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FIRE Wraps Up Another Successful Year
As 2007 draws to a close, we’ve been taking some time here on The Torch to reflect on some of this year’s highs and lows in campus freedom. For more information on FIRE’s activities over the past year, check out our annual end-of-year press release.
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
Florida health department defies First Amendment, threatens to prosecute TV stations for airing abortion rights ad
The department claims the ad’s allegedly false information creates a ‘sanitary nuisance.’ But government officials can’t twist public health laws to censor protected political speech.
A tale of two universities: Why South Carolina soared, and Harvard didn’t, in FIRE’s free speech rankings
The University of South Carolina did a 180 to begin taking free speech seriously, and it shows in our student survey data.
FIREside chat with free speech advocate Nadine Strossen
In an interview with FIRE, Nadine Strossen talks about higher ed bureaucratization, market-driven censorship, and staying principled.
Police killings worsen crisis of mob violence against Pakistan’s blasphemers
Plenty of free speech news out of Europe, the sedition crackdown in Hong Kong, efforts to control discussion of foreign governments in Canada and the U.S.