Trump's War on Whisky Is a Dram Shame
Whisky has become collateral damage in a long-running spat between the U.S. and the E.U. over subsidies to airplane manufacturers.
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Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Assault Conviction Is a Well-Deserved Win for #MeToo
The disgraced filmmaker is headed to prison.
The Great Bernie Freakout
As Sanders steamrolls toward the Democratic nomination, the Reason Roundtable podcast dissects the panic attacks among MSNBC anchors, conservative commie-haters, and the bipartisan establishment elite.
Israel's Prime Minister To Explore Marijuana Legalization
Benjamin Netanyahu is appointing a committee that will look into following Canada's example.
Judge Rules Businesswoman Must Remove Dresses From Her Home
Fairfax County, Virginia, allows home businesses but prohibits them from keeping inventory on site.
Oklahoma Wants To Use Its Old Lethal Injection Protocol, Despite Past Botched Executions
Oklahoma messed up three executions in just two years.
Video of an Alleged 'White Van' Kidnapping in Springfield Went Viral. Nothing Actually Happened.
Police say there were no reports of attempted kidnappings.
Can a City Refuse To Use a Foster Agency That Discriminates Against Same-Sex Couples?
The Supreme Court is about to tackle the issue.
Competing Brands of Authoritarianism Are All Trump and Democratic Candidates Offer
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
Greyhound Finally Says No to Random Border Patrol 'Checks' of Its Buses
The company cited a recent federal memo clarifying that agents are expected to obey the Constitution.
George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a 'Scam' and Silicon Valley 'Needs To Die'
The hacking wunderkind thinks Big Tech's approach won't work. He built a $999 autonomous driving system that runs on a smartphone.
Bernie Sanders Defends Pro-Castro Comments
Plus: Congress set to reauthorize PATRIOT Act provisions, Steyer surges in South Carolina, and more...
Against the New Nationalism
Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution
Good Riddance to the Roman Empire
Maybe Rome needed to disintegrate before the West could grow wealthy.
On the Money: Presidential Portraiture and Power in D.C.
Kehinde Wiley's pre-presidential works criticized inequalities and hierarchies of power. His presidential portrait doesn't do the same.
Bernie Sanders Wins the Nevada Caucus. He's on Track To Win the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Are Democrats about to nominate a socialist for president?
Wisconsin May Allow Bars To Stay Open Late for the Democratic National Convention—Why Not Always?
If cities will accommodate huge numbers of visitors, why not extend the courtesy to locals?
Can Senseless Gun Regulations Be Constitutional?
Under New York's rules, licensed pistol and revolver owners were not allowed to leave home with their handguns unless they were traveling to or from a shooting range.
Hunters Wastes Its Cast, Plot on Stupid Frat Jokes
The Holocaust and its fallout can be tackled with humor. But this Amazon show fails at its aims.
Trump Administration Says It's Ready to Sign Peace Deal With the Taliban by the End of the Month
Left unspecified: how many U.S. troops would be coming home, and when
Twitter's New 'Deceptive Video' Labeling Plan Immediately Abused To Attack a Silly Joke Ad from Bloomberg
Nobody is being misled by this obviously joking debate clip. But this sort of ginned-up outrage will be used to target political opponents.
Trump's Agriculture Department Just Called Bull on a Key Part of His China Trade Deal
Instead of $12.5 billion in new agriculture purchases exports to China this year, the USDA expects less than $4 billion.
Trump 0, Nerds 1
When it comes to the trade deficit, policy wonks were right and the president was wrong.
Tennessee Executes Nick Sutton, Despite Protests from Prison Guards and the Victims' Families
"Nick Sutton has gone from a life-taker to a life-saver," read a clemency petition filed by corrections staff, the families of several victims, and five of the jurors who sentenced him to death.
Newspaper Lobbyists and Encryption Foes Join the Chorus Against Section 230
How the press learned to stop worrying and love censorship.
Bloomberg Goes for Brokered Convention
Plus: red spots in blue states, blue spots in red states, the White House admits tariffs have hurt manufacturing, and more...
Virginia Is Poised To Let Cities Remove Confederate Monuments. It's About Damn Time.
Supporters of those war memorials often say they want to preserve history. But what if they've got the facts wrong?
Yes, the Constitution Means Your Political Opponents Get Due Process Too
Americans are so locked into their political sides that many of them seem willing to cast aside some of the nation's long-established constitutional protections.
Watchmen
The new HBO show explores how systems of authority fail those for whom they are ostensibly responsible.
Future Tense Fiction
"A good science fiction story can help re-sensitize us" to the peril and promise of the new.
California Bill Would Require Occupational Licenses for Porn Actors, Strippers, Cam Girls
Adult performers are outraged at the proposed licensing requirements, and have vowed to fight the bill.
Chicago Judge Says His Bail Reforms Were a Success. But Independent Reviews Show Flaws and More Crimes.
Did Cook County overdo it and let too many dangerous defendants free?
The First Amendment Right To Encourage Illegal Immigration
What’s at stake in United States v. Sineneng-Smith.
Marijuana Vaping Madness Is Reaching 'Reefer' Proportions
A new generation of marijuana prohibitionists is reviving old talking points with vaping products substituting for joints.
Elizabeth Warren Is Here To Be Queen of the Ashes
Plus: Bloomberg's rough night, libertarian Catholicism, Philadelphia's soda tax still sucks, and more...
Bernie Sanders' Troubling Agenda
Don't believe those who tell you that Sanders is some sort of centrist.
Bloomberg Disses Sanders' Socialism: 'Other Countries Tried That. It Was Called Communism and It Just Didn't Work.'
Bloomberg says "We're not going to throw out capitalism"; Sanders isn't so sure.
Michael Bloomberg Utterly Destroyed Over Sexism Accusations
This was supposed to be the electable alternative?
Joe Biden Is Happy To Talk About Michael Bloomberg's Stop-and-Frisk Record Because It Distracts From His Own Terrible Crime Policies
"The policy was abhorrent," Biden said of Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk program. Yes, but so was pretty much every criminal justice policy Biden pushed through the Senate.
Knives Come Out Immediately at Vegas Democratic Debate—and Not Just at Bloomberg
"Stop and frisk" policies are brought into the crosshairs right away.
Federal Appeals Court: Florida Can't Require Payment of Court Debts To Regain Voting Rights
"Equally guilty but wealthier felons are offered access to the ballot while these plaintiffs continue to be disenfranchised, perhaps forever."
Has Trump Drained the Swamp or Stocked It With His Own Fish?
Sinking in the Swamp authors Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng are documenting all the president's grifters for The Daily Beast.
