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.
Whoops! What happens if the Supreme Court grants certiorari to review a question presented about a particular statute—but the case…
Justice Barrett’s new book is not a memoir. Though she sprinkles the book with some anecdotes about her family, Listening Law…
In the stock room at Division Vapor in Portland, Oregon, a sign affixed to a metal rack holding various nicotine…
BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, Florida—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sold the public on the detention camp known as Alligator Alcatraz as…
A short excerpt from yesterday’s long Massachusetts high court decision in Weiss v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, written…
From Civil Servant 1 v. Office of Special Counsel, decided yesterday by Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.): Plaintiffs Civil Servants…
There’s a reason you’ve never heard of a Model T tax. No one proposed a levy on the cotton gin…
Not even shutting down the government can stop Republicans from forcing their way into corporate boardrooms these days. The federal…
From Ader v. Ader, decided last week by N.Y. trial court judge Joel M. Cohen:This case adds yet another unfortunate…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Fall is a lovely time of year, particularly here in…
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where I’m now a Senior Fellow, has long offered up-to-5-year paid in-residence positions (with…
Occupational licensing laws—those mandates that workers in hundreds of professions obtain a license before earning a living—lock people out of…