The Supreme Court will hear arguments in its latest LGBTQ+ rights case Tuesday, weighing the constitutionality of bans passed by nearly half of U.S. states on the practice known as conversion therapy for children.

From social media bans to campus protests, Americans often claim their “free speech rights” are being violated. What does the First Amendment protect?

Hochul should sign the Freedom to Read Act during Banned Book Week to assert our shared conviction that everyone has the right to learn and to think for themselves.

After the Constitution was ratified in June of 1788, George Washington and James Madison urged the members of Congress to support the addition of the Bill of Rights, inspired by the notion that freedom of the press was essential to a functioning democracy.

It’s Banned Book Week, and New York City is not immune from ever-increasing attempts to curtail freedom of speech and ban books. Recognizing this threat, in June the Legislature passed The Freedom

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 does not truly believe in free speech, only in ...

Freedom of the press in the United States is legally protected by the First Amendment, which famously declares: “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Nearly three-quarters U.S. adults say press freedom is ...

Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do.