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 gas station across the street from my house in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is filled with most of…
In California, Maurice Hastings spent 38 years in prison for a 1983 murder he always denied committing. From 2000 to…
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When Empower entered the Washington, D.C., rideshare market in 2020, it promised to disrupt the status quo by empowering drivers…
My last post discussed how the Second Circuit in Antonyuk v. James (2024) relied on a fake North Carolina citation…
Judge Rejects Drake’s Defamation + Harassment Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Diss Track
A short excerpt from Judge Jeannete Vargas’s long opinion in Graham v. UMG Recordings, Inc.; read the full opinion for…
[T]he Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act … provides that any entity domiciled or doing business in New York that sets the…
If you oppose “common-sense gun safety legislation,” politicians and activists who favor new restrictions on firearms often suggest, you have…
If CBS News staffers are throwing fits of apoplexy over the announcement that Bari Weiss will be their new overlord,…
At the heart of the budget standoff that has the government shut down is Democrats’ insistence on extracting a laundry…
When Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in January 2025, on the last day of the Biden administration, President…
Texas’ highest criminal court has stayed the execution of Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who was—for the second time…