The data comes from a 2026 internet freedom index by Cloudwards, which evaluates national policies across four areas: torrenting, VPN availability, adult content, and political and civic expression.

From Vast Wasteland to Vanishing Act: How the FCC Lost the Plot and Then Lost the Signal

Only 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s overall job performance, down slightly from 38% last month according to a recent Associate Press poll.

Here is some food for thought that captures something people often miss: not glorifying contrarianism, but diagnosing a failure mode in human thinking. These points at overlaps with what modern psychology calls groupthink and social conformity. When a belief is widely shared, the social cost of questioning it rises while the perceived need to question it falls. That combination is dangerous. We don’t just inherit a belief, we inherit the confidence of the crowd along with it.

The tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked on March 30, marking Cuba’s first oil shipment in roughly three months. Fuel shortages have triggered widespread blackouts of up to 20 hours a day and strained supplies of food and medicine for the country’s 10 million people. The crisis intensified after oil flows from Venezuela, Cuba’s main supplier, were disrupted earlier this year following political upheaval there.

The richest and most populous city in the wealthiest nation on the planet is taking steps to clean up its act.