"It’s easier to talk here than it is in America," the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in ...

“Free speech is at the lowest ebb it has been in Britain since the eighteenth century,” the U.K. Free Speech Union’s founder and president Toby Young, recently ennobled, told me over lunch at the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the recognition of a Palestinian State by multiple Western countries during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu labelled the ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Attorney General Ken Paxton joined Stratford High School students in Houston on Wednesday to celebrate the inception of their Charlie Kirk-inspired student group. “I’m here because ...

NEW YORK CITY — President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to press for the release of hostages held by Hamas and condemn the flurry of US allies that recognized ...

Because there’s a silver lining for most things in life, maybe there’s also one for ABC’s craven (if brief) suspension, under thuggish government pressure, of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show. To ...

Free speech is a bulwark of open societies, because it allows ideas and information to be shared, authority to be questioned, and abuses of power exposed. In "On Liberty" (1859), John Stuart Mill gave ...

President Donald Trump made a jaw-dropping quip about “hate speech” and slain activist Charlie Kirk during a new Fox News interview. MARTHA MACCALLUM: You said millions and millions of dollars going ...

The Trump administration is enthusiastically abusing its power to intimidate anyone who criticizes its policies, and to silence those who won't fall in line. Now, using a long-standing government ...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — and even criminalize — what their critics have to say. By ...

Kirk, 31, co-founder and executive director of Turning Point USA—a prominent conservative campus organization—was fatally shot September 10 during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies at a Senate subcommittee hearing on June 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/TNS) Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too ...