“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press …” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon ...

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 ...

The “fire in a crowded theater” case involved neither a fire, nor a theater, nor a crowd, and resulted in one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever reached. But the phrase fire in a crowded ...

A majority of American voters are pessimistic about freedom of speech being protected, according to a poll released Wednesday. In the survey from Quinnipiac University, 53 percent of respondents said ...

Across 35 countries, our survey finds widespread support for freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom on the internet. But the shares in each country who say these freedoms are very ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom on the internet in 35 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the ...