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Five key takeaways from FIRE’s 2026 College Free Speech Rankings — released today!

The United Kingdom needs a new generation of Levellers

FIREwire — September 5, 2025

Yes, the UK really is that bad for free speech

One big, happy, censorial family

Three takeaways from Harvard’s victory over the Trump administration’s funding freeze

The fight to define social media could redefine free speech

Robert Crumb at 82

FIREwire — August 29, 2025

How sure are you?

Data

How campus conversations shape political tolerance

Chinese officials force censorship of Thai gallery’s art exhibit about authoritarianism (proving the exhibit’s point)

Your burning questions on flag burning

FIREwire — August 22, 2025

The vibe shift in campus censorship

The findings against Harvard are a blueprint for a National Campus Speech Code

America’s Campuses: The Next Frontline Against Authoritarianism

FIREwire — August 15, 2025

How America’s top tribal arts college silenced a student — and made him homeless

Why FIRE is suing Rubio — and what our critics get wrong about noncitizens’ rights

FIREwire — August 8, 2025

The Trump administration doesn’t need to go to Brazil to find government censorship. It can look in a mirror.

Inside the Trump administration’s extortion-industrial complex

FIREwire — August 1, 2025

Say it with a song

Will free expression make a comeback at Haverford College?

The mercenary spyware industry is a menace to global free expression

FIREwire — July 25, 2025

Smile for the surveillance state

Turkish police arrested magazine staff over a Muhammad cartoon. But it doesn’t actually depict the prophet.

Free speech still reigns, but faces setbacks online

FIREwire — July 18, 2025

Purdue fails its own test on institutional neutrality

FIREwire — July 11, 2025

Speech is not a crime — even if it complicates ICE’s job

Jailed for basic journalism, Texas reporter takes free speech fight to Supreme Court

Extortion in plain sight

FIREwire: Bob Corn-Revere Edition

Orchestrated Silence

FIREwire — June 27, 2025

Voters want AI political speech protected — and lawmakers should listen

FIREwire — June 20, 2025

In Quran burning conviction, UK judge uses violence against defendant as evidence of his guilt

FIREwire — June 13, 2025

People want AI regulation — but they don’t trust the regulators

No gay rights without free expression

Americans worry about AI in politics — but they’re more worried about government censorship

Why ‘SLAPP’ lawsuits chill free speech and threaten the First Amendment

How to FOIA your college’s Facebook and X records

The Deported

Is doxxing illegal?

Why New York Times v. Sullivan matters more than ever

Why the 1873 Comstock Act still matters today

Charles Negy was fired over a tweet — now he's having his day in court

SCOTUS declines to hear case of student banned over 'only two genders' shirt

How the civil rights movement brought us free speech on campus

This isn't just about Harvard

DEI in higher ed: When it’s constitutional and when it’s not

Once, international students feared Beijing’s wrath. Now Trump is the threat.

Trump vs. Harvard, explained

The Supreme Court made your rights harder to defend — Congress must now step up

Pronouns, free speech, and the First Amendment

Can someone own a voice? Breaking down the right of publicity.

Why (most) lies are protected speech, and why they should stay that way

Snitch hotlines for ‘offensive’ speech were a nightmare on campus — and now they’re coming to a neighborhood near you

John Stuart Mill’s enduring arguments for free speech

Why John Milton’s free speech pamphlet ‘Areopagitica’ still matters

Belfast hip-hop group Kneecap at the center of international firestorm

Colorado reversal on misgendering ban is a crisis averted but a danger revealed

Brendan Carr’s Bizarro World FCC

A New McCarthyism: How one Dane views free speech in America

George Mason University calls cops on student for article criticizing Trump

UConn Med now lets students opt out of DEI pledge of allegiance

Harvard’s resistance to Trump is a model for U.S. universities