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 ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The last time Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech from the Oval Office, in June, he had some ...

President Donald Trump announced on social media that he will speak to the nation in televised remarks Wednesday night, Dec. 17. Trump announced the speech, set to come as his administration nears one ...

Columbus Speech and Hearing, a century-old nonprofit, is shuttering its speech department and transitioning it over to Nationwide Children's Hospital. Speech services will end Dec. 16, with the ...

Tom Cruise was presented with an Academy Honorary Award during the Nov. 16 Governors Awards, and it’s no surprise that the larger-than-life movie star had a blockbuster acceptance speech. The award ...

Washington — Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, delivered a marathon speech on the Senate floor that stretched 22 hours and 37 minutes across Tuesday and Wednesday, protesting President Trump's ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

European officials concerned over erosion of shared democratic values France's Barrot at Harvard warns of slide to dictatorship Trump criticizes Europe's immigration and energy policies at UN UNITED ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

This post is part one of a series. Speaking feels like the most natural thing in the world. You think a thought, open your mouth, and words tumble out in perfect sequence. Yet this apparent simplicity ...

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 ...