When a band of House Freedom Caucus members met last month to strategize over how to hold GOP leadership accountable for the bipartisan debt ceiling deal, not everyone from the far-right group was ...

Economists and social scientists have discussed freedom and prosperity issues for centuries. Quantitative measurements of freedom, however, are less than half a century old. Freedom House started ...

Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, speaks during a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus on July 25, 2023, in Washington, DC. Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP.

All told, Freedom House currently rates 84 of 195 countries in the world as “free”, up from 44 when its first survey was published in 1973. The remainder are rated as “not free” or ...

A handful of those centrist GOP lawmakers huddled with Johnson in his office after the White House meeting — and as the Freedom Caucus members were gathering separately — to discuss the ...

It’s also not clear whether the Freedom Caucus’ proposal to change the House GOP rules on discharge petitions would have the votes. It would also be highly unusual to change the rules mid-year.

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus threw its backing behind a stopgap funding package, bolstering Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempt to pass the bill without the help of House Democrats and ...