This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Wednesday evening, I attended the third annual RealClear Samizdat Prize Gala in Palm Beach, Fla. RealClear, ...

Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries ...

An Editor at Large: Satire from columnist Gerry Baker detailing how the U.S. easily won the 2026 Battle of Greenland, but the consequences proved convulsive for all. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Before he became the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr often talked about the importance of ...

Columbus Speech and Hearing, a century-old nonprofit, is shuttering its speech department and transitioning it over to Nationwide Children's Hospital. Speech services will end Dec. 16, with the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

“Free speech is at the lowest ebb it has been in Britain since the eighteenth century,” the U.K. Free Speech Union’s founder and president Toby Young, recently ennobled, told me over lunch at the ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...