Rise of the 'Constitutional Sheriffs'
Two new books dissect the "constitutional sheriffs" movement, which seeks to nullify laws adherents see as unconstitutional.
Two new books dissect the "constitutional sheriffs" movement, which seeks to nullify laws adherents see as unconstitutional.
Curtrina Martin's petition attracted support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to name their least favorite national emergency from the list of those currently in effect.
Frontier magazine's Peter Gietl and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the merits of Nayib Bukele's criminal justice policies.
"Make childhood great again," says state Sen. Lincoln Fillmore.
Trump wants Arab countries to take in Gaza’s population. The Biden administration already tried, and failed, to bribe and cajole Egypt into doing so.
Local news reports detail how Polk County, Minnesota, charges drivers and petty offenders with drug-free zone violations like no other county in the state.
DeepSeek has released a cheap, open-source artificial intelligence. Does it challenge American AI supremacy?
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
This rogue agency stifles innovation, drives up costs, and infantilizes consumers—all while operating without accountability.
Though awkward and antiquated, the Second Amendment’s syntax and grammar unambiguously protect gun rights.
President Donald Trump doubled down on both domestic deregulation and protectionism in his speech to the World Economic Forum.
Trump wants to negotiate instead of bombing Iran. Jilted war hawks are blaming his advisers.
Plus: Israel's ceasefire(s), Chinese AI arms race, Waymo vandalism, and more...
Politicians who’ve dropped the ball inevitably see the solution as reducing people's freedom.
Americans tell pollsters immigrants make up about a third of the population. In reality, it's less than half that much.
"I'm trying so hard to be a perfect altruist and just failing because no one is, actually," the Confessions of a Good Samaritan filmmaker tells Reason.
A law passed in 2022 requires the president to give Congress a "substantive rationale" for removing inspectors general. Trump has not done that.
The Bank Secrecy Act regime forces banks to report customers to the government for an ever-growing list of “red flags.”
"I can tell you that I have never been put in a position of doubting my own sanity like I was in the hands of those police officers," Knox tells Reason.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
"Every day I confront a bill that wants to ban another Chinese company," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
Former Rep. Justin Amash explains why President Donald Trump's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment is wrong.
By the end of 2025, as many as 100 million Americans could live in a state where they can be reported for protected expression.
The past three administrations have tried to limit gain-of-function research. The second Trump administration might be the first one to be successful at doing so.
Two new meta-analyses make a case for individualistic approaches to puberty blockers and hormone treatments, driven by patients, parents, and doctors rather than the state.
In this POV haunted house film from the Ocean's 11 director, the camera plays the ghost.
Anyone who thinks state regulatory agencies will help them doesn't understand how these agencies actually operate.
A new crop of restrictive laws faces a friendly reception in the courts but ongoing public resistance.
What happened to Tonka the chimp? The Chimp Crazy series investigates.
“I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is,” said Judge John C. Coughenour.
Not doing so could be harmful for just about everyone.
They are allied countries with which the U.S. has a trade deal (a deal negotiated by Trump, no less), but presidential emergency powers are nearly limitless.
"I can't make sense of it. I couldn't even finish watching the video," said the girl's mother. "That's not how you handle children."
American tariffs will increase the price of final and intermediate goods, hurting our own consumers and domestic manufacturers.
Plus: Sovereign children, Angela McArdle interview, botox fraud, and more...
Robert Roberson was sentenced to death based on outdated and largely discredited scientific evidence.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board should be Trump's ally in a battle against the deep state. So why is he undermining it?
Many have started to recognize a need to focus on their core business rather than virtue-signaling.
Like many of his other "Day 1" decrees, the order seems more concerned with scoring points in the culture war than advancing sensible policy.
The Fraternal Order of Police mistakenly thought that the president "supports our law enforcement officers" and "has our backs."
A thicket of red tape has made the island's rebuilding efforts painfully slow.
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