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.
Five years ago, police in San Jose, California, began using automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) to record information about vehicles…
Last week, former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D–Calif.) was a high-profile member of Congress (the sort of anti-Trump #Resistance figure who…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jim Risch (R–Idaho) has never believed that now is the right time to vote on…
From U.S. v. Russell, decided Tuesday by Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Albert Diaz, joined by Judges Robert King and Stephanie…
This week, a 62-year-old Alabama woman faced a criminal trial for wearing an inflatable penis costume during a protest. After…
The Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is unconstitutional. In Civitas Outlook, I explained why…
Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over…
Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities, by Elise Stefanik, Threshold Editions,…
My coauthors Cassandra Robertson, Zoe Robinson, and I just published an article entitled “Can Speech Policy Protect Public Health?” in the Utah…
From last week’s decision by Judge Virginia Kendall (N.D. Ill.) in Obi v. Cook County: The Court strikes Plaintiff’s motion…
What if I told you that the U.S. government once imprisoned a filmmaker for making a movie about the American…
For the better part of a decade, Republicans ran on a single mantra when it came to health care: repeal…