The Department of Justice is expected to propose sweeping updates to influence disclosure rules for agents of foreign clients next month that could reshape the contours of the World War II-era law. It has been decades since there have been major legislative or regulatory updates to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which imposed registration and reporting requirements for individuals and entities seeking to sway U.S. policy or the public on matters of foreign interests. Congress passed FARA in 1938 in response to the rise of Nazi propaganda in the U.S. The statute does not bar constitutionally protected free speech,...