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.
In England, a Thames Valley Police officer visited Deborah Anderson in her home and demanded she apologize for a social…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss whether the impending government shutdown will actually rein in the federal…
President Donald Trump is considering imposing a 100 percent tariff on semiconductors to incentivize chipmakers to invest in domestic manufacturing,…
President Donald Trump’s efforts to be the “law and order” president could soon be ruled illegal. Oregon has filed suit…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is quietly building up its ability to spy on Americans’ phones. Earlier this month, the…
Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that purports to address the recent spate of political violence. But…
There are quite a few dramatic, almost folkloric, stories about Assata Shakur, the American militant and self-avowed anti-government revolutionary who…
The U.K. may be about to get even more dystopian. Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposed a plan last week that…
NA Two prominent left-liberals who have spent much of their careers critiquing libertarianism recently wrote pieces indicating they now think…
Election denial has lately come to be viewed as a feature of the political right, reflected by the lawsuits, conspiratorial…
Chris Edwards The Trump administration plans federal worker layoffs if the government shuts down this week. The president’s budget director…
Shed no tears: The Senate returns today, with a shutdown expected by the end of tomorrow if no plan for…