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.
Tariff turmoil. Last week, the Supreme Court said President Donald Trump’s tariffs were illegal. But it didn’t say anything about…
Various laws are described as providing higher punishment for hate crimes, but they generally don’t focus on whether the defendant…
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Katie Herzog is the co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast and the author of Drink Your Way Sober, a book about her experiences…
Eddie Marshall | Midjourney How significant is the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Trump’s massive IEEPA tariffs in Learning Resources…
A new bill in California would let the inspector general for the state’s troubled high-speed rail project keep records secret from…
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“There’s a real tragedy in what DOGE did,” former Biden administration Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg tells me in a…
In the days since President Donald Trump’s tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court, administration officials and the president…
Illustration: Lex Villena; Oblachko Today the Supreme Court held oral argument in Pung v. Isabella County, an important takings case…
From today’s order by Chief Judge Reed O’Connor (N.D. Tex.) in Doe v. X Corp.: [The federal] Non-Consensual Intimate Image…
Robert De Niro wrapped up an event called “State of the Swamp”—a largely Democratic Party–coded counter-event to President Donald Trump’s…