CITY OF SEDITION: The History of New York City During the Civil War, by John Strausbaugh. Twelve, 423 pp., $30. New York State and its large haul of electoral votes carried Abraham Lincoln to victory ...

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On this day, July 14, in 1798, the Sedition Act became law in the United States, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

New Delhi — India's Supreme Court has put on hold a controversial British colonial-era law that critics say has been widely misused against government critics for decades. The sedition law allows ...

Seditious behavior punishable by death. That's how President Trump responded to former military members and intelligence officials who are now current Congress members after they put out this video.

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong opposition activist was jailed for 40 months on Wednesday after the city’s first sedition trial since its handover from British to Chinese rule nearly 25 years ago. Subscribe ...

Few laws reveal the Indian State’s unease with dissent as starkly as sedition. Drafted in 1870 to protect the British Crown from political unrest and infamously wielded against figures such as Bal ...