Clea Conner: America Needs More and Better Debates
The CEO of Open To Debate wants us to disagree more productively—especially when it comes to presidential debates.
The CEO of Open To Debate wants us to disagree more productively—especially when it comes to presidential debates.
How online “child protection” measures could make child and adult internet users more vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves, and snoops.
Even taking all the money from every billionaire wouldn't cover our coming bankruptcy.
Whether the putative target is the "biomedical security state," wokeness, "Big Tech censors," or Chinese Communists, the presidential candidate’s grandstanding poses a clear threat to individual rights.
The Tyler home equity theft case is just the tip of a much larger iceberg of property rights issues where stronger judicial protection can protect the interests of the poor and minorities, as well as promote the federalist values of localism and diversity.
"Parents have told me that once their children learn to swim they have more confidence and self-esteem," says Joseph Brier, a swim instructor.
Laws against displaying Nazi-esque iconography are well-intended, but they pose a threat to free speech and the principles of a free society.
Sexual minorities aren't the only ones who love to wave identity flags.
The Administration is hoping that bad facts will make bad law.
Freedom's Dominion argues Southern history was animated by "racialized radical anti-statism." The case is lacking.
The record penalty seems to be based less on the Facebook parent company's lax data practices than the U.S. intelligence community's data-collection programs.
A lawyer for the family speculates that jail officials balked at the medication's high price.
The Supreme Court ruled that home equity theft qualifies as a taking, and that state law is not the sole source for the definition of property rights. The ruling is imprecise on some points, but still sets an important and valuable precedent.
Expect the very foundations of the internet to come under attack from politicians and the mainstream media.
"The taxpayer must render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, but no more," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.
The New York Times asked that their names, and information related to the bail hearing, be released.
"[W]e find no error by the trial court in finding that Father had mentally abused N. The circuit court concluded that N. was 'frightened,' 'scared,' and 'fearful' of his Father's anger and his Father's refusal to accept his sexual orientation."
Police have a long history of using the real or imagined smell of marijuana to justify outrageous invasions.
"[O]ne [tree-cutting] crew member made sexually suggestive gestures towards his fiancée and another waved a running chainsaw towards his dogs with the apparent threat to dismember them ...."
The state legislature passed a law to limit anonymous reports to its child abuse hotline.
A new report calls for policy makers to take action when none is required.
Despite some headway in protecting privacy, the surveillance state hasn’t gone away.
Arizona was set to legalize the sale of "potentially hazardous" homemade foods—but then Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed the bill.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch highlights a vital lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a federal lawsuit on behalf of legal U.S. residents from China, the ACLU argues that "Florida's New Alien Land Law" is unconstitutional.
A case stemming from a "Holocaust revisionist's" expulsion from a conference on "Mennonites and the Holocaust."
violates the First Amendment, holds the Louisiana Court of Appeal.
Plus: Naked Feminism, marijuana legalization in Minnesota, and more...
The student had “posted a screenshot of a friend with a cosmetic mud mask on her face with the caption ‘when he says he’s only into black girls’ on her Instagram account.”
Plus: A new lawsuit in Montana over the state's TikTok ban, the economic realities of online content creation, the rights of private companies, and more...
Analysts and lawmakers are concerned about a new TSA program that instructs passengers to insert their IDs into a machine and takes a pictures of them.
The narrow rulings concluded the platforms aren’t responsible for bad people using their communication services.
Plus: Americans are increasingly changing religions, court pauses rejection of "free" preventative care mandate, and more...
Anger about social media censorship should be directed at repressive governments, not the companies they threaten.
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