The Iran War Is Unconstitutional
The president has no lawful authority to launch a war absent a congressional declaration of war.
The president has no lawful authority to launch a war absent a congressional declaration of war.
Agents are violating the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Plus: Congress is reluctant to assert its war powers, the Pentagon brands Anthropic a national security threat, and a listener asks whether regime change is ever morally defensible.
Most of the justices seemed unsatisfied by the Trump administration's argument that the law is constitutional as applied to a Texas marijuana user.
Plus: AI for mass surveillance, Alaskan lawsuit to decriminalize prostitution, "enhanced" British regulation of streaming services, and more…
Remembering America's most radical and definitive modern libertarian intellectual.
Trump and his team can’t get their story straight on why they started this war, how long they plan to fight it, and whether they'll put boots on the ground.
Plus: 3 Americans killed in retaliation, former President Bill Clinton testifies about Jeffrey Epstein, and more...
The administration was wrong to unilaterally and unconstitutionally commit the U.S. to war.
A new collection of transcripts underscores the vast scope of Kissinger's systematic deception.
Population control is technocratic hubris at its most intimate and brutal.
As of early February, only about 300 prisoners have been freed, leaving hundreds still detained despite official promises.
Khamenei's rule was marked by a combination of cruelty and incompetence. His death may have unfolded much the same way.
OpenAI has entered a contract with the Defense Department allowing all lawful use of ChatGPT after Anthropic refused to remove its restrictions on domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems.
The war is aimed at regime change, has spread across the Middle East, and was started without the consent of the American people.
Amid a $5.4 billion budget deficit, the mayor of New York City is pushing forward with a proposal that has historically yielded terrible results.
The truest measure of government in our lives is the federal budget, which is out of control.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss why AI data centers spark joy, their favorite Black Mirror episodes, and libertarian skepticism of the Epstein files release.
The president's wildly inaccurate ideological labels are no more meaningful than his other ad hominem attacks on people who disagree with him.
Stephen Miller's wife is giving renewables a P.R. boost.
The Department of Homeland Security claims that the refugee was dropped off at a “warm, safe location” in Buffalo, New York. But he never made it inside.
Dario Amodei penned a public letter explaining the danger of the Defense Department's request to remove certain constraints from Claude, and refusing them outright.
More habeas corpus petitions were filed over the last year than in the past three administrations combined because of the administration's mass detention policy.
The Trump administration is trying to avoid paying refunds after illegally collecting $175 billion from its emergency tariff scheme.
Trump is squandering the record gains he made with minorities in 2024.
Plus: AI layoffs, Paramount wins Warner Bros., and the Trump-Mamdani bromance.
A transfer tax on high-value real estate transactions is reducing the number of homes on the market and limiting new construction.
The world is growing simultaneously more corrupt and bound in red tape. That’s not a coincidence.
The legal exploitation of Medicaid's federal matching system is a much bigger problem than criminal fraud.
The federal government shouldn't use its police power to gather personal, embarrassing information on people and then blast it out on social media.
“You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life."
American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90 percent of the 2025 tariffs' economic burden, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found.
A war powers resolution has been stuck in Congress—and Democrats are reportedly happy to let Trump walk into a quagmire.
Plus: Minnesota Medicaid funds, AI vs. jobs, Taylor Lorenz's libertarian moment, and more...
Federal officials enjoy too much immunity from being sued over their misconduct.
"I am coming to terms with aging and not being cool and fun anymore. That's the price I'm willing to pay," the author of Drink Your Way Sober tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
"We see this as an important civil liberties issue," says an ACLU lawyer.
The libertarian-leaning economist warns of the coming “Venezuelization” of Peru.
Pete Hegseth has threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to come around.
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