Analysis

How does the First Amendment apply to AI regulation in hiring and health care?

July 8, 2026

Governments are regulating AI used in hiring and health care. But when does regulating decision-making tools become regulating speech?

Analysis

Democracy has a participation problem. AI may help solve it.

July 7, 2026

AI won't fix democracy, but it can help more people participate by organizing public input at a scale traditional town halls never could.

Analysis

Hazelwood is the training-wheels version of free speech. It's past time the Court revisited it.

July 6, 2026

Hazelwood gives school officials broad power to silence student speech. Nearly 40 years later, the Supreme Court should revisit it.

Press Release

FIRE files lawsuit after federal agents confront New Yorker over ICE criticism

July 6, 2026

Rochester native David Streever filed the lawsuit after ICE retaliated against him for a critical email he sent during January's crackdown in Minnesota.

Analysis

America, we’ll give our best to you

July 2, 2026

The American experiment was never guaranteed. At 250, free speech remains the indispensable safeguard of the Declaration's promise.

Analysis

250 years later, free speech is still revolutionary

July 2, 2026

250 years later, America's founding ideals still demand defenders.

Analysis

What has FIRE been doing in the AI space?

July 1, 2026

How did FIRE become a leading voice on AI? By defending free speech in legislatures, courts, research, and emerging technology.

Analysis

Frederick Douglass represents the best of us. And free speech.

July 1, 2026

Frederick Douglass understood that free speech was the greatest weapon against slavery. His example still challenges America today.

Analysis

The KIDS Act would put Washington in charge of how we can communicate online

June 29, 2026

Congress’s KIDS Act would give government broad power over online speech platforms, including social media, chatbots, video games, and adult websites.

Press Release

VICTORY! Court dismisses Trump appointee's speech-chilling lawsuit against Idaho conservation officer

June 29, 2026

An Idaho conservation officer represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has been liberated from a years-long, speech-stifling defamation lawsuit from a now-top U.S. Department of Agriculture official.