"The Town has routinely detained, cited, and forced Mr. Brunet to go to trial to vindicate his constitutional rights, taking the extraordinary step of adopting a boldly unconstitutional local Ordinance to silence him," the complaint reads.
Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
Data show Florida and New York had similar death numbers despite vastly different approaches.
"When it comes to problems happening in America, [the NBA is] the first organization saying, 'This is wrong,'" says the former professional basketball player. But then they're silent for victims of torture.
Standing with blank pages in hand, the protesters' goal is to make manifest the implied violence that authoritarian states use to keep order.
Report: “Half of democratic governments around the world are in decline.”
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While we often spend Thanksgiving remembering a different set of Puritan settlers, the religious, freedom-loving Roger Williams is an apt hero for the more liberty-minded.
Supporting restraints on government only for your opponents is a recipe for continued conflict.
In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.
This time could really be different.
Newspapers deserve a great deal of credit for the expansion of freedom over the past 200 years. But the media have lost credibility.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
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We’re likely to be poorer, distrustful, and less free for years to come.
Plus: The editors have gripes with Biden’s recent interview on 60 Minutes.
A new ordinance in Franklin will restrict evening and weekend protests and subject violators to misdemeanor charges.
Plus: The editors reaffirm free speech absolutism in the wake of the recent attack on Salman Rushdie.
The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.
We should be skeptical of some Democrats' newfound embrace of "freedom" until they abandon freedom-restricting policies.
The Delaware DMV recalled Kari Overington’s plate over “perceived profanity.” Now the ACLU is helping her take on the state.
Plus: The editors consider the state of freedom in the U.S. compared with other developed nations.
If Newsom wants to pick a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, he should try a different topic.
The larger, louder half of Penn & Teller talks masks, vaccines, compassion, Bob Dylan, and much, much more.
I asked scholars, podcasters, and passersby how they'd change the nation's founding charter. Here's what they told me.
Plus: A listener asks about Supreme Court legitimacy, and the editors practice "libertarian Festivus."
Firework seizures and buyback programs won't stop millions of Americans from setting off black-market bottle rockets tonight.
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This war, like all wars, will invigorate the state and be deadly to liberty.
Havana Libre tells the story of Cuba’s underground surfers struggling to practice their sport.
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country.
It explains how immigration restrictions massively diminish both the "negative" and "positive" economic liberty of natives of receiving countries.
Here’s hoping the Florida senator recognizes threats to freedom when they come from the right as well as the left.
Beneath all the harm, humiliation, and non-consensual hair-shaving was a love of freedom.
"My servers are not lesser people," said owner Eric Flannery. "They don't need to be masked. They don't carry disease."
A bill would let Oregon gas stations turn their customers loose on a limited number of self-service pumps. Some drivers fear the freedom.
Australian researchers used changes in home prices and rents to tease out how much people were willing to spend to avoid the country's harshest lockdown.
Many Americans are fleeing restrictive jurisdictions and moving to places that respect their liberty.
A new report says 83 percent of the world's population is less free today than it was in 2008, and the gap between the world's most and least free countries is growing.
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Residents of other liberal democracies see the U.S. as respecting liberty even as authoritarianism advances globally.
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Polling finds wide support for draconian lockdowns and permanent restrictions.
After Chinese authorities conducted newsroom raids and arrested top editors, pro-democracy publication Apple Daily realized it could no longer safely operate.
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