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.
7/8/1941: Justice James Byrnes takes oath. Justice James ByrnesThe post Today in Supreme Court History: July 8, 1941 appeared first…
A court sentenced former Singapore Traffic Police officer Shivasuria Maniam Kesaval to 16 months in jail after he unlawfully accessed…
President Donald Trump seemingly did everything he could over the past year to push the U.S. Supreme Court into upholding…
Odds Man Out: The Untold Story of How Professional Sports Crushed the Pioneers of Online Betting, by Jay Cohen, Post…
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This new article of mine has just been published by the Emory Law Journal. Here’s the Abstract; readers might recall that…
Over the course of 12 days last month, the Supreme Court upheld the gun rights of cannabis consumers, rejected Hawaii’s…
from the um-no-it-isn’t dept As we mentioned previously, the Stop Killing Games movement has come to America and there is…
In January, following the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers in Minneapolis, David Streever sent an…
In 1776, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense dismantled the moral and political foundations of British rule and argued persuasively for independence…
In the spring of 1945, weeks after liberation, a Jewish editor named Yehuda Eismann sat in a Bucharest office and…
In brief China’s Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to China’s…