In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assissination, a fierce First Amendment debate over the concept of hate speech has taken center stage across the nation. Conservative lawmakers and ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

While out of power, the American right was unified in complaining about the left’s speech policing. Now that Republicans control the White House and Congress, free-speech rights and values are ...

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Needless to say, this writing campaign has been almost entirely in vain. The liberal side of American politics ...