The First Amendment rights of protected peaceful protest and freedom of the press are front and center in our daily news. In Tucson and across this country, people are speaking out and demanding ...

The Mass Freedom to Read Coalition assembled on March 10 in the Boston State House for a day of advocacy, involving a book fair and a press conference with speakers including authors, state ...

Last week Lani Kawahara, who oversees the young adult section at Kauai’s largest library, set up her annual display to mark Banned Books Week, a national campaign that kicked off Sunday to spotlight ...

Banning, and even burning, books that conflict with tightly-held ideology is nothing new. In 1933, student-led book burnings at the University of Berlin spurred a list of government-enforced banned ...

At least eight states are trying to crack down on attempts to remove books in school libraries, passing legislation that gives librarians more leeway in selecting materials, sets up formal processes ...

Political strategists and commentators are looking at Democrat Taylor Rehmet’s stunning special election victory in Texas state Senate District 9 to forecast electoral shifts ahead of 2026’s midterms.

READINGTON, NJ – The Readington board of education has voted to introduce new Freedom To Read policies and regulations that would allow library staff members to flag “purchase of material that may ...

Free access to information is an absolute necessity in a democratic society. People’s ability to write about their experiences and for others to read them is essential to building empathy and to ...

Political strategists and commentators are looking at Democrat Taylor Rehmet’s stunning special election victory in Texas state Senate District 9 to forecast electoral shifts ahead of 2026’s midterms.

Editor’s note: This article has been edited to reflect Leigh Wambsganss’s correct title at Patriot Mobile, “chief communications officer.” Political strategists and commentators are looking at ...