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.
For decades, the U.S. government has been willing to start wars but not strategically and transparently manage them, consistently misleading…
Is it plausible that James Comey, a former federal prosecutor, deputy attorney general, and FBI director, publicly threatened to murder…
Our book traces the waves of elite panic that drive governments to regulate “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and other speech that the…
Farmer Alfalfa heads to town with an old truck full of corn. The truck is on the verge of collapse.…
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My Reason colleague Nick Gillespie recently sat down with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for a conversation about Gorsuch’s…
President Donald Trump and his administration have long claimed that he wants to chart a more restrained path for America’s…
A new bill in Minnesota, proposed by eight Democratic lawmakers, would cut state funding by 10 percent to any city…
In most political disputes, there will usually be an argument that helps the left and an argument that helps the…
Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson has a message for prosperous people leaving Washington over the state’s soaring tax burden. “Bye!”…
In Mufarreh v. Google, Inc., decided Friday by the Illinois Appellate Court (Justice Raymond Mitchell, joined by Justices Sharon Oden-Johnson…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by special guest Kate Andrews, opinion journalist for The Washington Post,…