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.
Just last year, Justice Elana Kagan wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos…
Milla74/Dreamstime Last week, I participated in a Cato Institute an online event on “Trump v. Barbara: Birthright Citizenship at the…
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When Barret Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento, recently ended his weekly show, he had spent 55 years spinning weird,…
A short excerpt from yesterday’s 15K-word opinion by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil (S.D.N.Y.) Friday in Wolff v. Trump: In this…
In most states, child custody matters are decided by judges; but in Texas, they are in large part decided by…
Just when you think there is no further outrage that the President of the United States can perpetrate to top…
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Since a Democratic trifecta took control of Virginia’s government in the 2025 election, two longtime progressive labor policy priorities have been…
Amid a lot of patriotic rah-rah, predictable writing, and subpar acting, the Netflix movie War Machine manages to convey at least one…
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As Republicans and Democrats continue their mid-decade redistricting grudge match that could determine which party controls Congress after November, Americans…