First Amendment

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

Today's heated political arguments over censorship and misinformation online are rooted in a 26-word snippet of a law that created the Internet as we know it.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.

It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself.

Conservatives like to claim that leftists are opponents of free speech. But that’s nonsense.

Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.

How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

Now the Janus decision has helped push the National Right to Work Committee and its sister organizations closer to that goal.

The Janus decision is a significant setback for democracy. What should public-sector workers do now?

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.

How businesses campaigned to win constitutional rights and expand their political reach.

Seventy-five years before Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that newspapers were entitled to First Amendment protections.

If religious freedom trumps equality under the law, it provides a “cover” that actually encourages discrimination.

Does our approach to the First Amendment need to change in the wake of this summer's violence in Charlottesville?

Restricting the press backfires politically.

The government shouldn’t subsidize porn, he argued.

When the organization first defended Nazis, it did so for practical reasons.

What we can learn from liberal anti-communists.

There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.

The bloody history of attacks on American journalists.