Nationwide Injunctions, a Crucial Check on Presidential Power, Are Not Dead Yet
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden asked the Supreme Court to abolish nationwide injunctions, which allow federal judges to stop a federal policy from going into effect.
There are far too few checks left on executive power.
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden asked the Supreme Court to abolish nationwide injunctions, which allow federal judges to stop a federal policy from going into effect.
How America's old-age entitlement system became a sprawling lifestyle-subsidy program that steals from the poor to give to the rich.
Is there really a truck driver shortage? Or are companies just using that story to pull off an outrageous corporate welfare scam?
The Court's 1963 ruling in Bantam Books v. Sullivan is freshly relevant in light of recent efforts to restrict speech through government intimidation.
As lawmakers of both major parties hustle to regulate their preferred villains, they're losing sight of the big picture. The possible gains to humanity from AI are enormous.
"We thought we were on the right side of the law," the Samourai Wallet co-founder tells Reason.
The domestic political uses of foreign wars
Trump and his underlings seem less inclined to worry about the Second Amendment when it protects people outside the MAGA coalition.
Federal law defines the term but there is no federal statute to charge someone with "domestic terrorism."
While many of the states that are growing are currently seen as safe red territory, today's Republican-voting states could be tomorrow's swing states.
Deaths in ICE custody hit a 20-year high in 2025 and a majority now say the agency's actions make Americans less safe.
The narrow geography of the 50-mile Central American isthmus made it an obvious choice for trade routes between the Atlantic and Pacific.
Aerochrome photography is a beautiful example of a warlike technology being turned toward peaceful ends.
(Don't) hold your genetically enhanced horses.
The administration's goal to lower prices is a good one, but officials don't actually have a plan to make it happen.
"I think a lot of people who voted for this administration did so believing that they would prioritize the most dangerous" undocumented immigrants, the possible 2028 presidential candidate tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
Screens have become less passive, more participatory, and more open to all kinds of moving pictures.
Silencing "Fighting Bob" details how the government targeted anti-war critics like Sen. Robert La Follette.
Author Brian Barth explores the makeshift tent cities of Silicon Valley.
Author Christopher Summerfield engages seriously with skeptics who claim that large language models are really thinking.
Luzia brings the outdoors in, using impressive engineering to highlight water's beauty.
The protagonist in Yesteryear wakes up one day in what appears to be a real 1800s homestead.
The show, now in its final season, reminded viewers that people of different races, political parties, and sexual orientations can have mutually enriching interactions.
Unfortunately it's nothing like Willy Wonka's "three-course dinner gum."
The play presents characters subtly negotiating the entanglements of identity and the perils of cancel culture.
A new book revisits this 50-year-old Watergate report as President Donald Trump pursues his own politically motivated investigations.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
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