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.
from the worst-people-have-the-most-power dept The cops never change. Only the tech toys do. That’s the upshot of this report from…
The Department of Justice this week filed two Second Amendment lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
In brief Publicly traded Bitcoin miner American Bitcoin reported net losses of nearly $82 million in Q1 2026, up from…
[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon…
In brief Amazon Web Services launched AgentCore Payments with Coinbase and Stripe for AI agent transactions. The system uses Coinbase’s…
from the it’s-a-true-mystery dept John Roberts has spent years whining about how totally unfair it is that people claim he…
President Donald Trump and Congress want to help you increase your savings. And you should. At the household level, saving…
In brief Tether’s 1.7 billion-parameter QVAC MedPsy outperformed Google’s MedGemma-4B and beat MedGemma-27B on HealthBench Hard, an OpenAI benchmark testing…
Florida just created its own alternative to A.P. United States History, and it seems pretty good. Headlines describe it as…
In brief Prediction market platform Kalshi raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in a Series F round led…
Back in November, when Vinay Prasad, then-director of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,…
In brief A Unitree Robotics G1 humanoid named Gabi was formally initiated as a monk at Seoul’s Jogyesa Temple on…