Civil Liberties

World Press Freedom Day is a reminder that we need to emerge from this crisis ready to reimagine how to support news media as critical infrastructure.

The Hungarian and Polish governments’ exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic for their own ends poses a significant challenge for the EU with consequences that will be present…

Things in Hong Kong were supposed to be different. After the People’s Republic of China (PRC) assumed sovereignty over the former British colony, the territory was supposed to…

Bluetooth contact-tracing apps could be a tool for returning to some version of normal, but only within limits and with robust safeguards,

Should the regulator require disclosure when information aired is false or scientifically suspect? Maybe "no" is the best answer.

Last week, a district court in Maryland dismissed a constitutional challenge to the system of prior restraints that prohibits millions of former intelligence agency employees from…

There is a narrow window to truly examine how the U.S. government can advance, rather than undermine, equal rights for all.

There are reasons to be wary of lawsuits as a tactic for controlling the information that media outlets disseminate, even if it is to punish Fox News.

Governments often curtail individual liberties when faced with national or global emergencies. Unsurprisingly, one result of the COVID-19 pandemic is that governments around the…

The U.S. Constitution allows the federal government to impose quarantines and lockdowns for a pandemic like novel coronavirus, but here's how the due process clause also limits…

In Hungary, the parliament has lost the ability to check the power of Viktor Orbán and his executive branch.

Now, at a moment when we need a coordinated and transparent global response, the full scale and scope of the global democratic erosion comes into view.