Expression
FIRE, Sarah McLaughlin, David Josef Volodzko, Angel Eduardo, Sean Stevens, Tyler Tone, Chloe Ratner, Michael Hurley, Logan Dougherty, Dylynn Lasky, Isabelle Brito, Isaac Apple, Willa MackThe stories that shape free speech in America, brought to you by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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If everything’s a conspiracy, nothing’s a conspiracy
Scene from the 1928 film Me, Gangster.
Douglass Mackey and Don Lemon likely agree on almost nothing.
Mackey is the pseudonymous pro-Trump provocateur who, as “Ricky Vaughn,” built a large Twitter following during the 2016 campaign, includ...
Violence is up and tolerance is down. What comes next?
When you’re trying to see whether you understand a particular subject, it’s often helpful to see if you can predict how it will develop (or what current results you haven’t seen will look like). Obviously, predicting the future is very diff...
The Jason Arday tragedy cannot justify a crackdown on the press
The conversations that are blooming around the death of Jason Arday are, in their broadest sense, not particularly new. Death is shocking, morality is messy, and we do what little we can to make sense of it when confronted with the two. Go...
Professors are being squeezed on all sides. The GUARD Act can protect them.
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From 2000 through 2024, FIRE recorded 102 cases of politicians trying to silence faculty. That’s four cases a year on average. Then, in 2025 alone, we recorded 114. That extraordinary spike comes as federal efforts to reform h...
Foreign journalists to face social media vetting for U.S. visas
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression A nonpartisan non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the mission of protecting freedom of speech in the United States.
Sarah is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at FIRE and author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech
Head of news at FIRE, editor-in-chief of Expression, author of The Radicalist, analyst at Washington Policy Center. Former Asia correspondent, war correspondent, financial editor, and professor of logic. Fired from Seattle Times for attacking Lenin.
New York City-based writer, musician, and artist. Managing Editor of The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff. Senior Writer & Editor at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Board Chair at Fair for All. More at AngelEduardo.com.
Chief Research Advisor, FIRE
I write about free speech issues in tech and telecom for FIRE, as well as some other things from time to time. I try to gather a good bit of that here.
FL | Yale
Government Affairs Counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). https://www.thefire.org/about-us/our-team/michael-hurley
Senior Researcher
staffer @theFIREorg | Happy 1A warrior! All opinions are my own.
Isabelle Brito is FIRE’s Off-Campus Mobilization Program Officer, where she works to empower individuals across the country to protect and defend free speech from small-town city halls to Congress.
UW Madison
Politics & history @ Princeton
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