A new DHS rule cuts foreign journalist visas to 240 days and imposes stricter limits on Chinese reporters. The policy doesn't ban coverage — it makes sustained accountability journalism operationally impossible for a targeted class of reporters, while giving the government plausible deniability abou
FCC Chair Brendan Carr is moving to eliminate a TV ownership cap that Congress wrote into law specifically to stop the FCC from changing it. The companies positioned to benefit are already in the middle of a federal lawsuit over the same rule.
Polling shows two-thirds of Americans support climate action — a number that hasn't moved even as the White House dismantles climate policy. The collapse in press coverage isn't a reflection of public opinion. It's a decision, and it has beneficiaries.
The Office of Personnel Management wants every federal worker to sign an NDA. The proposal wouldn't stop espionage — it would silence the 2.2 million employees who are the public's last line of sight into how government power is actually used.
The DOJ served grand jury subpoenas on Wall Street Journal reporters over coverage of the Iran war. The target isn't a leaker — it's the press freedom to report on a war Congress never authorized.
The House Intelligence Committee has handed DOJ documents involving former CIA Director John Brennan — the latest move in a documented pattern of deploying federal prosecutorial power against Trump's perceived critics.
Columbia Journalism Review documents how Israel's military censor unit controls thousands of news stories each year — and how some journalists have internalized state approval as professional validation rather than a threat to press freedom.
A federal judge struck down Pentagon restrictions requiring media organizations to pledge not to gather information without official authorization, ruling the policy violated the First Amendment.
Trump's shift from calling journalists 'enemies' to demanding treason prosecutions for war reporting follows the authoritarian playbook that destroyed press freedom in Russia, Turkey, and the Philippines.
FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war coverage he calls 'hoaxes' — a legally baseless threat that reveals how Trump regulators weaponize administrative power against the press.