America Still Has Free Speech. It Also Has a Growing Speech Problem

The First Amendment still matters. So does the quieter reality of algorithmic suppression, institutional pressure, and a culture increasingly comfortable with narrowing the space for dissent.

From the Opinion Desk, I want to say something carefully because it is easy to say too much here, and it is also easy to say far too little.

I do not think the United States is a completely free country in the way many Americans still imagine it is.