What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

Free speech is a bulwark of open societies, because it allows ideas and information to be shared, authority to be questioned, and abuses of power exposed. In "On Liberty" (1859), John Stuart Mill gave ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

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 ...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the free speech debate is back in the national spotlight as Republicans and Democrats trade insults. It seems that everybody is missing that there has been ...