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.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is quietly building up its ability to spy on Americans’ phones. Earlier this month, the…
Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that purports to address the recent spate of political violence. But…
There are quite a few dramatic, almost folkloric, stories about Assata Shakur, the American militant and self-avowed anti-government revolutionary who…
The U.K. may be about to get even more dystopian. Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposed a plan last week that…
NA Two prominent left-liberals who have spent much of their careers critiquing libertarianism recently wrote pieces indicating they now think…
Election denial has lately come to be viewed as a feature of the political right, reflected by the lawsuits, conspiratorial…
Chris Edwards The Trump administration plans federal worker layoffs if the government shuts down this week. The president’s budget director…
Shed no tears: The Senate returns today, with a shutdown expected by the end of tomorrow if no plan for…
Patrick G. Eddington In my book The Triumph of Fear, one of the Cold War-era political repression programs I spend…
9/29/2005: Chief Justice Roberts takes oath. Chief Justice John Roberts The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 29, 2005…
Two things can be simultaneously true. One is that President Donald Trump and his aides are petty, vindictive people who,…
In June, 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary and is likely to…