Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech. Critics say his actions as president threaten it

The AP’s Freedom of Speech

For anyone who thinks the Associated Press’s lawsuit against President Trump’s White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger. It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.

Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar

Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.

Critics say Trump's actions threaten free speech

DENVER — When President Donald Trump gave his joint address to Congress, he boasted that in his first few weeks back in the White House he had "brought free speech back to America."

Trump’s attacks on the media are eroding independent journalism

The ban on Associated Press the latest attack on freedom of the press in the U.S.

Voltaire knew what to say about would-be despots like Donald Trump

“Let us hope,” Justice John Paul Stevens said in a 1992 address at Yale titled “The Freedom of Speech,” that whenever we decide to tolerate intolerant speech, the speaker as well as the audience will understand that we do so to express our deep commitment to the value of tolerance — a value protected by every clause in the single sentence called the First Amendment.” Somewhere in the middle of his meticulous legal dissection of the three clauses…

Trump is launching America’s version of the Cultural Revolution

The way the White House has attacked research funding and free speech recalls China’s Cultural Revolution.