Hours after President Donald Trump took his second-term oath of office, he signed an executive order describing his commitment to the First Amendment and the right he said it affords people to "speak ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

Free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Global Free Speech Summit. There was disagreement among some speakers over the ...

And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...

Miami University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure ...

Last month, Vice President J.D. Vance lectured European leaders about their troubling retreat from free speech, calling their actions "shocking to American ears" and a threat to democracy itself. Yet ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

Free speech is a privilege that many of us hold dear. But as machines become increasingly capable of generating words, ideas and arguments, should this fundamental right be extended to them too? This ...