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.
Here we go again. As I write, politicians are trying to gin up a new panic over a looming “government…
Council of Economics Chair Stephen Miran was confirmed as a Federal Reserve governor just before September’s Federal Open Market Committee…
The artificial intelligence boom has sent electricity prices reeling, with a recent Bloomberg analysis finding that wholesale energy prices in…
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Make football, not war, this week. In this week’s newsletter…
The federal government will shut down tonight. It looks like no real progress has been made and we’re headed for…
After Repeatedly Losing in Lower Court, Trump Asks SCOTUS To Review His Birthright Citizenship Order
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2025–2026 term, which officially kicks off next week, was already on track to be a notable…
9/30/1857: Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis resigns from the Supreme Court after Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). Justice Benjamin Robbins CurtisThe post Today…
5 years agoOctober 2020 “If judges did not routinely rubber-stamp search warrants, police investigating drug dealing might be less likely…
In England, a Thames Valley Police officer visited Deborah Anderson in her home and demanded she apologize for a social…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss whether the impending government shutdown will actually rein in the federal…
President Donald Trump is considering imposing a 100 percent tariff on semiconductors to incentivize chipmakers to invest in domestic manufacturing,…
President Donald Trump’s efforts to be the “law and order” president could soon be ruled illegal. Oregon has filed suit…