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.
Few things are more difficult to eradicate in our system of modern governance than a government-sanctioned monopoly or oligopoly. A…
In the United Kingdom, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is launching a plan to increase the amount private schools pay for…
Weapons, the new horror film from writer-director Zach Cregger, is fascinatingly oblique. Unlike so much message-heavy, highly politicized modern horror,…
NA Yesterday, a broad coalition of groups filed the first lawsuit challenging President Trump’s imposition of a $100,000 fee on…
Photo by saiid bel on Unsplash; Reamolko Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a decision…
Illustration: Lex Villena; Oblachko In Tyler v. Hennepin County (2023), a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that “home equity theft”…
The U.S. government doesn’t want you to read what Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories,…
10/4/1965: Justice Abe Fortas takes the oath. Justice Abe FortasThe post Today in Supreme Court History: October 4, 1965 appeared…
When a strange aquatic creature appears in Tokyo Bay, Japanese officials assure the public that there is no reason to…
The good news is that the first 20 years of the millennium saw overall increases in economic freedom around the…
10/3/1990: Justice David Souter takes the oath. Justice David SouterThe post Today in Supreme Court History: October 3, 1990 appeared…
It’s easy to forget, in today’s world of UFC superstars, that in the early days of mixed martial arts there…