Mom Ignores Doctor When Her Sick 2-Year-Old Starts Feeling Better, Child Services Send a SWAT Team
"What about the parents' rights to decide what's best for their child?"
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Oregon Considers Allowing Grown Adults the Privilege of Pumping Their Own Gas
While New Jersey defends its ban on self-service pumping to the death, Oregon legislators are considering allowing motorists a little more choice.
'Heartbeat Bills' Banning Almost All Abortions Are Back
Plus: Parsing competing paid-leave proposals, wisdom from Justin Amash, and Pete Buttigieg on Chick-fil-A.
Trump's Hotheadedness Was His Saving Vice
The president's lack of self-restraint helped protect him from impeachment.
Trump's Hotheadedness Was His Saving Vice
The president's lack of self-restraint helped protect him from impeachment.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Police Superintendent Still Think Jussie Smollett Is Guilty—and Are Furious He's Going Free
"Where is the accountability in the system?"
Hovercraft-Driving Moose Hunter Is Big Winner at SCOTUS Today
John Sturgeon can once again "rev up his hovercraft" to hunt moose on Alaska's rivers, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously.
Hide Those Memes, Folks! Europe Passes Massive Online Copyright Changes That Will Lead to Censorship
Do you have a license to link to that story? Will your sexy Tinder photo get confused with a celebrity's?
Going to Burning Man? The Feds Want You Searched for Drugs
Can the government demand a warrantless search with no probable cause of ticket holders as a condition of issuing an event permit?
New York Inches Closer to Charging Drivers for Subway Repairs
State lawmakers are warming to the idea of congestion pricing.
Prosecutors Drop All Charges Against Jussie Smollett
The FBI is still investigating, however.
Battering Ram-Wielding Chicago Cops Crash 4-Year-Old's Birthday Party, Point Guns at Terrified Kids
When an aunt asked to see a search warrant, she says she was handcuffed.
Texas House Passes Bill Legalizing Lemonade Stands Run by Children
State law currently prohibits the sale of homemade drinks.
Waiting-and-Seeing on the Trump Campus Free Speech Executive Order
It's an order to create policies, not a policy -- so it's hard to tell what it will do until we see what policies various departments create.
Harris Would Hike Teacher Pay Across the Nation by 23 Percent
Plus: Is Obamacare canceled? Beware "national cyber strategy." And Baltimore attempts eminent domain to take down a racetrack.
Stop Listening to the Spymasters and Generals
The Mueller report is a timely reminder not to take John Brennan and James Clapper seriously.
The Internet Doesn't Need Saving
But that might not stop House Democrats from Net Neutrality-related histrionics.
Stossel: Venezuela Is Socialism
Media personalities claim socialism didn't cause Venezuela's collapse, but it did. Here's how.
About that Campus Free Speech Executive Order
A crude tool unlikely to do much good and that might do some harm.
The EU's Ironic Dependence on Big Tech
Europeans want the best of America's online services, even as the government keeps soaking them for billions.
The Trump Administration Now Wants All of Obamacare Struck Down
This is selective enforcement of the law for political purposes.
Unanimous Juries and Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
Unanimous juries (like the ban on excessive fines) might be an easy case; but at some point we will need a theory.
Michigan's Legal Marijuana Market Will Be Uncompetitive With Illegal Dealers
The black market is how you get things done when government gets in the way.
Justice Department Revises Its Position in Texas ACA Case
The Trump Administration has decided that the Affordable Care Act should be voided in its entirety.
Anti-Straw Activists Are Now Trying to Get Rid of Plastic Straw Emojis
Environmental group Lonely Whale and Bacardi have teamed up to fight the little "straw in cup" symbol.
Beto Offers Democrats a Blend of Old and New
In New Hampshire, some voters say they are ready for a fresh face.
The Mueller Media Hall of Shame: Podcast
Whose hysteria looks silliest in retrospect?
Michael Avenatti Arrested for Attempting to Extort Nike for Millions of Dollars
The feds recorded the celebrity attorney threatening to expose the company unless it paid up.
February's Budget Deficit Was the Largest in American History
The feds are $234 billion in the red. Looking for hope? Sen. Mike Enzi has some ideas.
$25 Million Later, 3 Pundits Kind-of-Sort-of Change Their Minds on Collusion
Shockingly, most people are sticking to their guns.
Is This America's Shittiest Cop?
The San Antonio Police Department tried to fire this officer for giving a crap sandwich to a homeless man. It was overruled.
Right to Possess Stun Guns in N.Y., Right to Carry Them in Illinois
Two Second Amendment wins late last week.
The President Isn't a Russian Spy. Resistance Media Will Keep Freaking Out Anyway
Plus: Chick-fil-A banned from San Antonio airport, the Libertarian Party picks a convention slogan, and Robert Kraft apologizes.
Modern Art Critic Assumes 1939 Painting Is All About Homophobia. It's About Murderous Union Thugs.
Paul Cadmus's Herrin Massacre is "The Painting Our Art Critic Can't Stop Thinking About." If only he'd thought harder.
Vox Symposium on Attorney General Barr's Summary of the Mueller Report
Fifteen legal scholars weigh in, including the VC's own Keith Whittington, and myself.
Mueller's Conclusion: No Coordination Between Trump Campaign and Russia
As for obstruction evidence, he punts the matter to Congress.
First Impressions on the Mueller Investigation
The attorney general has released his summary of the report. Let the games begin.
PETA Sics Cops on California Foie Gras Dinner
Radicals team up with the food police to infringe on our right to eat.
As the Mueller Report Drops, a Transparency Fight Begins
How much will we see of the special counsel's report? And when?
Preet Bharara's Boy Scout Manual of 'Doing Justice'
The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York unconvincingly channels Atticus Finch in his legal memoir.
Robert Mueller's Russia Report Is Finally Done, and We Still Know Nothing
At this point, making assumptions would be stupid.
