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When a school board pulls a novel from a class syllabus, does the Constitution have anything to say about it? A forty-year-old Supreme Court case says maybe — and a new wave of curriculum lawsuits is testing exactly how far that answer reaches.
The pandemic tested the First Amendment's least glamorous guarantee — the right to gather — and the lawsuits it produced are still reshaping constitutional law. We follow the plaintiffs, from pastors to protesters, whose cases will define the limits of emergency power for a generation.
Reporting misconduct from inside a company is one of the riskiest forms of speech in American life. This explainer untangles the overlapping federal statutes, state protections, NDAs, and at-will doctrines that decide whether the truth-teller keeps a paycheck — or a lawsuit.
Accusations of shadowbanning are everywhere, but the reality of algorithmic throttling is messier than either platforms or their critics admit. This guide explains how moderation systems actually operate and how to tell genuine suppression from a declining engagement curve.
The First Amendment you rely on today was forged in a handful of Supreme Court decisions spanning a century. From wartime pamphleteers to campaign spending and social media moderation, here are the cases that define what free speech actually protects.