Free Speech

Politics

Why Campaign Finance Rules Are an Affront to Free Speech, Vol. MCMLXII

Matt Welch | 12.14.2010 8:04 AM

Politics

NIU Recognizes Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2010 6:16 PM

Science & Technology

Assange Accuser Breaks Silence on Twitter

Michael Moynihan | 12.9.2010 6:22 PM

Politics

Wendy Kaminer on the Foolishness of Campaign Finance Reformers

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2010 1:29 PM

Politics

What's a Group Gotta Do to Post a Flyer Around Here?

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2010 12:49 PM

Politics

The Wiki War

Jesse Walker | 12.8.2010 12:40 PM

Politics

The Other Shoe Is Dropping

Jesse Walker | 12.7.2010 12:43 PM

Policy

The War on Cameras

It has never been easier-or more dangerous-to record the police.

Radley Balko | 12.7.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Your Weekend WikiLeaks News Roundup

Jesse Walker | 12.5.2010 8:55 PM

Civil Liberties

Motorhome Diaries Crew Recover Deleted Video of Police Encounter

Radley Balko | 12.3.2010 1:42 PM

Politics

Leaker Calls on Leaker to Leak the WikiLeaks Story

Jesse Walker | 12.3.2010 11:28 AM

Politics

I Remember When the RIAA Thought This Would Work

Jesse Walker | 12.2.2010 6:22 PM

Politics

Vinegar Joe vs. the First Amendment

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2010 5:57 PM

Politics

Slouching Towards Censorship

Damon Root | 12.1.2010 2:51 PM

Politics

George Will on Puritanical Progressives

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2010 11:47 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Arizona's Matching Campaign Funds

Jacob Sullum | 11.29.2010 11:18 AM

Politics

"Citizens United has been unjustly maligned"

Damon Root | 11.23.2010 3:48 PM

Politics

Quote of the Day

Radley Balko | 11.18.2010 9:41 AM

Politics

Breyer: Old Farts Like Me Have No Business Deciding Cases Involving New Technology

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2010 5:14 PM

Policy

Chilling Her Softly

The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

The Democratizer

C-SPAN's Brian Lamb talks about big spending, the First Amendment, and putting cameras where government doesn't want them to go.

Nick Gillespie | 11.16.2010 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

It Is Not Illegal To Record Cops in New Haven. But You Might Still Get Arrested, Charged, and Convicted for Doing So.

Radley Balko | 11.15.2010 7:35 PM

Policy

Supreme Court Declines to Hear First Amendment Challenge to an Appeals Court Ruling You Still Can't Read

Jacob Sullum | 11.15.2010 12:23 PM

Policy

Political Correctness on Campus

We need more debate about controversial subjects like affirmative action, not less.

John Stossel | 11.11.2010 12:00 PM

Policy

The Chilling Effect of Grand Jury Subpoenas (and Secrecy)

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2010 1:05 PM

Politics

Can't Buy You Love

The essential yet limited role of money in politics

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

When Democrats Lose, 'The Market for Political Information Is Broken'

Jacob Sullum | 11.9.2010 5:14 PM

Politics

You Are Now Free to Speak About Politics

Why do some people fear a less restricted debate?

Jacob Sullum | 11.9.2010 12:00 PM

Policy

If We Unsealed the Brief, You Might Talk About It

Jacob Sullum | 11.8.2010 12:16 PM

Politics

Would Independent Spending Have Been 40 Percent Lower Without Citizens United?

Jacob Sullum | 11.4.2010 4:54 PM

Politics

The Terminator vs. the Constitution

California's video game law does violence to the First Amendment.

Jacob Sullum | 11.3.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

'What James Madison Thought About Video Games'

Jacob Sullum | 11.2.2010 3:58 PM

Civil Liberties

Corpses, Crimes, and Comic Books

Old Testament justice in the horror comics of the '50s

Greg Beato | 10.29.2010 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

O.C. Town's War on "Blight" of Free Speech

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.28.2010 6:41 PM

Politics

A First Amendment Case You Can't Talk About

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2010 3:59 PM

Politics

Pity the Rich Incumbent

Jacob Sullum | 10.27.2010 11:32 AM

Politics

On the Importance of Hef

Matt Welch | 10.27.2010 11:18 AM

Politics

Video Games and the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 10.27.2010 10:13 AM

Politics

Lead Paragraph of the Day

Matt Welch | 10.27.2010 9:57 AM

Politics

First Amendment-Trampling Judge Faces Last Minute Effort To Unseat Her

Radley Balko | 10.26.2010 1:11 PM

Politics

Impeaching Chief Justice Roberts for "Judicial Activism"

Damon Root | 10.25.2010 12:52 PM

Politics

Obama's False Alarm on Corporate Electioneering

Understanding the president's attacks on Citizens United

Steve Chapman | 10.25.2010 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Society for Professional Journalists: Mostly Mum on Molly Norris, and Trashing the Journalists Who Pointed That Out

Matt Welch | 10.22.2010 12:24 PM

Politics

NYT Shocker: Chamber of Commerce Promotes Business Interests

Jacob Sullum | 10.22.2010 11:44 AM

Politics

Glee, The Simpsons, and Virtual Child Porn

Jacob Sullum | 10.21.2010 3:02 PM

Civil Liberties

Now We Know NPR's Standards: Don't Violate Principals!

Matt Welch | 10.21.2010 2:13 PM

Civil Liberties

Fighting Censorship for Profit

An interview with Bob Guccione

Manuel Klausner and C. Ronald Kimberling | 10.21.2010 10:30 AM