Zyn Pouches Are Safer Than Cigarettes. Why Are Some Politicians Targeting Them?
Making less harmful products harder to get pushes people toward more dangerous ones.
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Corn Belt Politicians Are Using High Gas Prices To Push Even More Carveouts for Ethanol
“The sale of E15 year-round would help the ethanol industry and no one else,” says one agricultural policy expert.
Bankers Scouring Porn Sites. Payment Processors Punishing Journalists. Here's How 'Big Finance' Is Chilling Speech
Financial censorship should worry us all, suggests Rainey Reitman in Transaction Denied.
All New Cars Could Have Mandatory Surveillance Tech Unless Congress Stops This Mandate
Cars are already spying on drivers. A 2021 law requires manufacturers to install more tracking technology.
Is Ukraine Helping Al Qaeda Conquer West Africa?
The proliferation of drones to Malian rebels is a bizarre, unexpected form of blowback.
Andy Serkis: What Orwell Understood About Tyranny
Andy Serkis discusses the corrupting nature of power, what Animal Farm says about modern authoritarianism, and whether technology expands or diminishes human creativity.
Fauci Aide Charged
Plus: A dicey FISA reauthorization, kingly quips about burning down the White House, the world's narrowest tax breaks, and more...
Government Shouldn't Be Important Enough To Fight Over
America’s political factions hate each other and torment each other when in power. Violence results.
A SCOTUS Case Exposes the Dangers of 2 Misguided Fourth Amendment Doctrines
"Geofence" searches illustrate the perilous combination of modern technology and deference to law enforcement.
Defending the White House Ballroom, the DOJ Files a Trump Tantrum Masquerading As a Motion
The brief, which asks a federal judge to reconsider an injunction blocking the project, reads like it was transcribed from the president's Truth Social account.
Trump Administration's Review of ABC's Broadcast Licenses Looks Like 'Illegal Jawboning'
When he returned to the White House, Trump vowed to protect free speech from the government. The FCC's latest move against ABC and Disney looks like the opposite.
Historic Taking
The owners of the house that Marilyn Monroe died in claim in a lawsuit that the city took their property when it landmarked it.
Does Roundup Cause Cancer? Monsanto's Supreme Court Case Could Have Big Impacts on the Food Industry.
The Court’s glyphosate case could reshape legal liability—and undermine evidence-based regulation.
War Hawks' 'Credibility' Obsession Makes America Less Credible
Trump is making the same mistakes Nixon did, doubling down on pointless threats to save face.
The Federal Minimum Wage Is Irrelevant. Good.
The national wage floor is so low that it might as well not exist.
Sabastian Sawe's Sub-2 Marathon Is What Human Progress Looks Like—and Capitalism Helped Build It
Plus: governments get deeper and deeper into horse racing, fiscally conservative Republicans keep subsidizing stadiums, and Full Swing is in a doom spiral
Taxing the Rich
Plus: New York City's persistent budget problems, the crony capitalist scramble for Venezuelan oil, senseless trafficking PSAs, and more...
The Evidence Revolution: Why 'Take Nobody's Word for It' Really Matters
Beyond Belief explains how the "evidence revolution" is helping practitioners, policymakers, and the public understand what really works.
SCOTUS Weighs 'Geofence Warrants' and the Future of Digital Privacy
The government wants access to millions of cell phone location histories. The Supreme Court will decide what the Fourth Amendment allows.
Why the Federal Government Can't Charge Anyone With 'Domestic Terrorism'
Federal law defines the term but there is no federal statute to charge someone with "domestic terrorism."
The Shooter's Manifesto Was Uncomfortably Normal
Plus: Mamdani’s city-run grocery plan, the Trump administration considers a Spirit Airlines bailout, and Iran peace talks drift without a clear endgame
By Dropping Her Criminal Probe of Jerome Powell, Jeanine Pirro Confirms Its Political Motivation
Even Republican critics of the Federal Reserve chairman's performance rejected the notion that he had broken the law by lying about the renovation of the central bank's headquarters.
The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Is No Excuse for More Security Theater
Calls for more aggressive security measures evoke the post-9/11 security theater that brought us the TSA.
Advocates for Asian Massage Workers Decry 'Sexist, Racist' Raids in Seattle
Bothell police set out in search of sex trafficking and ended up shutting down five businesses for code violations.
Republicans Fumble Away Fiscal Conservatism in Stadium Subsidy Projects
Small-government conservatives are tripping over themselves to give millions of taxpayer dollars to billionaires.
Shots Fired
Plus: White House Correspondents' Association attacker was angry about strikes on Venezuelan boats and Iranian schools, another airline bailout could be coming, and more...
America Is Losing Its Allure for the World's Migrants
The U.S. economy continues to outstrip the competition but takes a hit from declining immigration.
Long Before the Canal, Global Trade Built Panama City
The narrow geography of the 50-mile Central American isthmus made it an obvious choice for trade routes between the Atlantic and Pacific.
Shooter Reportedly Targets Trump Officials at White House Correspondents' Dinner
Gunman subdued at security checkpoint.
Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster—It Was a Communist Disaster
Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions.
Swarms of Termite Moviemakers Have Made Cinema More Personal
Screens have become less passive, more participatory, and more open to all kinds of moving pictures.
A $33 Burger? As New York City Eyes $30 Minimum Wage, Restaurants Brace for Impact
The proposal would eliminate the tipped-wage credit and send labor costs skyrocketing in an industry notorious for its tight margins.
Hobohemian Rhapsody
Author Brian Barth explores the makeshift tent cities of Silicon Valley.
The FDA Fast-Tracks Its Review of Psilocybin and Methylone, 2 Promising Psychedelics
The agency issued "national priority vouchers" for the two drugs six days after President Donald Trump promised to facilitate approval of psychedelic therapies.
Why Homewrecking in North Carolina Could Cost You Millions
Some states still allow vengeful spouses to sue a third party for destroying their marriages.
Civil Liberties Groups Sue for Information on ICE's Speech-Chilling Subpoenas
The feds have been demanding that tech companies identify the administration's anonymous online critics. That violates the First Amendment.
Allowing Censorship of Military Retirees Like Sen. Mark Kelly Would Set a Chilling and Dangerous Precedent
To justify punishing a legislator for his speech, a FIRE brief notes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth relies on a Supreme Court precedent that is clearly inapposite.
Michael Is a Brutally Dull Biopic With Nothing to Say About Michael Jackson
This one's no thriller.
Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino: The Leftists Who Think Stealing Is Great
Actually, shoplifting is bad.
Can Zohran Mamdani Make NYC Affordable?
Zephyr Teachout and John Ketcham debate the mayor of the Big Apple.
'Shoot and Kill'
Plus: California fails to unmask ICE agents, the illogic of medical-only marijuana rescheduling, driverless cars in D.C., and more...
After Viktor Orbán's Defeat in Hungary, the 'New Right' Needs a New Foreign Despot To Admire
Hungary is Europe's basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.
Congress Still Has a Chance To Curb Section 702 Surveillance Abuses
Sen. Ron Wyden warns that Americans would be “stunned” at how officials have used the law.
Review: A Novel About a Tradwife Influencer Taken Back in Time
The protagonist in Yesteryear wakes up one day in what appears to be a real 1800s homestead.
