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Glenn Youngkin's Proposed 15-Week Abortion Ban Speaks to Abortion Moderates
The Virginia governor's proposed 15-week ban shows what a moderate approach to abortion looks like.
A New Jersey Town Wants To Charge This Woman $5,000 To Sell Cookies
Somerville still has costly regulations on the books even though New Jersey has legalized the sale of home-baked items.
What's Wrong With Abortion Federalism?
Plus: stereotypes within libertarianism, and Katherine compares the editors to Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters.
SCOTUS Rules That Doctors Who Write Prescriptions in Good Faith Can't Be Convicted of Drug Trafficking
The unanimous decision will rein in prosecutions that have long had a chilling effect on pain treatment.
The Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision Threatens Assisted Reproduction
IVF at "significant risk"
Supreme Court Says High School Coach's Postgame Prayers Are Protected Free Speech
A 6–3 majority sees it as noncoercive and not a violation of the Establishment Clause.
New Complaint Challenges Limits to Corporate Speech Enacted by Florida's 'Stop WOKE Act'
Three Florida companies are suing in federal court for the right to discuss diversity and inclusion concepts in workplace trainings.
Some States Restrict Abortion After Dobbs, Others Rush To Protect Access
Plus: What overturning Roe means for Republicans' future, court halts ban of Juul products, and more...
Enforcing Abortion Bans Is Much Harder Than Winning in Court
There’s no painless way to restrict choices for people who resist.
Obamacare and SCOTUS, 10 Years Later
Even Obamacare's fiercest advocates say it has not lived up to its goals.
John Roberts and the Path SCOTUS Did Not Take on Abortion
Although the chief justice's incrementalism did not sway his colleagues, his observations about the meaning of a "right to choose" could be relevant in state legislatures.
Colombia Could Have Had a Coke-Legalizing, TikTok-Famous President. They Elected a Socialist Instead.
President-elect Gustavo Petro could easily take Colombia in an illiberal direction.
Biden Ignores His Own Role in Inflation
Stimulus checks, government spending, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are only part of the problem.
Seaweed Is a Promising Food Tangled in Regulations
Regulatory uncertainty is keeping the seaweed market from reaching its full potential.
Announcing The Reason Rundown With Peter Suderman
A new limited series podcast incoming next week
Get Ready for the Post-Roe Sex Police!
If life begins at conception, there are virtually no limits on government surveillance of women in a post-Roe world.
Outside the Supreme Court, Our First Glimpse of Post-Roe Politics
A weird, messy protest reflects a weird, messy future.
SCOTUS Rejects 'Interest-Balancing' Tests That Treated the Second Amendment As a 'Constitutional Orphan'
The ruling against New York's carry permit policy is a rebuke to courts that routinely rubber-stamp gun restrictions.
Clarence Thomas Calls To 'Reconsider' Gay Marriage, Sodomy Rulings
The other justices declined to join him, but the future of the Supreme Court rulings on those matters remains unclear.
States Can't Ban Out-of-State Travel To Get Abortions, Writes Kavanaugh
He also nixes the idea that states could "retroactively impose liability or punishment for an abortion that occurred before today's decision takes effect."
Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Era of Cultural Stagflation
On streaming and the big screen, we're paying more for less, even as new ideas seem few and far between.
Alito's Abortion Ruling Overturning Roe Is an Insult to the 9th Amendment
The Constitution protects many more rights than it mentions, as James Madison explained.
Here Is a State-by-State Rundown of What Will Happen Now That SCOTUS Has Freed Lawmakers To Restrict Abortion
Most states are unlikely to enact bans, but 22 either have them already or probably will soon.
The Online Freakout Over Yesterday's Supreme Court Decisions
Plus: Abortion and free speech, Juul fights back, and more...
The Capitol Riot Was Never Going To Succeed
The intruders created plenty of mayhem, but it was a farcical coup attempt doomed from the start.
'Green' Germany Prepares To Fire Up the Coal Furnaces
Strongly held wishes and pixie dust won’t deliver a green utopia.
Review: Gran Turismo 7
The video game serves as a fun reminder that free trade, not protectionism, makes us all better off.
Greg Abbott Spent $1,400 a Head To Bus Migrants to D.C. for a Political Stunt
Texas taxpayers might be stuck footing the hefty bill for Abbott's busing scheme.
Blame Congress for Pandemic Fraud
The inconvenient truth behind all the COVID-19 relief fraud and waste is that these government programs never should have been designed as they were.
5 Ways Biden's New Title IX Rules Will Eviscerate Due Process on Campus
The new rules would drop live hearings, bring back the single-investigator model, and limit accused students' options.
Is the Nation's Harshest Rent Control Law Unconstitutional, or Just Counterproductive?
Two St. Paul, Minnesota, landlords claim that the city's restrictions on rent increases above 3 percent amounts to a taking of their property without due process or compensation.
As the ACLU Recedes From Its Core Mission, FIRE Expands To Fill the Void
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is defending expression on campus and off as the ACLU becomes a progressive advocacy group.
'The Second Amendment Is Not Unlimited,' Brett Kavanaugh Stresses in SCOTUS Gun Case
“Properly interpreted, the Second Amendment allows a ‘variety’ of gun regulations,” Kavanaugh writes, invoking Antonin Scalia
SCOTUS Says You Can't Sue the Cops for Violating Your Miranda Rights
A 6–3 ruling undermines attempts to hold police accountable for misconduct.
Title IX's 50th Anniversary Is a Dark Day for Due Process on Campus
The Biden administration just proposed new rules that would undermine basic fairness in college sexual misconduct disputes.
In Landmark 2nd Amendment Ruling, SCOTUS Affirms Right 'To Carry a Handgun for Self-Defense Outside the Home'
“Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms,” says New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
California's Competitors
Miami and Austin lured people away from California. But the new tech hubs could end up repeating San Francisco’s mistakes.