According to a new report, 2025 marks the 19th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. Violence and armed conflict ...

The world’s least free countries have even more smothering governments. India ranks toward the bottom of the freedom list because Indian bureaucrats are empowered to decide whether entrepreneurs ...

For example, inhabitants of the 25 percent least economically free countries experience infant mortality rates nine times greater than those who live in the freest 25 percent. Extreme poverty is ...