Opinion: Each of the five protections of the First Amendment — the press, speech, assembly, petition and religion — is being undermined in today’s political climate.

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, debates about religious freedom continue to occupy the center of American public life. Since taking office for a ...

A First Amendment controversy is brewing in Oklahoma over a college essay that led to an allegation of religious discrimination and an instructor put on leave. The matter involves an essay for a ...

The First Amendment is only 45 words long, yet 235 years of court battles have left Americans fiercely devoted to an idea ...

Historians say a White House prayer anthology and 250th anniversary events promote a Christian-centric view of US history.

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion but not every practice is automatically protected. From prayer in public schools to vaccine exemptions and workplace dress codes, some acts of faith ...

A direct defense of Health Care Sharing Ministries as protected religious communities under the First Amendment.

In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on school premises, for example, and government funding for students at ...

Protections for religious freedom in the U.S. have grown in recent years with multiple states adopting laws to strengthen the constitutional right to freely exercise one’s religion. As of 2025, 30 ...

This is the lived reality of millions of people in highly controlling religions, cults, and coercive situations worldwide. Individuals in such situations are physically free to leave and yet feel ...