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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.
In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country’s founding people and ideas. Read more…
Nearly half of Americans don’t understand what we’re celebrating for America’s 250th anniversary, according to a new poll. Clearly, the…
7/3/1941: Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone takes oath. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske StoneThe post Today in Supreme Court History: July…
In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country’s founding people and ideas. Read more…
In 1757, a full generation before the American Revolution, British soldiers in Albany, New York—the main military staging area for…
From Chavis v. UNC, decided Tuesday by Chief Judge Catherine Eagles (M.D.N.C.): Dr. Larry Chavis was a non-tenured professor at…
From the June 23 decision in Huckabee v. Meta Platforms, Inc., by Third Circuit Judge Peter Phipps, joined by Judges…
Ilya Somin has already covered much of the Trump v. Barbara territory in his posting here on the VC a…
The American bald eagle–our nation’s national bird and symbol–is doing well. Populations have been expanding for years, and are now…
An excerpt from Openden v. Kennedy, decided Tuesday by Judge Adam Abelson (D. Md.):In June 2024, the Centers for Medicare…
Waiting in gas lines and listening to sweater-wearing President Jimmy Carter tell us to turn down the thermostat are among…
If Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton was well-suited for the pieties of the Obama years, then the anti-Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s Burr, was even more auspiciously…