Safe spaces have become a cornerstone of modern social and educational environments, designed to provide individuals—particularly those from marginalized or vulnerable groups—with a refuge from ...

Olivia Remes, an expert on anxiety disorders, says, “People with anxiety often edit what they’re about to say in their minds because they don’t want to offend anyone; they try to find the perfect ...

In its first survey of legal faculty, FIRE found that conservative professors are especially likely to feel they need to ...

For decades, Americans’ trust in one another has been on the decline, according to the most recent General Social Survey. A major factor in that downshift has been the concurrent rise in the ...

Peter Coquillette, CSOM ’26, and Skyler Safriet, MCAS ’26 hosted a Braver Angels dialogue Monday, bringing students together to discuss self-censorship on campus. “In trying to spare students from ...

College students want to debate but are afraid to do it, according to a recent report from Banjo, an online platform “dedicated to the civil, peaceful exchange of ideas.” The survey of 1,019 students ...

In the near term, this means an increasingly weakened democratic society, with the government and its patrons enjoying ...

Two years ago, on April 18, 2024, New York Police Department officers arrested 108 students at Columbia University’s "Gaza Solidarity Encampment," triggering a wave of campus chaos that swept the ...

When advertising executive Osborn invented the "brainstorming" method in the 50s, he popularized it with a powerful image. The term literally translates as "storm in the brain". The principle, which ...

In an era when social media blurs the line between public and private speech, how do people decide whether to speak their minds or stay silent? A new study from researchers at Arizona State University ...