A Critic of Universities Is Rallying to Defend Them in the Trump Era

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has long been a critic of progressive campus culture. Now it’s taking on new, and surprising, targets.

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Hong Kong Government Fixates on ‘Soft Resistance’

With pro-democracy movements long squashed, the government is targeting any hint of subtler expressions of discontent. Even establishment figures say it may be too much.

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Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters

The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, in May.

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Trump Administration Plan to Oversee Smithsonian Exhibits Draws Criticism From Historians

The Trump administration’s plan to, in effect, audit the content of Smithsonian museums drew criticism from groups that represent scholars and promote free speech.

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U.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach

After British authorities accidentally exposed information about 19,000 Afghans, the government sought a legal order preventing disclosure of the breach.

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JD Vance Meets Nigel Farage, Another Right Wing Populist, on Trip to UK

JD Vance, the vice president, sat down with Nigel Farage, a longtime supporter of President Trump whose party, Reform U.K., is leading in British polls.

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Brazil Clamped Down on Big Tech. Trump’s Tariffs Could Change That.

With President Trump on their side, U.S. technology companies now have more leverage in Brazil, where they seek to influence new rules policing their platforms.

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Book Blacklist in Kashmir Aims to Muzzle Criticism of India

The federally appointed government in the contested region has declared 25 books off limits, part of what many see as a pattern of repression.

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Texas Redistricting Fight: Is Any of This Legal?

Democrats have left the state, the Republican governor and attorney general have vowed to remove them from office, and a senator has called in the F.B.I.

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The U.S. Says Britain Is Chilling Free Speech. Many Britons Point the Finger Back.

To some in the U.K., the criticisms from the American right over arrests of people for hate speech seem hypocritical, given President Trump’s attacks on those who disagree with him.

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