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.
Bones of tortured prisoners. Kolyma Gulag, USSR (Nikolai Nikitin, Tass). (NA) NOTE: The following post is largely adapted from last…
Congress has the power to check the president’s war making: but they don’t seem interested in using it. Last night, the Senate…
After this week’s election, many Americans cling to the hope that the victories of a couple of moderate-ish Democrats in…
11/7/1922: Oregon enacts the Compulsory Education Act. Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and MaryThe post Today in Supreme…
The best antidote for politicized nostalgia that hails an imagined idyllic yesteryear full of abundant blue-collar jobs? Taking a good,…
Prosecutors in Aurora, Colorado, declined to file criminal charges against two firefighters who were recorded in February driving a fire…
At September’s televised memorial service for Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump commented on the conservative commentator’s character, saying, “He did…
Nobody likes it: Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in President Donald Trump’s tariff case. Trump has invoked the International…
For about two decades, there has been persistent Ilya confusion. Ilya Somin of George Mason University is often confused with…
During oral argument in the tariff case, there was a recurring theme: if the Court agreed with the President that…
This morning, Judge Patrick Bumatay of the Ninth Circuit gave the opening remarks at the Federalist Society Convention. First, Judge…
In Washington today, the word “emergency” is a magic key; it unlocks powers Congress never granted, suspends the discipline of…