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.
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) and his political legacy as…
U.S. v. Baxter, decided today by the Eighth Circuit, upheld a conviction for “possessing a firearm as an unlawful drug…
On May 8, a 16-year-old student with an airsoft pistol in his waistband triggered a lockdown at New Brunswick High…
When President Donald Trump rang the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ on July 6,…
NA My Cato Institute colleagues Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, and Chad Smitson have a helpful post updating the situation…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a plan for your kitchen, and he has been unusually specific about it. In a…
Officials are often overly aggressive in pursuing leaks of classified information, but President Donald Trump remains in a league of…
Coming back from a far-flung vacation? Traveling abroad on a business trip? Just happen to find yourself within 100 miles…
Between 2013 and 2023, Munson P. Hunter III “used fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers to open 14 bank accounts, acquire…
Lindsey Graham died doing what he loved: egging on faraway violence. After returning from a trip to a drone factory…
From Rowley v. Finstad, decided Friday by Judge Eric Tostrud (D. Minn.); I think this is correct—if people disapprove of…
7/13/1787: The Articles of Confederation Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance. The Articles of ConfederationThe post Today in Supreme Court History:…