Betty Boop Enters the Public Domain, but Only as a Dog
The cartoon's bizarre saga illustrates what's wrong with modern copyright law.
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Nick Shirley, Tim Walz, and the Minnesota Fraud Story: Did the Media Miss It?
Local reporters have covered state daycare fraud for years, though it did not exactly receive wall-to-wall national attention.
NYC Schools Are Losing Students and Burning Cash. Mamdani Could Make the Situation Worse.
New York schools need more choice and better curricula, but the city's new mayor wants to take choices away.
Zohran Mamdani Can't Ruin New York City
Mayors come and go, but New York City remains fundamentally itself.
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'Affordability' Politics Is a Major Opening for the Free Market Message in the New Year
The socialists of both parties want things to cost less. Only free markets can make that so.
The Big Lesson of the 2020s? Don't Ignore the Economists.
From COVID-19 lockdowns to Biden's inflation and Trump's tariffs, bad things have happened when economics are sidelined in policymaking.
Cato Institute Looking to Hire an Executive Power Scholar
An opportunity to work at the nation's leading libertarian think tank.
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The Politics of Permanent Outrage
Lauren Hall looks at the roots of political tribalism, why voters feel trapped between false choices, and how radical moderation offers a way out of constant polarization.
Zohran Mamdani Didn't Run on 'Affordability.' He Ran Against Prices.
Price controls don't solve economic problems; they disguise them. Prices are messages, and Mamdani wants to shoot the messenger.
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Journal of Free Speech Law: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Gitlow," by Ronald K.L. Collins
From the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Bail Reform Faces Backlash as Policymakers Move To Require Cash Bond for Pre-Trial Defendants
Critics of cash bail say it creates a two-tiered justice system: Those who can pay maintain their freedom, while those unable to pay remain behind bars.
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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Citizen flag poles, mega-appeals, and land acknowledgments.
Here Are 5 Wars Trump Started or Expanded in 2025
The U.S. military is fighting or preparing to fight in more countries than it was when the self-proclaimed "peace president" took office.
Were Statements in Roblox Chats About "Deal[ing] a Grievous Wound upon the Followers of the Cross" True Threats of Violence?
No, a district court held earlier this month, because they were made "while playing an online video game, speaking as a character, among other players who were similarly acting as characters in a virtual Church."
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The Logical Consequence of Enforcing Indigenous Treaties
A Canadian judge held a 513-day trial, and ruled that the "indigenous Cowichan Nation holds 'Aboriginal title' over 800 acres of land."
When Washington Crossed the Delaware on Christmas 1776, It Wasn't in the Name of Christian Nationalism
America was not founded to be a theocracy and it should not strive to become one.
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The Most Overlooked Holiday Miracle: Abundance
History shows clearly that the societies most capable of generosity and liberalism are not those trapped in poverty but those that have escaped it.
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The Data Center Price Myth
Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive.
Lessons of the Heritage Foundation's Implosion
The decline of this major conservative institution has been a wakeup call for conservative intellectuals. But will they draw the right lessons from it?
5 Things You Should Know About the Latest Bari Weiss 60 Minutes Controversy
Is Bari Weiss censoring 60 Minutes or improving its output?
Andor Creator Tony Gilroy on Bureaucracy and the Surveillance State
Tony Gilroy examines how Andor portrays authoritarian power as a bureaucratic system, the moral compromises of life under surveillance, and the role ordinary people play in enforcing oppressive systems.
New New York: February/March 2025 Puzzle
"Plank of Zohran Mamdani's platform that's likely to worsen housing shortages"
Good News for D.C.'s Gun Owners
Plus: Homeownership myths and realities, discrimination at the theater, career diplomats brought home, and more...
Supreme Court Grants Stay Without Granting Stay
The Court denied the SG's application in Margolin v. NAJI but sent a clear signal to the lower court of what not to do.
Brickbats: January 2026
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
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