Freedom IndexPolitics
Politics investigates how governments, parties, and policymakers shape the landscape of free speech and censorship. From campaign regulations to state restrictions, this category examines the role of politics in defining the boundaries of expression and democratic debate.
If you want to open a hospital, you have to convince the government that there’s a need for it. And…
U.S. aid to Israel is one of the most contentious foreign policy issues in America. The last three years of…
Expecting any level of ideological consistency from partisan political actors is a fool’s errand; even so, the amount of sheer…
The Australian government has spent the last decade introducing steep tax hikes to curb smoking, and, as a result, the…
From Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton, decided yesterday by the Fifth Circuit (Judges Jerry Smith and Andrew Oldham):…
When President Donald Trump announced a takeover of the Kennedy Center last year, he explained it was to combat a…
Sen. Bernie Sanders. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/SplashNews/Newscom) In a recent New York Times article, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders presented a proposal to…
An excerpt from the long (and, I think, basically correct) opinion in Hoffman v. N.Y. Times Co., decided yesterday by…
From Judge Nathaniel Gorton (D. Mass.) today in Larrabee v. Trump: J. Whitfield Larrabee …. alleges that since taking office,…
A judge on Friday struck down one of the Trump administration’s attempts to hamstring legal immigration, ruling that U.S. Citizenship…
The country has gone without a Senate-confirmed surgeon general for more than a year, yet the office continues producing pronouncements.…
Last March, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project is illegal because…