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.
Before Amazon’s multi-billion-dollar settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday, it was anyone’s guess how Americans were supposed…
For months, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has been one of the Trump administration’s loudest cheerleaders for tariffs. That has always…
Rosemary Woodruff Leary is remembered—if she’s remembered at all—as a muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary’s psychedelic…
The alcohol industry recently dodged an attempt to smuggle a neo-Prohibitionist agenda into the U.S. Dietary Guidelines revisions. While the…
Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and a number of global think tanks published…
In August, President Donald Trump instituted a federal takeover of the D.C. police department after declaring a “crime emergency” in…
Michael Chapman Libertarians and many conservatives have long argued that the federal government is too large, too intrusive, and often…
In his 2023 book Government Gangsters, Kash Patel, now the director of the FBI, described a “deep state” conspiracy against…
There was a time when the American right was conservative: appreciative of inherited wisdom, skeptical of rationalism, wary of excessive…
The Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh and Reason’s Katherine Mangu-Ward debate National Review’s Rich Lowry and Steven Camarota from the Center…
This week, a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump—even though…
For years, the federal government has been amassing DNA profiles of noncitizens. But recently released Customs and Border Protection (CBP)…