Hollywood screenwriter Samuel Ornitz speaks before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 29, 1947. UPI/Bettmann Archive via Getty Images Yet, the First Amendment has ...

The big problem in this case is that the Cabinet secretaries and ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not ...

Even as debates surrounding the First Amendment dominate headlines across the country following the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Americans are largely divided on how far the ...

Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer has called for complete government censorship of social media.

The Freedom Forum’s 2025 “Where America Stands” survey, however, shows that Americans support the First Amendment by more ...

Iowa has long stood at the intersection of First Amendment battles. In 1938, Des Moines Public Library Director Forrest Spaulding penned the words that would become the Library Bill of Rights. In 1969 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that the First Amendment protects those who burn the American flag in protest. Nevertheless, seven weeks ago, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ...

As the United States faces increasing incidents of book banning and threats of governmental intervention – as seen in the temporary suspension of TV host Jimmy Kimmel – the common reflex for many who ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yet, the First Amendment has not always been potent enough to protect the right to ...