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Judge Blocks Warrantless ICE Construction Site Raids After Agents in Alabama Arrested a U.S. Citizen 3 Times
Being on a construction site "does not open the floodgates to warrantless government intrusion," a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit filed by a construction worker who has been detained three times by ICE.
Trump Takes Page From Leftist Playbook With $5,000 Dividend Proposal
The Trump administration is willing to use public money for campaigning and gamble the country’s fiscal future, just like the leftists in Argentina who ran against Milei.
Does CNN Deserve To Be Banned From the White House?
Plus: why parents are abandoning public schools, whether AI requires government intervention, and what happened to fusionism in the conservative movement.
No Warrant, No Suspicion, No Problem: Flock and Border Cellphone Searches Excluded From 4th Amendment Rules
Cops keep carving out tech exceptions to the Fourth Amendment—and courts are giving them their blessing.
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Purposely Negative
Plus: School segregation, ICE shooting, Cuban Americans envision the future, and more...
AI Companies Promise Humanoid Assistants. How Will the Robots Know What To Do?
Developers are using videos of real-life work to train the new generation of robots.
Montana's Anti-Deepfakes Law Just Hit a First Amendment Roadblock
A federal judge found that the state's restrictions on AI-generated political speech likely violate the First Amendment.
Is Effective Altruism Really a Doom Cult?
On the Freed Up podcast, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss effective altruism, Sydney Sweeney, and the UT Austin student body.
The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates
Flock has been promoting a recent study of its cameras' impacts on car theft. But the paper didn't demonstrate a causal effect.
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Does CNN Deserve To Be Banned From the White House?
Plus: why parents are abandoning public schools, whether AI requires government intervention, and what happened to fusionism in the conservative movement.
Lindsay Clancy's Holdout Juror Did What Jurors Are Supposed To Do
Just as a holdout may be a bulwark against wrongful conviction, a unanimous verdict is difficult to obtain by design.
Court Upholds Suspicionless Cellphone Searches at the Border
A federal appeals court says it's legal for federal agents to scroll through your phone and take pictures of its contents without a warrant or suspicion of criminal activity.
In the Name of Tax Fairness, Politicians Propose Special Tax Penalties on Data Centers
State and federal policymakers are attempting to exclude data centers from run-of-the-mill tax exemptions.
Congress Doesn't Agree on Much. Except That Your Car Needs AM Radio.
The push to mandate AM radios has brought Ted Cruz together with Bernie Sanders.
Trump's 4-Week War With Iran Approaches Month 7
The latest expansion of the war into Yemen is compounding the damage to oil supplies.
Trump Re-Ups His Threat To Raze the Kennedy Center Unless He Can Slap His Name on It
After a federal judge rejected his attempts at self-glorification, Trump said the building will "end up being ripped down" if he does not get the "recognition" he wants.
The Trump Administration Paid Federal Workers $9.5 Billion To Skip Work
How's that for efficiency?
Resident Evil Is a Deeply Unhinged Send-Up of Video Games
Zach Cregger's horror–video game adaptation is a pulpy comic delight.
Montana Is Trying To Break the FDA's Monopoly on Experimental Treatments
Montana’s expanded right-to-try program has cleared its first therapy: a sound-and-antihistamine regimen to reverse hearing loss.
Despite Nativist Outcry, Texas Shows the Melting Pot Works Incredibly Well
The Lone Star State is a success because all sorts of people are moving there for a shot at the American dream.
MAGA Loyalty in Iowa
Plus: Warsh's relationship with Trump; Democrats' midterm prospects; pregnancy is apparently a spectrum; and more...
SCOTUS May Soon Determine If California Can Force Doctors To Learn About 'Implicit Bias'
A Supreme Court petition challenges California’s attempt to force private medical instructors to teach “implicit bias.”
Report: California's Proposed 'Billionaire Tax' Is Based on Bad Research
The planned wealth tax leads slightly in the polls and is already driving capital flight.
Review: Ben Franklin, Frankenstein, and the Wonders of Electricity
Minnesota's Bakken Museum celebrates the spark of imagination that brings new ideas to life.
Review: An Idealistic Young Attorney in Stalin's Soviet Union
In Sergei Loznitsa's film Two Prosecutors, even a Bolshevik can believe a version of "Good czar, bad boyars."
'They Kept Us Like Animals': Afghan Woman Deported to Africa By Trump Speaks Out
Farzana’s fiancé was a U.S. partner in Afghanistan. She was loaded on a plane full of men and sent to another country with no papers or job prospects.
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J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions
