Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.

A trial date has been set for a suspended University of Tennessee, Knoxville professor's case after she was placed on leave ...

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...

The law makes a few exceptions to its protection of free speech -- not liking what you hear isn't one of them.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — About three months after filing a lawsuit, a man has now reached a settlement in his federal First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against the Arkansas Division of Correction. This ...

Updated on Dec. 10 at 10:37 a.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a challenge to a federal law limiting the amount of money that political parties can spend in […] ...

The court says students’ issues with the parody are ‘not grounds for the university retaliating against the professor.’ ...

This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.

While we write from opposite ends of the political spectrum—one of us is a progressive democrat, the other a staunch conservative—we both agree that corporations were never intended to have as much ...