As Cabinet members snarl at representatives and senators, and social media fills with semiliterate trolling and insults by public officials, we need to remember that rhetoric—the art of persuasive ...

David Begnaud is a CBS News contributor and previously served as the lead national correspondent for "CBS Mornings," based in New York City. Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...

Chris Hipkins’ state of the nation speech was relatively subdued, but Labour’s leader was more freewheeling in his thinking away from the autocue.

Freedom of the press. The right to assembly. And the right to free speech. The first amendment includes some of the most ...

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That’s when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored ...

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...

For decades, administrators and professors – especially at the nation’s most selective colleges and universities – have waged a campaign to regulate speech. Their contrived transgressions and ...

Understanding the type of speech you’re giving is the first step in the speech writing process. If you already know the genre of your speech, then feel free to move on towards the next step. If not, ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston. In the week since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was ...

This op-ed is part of The Hill’s “How to Fix America” series exploring solutions to some of the country’s most pressing problems. This year, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) ...