Studies Find Conservatives More Committed to Free Speech Online, Federalism
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Because of a series of misleading memes, a troll has been charged with conspiracy "to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States."
"If I disagreed or offered another opinion, I was told I had cognitive dissonance," Josh Diemert says.
Cannabis consumers should have the same commercial leisure spaces that alcohol drinkers do.
A legal fight over the Arctic grayling shows how regs can hurt rather than help.
Although the law did not change, regulators suddenly decided to criminalize unregistered possession of braced pistols.
Top government officials reportedly kept rare bourbons for themselves and other powerful insiders.
"My artwork is unapologetic," said the artist. "Sometimes it can be very political. Sometimes it can be very controversial."
By raising the effective tax rate on capital gains, the proposal would reduce U.S. saving, discourage entrepreneurship, and decrease economic output.
And increase total health care costs to boot.
Instead of empowering the government to intervene, we should look more holistically at the experience of young people online.
It's a fundamental contradiction that's affected the Biden administration's economic policy for the past two years.
Plus: Some State of the Union fact checking, a livestream discussion about gun rights and violence, and more...
Legal scholar Michael Dorf claims Supreme Court should rule on this basis. But the doctrine doesn't apply to this case, and is dubious anyway.
Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
As Biden mentioned fentanyl deaths in his State of the Union address, Republicans called on him to close the border. But "open borders" aren't to blame for overdoses.
During the State of the Union, Biden claimed that "children who go to preschool are nearly 50 percent more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree," but evidence in favor of universal pre-k programs is lacking.
Congress should set its sights on bad government actors who pressured social media companies.
Biden's speech offered plenty of opportunity to present a counter-narrative to continued taxes and spending. Instead Sanders went a different direction.
The bipartisan (if shouty!) embrace of big-government nationalism ensures our populist moment won't end any time soon.
As usual, Biden's gun policy proposals bump up against reality.
His State of the Union address sketched a foreign policy that is reckless on some points, relatively restrained on others, and utterly uninterested in any real resolution to America’s lingering military entanglements.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that he wants to hold police "accountable." But he neglected to mention the elephant in the room.
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These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
There are many reasons people move, but overburdening your citizens is a good way to lose them.
The president's State of the Union address re-upped a tired, old promise to spend more tax dollars on less infrastructure.
His administration has contributed to the problems Biden says he wants to solve.
Biden vowed to block any attempts to cut Social Security benefits, and Republicans made it clear that they have little appetite to try it.
A proposal to limit state AG (and other) forum-shopping for national injunctions.
According to the suit, the officer "acted with malice or in reckless disregard of Jane Doe's federally protected rights."
The age verification proposal is a disaster for both children and adults.
What we can learn from the State of the Union addresses by Jimmy Carter in 1979, Richard Nixon in 1971, and JFK in 1963
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Why isn’t affirmative action in college admissions prohibited under the Civil Rights Act?
Gov. Greg Abbott has already announced that he’d sign the bill if passed.
Now a judge has cleared him of wrongdoing and struck down the rule used to justify the arrest.
The Florida governor wants to fund more migrant stunts, despite claiming that his budget will “keep more money in the pockets of Floridians.”
We may have finally discovered a limit to judicial immunity.
By destroying judicial review, they would empower the narrow right-wing majority to violate the rights of minorities.
Douglass is best-known for his role in the abolitionist movement that helped end slavery. But much of his thought is also relevant to contemporary issues.
A new proposal to more than triple visa entry fees for performers will harm American audiences and culture.
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