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.
From today’s decision by Judge Jon Tigar (N.D. Cal.) in Roe v. City of S.F.: Plaintiffs are residents and businesses…
Mr. Bagnell, an attorney, has allegedly represented clients against Sig Sauer in cases involving the P320 pistol since June 2017….…
A Tennessee grandmother blames AI facial recognition software for wrongfully putting her in jail for nearly half a year. It’s…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the recent verdicts against Meta and the growing legal and cultural…
In this arson case brought under 18 U.S.C. § 844(i), Ramirez was charged with maliciously damaging Inter&Co Stadium by throwing…
Nine years in prison for preaching unpopular ideas about sexuality? That’s the sentence that a judge imposed today on Nicole…
More than seven years after two Texas cops kidnapped a teenaged girl they falsely claimed had been “abandoned,” a federal…
As he celebrated the 50th anniversary of Social Security, then–Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill (D–Mass.) hailed the program’s epic…
Good news in the battle between the federal government and the AI company Anthropic: A federal judge has temporarily blocked…
Trump Is Getting His Way in Latin America. But Bully Tactics Have a Cost—and the Bill Is Coming Due.
Dressed in a navy-blue suit and a light blue tie, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio flanking him on one…
From Bennett v. Brown, decided Friday by Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander (D. Md.): The Bennetts, a married couple, own United,…