The high court will decide whether the First Amendment prevents elected bodies from disciplining their own members.

Can the ideals of free speech and social justice be reconciled?

Companies like Israel’s NSO Group have revolutionized how governments spy on their citizens. Can they be tamed?

“It’s about intimidation—and not of me,” says the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

Michael Powell frames policing and racial justice as issues moving the ACLU away from its core mission around speech. It’s a false antagonism—and a trap.

The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.

The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?

The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Trump’s ban, but ridiculed the company in the process: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty ... Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.”

The senator’s new book is a case study in why conservatives struggle to be populists.

Does the First Amendment confer a right never to face public criticism? No, but the high court may be forced to settle the matter anew.

The jailing of a dissident and two lawsuits reveal Twitter’s complicity with MBS’s dictatorship.

Condé Nast set Alexi McCammond and the magazine’s staff up to fail. And yet it’s seemingly evaded any responsibility for its decisions.

Donald Trump has left a void in the discourse that is being filled with vapid nonsense.

The Missouri senator probably won’t shut up about how he was “silenced” any time soon.

The Niskanen Center bowed to fake outrage from bad-faith right-wing trolls when it fired Will Wilkinson.

A concept popularized by online media has fully migrated to the Republican fever swamps.

The author of a book on the supposed “transgender craze seducing our daughters” claims she is being silenced. It is a very loud silence.

Massive companies like Amazon, Google, Pfizer, and Uber don’t merely dominate an industry: They dominate our lives.