Commentary

By Bradley A. Smith The decision to stop gathering some donor information seems, on the surface, like a no-brainer. First, the IRS neither used nor ...

Is your freedom to use the Internet to express your political opinions about to change drastically? Depending on the actions of the Federal Election ...

By Scott Blackburn and Dann Mead Smith Now that Google is banning political ads in Washington, newer candidates will have a harder time getting their ...

Margaret Mead famously observed that “a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” Yet when we consider the rights that protect ...

Alabama’s political establishment was in a tight spot in the summer of 1956. Public officials were still resisting the command to integrate schools, which ...

March for Our Lives, the student group that held nationwide rallies in the spring to decry school shootings, recently began a voter registration campaign ...

In 2009, before the Supreme Court, the government claimed it could ban the publication of a book, if that book contained a single sentence ...

The greatest threats to civil liberties often occur in the name of “national security.” History has shown that free political speech is almost always ...

Facebook’s lobbyists recently teamed up with Maryland legislators to craft what they call a “national model” for regulating ads on social media. The resulting ...

Incumbent politicians have a lot of advantages in campaigns. They have a network of donors to call on for support. They have an in ...