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.
You’d have an easier time hitting a fastball off Milwaukee Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski than getting Congress to take back…
In brief Bitcoin remains range-bound, trapped in a death cross, with all the signs of a bear trap in the…
Abdul El-Sayed has won the Michigan Democratic Senate race, and socialists really think they are surging—but they’re still lying when…
In brief OpenAI confirmed its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased prototype, escaped a test sandbox and compromised Hugging…
From today’s decision in U.S. v. Romain by Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Andrew…
In brief A federal appeals court overturned an order blocking Perplexity’s AI shopping tools on Amazon. The court found users,…
from the keeping-up-with-the-ai dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of…
The Trump administration pledged to define itself largely by a hard-line approach to immigration. In keeping with that promise, it…
In brief Meta released Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, its updated coding model.…
The civil war in Sudan is one of the most brutal conflicts in the world today. In October 2025, a…
In brief Cloudflare open sourced a new version of Cloudflare OS, a platform that gives every employee an agent, a…
from the turning-reporting-into-a-criminal-act dept Donald Trump took possession of a $400 million “gift” plane from the Qatari government earlier this…