
FIRE expands free-speech advocacy
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (still FIRE) as it moves beyond college campuses to defend free speech everywhere. Part of the First Amendment campaign may challenge the American Civil Liberties Union’s primacy as a defender of free speech, writes Josh Gerstein on Politico. “There’s a very strong belief in not just the First Amendment, but a culture of freedom of speech that — black or wh