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.
If Alex Pretti had been pepper-sprayed, thrown to the ground, disarmed, and repeatedly shot by Minnesota police after exercising his…
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Federal prosecutors in Georgia have charged Attallah Williams with conspiracy to defraud the government. Officials say Williams stole more than…
Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses have been striking since January 12, leaving operations at several major private hospitals severely…
From yesterday’s decision by Chief Magistrate Judge Raymond E. Patricco (D. Idaho) in Scofield v. Guillard; note that compensatory damages…
From the opinion by Judges Bobby Shepherd and David Stras in Tincher v. Noem: The district court entered a preliminary…
Staten Island was a curious place to grow up. Though it is one of the five boroughs of New York,…
From B.P. v. A.Z., decided last week by the California Court of Appeal, in an opinion by Justice Martin Buchanan,…
From an Institute for Free Speech symposium on the 50th anniversary of Buckley, which I’ll be cross-posting over the next couple…
After federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday, Senate Democrats say they…
The article is here; some excerpts from the Introduction: An enraged King Henry II famously asked several of his barons,…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by special guest Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party, to examine the…