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Winter 2025 FIREQuarterly

After a lawsuit from FIREand the National Press Photographers Association, Congress passes positive changes to filming permit rules in national parks.

Scales of justice over Constitutional text

Reports

National Speech Index - January 2025

Conservatives went from the most pessimistic subgroup to the most optimistic following Donald Trump’s election, while liberals’ optimism fell.

Podcasts

The University of Chicago is known for its commitment to free speech and academic freedom. Why are these values important to the university? Where do they originate? And how do they help administrators navigate conflicts and controversies? Tony Banout...

Interviews

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: UChicago's Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression

The University of Chicago is known for its commitment to free speech and academic freedom. Why are these values important to the university?

Statue of justice with tape over the mouth and written on the tape is the word "SLAPP" meaning "Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation"

Issue Pages

Why ‘SLAPP’ lawsuits chill free speech and threaten the First Amendment

You can’t use the legal system to punish people for speech you don’t like.

During the winter and spring of 1912, members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and their allies in labor and the community engaged in a pitched battle against a city ordinance that banned public speaking in the area around 5th and E Streets in downtown San Diego.

Issue Pages

‘All who think outside the conventional ruts’: A history of the Free Speech League

The founding of the ACLU was only possible because of a more radical group called the Free Speech League, which launched in 1902 and grew out of earlier progressive movements like abolitionism and free love.

Podcasts

Rethinking free speech with Peter Ives

Is the free speech conversation too simplistic? Peter Ives thinks so. He is the author of "," a new book that seeks to provide a more nuanced analysis of the free speech debate within various domains, from government to campus to social...

Interviews

So to Speak Podcast Transcript: Rethinking free speech with Peter Ives

Is the free speech conversation too simplistic? Peter Ives thinks so. He is the author of “Rethinking Free Speech,” a new book that seeks to provide a more nuanced analysis of the free speech debate within various domains, from government to campus to social media.