# Expression The stories that shape free speech in America, brought to you by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Page: Feed: --- ## [Who’s afraid of the printed page?](https://expression.fire.org/p/whos-afraid-of-the-printed-page) _2026-08-29 · David Josef Volodzko_ FIREside No. 1 ## [The Pentagon, the press, and the paywall](https://expression.fire.org/p/the-pentagon-the-press-and-the-paywall) _2026-08-28 · David Josef Volodzko_ FIREwire No. 42 ## [How universities turn scandal into censorship](https://expression.fire.org/p/how-universities-turn-scandal-into) _2026-08-28 · FIRE_ Ryan Tsapatsaris is a doctor in communication and a master of laws candidate and dean’s scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. ## [Court backs parents punished for wearing pink ‘XX’ wristbands in silent protest of trans high school athletes](https://expression.fire.org/p/court-backs-parents-punished-for) _2026-08-28 · FIRE_ New Hampshire school likely violated parents’ rights by silencing silent protest based on viewpoint ## [Is Britain bringing blasphemy laws back under another name?](https://expression.fire.org/p/is-britain-bringing-blasphemy-laws) _2026-08-26 · Sarah McLaughlin_ A Facebook meme, a protest sign, and a big mess ## [The U.S. military is at war with its own newspaper](https://expression.fire.org/p/the-us-military-is-at-war-with-its) _2026-08-26 · Jacob Gaba_ A military paper matters most when commanders disagree ## [Massachusetts has a better approach for book challenges: due process](https://expression.fire.org/p/massachusetts-has-a-better-approach) _2026-08-25 · Isabelle Brito_ A complaint about a library book should start a conversation, not end one. ## [Nebraska school district censors anti-ICE cartoon, forces prior approval on student press](https://expression.fire.org/p/nebraska-school-district-censors) _2026-08-25 · Marie McMullan_ A Nebraska school district censored a student newspaper over a political cartoon criticizing U.S. ## [This Michigan city threatened critics over ‘cyberbullying.’ Now it’s hiding the evidence.](https://expression.fire.org/p/this-michigan-city-threatened-critics) _2026-08-24 · helloiamcarrie_ Officials say it’s too ‘emotionally offensive’ ## [Thank you, Brendan Carr](https://expression.fire.org/p/thank-you-brendan-carr) _2026-08-22 · FIRE_ Bob Corn-Revere is chief counsel for FIRE and he served as chief counsel to former FCC Chair James H. ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F5QjqZY5Nmhf) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [When the cure is worse than the disease](https://expression.fire.org/p/when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease) _2026-08-21 · David Josef Volodzko_ FIREwire No. 41 ## [If everything’s a conspiracy, nothing’s a conspiracy](https://expression.fire.org/p/if-everythings-a-conspiracy-nothings) _2026-08-20 · Adam Goldstein_ How a Reconstruction-era law built to crush the Klan, and tested against the Mafia, ended up silencing people for journalism and memes ## [Violence is up and tolerance is down. What comes next?](https://expression.fire.org/p/violence-is-up-and-tolerance-is-down) _2026-08-20 · Chapin Lenthall-Cleary_ What are your predictions for free speech in 2026? ## [The Jason Arday tragedy cannot justify a crackdown on the press](https://expression.fire.org/p/the-jason-arday-tragedy-cannot-justify) _2026-08-20 · Sarah McLaughlin_ His death leads to hard questions. But it must not lead to censorship. ## [Professors are being squeezed on all sides. The GUARD Act can protect them.](https://expression.fire.org/p/professors-are-being-squeezed-on) _2026-08-19 · Michael Hurley_ Old-school censorship never went away. ## [Foreign journalists to face social media vetting for U.S. visas](https://expression.fire.org/p/foreign-journalists-to-face-social) _2026-08-18 · Sarah McLaughlin_ Plus: France’s under-15 ban comes to screeching halt ## [Campus hecklers are silencing pro-Israel speakers. Speech codes are not the fix.](https://expression.fire.org/p/campus-hecklers-are-silencing-pro) _2026-08-17 · FIRE_ Max Friedman studies at the University of Memphis Cecil C. ## [FIREwire: The freedom suite](https://expression.fire.org/p/firewire-the-freedom-suite) _2026-08-14 · David Josef Volodzko_ Durags, Draco Malfoy, and dystopian AI ## [Americans left and right agree: Higher ed has an ideological-diversity problem](https://expression.fire.org/p/americans-left-and-right-agree-higher) _2026-08-14 · Sean Stevens_ New FIRE polling finds liberals, conservatives, and moderates converging on a rare point of agreement ## [Tuskegee tells students to suit up and leave the durag at home](https://expression.fire.org/p/tuskegee-tells-students-to-suit-up) _2026-08-13 · Dylynn Lasky_ Tuskegee can teach professionalism without policing culturally expressive clothing in classrooms and cafeterias. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5TQOlxpkHYo7) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and start investing with low-cost global access. ## [How the unraveling of Jason Arday’s career and the UK’s censorship collided](https://expression.fire.org/p/how-the-unraveling-of-jason-ardays) _2026-08-12 · Sarah McLaughlin_ A burgeoning academic controversy, costly libel law, and overactive speech police walk into a bar… ## [Pete Hegseth wants the Pentagon press corps on a leash](https://expression.fire.org/p/pete-hegseth-wants-the-pentagon-press) _2026-08-12 · Willa Mack_ The Pentagon cannot use press credentials to punish reporters for asking questions or publishing unwelcome news. ## [NYU’s crackdown on affinity graduations solves a problem that isn’t there](https://expression.fire.org/p/nyus-crackdown-on-affinity-graduations) _2026-08-11 · FIRE_ NYU canceled 13 affinity ceremonies and restricted alternatives — after the federal anti-DEI directive was already dead. ## [Countries are hiding censorship in ‘cybercrime’ bills. A UN treaty could make things worse.](https://expression.fire.org/p/countries-are-hiding-censorship-in) _2026-08-11 · Sarah McLaughlin_ Late last year, the United Kingdom, France, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and dozens more nations signed the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime, a treaty ostensibly intended to improve global cooperation to fight crimes taking place over computer systems.