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Fabricated identities, fictitious daycares, and made-up laws.
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Democrats Are Undoing California's Pension Reforms. Why Are Republicans Going Along With It?
Pension changes passed in 2011 have saved California taxpayers from a fiscal crisis, but public sector unions are now pushing to undo them.
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Idiocracy Predicted Our World, But Not in the Way You Think
Mike Judge's cult classic turns 20 and remains prescient about how we live today, especially outside of politics.
Video Games Are Not Making Men Miserable
Video games, pornography, and gambling: One of these things just doesn't belong!
The National Debt Has Crossed $40 Trillion. Both Parties Are Responsible.
And both are hiding behind a lie of omission.
Is Alito Making the Same Mistake as Ginsburg by Refusing To Retire?
The conservative justice is sticking around on the Supreme Court. Will conservatives come to regret it?
Data Center Savior
Plus: AOC reaffirms her socialism, Russia-Ukraine war gets even deadlier, and more...
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Dolly Parton Knew What She Was Doing
The country icon was a woman of contradictions. Or was she?
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J.D. Vance's Interest in Huey Long Should Be a Red Flag for Conservatives
Long's motto, "every man a king," was not a call for individual sovereignty. It was a populist pitch for wealth taxes and a more powerful government.
A Limited Supreme Court Win for Trump on Mail-In Ballots
But the legal fighting will continue in the lower courts.
Voting by Mail
Plus: A 911 glitch, the disappearance of the menhaden, the deportation of a Navy sailor's dad, and more...
Marjorie Taylor Greene on MAGA, Congress, and the Two-Party System
"I spent five years of my life the most pissed off I could ever be because I hated all of it," the former congresswoman tells Reason's Robby Soave.
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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Rough rides, U.S. attorney vacancies, and the 26th Amendment.
Colonizing the Moon
Plus: Postpartum psychosis, captain deportation, lady lawyers, and more...
What Authority Allowed Justice Rehnquist to Sit by Designation on the Federal District Court?
The record From Justice Rehnquist's 1984 civil trial does not provide an answer.
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Bad Reasons and Worse Reasons to Hate Data Centers
It's not existential dread about the internet.
Court Partly Blocks Minnesota Law Restricting False Statements About "Restrictions on Voter Eligibility"
Minnesota officials were using the law to block contested claims about when felons were allowed to vote in Minnesota elections.
$40 Trillion and Parents' Night Out
Plus: ICE chillin', Moderna-Merck melanoma advances, and more...
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Fourth Circuit Concludes South Carolina Cannot Limit "No-Excuse" Absentee Ballots to Those Over 65
An election law question that seems destined for the Supreme Court.
Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism Available for Free on Amazon Kindle
It is edited by Richard Epstein, Mario Rizzo, and Liya Palagashvili. I am one of the contributors.
DSA Goes for Florida
Plus: Fire Island, data center NIMBYism, cost-of-living discourse, and more...
Arizona S. Ct.: Concern About "Job Offers" Being "Withdrawn" Because of "Pending Civil Litigation" …
doesn't justify sealing of court records.
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Voter Ignorance and the Problem of Confusion Caused by Candidates With Similar Names [Updated]
Voter confusion caused by candidates with similar names - as in the current Alaska Senate race - is part of the much larger problem of political ignorance.
