Tag: FIRE

New College of Florida students and supporters protest ahead of a meeting by the college's board of trustees, on the school campus in Sarasota, Fla., amid a war on woke (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell).

Florida appeals court strikes down DeSantis’s anti-woke law

Rena Rowe · July 7, 2026 4:13 pm

A Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington.

Man sues DHS for tracking him down after email comparing Todd Lyons to a Nazi

Rena Rowe · July 6, 2026 3:08 pm

A student protester parades a Palestinian flag on the campus of Columbia University.

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College faculty are ‘only slightly less left-leaning’ than Bernie Sanders

Daniel Idfresne · June 10, 2026 4:00 pm

Demonstrators wave flags on the UCLA campus.

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UCLA threatens conservative students, proving ‘woke’ is not dead

Zachary Faria · May 1, 2026 1:44 pm

Students walk past Royce Hall on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles.

Free speech under fire nearly 300 times in 2025 on campus

Center Square · December 27, 2025 1:38 pm

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We are all Harvard now

Peter Laffin · June 1, 2025 6:00 am

Corbin Aoyagi, a supporter of gay marriage, waves a rainbow flag during a rally at the Utah State Capitol on Jan. 28, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Utah teachers will be free to display LGBT pride flags and other social, political or religious imagery after the state House blocked a bill Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, that would have banned teachers from using their position to promote or disparage certain beliefs.

Utah law restricting pride flags brings free speech debate into focus

Emily Hallas · May 3, 2025 7:00 am

A woman walks on the Columbia University campus, Monday, March 9, 2020, in New York. U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges. The publisher said in a statement Thursday, July 7, 2022, that the Ivy League institution failed to substantiate certain 2021 data it previously submitted, including student-faculty ratios and class size.

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Columbia professors hypocritically protest speech suppression

Peter Laffin · April 16, 2025 1:11 pm

Harvard’s defiance drips with entitlement

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2025 12:00 am

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Escaping from LA and the rest of California

Paul Bedard · January 9, 2025 12:05 pm

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FIRE threatens to sue Gov. Josh Shapiro over ‘disgraceful’ speech rules

Matt Lamb · September 16, 2024 10:44 am

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Generation Z’s attitude toward free speech is chilling: New survey

Brad Polumbo · September 7, 2024 6:00 am