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.
Video taken this morning in Maine shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer taking pictures of a legal observer’s…
From the N.Y. Times (Stephanie Saul) last week: Less than a week after naming a new dean, the University of…
For three decades, Albuquerque defense attorney Thomas Clear bribed police officers to make drunk driving cases against his clients disappear.…
From an Institute for Free Speech symposium on the 50th anniversary of Buckley, which I’ll be cross-posting over the next couple…
In this final installment of our series on religious employment under Title VII, we address common objections to the textualist…
On a Thursday night in December, I got a breathless call from a Heritage Foundation senior scholar. John Malcolm and…
Vance goes to Minnesota: “The guys behind me are doing an incredible job, and frankly, a lot of the media is…
From an Institute for Free Speech symposium on the 50th anniversary of Buckley, which I’ll be cross-posting over the next couple…
Based on the troubling goings-on in Minneapolis, it’s hard to describe former GOP Rep. Justin Amash’s post on X as…
“Walk My Walk” topped Billboard’s country chart for digital song sales in November. The song opens with a deep, soulful hum,…
From Wentworth v. Steinmetz, decided Nov. 12 by the Pa. Super. Ct. Judge Mary Jane Bowes, joined by Judges Victor…
A Spotlight PA investigation revealed that police in State College, Pennsylvania, underreported hundreds of rapes in its public crime statistics over…