After the Constitution was ratified in June of 1788, George Washington and James Madison urged the members of Congress to support the addition of the Bill of Rights, inspired by the notion that ...

History has examples of freedom of speech and press that were abused by politicians to accomplish an agenda that resulted in serious consequences. The Weimar Republic constitution in Germany ...

Burt looks at how Freedom of Speech became central to the US creed. 1 Freedom of Speech is central to Burt’s work, which is why he put together two programs dealing with the subject. In this first ...

On Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order instructing the Justice Department to investigate and end any violations of free speech by the federal government. If Trump had ...

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about freedom of speech. The text of the First Amendment establishes this freedom. Here’s the text: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment ...

Fights over free speech have taken up a lot of space in the zeitgeist lately. People on both the left and right claim to be the defenders of free speech, while pointing fingers at the other side for ...

Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading. NPR's Morning Edition has talked to legal experts, activists, immigration lawyers, scientists, students, teachers ...

President Donald Trump incensed his critics Wednesday for the way he described his executive order on flag burning. “We took the freedom of speech away because that’s been through the courts and the ...