The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (“FIRE”), the nonpartisan free speech advocacy nonprofit, will provide pro bono legal defense services for J. Ann Selzer, the Iowa pollster who was ...

Michigan Technological University ranked at the top of Michigan colleges and universities for free speech, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which also noted ...

USC ranked as one of the bottom 10 schools for free speech among over 250 colleges and universities nationwide, according to a ranking released Sept. 5 by the Foundation for Individual Rights and ...

New College of Florida defends its commitment to free speech against criticism. The college has hosted controversial speakers, including Alan Dershowitz and Judith Butler. New College's relationship ...

Five Connecticut universities received an average failing grade for their campus speech climate in the 2026 College Free Speech Rankings, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and ...

In a new record high, more Americans than ever have protections from SLAPP lawsuits, a type of lawsuit that targets speech. Some states are still without such laws, however, leaving resident ...

L ast year at Harvard, the defense of free speech was tested. And the defense of free speech failed. I was sure that the recently formed CAFH, facing its first real free-speech challenge, would rise ...

A host of left-wing groups are funding a “free speech” organization already advocating for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, pouring more than $1 million combined into the outfit since 2019, ...

In my new book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech, I argue that higher education must adapt to protect its ...