reflected on how free speech and hate speech are defined, noting how these boundaries can blur. Some voiced concerns about self-censorship in response to what could be perceived as hate. ...

Students' First Amendment rights are limited in schools, but not nonexistent. Schools can control student newspapers and ban speech promoting illegal drug use. While schools can remove books for ...