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In Idaho, an art exhibit was censored and teens were told they couldn’t testify in some legislative hearings. In Washington state, a lawmaker proposed a hotline so the government could track offensively biased statements, as well as hate crimes. In Florida, bloggers are fighting a bill that would force them to register with the state if they write posts criticizing public officials.

TALLAHASSEE — First Amendment advocates urged state lawmakers Tuesday to abandon their push to rewrite Florida’s defamation laws, calling it an unconstitutional effort that will unleash a torrent of lawsuits from powerful people seeking to silence criticism from the press and the public. Despite those concerns, a House panel advanced the measure (HB 991) in a 14-4 vote, supporting Gov. Ron

Over the last several months, many on the Right have raised the alarm over the disturbing revelations, made via Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter Files, that Twitter worked closely with the federal government to censor Americans’ online speech. From obscure government agencies to the FBI, federal bureaucrats evidently worked directly with the platform to request or demand the removal of

The recent controversy surrounding a Hamline University art history professor who showed her class a medieval image of the Prophet Muhammad has many on the right bemoaning the “woke mob” run amok. I, by contrast, view this episode as evidence of the collapse of the American professoriate from within its own ranks, so to speak. We, the professors, have met the enemy. In many instances, as I’ll