Oct 7, 2026

For more than half a century, Radio Caracas Televisión, or RCTV, broadcast news, sports, comedies, and telenovelas in Venezuela. Its news coverage was also fiercely critical of President Hugo Chávez.

When RCTV’s broadcast license expired, the government refused to renew it. Minutes later, a state-funded channel took...

Sep 23, 2026

FIRE staff responds to President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, with President Trump citing their “constant 'reporting'" of "FAKE NEWS!" Barring journalists from the White House because of their coverage raises serious First Amendment concerns and strikes at the heart of a...

Sep 22, 2026

The free speech culture wars look different than they did a decade ago.

Reason senior editor and Rising host Robby Soave joins us to discuss the White House’s restrictions on media access, Macklemore getting dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour, and why efforts to suppress controversial speech so often backfire.

We also...

Sep 11, 2026

Harvard, institutional neutrality, how we determine the rankings, partisan censorship, how schools can improve their ranking, and more!

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

03:18 Learn about our inaugural Soapbox conference

04:02 Preorder Nico’s book Free Speech Generation

5:00 Check out FIRE’s 2027 College Free Speech rankings

Sep 9, 2026

The First Amendment is only 45 words long. But more than 200 years and thousands of court decisions later, we’re still arguing over a basic question: what do those words mean — and what did they mean to the early Americans who adopted them?

To look through history and debate what originalism can — and can’t —...