After observations that Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention bore a striking resemblance to the convention speech delivered by Michelle Obama in 2008, Trump's camp dismissed ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission on Oct. 8. According to Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, this case will mark the ...

The ad exodus from YouTube has died down since its peak in March, but YouTube continues to update its guidelines to reassure advertisers and, in some ways, its creators. In a blog post, YouTube ...

The day following the storming of Capitol Hill by Trump supporters, whose use of the Confederate flag signalled a white supremacist insurrection, Simon & Schuster announced that it was cancelling the ...

The Prevention and Combating of Hate Crime and Hate Speech Bill is likely to become law during 2019. This bill and recent controversy surrounding the likes of Johann Rupert and Andile Mngxitama raises ...

A speech impairment affects people who have problems speaking in a regular tone of voice or tempo. Speech impairments make it hard for people to communicate properly, and they can happen in both ...

A ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal, declaring the definition of hate speech unconstitutional, will have far-reaching consequences. The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) declared the controversial ...

A day after Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, Harvard University said it would begin using a definition of antisemitism that the first Trump administration promoted and that critics say ...

Labour has torn up the wording of an official definition of Islamophobia amid concerns about free speech, it has emerged. Ministers formed a working group aimed at defining Islamophobia or anti-Muslim ...

In a legal opinion on the IHRA definition of antisemitism that has received much exposure in recent months, Geoffrey Robertson QC notes that the law must be “formulated with sufficient precision to ...