A week after the White House boasted that Trump “is a strong supporter of free speech,” the president’s legal gibberish pointed in the opposite direction.

The First Amendment – and the freedom of speech it guarantees – is considered a fundamental element of American freedom and identity. But it wasn’t even part of the original Constitution.

What Patrick Henry did above all was talk—and get talked about. He astonished his listeners as the most compelling public speaker they had ever encountered. He was, John Adams proclaimed, the ...

USA TODAY Network journalists share impressions from a discussion with Princeton University Christopher Eisgruber on free speech.

What value do we put on freedom of speech? Freedom of speech is by far the most important right we have in the United States. For contrast we need only look to the United Kingdom, a “democracy” that ...

Government officials have made statements and taken actions that First Amendment advocates find alarming. Free speech scholars maintain that even reprehensible speech is protected from government ...

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything. Charlie Kirk — and his family — just lost everything. As ...