After FIRE’s intervention, Ohio city lifts ban on sale of ‘faith based items’ at Apple Butter Day festival

FIRE’s football comedy video could go all the way

Free speech is for everyone, no matter what team you’re on. That’s the message of FIRE’s short video airing nationwide during Saturday’s Notre Dame-USC game on NBC.

FIRE launches six-figure free speech campaign with primetime college football ad

Furman University alumni unite to combat illiberal campus trends

Alumni at Furman University are uniting to form the Furman Free Speech Alliance to combat restrictions on student and faculty speech at the university.

Broad coalition supports FIRE’s challenge to New York’s online hate speech law before Second Circuit

FIRE filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supporting FIRE’s challenge to New York’s online hate speech law.

Anti-free speech trends on campus threaten freedom but can be reversed

At the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, we collect a great deal of data about the higher education system, and our findings should alarm everyone.

NEW POLL: Americans continue to hold conflicting views about faculty speech rights

A new poll finds that Americans hold deeply conflicting views about free speech on campus — wanting colleges and universities to uphold free speech principles while supporting restrictions of student and faculty expression.

What happens when America's future leaders reject the liberty on which it was founded?

A survey conducted this year by FIRE found that almost one-third of respondents could not name a single right protected by the First Amendment.

The new Red Scare taking over America's college campuses

It is most commonly estimated that around 100 college professors were fired for real or imagined communist sympathies during the Red Scare. But what if I told you it's worse today, much worse, across multiple important metrics?

In wake of Robert George event shoutdown, Washington College vows to improve response to disruptive protests 

Earlier this month, Princeton professor Robert George’s appearance at Washington College provided yet another example of what’s known as the “heckler’s veto.”