It's Not Journalists' Job To Protect Government Secrets
With the controversy over the leaked White House group chat, mainstream media have been treating secrecy as a virtue and disclosure as a vice. That’s a dangerous game.
With the controversy over the leaked White House group chat, mainstream media have been treating secrecy as a virtue and disclosure as a vice. That’s a dangerous game.
Twelve states are considering harsher punishments for soliciting sex.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion sound good. But DEI programs divide people more than they empower.
Authors James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber discuss their new book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance.
The SpeechNow ruling expanded political speech and reshaped elections.
The Jones Act keeps energy-hungry Alaskans from using their own natural gas.
Conservatives are picking up the unconstitutional weapons that intolerant progressives have deployed against them.
Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina.
The latest tariffs appear to be like many before that were promised but never enacted.
After contending with COVID-era inflation, the beauty industry and consumers face more supply disruptions and price hikes under Trump’s trade war.
Central bank digital currencies would destroy any chance for financial privacy, but society is willingly moving in that direction.
Plus: Untenable in Tampa, Cinderella didn't show up for March Madness, TGL, and more.
An unconstitutional act is still unconstitutional even if lots of people support it.
After Assad’s fall, Syria was poised for liberation. Instead, ethnic violence, sectarian dogma, and unchecked power are threatening to turn victory into yet another nightmare.
The move is an escalation of the White House's attempt to claim an unchallengeable and unreviewable amount of power.
An experiment with staggering implications for the future of human reproduction.
The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.
Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout.
Plus: Rehiring federal workers, using Signal to orchestrate bombing the Houthis, and more...
Plus: the federal government tries to stiff landlords over eviction moratorium one last time, the Supreme Court declines to take up eminent domain case, and starter home bills advance in Arizona and Texas.
A new book explores the legacy of the Report on Iron Mountain, while another probes the life of the novelist and essayist Robert Anton Wilson.
Azulejos remind us that globalization has been shaping art, politics, and culture for centuries.
Plus: A listener asks why some American libertarians seem to unquestioningly accept everything Vladimir Putin says.
Consumers have long paid for daily goods with loans.
Over 500,000 migrants used the program to enter and work in the U.S.
As a federal judge, Maryanne Trump Barry said the provision is unconstitutionally vague. That's especially problematic when it is used to punish speech.
The judge ruled that Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive orders targeting "gender ideology" can't change the fact that drag performance is expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
There's no strong evidence that cellphones cause cancer. There also isn't strong evidence that cellphones cause teen depression.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes has shut down Rumble in Brazil, using the same dubious legal arguments that led to the blocking of X and Telegram.
Such a regulation would override consumer choice for scientifically shaky reasons.
Plus: Sanders supports deportations, tariff tracker, Panama's Jewish enclave, and more...
The feds have no constitutional authorization to meddle in education.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and others have all faced legal action from the European Union in recent years.
City University of New York professor Peter Beinart and AEI's Michael Rubin debate Israel and Palestine.
Across the country, parents of gender-dysphoric kids are confronting state intrusion.
To justify the immediate deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, the president is invoking a rarely used statute that does not seem to apply in this context.
Is shutting down the CDC's HIV prevention division a good idea?
Already this year, the agency has allegedly conducted a warrantless raid in Newark and several warrantless arrests in the Midwest.
Invoking the Defense Production Act won't boost the supply of critical minerals.
While he can't get rid of the department outright, a new executive order attempts the next best thing.
The long-delayed remake is a flat, limp, relentlessly boring film, strung along by bland, uninspiring songs.
The Trump administration keeps arresting legal immigrants with views they don't like.
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