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.
The Illinois Legislature is busy advancing a bill that’s one of the most egregious examples yet of the grift between…
When President Donald Trump announced broad and arbitrary import taxes last April—tariffs that the Supreme Court would later determine were…
The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to censor bad news about the Iran war. President Donald…
A post jocularly characterizing AIs as our children reminded me of this stanza from Philip Larkin: They fuck you up,…
Read the Complaint for more on the factual allegations and on the remedy the DoJ seeks. The Introduction: On April…
On February 11, the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit published an order with remarkable conclusions: a federal district court…
The criminal prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the Salvadoran national whose story became a flashpoint last year in the immigration debate—must…
In the first round of the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Texas on March 3, John Cornyn, the incumbent, prevailed…
Anti-tech extremists are beginning to worry federal law enforcement authorities. Wired obtained “more than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the…
To read some of the press coverage, one would think the biggest winner of yesterday’s Texas Republican primary runoff is…
On Tuesday, Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed over 270 bills into law. With public scrutiny focused on bills related…
The minimum wage is on the rise in the U.S. Thirty states, the District of Columbia, and at least 68…