'Stand Your Ground' Laws Are Back in the News, but It's Not Clear Why
The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.
The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.
Morgan Bettinger might sue the University of Virginia for violating her First Amendment rights.
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He was hospitalized multiple times for diabetes while in state custody.
Morgan Bettinger was accused on social media of telling protesters they would make good "speed bumps." It was more than a year before investigations cleared her.
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What happens when anti-liberty zealots get the same powers?
The journalist and dissident, who was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony for criticizing the Russian government, has not received the same attention.
Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value.
A selection of Reason's most incisive articles on population, pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and the ideological environmentalists' penchant for peddling doom.
Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.
Is this what equity looks like?
The movie wants to be a call to arms for climate activists. Instead, it portrays them as delusional, apocalyptic depressives.
The HBO movie muddies important distinctions.
Predictably, the machine-learning robot starts killing.
Weaponization of the federal government, indeed
Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value.
James Madison University's debate team says that "free speech should not extend to requiring us to platform or amplify ideas that are exclusionary, discriminatory, or hostile."
Critics argue that excessively strict pleading standards prevent plaintiffs with meritorious defamation claims from obtaining the evidence they need to support them.
"The truth matters," says Dominion Voting Systems, and "lies have consequences."
Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last month on espionage charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a penal colony.
One of America's richest art forms suffers for seeming realer than other literature. But the war against "graphic imagery" is really a war against certain truths.
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For perhaps the first time in television history, one character describes another as a "paleolibertarian" and "practically an anarcho-capitalist." But the terms don't fit.
Robert Zubrin’s The Case for Nukes highlights the connection between energy and freedom.
Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.
"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."
How to—and how not to—help solve the college debt problem.
Overall human freedom peaked in 2007, according to the Cato Institute, and governments' COVID response merely exacerbated the trend toward a radically less-free planet.
In one sequence, the Jerry Seinfeld stand-in stood onstage at a comedy club for minutes without saying a word.
The video game is a 100-year simulation of the Victorian era where the player has centralized control over the government of their chosen country.
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Companies make decisions all the time, some of them regrettable and unfortunate, that shouldn't be any of the government's business.
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Decentralizing power is better than trying to jam one vision down the throats of the unwilling.
Schools are allowed to preserve sex-based restrictions for athletes provided they are "substantially related to the achievement of an important educational objective."
The president signed a Republican-sponsored resolution ending the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump.
“After School Satan Clubs” cause no direct harm—they merely challenge the relationship between religious institutions and public schools.
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There are some jarring contradictions in the Florida governor's pitch to voters.
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Families don’t all want the same sort of education for their children. They should be free to choose.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's most controversial book has finally been fully translated into English.
A.I. won’t kill cooking. Instead, it’ll help people become more creative and efficient in the kitchen.
The college swimmer was reportedly forced to barricade herself in a room for three hours.
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