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.
Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S.…
The unity that once held the Democratic Party together has given way to ideological meandering, oscillating between “woke” moralistic left-wing…
11/23/1804: President Franklin Pierce’s birthday. He would appoint Justice John Archibald Campbell to the Supreme Court. President Pierce appointed Justice…
There is so much to say about LULAC v. Abbott, the recent gerrymandering case decided by a three judge panel…
Gordon Wood is probably the leading living historian of the American Founding, author of such seminal works as The Creation…
In October, California lawmakers passed a bill allowing rideshare drivers to unionize. Under the law, a unionization election can be…
Before voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Bill Cassidy…
11/22/1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office. He would appoint two Justices to the Supreme Court: Abe…
The Canadian Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katie Engelhart wrote The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die. In this conversation with Reason’s Kevin…
With The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, Daniel J. Flynn has produced a biography valuable…
I favor government employees defying orders and sabotaging the instruments of the state as much as the next libertarian (well,…
The first Trump administration was fairly restrained, as it included plenty of old-school Republican adults in key positions. They kept…