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.
On Monday, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill to remove the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program from the…
A long, expensive war? When President Donald Trump first announced the war—or, if you like, the distinctly-warlike-but-not-technically-a-war “excursion”—in Iran, he…
A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism…
Even in a best-case scenario, the official federal food pyramid is little more than a lagging indicator of conventional wisdom…
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For 30 years, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has protected online speech, shielding platforms from liability for content…
Collateral Damage, a new podcast at The Intercept hosted by criminal justice reporter Radley Balko, examines “the half-century-long war on drugs, its…
Police Scotland refused to release crime data requested by the Scottish Daily Express through a Freedom of Information request. The…
You’re probably tired of hearing about the U.S. government’s looming debt crisis, because it’s a continuing backdrop to political conversations…
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R–Okla.) might have been expecting to sail through the Senate and ultimately be confirmed as outgoing Secretary…
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court granted an emergency stay in the Staten Island redistricting case, Malliotakis v. Kosinski. The per…
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised that by April, the federal government…