New Texas bill could diminish or eliminate tenure protections, jeopardizing academic freedom. 

The Texas Senate voted favorably on a bill that would end faculty tenure at public universities.

FIRE calls on the Higher Learning Commission to take University of St. Thomas to church over free speech violations

FIRE statement on Florida’s expansion of the Stop WOKE Act

As FIRE said when this bill passed the legislature: Prohibiting ideas in the name of freedom is not freedom at all. It is censorship.

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast takes an uncensored look at the world of free expression through personal stories and candid conversations.

New episodes post every other Thursday.

Dominion vs. Fox lawyers reflect on historic case

On April 18, Fox News to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit stemming from allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The historic settlement came just before the trial was set to begin in a...

FIRE to Uvalde: Lift ban on father who questioned school safety or we'll sue

Uvalde father Adam Martinez was banned from school property and school board meetings for two years.

FIRE amicus brief urges Supreme Court to close the door on speech-chilling criminal defamation laws 

Throwing someone in jail for badmouthing a public official is profoundly undemocratic and un-American, but that didn’t stop police from arresting Robert Frese after he insulted them on Facebook.

Do I have a right to interview sources employed by my college?

Question of the month from FIRE’s press freedom hotline: Can administrators forbid sources from talking to student journalists?

Northwestern must reverse student government’s freeze on College Republicans’ funding 

Student government complained event flyers featuring sunglasses with a queer pride flag and a skull and crossbones superimposed over the lenses violated the university’s discriminatory harassment policy.

Paul Clement files cert. petition in campaign ballot slogan case — First Amendment News 378