Monday Open Thread
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The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
To convert a hush money payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are invoking an obscure state election law that experts say has never been used before.
River rides, purple robes, and aesthetic injuries.
With only a minority of support in Congress, the president had to make concessions to secure the passage of his sweeping reform bill.
And for good reason: Even at 3.5 percent, inflation is running higher than it did in almost every year for three decades before 2021.
Plus: San Francisco can't fix homelessness, future lawyers can't handle cops, and more...
My contribution to the American Journal of Law and Equality symposium on the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Plus: Trump speaks at L.P. convention, Bill Ackman buys Zyn for the frat bros, Ukraine flagging, and more...
No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode of transportation that is actually quite energy efficient.
Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last.
Moving marijuana to Schedule III, as the DEA plans to do, leaves federal pot prohibition essentially untouched.
Once again, DeSantis is a guy who claims to love freedom—until he disagrees with the choices some adults make.
May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.
Plus: Ceasefire negotiations, Chinese regulators, American crime, and more...
A FOIA request reveals what the FBI and Homeland Security had to say about anarchist activities on May Day 2015.
If businesses don't serve customers well, they go out of business. Government, on the other hand, is a monopoly.
Plus: College protest follow-up, AI and powerlifting, tools for evading internet censorship, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors about the magical thinking behind the economic ideas of Modern Monetary Theory.
Kennedy’s plan for government-backed mortgage bonds will do to housing what federal student loans have done to college tuition.
Plus: NatalCon, Cuban economics, AI priest defrocked, and more...
Half the country says suppressing “false information” is more important than press freedom.
"Today it is highly centralized, where a few people at the top control everything," the former five-term congressman tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
Reasonable SWAT mistakes, lying forensic pathologists, and de minimis injuries.
Plus: Campus echoes of Occupy Wall Street, Trump's presidential immunity claims, plans to undo the Fed's independence, and more...
Most of the justices seem skeptical of granting Donald Trump complete immunity from criminal prosecution for "official acts."
David Beito discusses his new book The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.
Would the Governor's veto of the bill have even been effective?
The News2Share cofounder is revolutionizing news coverage.
Plus: Masking protesters, how Google Search got so bad, Columbia's anti-apartheid protests of the '80s, and more...
The Supreme Court will decide whether former presidents can avoid criminal prosecution by avoiding impeachment and removal.