Jon Stewart Is Sanctimonious, but Congress Should Be Better at Doing Its Job
The fight over the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund is pure political theater.
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How FreedomFest Figured Out the Key to Bringing Liberty Folks Together
Sex Toy Company Sues New York Subway for Screwing With Its First Amendment Rights
In a letter to Dame explaining why the ads had been rejected, the MTA cited longstanding rules against ads "promoting a sexually oriented business."
University of Minnesota Food Service Worker Says 'Hello' in Japanese to Asian-American Student, Who Files a Bias Report
"These type of microaggressions occur too often on campus."
Apparently, Bernie Sanders Doesn't Know the Difference Between Revenue and Profit
This guy wants to run the economy?
Is America Finally Waking Up to Its Government-Created Housing Crisis?
Mainstream media is starting to embrace the idea of deregulating housing construction. Will policymakers?
Facebook's Libra 'Cryptocurrency' Aims to Disrupt Payments. Bitcoin Aims to Disrupt Government Power.
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest venture won't compete with Satoshi Nakamoto’s project for undermining central banking, tyranny, and the financial surveillance state.
Police Officer Threatens To Shoot Pregnant Woman After Her Child Took Barbie From Family Dollar Store
"There is no situation in which this behavior is ever close to acceptable," said Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego.
Deficit Politics May Have Gone Away, but Debt and Deficits Are Worse Than Ever
The federal budget situation used to be an emergency. What happened?
New Balance Planned To Open a New Sneaker Factory in America. Trump's Tariffs Might Prevent That From Happening.
Trade is necessary, even for American companies making American products in American factories.
Gorsuch Joins Ginsburg in Decrying a 'Colossal Exception' to the Ban on Double Jeopardy
The Trump appointee is not impressed by the logic of the "dual sovereignty" doctrine: "Really?"
Stossel: In Defense of Capitalism
People acting in their own self-interest created modern prosperity, says Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook.
Trump Threatens Mass Immigration Action Next Week, Though No One's Sure What He Means
Plus: Amash's anti-surveillance measure is up for a vote, Facebook launches its own cryptocurrency, and more..
Robby Soave's New Book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, Hits Stores Tomorrow
Campus free speech battles. Intersectionality-fueled infighting. Cancel culture. Pre-order now!
Anti-Plastic Bag Activists Have a New Weapon: Shame
A Canadian grocery store tried to shame its customers with embarrassing plastic bags.
The U.N. Says World Population May Top Out at 10.9 Billion Before 2100. Other Demographers Say It'll Be Much Lower.
Thanks to global expansion of reproductive freedom, actual population growth is likely to be less and peak around the middle this century
San Francisco Wants To Force CEOs To Pay for a Citywide Free Mental Health Care Program
The new tax won't come close to fulfilling the steep funding needs of Mental Health SF
How Socialist Are the Democrats?
A discussion about the state of the party, as presidential debate season kicks off
Georgia's Department of Public Health Is Going After a Charity That Feeds Hungry Kids for Using 'Uncertified' Kitchens
MUST Ministries has provided millions of children with free lunch sandwiches, but an old rule could change their program.
Supreme Court Orders Oregon To Reconsider Gay Wedding Cake Case
SCOTUS wants to see anti-discrimination laws applied without religious bias.
Gorsuch, Thomas, and Kavanaugh Clash With Roberts and Alito Over Federal Preemption of State Regulation
Understanding today’s Supreme Court decision in Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren
Harvard University Cancels Kyle Kashuv
A social media mob successfully persuades Harvard to rescind the admission of a conservative Parkland survivor.
New York's Progressive-Backed Rental Regulations Are a Huge Gift to Wealthy Tenants
The state's new rental regulations make it more difficult for landlords to raise rents on well-off renters.
Let's Move More Federal Agencies Out of Washington
There's no need for most federal agencies to be stationed in the nation's capital, one of the most expensive cities in the country.
Campus Radicals Against Free Speech
Reason's Robby Soave on his new book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
Is the Indian System Strong Enough to Survive Modi?
India, unlike America, lacks checks against the designs of a populist authoritarian.
Iran Will Exceed Nuclear Stockpile Limit in Response to U.S. Sanctions
Plus: Oberlin College must pay $33 million for aiding student activists' defamatory campaign against a local bakery.
The Treasury Department Is Entrenching Trump's Nonsense View of Trade Deficits
In a new report, the Treasury Department declares it will begin scrutinizing any nation that runs a bilateral trade imbalance of more than $40 billion with the United States
Let God Tweet
I shouted out, who killed online freedom of speech? When after all, it was you and me.
Some State Booze Laws Are Improving, Others Are Only Getting Worse
The moral arc of the universe is actually a squiggly line
Stop Treating Government With Respect
It's become nothing but a weapon fought over by people who want to smash each other—and you.
Bayer to Waste $5.6 Billion Trying to Appease Anti-Pesticide Activists
This will fail and more pressing problems will be neglected
The Feds Want To Subject Every Burning Man Attendee to a Warrantless Drug Search
The Bureau of Land Management sees no Fourth Amendment concerns with searching American citizens for reasons to arrest them without probable cause when it comes to their event permits.
A Judge Called His Mandatory Sentence 'Excessive' and 'Wrong.' Less Than a Year Later He Died In Federal Prison
Frederick Turner was sentenced to a mandatory 40 years on nonviolent drug and firearm charges. He ended up in a high-security federal prison, and now he's dead.
If Trump Doesn't Want a War With Iran, He Should Stop Pushing Iran Towards War
Demanding capitulation from Tehran is a recipe for disaster
His Father Was Murdered. He Helped End the Death Penalty Anyway.
“I wanted to be more than somebody who is the son of a murder victim.”
Do the Hatch Act's Restrictions on Kellyanne Conway's Commentary Violate Her First Amendment Rights?
The president's spokeswoman is doing what she has always done on TV, unencumbered by the legal distinction between partisan pundit and executive branch employee.
City on a Hill Is Boston's Answer to The Wire
Crime, dysfunction, and corruption in Beantown
Democrats Are Fighting Over Socialism, and the Socialists Are Winning
Bernie Sanders' Democratic rivals may laugh at his socialist pretensions. But in important ways, he's winning.
Joe Biden Said Amazon Doesn't Pay Enough Taxes. Amazon Wasn't Having It.
The Democratic presidential hopeful tweeted that the company pays "a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers."
To Hold but Not to Have: California's Marijuana Laws Get Weird When You're in Jail
It's not illegal for inmates to have marijuana, but it's still a felony if they try to smoke it.
Elizabeth Warren Is Starting to Beat Bernie Sanders in the Polls
But the progressive share of the 2020 Dem field has been remarkably stable, at just 30 percent.