NASHVILLE JUST PASSED 6-STORY SINGLE-STAIR REFORM! Nashville officially becomes the third-largest city to legalize single-stair apartment buildings up to six stories, outdoing Austin who recently passed a 5-story code update passed earlier this year. LET'S FREAKIN GO NASHVILLE

White House to Epstein Truthers:

BREAKING: White House to release location of Freemason treasure hidden within the catacombs of Trinity Church in New York City.

At first glance, the Trump Admin's AI Action Plan appears to champion free expression. But in practice, it could risk distorting the information ecosystem it seeks to safeguard. Our thoughts on the #AIActionPlan from Isabelle Anzabi and Jordi Calvet:

Nothing about what ICE is doing is legal, constitutional, or morally right. It's fundamentally un-American. If you don't care about what's happening to Americans who don't look like you, at least consider that if other legal immigrants can be kidnapped, you can be, too.

Enjoyed this deep dive into global free speech issues on Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀's excellent Dynamist podcast along with my colleague Ashkhen Kazaryan.

It is undeniably funny that a big part of the reason that US soda uses corn syrup is... tariffs, the most beautiful word in the dictionary

Before we fight misinformation, we need to define it. This event brings together experts David Inserra, Jacob Mchangama, Renee DiResta, and Jennifer Huddleston to ask tough questions: What is misinformation? And what should we do about it?

The Future of Free Speech—co-authored with @JeffKosseff—is now available for pre-order. Out April 2026 from Hopkins Press. How do we reverse the global free speech recession? Jeff and I have thoughts.

Those who say that private enterprise is *always* more efficient than government have never tried to run issue ads on Meta.

For most of the 20th century, America’s civil rights leaders opposed hate speech laws—because they knew who would be silenced first.

Why did civil rights organizations oppose attempts to criminalize hate speech? In a new guest essay, University of Iowa Professor of Law Samantha Barbas explores this counterintuitive history and what it means for today's free speech battles.

When a leading press-freedom group praises a government for censoring speech, it’s time to be concerned about the future of free speech.

Brazil’s crackdown on “disinformation” and “hate speech’ is being sold as a cure for democracy, when reality shows it’s a path to democratic backsliding, which I recently wrote about at Persuasion: persuasion.community/p/dont-resort-…

At The Bedrock Principle, I explain why endorsing Brazil’s model risks normalizing state policing of truth—and why democracies and press freedom advocates alike should resist it. 🔗 Read it here: bedrockprinciple.com/p/reporters-wi…

Have you read this week's Free Flow? Don't miss the latest updates from social media to website to AI bans — as well as our fresh new design featuring exclusive expert commentary ✨!

It’s not every day a government official invites you to write a lead essay criticizing speech restrictions. In this piece for the UK’s Commission for Countering Extremism, I argue that when democracies silence dissent, they don’t create safety—they create a pressure cooker.

How Far Will Europe Slide Into Illiberal Censorship of Speech? theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Just because the U.S. is hypocritical, it doesn’t mean that Europe’s free speech problems aren’t real—or worsening, as Conor Friedersdorf chronicles in his latest piece at The Atlantic (in which I’m also quoted). Principled free speech advocates should be sounding the alarm.

Before researching this article I'd underestimated how far judicial precedents in the European Court of Human Rights had gone toward undermining free speech. This isn't just paradox-of-tolerance, ban the Nazis stuff. The threshold for what can be criminalized is **much** lower.