Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
Just last year, Justice Elana Kagan wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos…
Milla74/Dreamstime Last week, I participated in a Cato Institute an online event on “Trump v. Barbara: Birthright Citizenship at the…
In brief MoonPay launched a ChatGPT app that lets users generate crypto purchase links inside OpenAI’s chatbot. Users still must…
In brief Joi AI is hiring 10 “masturbation consultants” at $2,000 for a month to test an AI-guided masturbation feature…
I WANT FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS! Help Reason push back with more of the fact-based reporting we do best.…
When Barret Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento, recently ended his weekly show, he had spent 55 years spinning weird,…
Nicholas Kristof’s 11 May New York Times column (“The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians”) and its accompanying video…
Zoe Sankey speaks with Andrew Bushnell — policy researcher, criminal justice expert, and fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs…
A short excerpt from yesterday’s 15K-word opinion by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil (S.D.N.Y.) Friday in Wolff v. Trump: In this…
This Week in 2016 CIA Inspector General Claims It Accidentally Deleted CIA Torture Report After Being Asked To Retain It…
In most states, child custody matters are decided by judges; but in Texas, they are in large part decided by…
In brief Mozilla’s Project Nova redesign adds a single Settings control to disable all AI features in Firefox. Brave launched…