Cincinnati's Beer-Loving Germans Endured Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Alcohol Resistance
The city's German immigrant experience suggests that immediate assimilation isn't necessary to eventual assimilation.
The city's German immigrant experience suggests that immediate assimilation isn't necessary to eventual assimilation.
New laws aimed at protecting kids online won’t work, and could even make things worse. Parents, not politicians, are the best defense against digital dangers.
From minimum wage hikes to bans on cellphones in public schools, here are some of the most ridiculous ways state governments are interfering with Americans’ lives.
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to open city-owned grocery stores. The U.S. already has a few, and they're a cautionary tale.
Plus: A case for gambling freedom, the NHL’s tax dilemma, and a soccer movie.
Downsizing pushed the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to adopt tech solutions that it could have tried years ago.
Does RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement want to loosen the government's grasp on food and medicine—or use government power to impose blueberries on everyone else?
A new law creates an apprenticeship program allowing unlicensed Iowans to make an income from providing cosmetology and barbering services.
The result is the same: attacks on tech companies and attempts to violate Americans' rights.
Drugs like Ozempic might not only address obesity but also alcoholism, smoking, and drug addiction.
Swedish authorities voted to criminalize the purchase or procurement of online sex acts, in a move targeting customers of webcam platforms and sites like OnlyFans.
Marty Makary grossly exaggerates the prevalence of adolescent nicotine addiction, the concern underlying his agency's restrictions on e-cigarette flavors.
Two decades after Granholm v. Heald was supposed to end protectionist shipping laws, states and lower courts continue to undermine the decision.
The vast majority of keys on the market contain more lead than is allowed by the state's strict new heavy metal standards.
Six years after legalizing hemp and its by-products, the state is revising its drug policies and criminalizing products sold by thousands of Texas businesses.
In Operation Fool Around and Find Out, 244 "human trafficking" arrests, but no human trafficking.
But the ruling suggests prostitution clients could be convicted of sex trafficking in other circumstances.
Scenes from a trade war.
A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might "arouse" or "titillate."
Democrats did the right thing, got attacked for it, then caved.
ICE deported Andry Hernandez Romero because his "mom" and "dad" tattoos were allegedly related to a Venezuelan gang.
As climate and equity proposals lose steam, activist investors are targeting junk food, soda, and alcohol in the name of corporate responsibility.
The president's bizarre insistence that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "had MS-13 tattooed" on "his knuckles" makes him seem like a confused old man.
Congress just approved a new online censorship scheme under the auspices of thwarting revenge porn and AI-generated "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions."
The city passed a law cracking down on food delivery companies rather than the reckless drivers creating chaos on sidewalks and streets.
A go-to study for advocates of restricting sex work used a flawed economic model and abysmal data.
Glue traps are a cheap and effective pest control tool. Naturally, San Francisco is considering banning them.
A new book argues that late-20th-century lowbrow culture created the modern world.
"I blew a zero, so now you're trying to think I smoked weed?” Tayvin Galanakis asked the officer who arrested him in 2022. “That's what's going on. You can't do that, man.”
Several businesses harmed by Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs have filed a lawsuit challenging his use of emergency economic powers.
As young adults swap cigarettes and vapes for oral nicotine products, policymakers should recognize this shift as harm reduction instead of cracking down on personal choice.
Is the small-government Democrat beefing up state power?
A plea for more accurate descriptions of non-combustible nicotine products.
Abandoning the "sex slave" narrative exposes the hollowness at the center of cases like this.
The campaign to make America dry is as dubious as the campaign for the food pyramid.
The justices unanimously overturned a 5th Circuit decision that deemed the agency's treatment of e-liquids "arbitrary and capricious."
People are allegedly being classified as gang members for tattoos of crowns, clocks, and soccer logos.
Donald Trump is determined to make everything from Canadian whiskey to Mexican avocados more expensive. Can anyone stop him?
Twelve states are considering harsher punishments for soliciting sex.
Across the country, parents of gender-dysphoric kids are confronting state intrusion.
We can't be sure, and that's why due process matters.
Trump’s tariffs will kill the global trade that makes the holiday’s cultural celebration possible.
Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws.
It would make American consumers poorer and hurt American businesses without any promise of benefits.
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