Jane Fonda is reviving the Hollywood advocacy group to meet the high-stakes challenges to free expression in the Trump era. Jane Fonda accepts her Lifetime Achievement Award at last winter’s Screen ...

Hollywood screenwriter Samuel Ornitz speaks before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 29, 1947. UPI/Bettmann Archive via Getty Images Yet, the First Amendment has ...

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...

Presumptively Protected. The Second Circuit initially concluded that Leroy’s message doesn’t fit within an unprotected category of speech. Although offensive, his post isn’t a true threat of violence.

I met Pete Seeger personally while directing a documentary film about his environmental legacy. Yet, the First Amendment has not always been potent enough to protect the right to speak. The Cold War ...