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.
Remember when people used to say “Epic FAIL”? I’m sorry, but there’s no other way to describe Ohio’s new age…
I am honored to open up the 17th Season of FantasySCOTUS. I launched the site back in 2009 when I…
Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles
“Essentially, the librarians are my suspects,” the Texas police officer tells a school superintendent in the body camera footage. “If they…
This week, amid a government shutdown, President Donald Trump and his administration are trying to capitalize on the situation. “Trump…
A judge in South Korea sentenced police officer Shin Mo to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, for…
It looks like California Gov. Gavin Newsom has learned to stop worrying and love fake, AI-generated political satire videos—or at…
This week, President Donald Trump announced the next in a long line of vanity projects: TrumpRX, a forthcoming, federally branded…
AI-generated image. Earlier this week the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided to grant an en banc…
Coal—the dominant fuel in the U.S., before it was steadily replaced by cheaper and cleaner energy sources—has found new life under…
10/5/1953: Chief Justice Earl Warren takes the oath. Chief Justice Earl WarrenThe post Today in Supreme Court History: October 5,…
Shadow Ticket: A Novel, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, 293 pages, $30 My favorite story about Thomas Pynchon, which may…
Gordon S. Wood Weighs in on Akhil Reed Amar’s Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920
On September 16, Yale Law professor Akhil Reed Amar published Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920, the second volume of an…