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.
A new bill in California would let the inspector general for the state’s troubled high-speed rail project keep records secret from…
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“There’s a real tragedy in what DOGE did,” former Biden administration Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg tells me in a…
In brief The OCC opened a 60-day comment period on draft rules implementing the GENIUS Act. The proposal prohibits anyone…
In the days since President Donald Trump’s tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court, administration officials and the president…
The Middle East—indeed much of the world—is currently waiting with bated breath to see whether the United States will attack…
from the real-nice,-guys dept It will only take a few moments perusing all the headlines of posts we’ve done on…
Illustration: Lex Villena; Oblachko Today the Supreme Court held oral argument in Pung v. Isabella County, an important takings case…
Polling in Australia shows that support for populism has risen dramatically, to a level that has more typically been experienced…
In brief ETHZilla will rebrand as Forum Markets and trade as FRMM on Nasdaq at the start of March The…
From today’s order by Chief Judge Reed O’Connor (N.D. Tex.) in Doe v. X Corp.: [The federal] Non-Consensual Intimate Image…
In brief TIME reports Anthropic dropped a pledge to halt training without guaranteed safeguards. OpenAI also removed “safely” from its…