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.
In brief The DOJ has charged 10 individuals connected to firms Gotbit, Vortex, Antier, and Contrarian with cryptocurrency market manipulation.…
NA My new book chapter, “The Right to Use Private Property” is now available on SSRN. It was recently published…
Alecia Lindsay froze to death in Anchorage, Alaska, after a 911 dispatcher failed to send help for over an hour.…
From Justice Gorsuch’s opinion for a nearly unanimous Court today in Chiles v. Salazar (only Justice Jackson dissented):The Court held that the…
In 2009, I launched FantasySCOTUS. At the time, the idea was novel: a league where people could predict the outcome…
By pushing a 75 percent wholesale tax on nicotine pouches, New York State Budget Director Blake Washington says, Gov. Kathy…
In brief Bitcoin is hovering near $66,000 after Trump reportedly signaled his willingness to end the Iran campaign even with…
from the McPromptism dept I’m going to trust that most of our audience will have some idea of what McCarthyism…
Two months ago, Chief Justice Roberts began the Court’s opinion in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections this way: Under…
In brief Anthropic accidentally exposed 512,000 lines of Claude Code via a source map leak. DMCA takedowns failed as mirrors…
Ten years ago today, Donald Trump said he would pay off the national debt in the span of just eight…
In brief A security researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash nodes that bypassed proof verification for the deprecated Sprout…