U.S. Cancer Incidence and Death Rates Fall to a 25-Year Low
Good news: The cancer death rate which stood in 1991 at 215 per 100,000 people has dropped in 2016 to 156 per 100,000 people.
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Australia's Libertarian Senator Won't Seek Re-election
David Leyonhjelm will pursue state office instead to fight restrictive, nannying laws.
The Problems With Federal Immigration Agencies Predate Trump
Audits dating back to 2003 highlight a culture of mismanagement and misconduct.
Professors Win First Amendment Lawsuit, Chicago State University Settles for $650,000
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education collects a 13th victory.
America Does Not Need to Stay in Syria to Protect the Kurds
It should lift the travel ban and bring them with it
Eight Minutes of Televised Trump Tonight Could Cause Chaos: Reason Roundup
Plus: Israel boycott bill divides Democrats, Cyntoia Brown gets clemency, and the "skills gap" was a lie.
Donald Trump Wants to Choke Chinese Tech Growth. An Import Ban Could Do the Opposite.
Attempts to control how artificial intelligence develops and is used could backfire.
While U.S. Cities Hold Up New Housing, Hong Kong Entertains Creating New Islands
The Hong Kong government has floated the idea of building four artificial islands which could house one million people.
Chicago Alderman and Notorious Nanny-Stater Ed Burke Charged in Federal Corruption Scheme
Burke has tried to ban everything from electric cigarettes and self-driving cars to trans fats, plastic straws, and marijuana-flavored candy.
Eminent Domain, Emergency Powers, and Trump's Wall
Can Trump really exploit emergency powers to use eminent domain to build his wall without additional congressional authorization? If he succeeds, conservatives are likely to regret the precedent he sets.
Appeals Court: USC Violated Due Process Rights of Male Student Expelled for Sexual Misconduct
Universities must allow students to cross-examine accusers and witnesses, the ruling states.
Suit Against Grindr Over Harassment Is Part of a Trending Assault on Internet Freedom
On Monday, a federal appeals court considered Grindr's guilt in a case involving app-based impersonators.
Gorsuch and Sotomayor Join Forces in Defense of Sixth Amendment Rights
It's not the first time the two justices have teamed up on a criminal justice case.
Prison Guards Orchestrate Media Campaign To Complain About Inmates Getting Edible Food for Christmas
Federal shutdown politics leads to really bad journalism about exactly two meals.
Does Tucker Carlson Get Anything Right About Libertarians?: Podcast
What conservatives against "market fundamentalism" can tell you about libertarians without power
Alex Berenson Is a Little Too Eager to Prove That Weed Makes People Crazy
The relationship between cannabis consumption and psychiatric diagnoses is more subtle and ambiguous than the anti-pot polemicist implies.
Administration Hawks Try to Derail Quick End to U.S. Involvement in Syria
National Security Adviser John Bolton says the U.S.'s withdrawal is conditioned on protection of the Kurds, total elimination of ISIS.
Legal or Not, Trump Shouldn't Declare a 'National Emergency' To Build His Wall
He probably won't shut down the internet. But declaring a "national emergency" is a bad idea anyway.
2018 Brought a Bumper Crop of Bad Gun Laws to Disobey
Control freaks have turned to dishonest rulemaking and outright censorship in doomed but still dangerous efforts to take people's weapons away.
If You Want to See the Future of Political Trolling—and Elections—Look to Alabama
A second covert campaign against Judge Roy Moore is revealed, suggesting that voters need to up their media-literacy game, and fast.
Private Companies Are Paying to Keep Yellowstone Clean During Shutdown
They have a profit-based incentive to keep the tourists coming.
Kamala Harris' Proposed 'Tax Cut' for the Middle Class Manages to Cost Both Money and Jobs
The California senator's plan to create a new refundable tax credit is bad policy, but it says a lot about her politics heading into 2020.
Border Backlog Fuels Human Smuggling Spike: Reason Roundup
Plus: The TSA mask is slipping and government shutdown goes on.
Portland State University Says Hoax 'Grievance Studies' Experiment Violated Research Ethics
Firing Peter Boghossian for failing to get permission from the institutional review board would threaten academic freedom.
Increasing Top Tax Brackets Is Easier Than Increasing Revenue Over Time
Proponents of jacking top marginal income tax rates such as AOC ignore how hard it is to actually boost revenue over the long haul.
If Even Utah Has Gone Soft on Pot, Can the Nation Be Far Behind?
Nearly a quarter of the U.S. population lives in a jurisdiction where recreational use is legal.
Video: Arkansas Cop Casually Shoots a 9-pound Dog
"OK, I'm going to come to you, and if your dog gets aggressive, I'm going to shoot it."
Some Male College Students Want Campuses to Censor Porn
Notre Dame student bravely responds, "Give Me Pornhub or Give Me Death."
Will 'Frenzied Hectoring' by British Food Nannies Never End?
British health officials are ready to tax tasty food out off shelves.
Supreme Court Will Hear Two New Gerrymandering Challenges
A Republican gerrymander in North Carolina and a Democratic gerrymander in Maryland give the court another chance to set some rules for redistricting.
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
A blind websurfer, an accidental No Fly List designation, and a threat-inducing photocopy.
Tucker Carlson Thinks the Problem With America Is Market Capitalism
The populist pundit couldn't be more wrong.
Can New Jersey Ban the Distribution of Computer Files That Can Help Make Guns?
Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation insist that law violates the First Amendment, Commerce Clause, and Supremacy Clause.
Washington Offenders Could See Clemency for Pot Convictions
Gov. Jay Inslee, who intends to run for president, made the announcement on Friday.
What the Hell Is the 'Military Version of Eminent Domain'?
Whatever it is, it can't be good.
'America Really Was the First Country Founded on Individualism': Podcast
Jonathan Hoenig, a devotee of Ayn Rand, founder of Capitalist Pig investments, and editor of The New Textbook of Americanism, isn't pulling any punches.
Libertarian Party Presidential Hopeful Adam Kokesh Arrested in New Orleans for Failing to Show I.D.
The interaction began when he was stopped by the side of the road trying to power-wash stenciled messages on a dirty concrete barrier.
A Colorado Man Wins $175,000 After His 'Fuck Bad Cops' Sign Prompts a Tasing
Body cam footage shows the officer getting chewed out by his supervisor shortly afterward.
Life Will Go on if Trump Keeps the Government Shut Down for 'Years'
The world will keep spinning, no matter how long the government shutdown lasts.
Trump's Trade War Is Harming the Craft Booze Business—and Dragging Down the Rest of the Economy in the Process
Catoctin Creek Distillery's tariff woes show that no one wins a trade war.
