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In court, on campus, and in our culture: FIRE's 2025 impact

The trouble with banning Fizz

FIREwire — December 19, 2025

Can the government ban controversial public holiday displays?

DOJ plan to target ‘domestic terrorists’ risks chilling speech

‘Let them sue’

City Club of Cleveland rejects illiberal calls to disinvite speaker

Repression deepens in Hong Kong with Jimmy Lai’s guilty verdict and censorship over deadly Wang Fuk Court fire

How schools still abuse ‘institutional neutrality’ to silence speech

A deep freeze hits campus

FIREwire — December 12, 2025

‘Good citizen’ rules turn condos and co-ops into no-speech zones

FIRE and I are in The New York Times’ ‘The Daily’ podcast!

FIREwire — December 5, 2025

Talking Larry Bushart in The NYT! FIRE puts the Pentagon on notice! Suing over online speech doesn’t stop real-world violence! & more!

Campus views harden after Kirk assassination

Politics of dissent during World War I

If free speech only matters when convenient, it isn’t free at all

Abbott’s blacklist: America’s tradition of branding dissent as treason

You can’t eliminate real-world violence by suing over online speech

The case for treating adults as adults when it comes to AI chatbots

FIREwire — November 21, 2025

How Amazon secretly edits art

Voting is tied to more tolerance in men — but less in women

UK university censors human rights research on abuses in China

The NO FAKES Act is a real threat to free expression

FIREwire — November 14, 2025

Three-quarters of Americans say free speech is headed in the wrong direction

Symmetry of blame: Partisans believe other side has bigger violence problem

Snipers, censorship, and unaccountability: Indiana University’s free speech crisis

5 laws FIRE wants on the books to protect free speech

FIREwire — November 7, 2025

Anti-SLAPP laws protect Davids from being silenced by Goliaths

Institutional neutrality can’t be used to turn students into puppets

The vanishing Vista

Most people are horribly intolerant. What sets the rest apart?

Princeton president misunderstands FIRE data — and campus free speech

FIREwire — October 31, 2025

Why FIRE is now judging bias-reporting systems more harshly — and why I changed my mind

The global free speech recession

What I told the Senate Commerce Committee about 'jawboning'

How targeting scholars for speech leaves lasting scars

They displayed anti-Trump buttons — then the sheriff alerted Secret Service

FIREwire — October 24, 2025

How ‘anti-woke’ laws and cancel culture combine to chill classroom speech

Thurgood Marshall: America’s premier First Amendment defender

What the hell is going on at Indiana University?

Everyone’s a free-speech hypocrite

High-profile comedians paid handsomely to not offend Saudi royals at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Why Marco Rubio's arguments for deporting noncitizens for speech are wrong

Heckler’s veto at the turnstiles

Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own allies

The Supreme Court should strike down Colorado’s ban on ‘conversion therapy.’ Here’s why.

FIREwire — October 17, 2025

College free speech faces a new threat

Pentagon’s press badge policy unites journalists by offending the Constitution

The trouble with ‘dignity’

California wants to make platforms pay for offensive user posts. The First Amendment and Section 230 say otherwise.

Texas targets antifa because Trump said so, I guess

Student trust in Ivy Leagues is declining — thanks to Harvard, Penn, and Columbia

FIREwire — October 3, 2025

Why YouTube caving to Trump is cowardly

Trump’s tinseltown tariffs threaten free speech

Trump’s ‘domestic terrorism’ memo chillingly targets people by ideology

The government is now the leading threat to faculty expression

Jimmy Kimmel is back, but don’t get complacent

FIREwire — September 26, 2025

Newsletters

Quebec is threatening to outlaw public prayer

Government AI regulation could censor protected speech online

Efforts to silence scholars hit record high

College students increasingly believe violence is justifiable to stop speech

Why our critics’ whataboutery over Jimmy Kimmel is wrong

Carr’s threats to ABC are jawboning any way you slice it

In defense of fiery words

FIREwire — September 19, 2025

Trump’s New York Times lawsuit is a call to action for the ‘paper of record’

Bury the ‘words are violence’ cliché

Why everything Pam Bondi said about ‘hate speech’ is wrong

Campus tolerance for free speech is tanking

Is hate speech protected by the First Amendment?

We are losing the basis of our civic discourse

We are in the cancel culture part of the tragedy cycle

FIREwire — September 12, 2025

Student acceptance of violence in response to speech hits a record high

Charlie Kirk's assassination

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)

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

How to FOIA your college’s Facebook and X records

The Deported

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.

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