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Research & Learn

Explore FIRE's library of resources and research on free speech and other civil liberties.

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2025 College Free Speech Rankings

The largest report of its kind, the 2025 College Free Speech Rankings draw from more than 58,000 student survey responses at 257 colleges and universities and are designed to help parents and prospective students choose the right school.

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National Speech Index

The National Speech Index is an ongoing weekly survey conducted by the Polarization Research Lab, which will allow researchers to track shifting free speech sentiment in America over time.

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Campus Deplatforming Database

This research documents the ways and reasons that deplatforming attempts, a form of intolerance motivated by more than just mere disagreement, occur on college and university campuses from 1998 to the present.

FIRE Guides to Student Rights on Campus

FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus emphasize the critical importance of rule of law and fair procedure over partisan and repressive rules.

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Supreme Court Cases

Explore First Amendment court cases, opinions, overview essays and more to learn about the culture and law of free speech in the United States.

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Databases

Students Under Fire Database

This research documents efforts since 2020 to investigate, censor, or otherwise punish students and student groups at U.S. colleges and universities for expressive activity that is, or at a public institution would be, protected by the First Amendment.

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FIRE Quarterly

Spring 2025 FIRE Quarterly

One Iowa pollster’s missed political prediction sparked a lawsuit from President Trump. With FIRE’s help, she’s fighting back.

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Reports

Students Under Fire: 2020-2024

Speech restrictions are like poison gas: they seem like a good idea when you’ve got the gas and a deserving target in sight, but then the wind shifts and blows the gas back on you.

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Interviews

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: Is cancel culture dead?

The co-authors of “The Canceling of the American Mind” discuss its new paperback release and where cancel culture stands a year and a half after the book’s original publication.

Is cancel culture dead?

Podcasts

Is cancel culture dead?

The co-authors of "The Canceling of the American Mind" discuss its new paperback release and where cancel culture stands a year and a half after the book's original publication. - -- President and CEO of FIRE Co-author of "The...

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Reports

Campus Pulse Check: Reviewing One Decade of University Priorities

As trust in America’s colleges and universities has declined, FIRE compiled the following report to observe key metrics of some campuses where trust has fallen the most.

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Interviews

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: The government’s money, the government’s rules?

Our guests today signed onto a statement by a group of 18 law professors who opposed the Trump administration’s funding threats at Columbia on free speech and academic freedom grounds.

The government's money, the government's rules?

Podcasts

The government's money, the government's rules?

Our guests today signed onto a statement by a group of 18 law professors who opposed the Trump administration's funding threats at Columbia on free speech and academic freedom grounds. Since then, Northwestern, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, and...

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Reports

National Speech Index - April 2025

The National Speech Index is a quarterly poll designed to capture Americans’ views on freedom of speech and the First Amendment.

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Issue Pages

Protected Speech

The Supreme Court has consistently held the First Amendment to protect much more than mere words to include many forms of expression.

Is there a global free speech recession?

Interviews

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: Is there a global free speech recession?

We travel from America to Europe, Russia, China, and more places to answer the question: Is there a global free speech recession?

Is there a global free speech recession?

Podcasts

Is there a global free speech recession?

We travel from America to Europe, Russia, China, and more places to answer the question: Is there a global free speech recession? Guests: - : FIRE senior scholar, global expression - : FIRE senior fellow - : FIRE senior fellow Timestamps: ...

So to Speak Podcast - Episode 239

Interviews

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, DEI, law firms, and more

We explore how censorship is impacting institutions — from universities to law firms to the Maine House of Representatives.

Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, DEI, law firms, and more

Podcasts

Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, DEI, law firms, and more

We explore how censorship is impacting institutions -- from universities to law firms to the Maine House of Representatives. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:40 Federal government cuts Columbia's funding 16:57 Updates on the Mahmoud Khalil case...

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Interviews

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: On Mahmoud Khalil

First Amendment lawyer Marc Randazza and immigration lawyer Jeffrey Rubin join the show to discuss the arrest, detention, and possible deportation of green card holder Mahmoud Khalil.

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