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.
When he was arrested in 1965, Charles Katz “was probably the preeminent college basketball handicapper in America.” Or so says…
Another very interesting item from my Hoover colleague Andy Hall (Free Systems); a brief excerpt, though you should read the…
The Trump administration claims that its new Homeland Security task forces are here to protect Americans from an “invasion” by…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) has a plan to “save” Social Security from upcoming benefit cuts—and all it will require is…
Waiting for the government to shed power and voluntarily reduce its intrusions into people’s lives can be an exercise in…
From Kitsap County Superior Court Judge William Houser in Mavy v. Tomashefsky (Wash. Super. Ct. Clallam County), decided May 28:…
7/8/1941: Justice James Byrnes takes oath. Justice James ByrnesThe post Today in Supreme Court History: July 8, 1941 appeared first…
A court sentenced former Singapore Traffic Police officer Shivasuria Maniam Kesaval to 16 months in jail after he unlawfully accessed…
President Donald Trump seemingly did everything he could over the past year to push the U.S. Supreme Court into upholding…
Odds Man Out: The Untold Story of How Professional Sports Crushed the Pioneers of Online Betting, by Jay Cohen, Post…
This new article of mine has just been published by the Emory Law Journal. Here’s the Abstract; readers might recall that…
Over the course of 12 days last month, the Supreme Court upheld the gun rights of cannabis consumers, rejected Hawaii’s…