When They Nullify the Law, Jurors Are Just Doing Their Jobs
Jury nullification angers judges and prosecutors, but it's all just part of the jurors' role in protecting us from the government.
Jury nullification angers judges and prosecutors, but it's all just part of the jurors' role in protecting us from the government.
The Trump "budget cuts" are best understood as a kind of theater or performance art.
The man, who led police on high-speed chase while driving drunk on a suspended license, is suing for $95 million.
Prohibition is the cause of the problem; it's not the solution.
Here are the problems with the House plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
If universal access to medical care is the goal, the government is the goalie. It should get out of the way.
Against all common sense and fairness, some states continue to tax grocery purchases.
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train brought to Netflix.
Calculating how preponderance of the evidence falsely 'convicts' the innocent on campus.
The Senate minority leader can reject a Supreme Court nominee for any reason he wants, or even none at all.
"There is no happy hour for menstruation," says a legislator looking to pay for tax cuts on feminine products with a tax hike on hard liquor.
Emma Watson helps bring another animated Disney classic to life.
Vault 7 serves as another reminder of the inherent folly in building government-mandated backdoors into secure systems.
The coverage of recent shootings of Indian Americans was muted compared to terrorist attacks
History shows a pattern of assimilation, not danger.
What do gun bans and travel bans have in common?
Minnesota becomes the 39th state to allow Sunday liquor sales.
From storm coverage to the deep state, many in the media display a pro-government bias.
The public thinks so, and with freer countries having higher incomes, longer lifespans and lower rates of infant mortality, why wouldn't they?
Supporters of good candidates accept election outcomes, so backers of evil candidates should do the same.
Bharara's views on policy are a mystery. If he is to be a success as a politician he'll need to figure that stuff out.
Healthcare reform can be deceptively simple.
It's time for daylight savings time to go.
Instead it turns citizens against their protectors.
The party has already given up on five of its core issues.
Do you love the First Amendment but detest Dr. Oz? Read on.
John Lithgow as a forgetful poetry professor accused of murdering his wife.
Americans would save some money now, but at the long-run cost of sicker and shorter lives
Tom Hiddleston and John C. Reilly join the celebrated ape for yet another CGI origin story.
Government officials cannot skirt public records laws by using private email accounts.
It's health care that matters, not health care insurance.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) unleashed demons that now seem beyond the government's control.
President Trump looks to cut funding to government-subsidized art and broadcasting.
The president signs a bill overriding a Social Security rule that would have arbitrarily nullified Second Amendment rights.
It is wrong just like Fugitive Slave laws were wrong.
The U.S. has successfully decoupled economic growth and energy demand.
U.S. attorney Preet Bharara has managed to turn tax-and-spend liberal New York Mayor Bill de Blasio into a sympathetic figure.
It's time we learn that killing and dying for an ideology-even so-called liberal democracy- is as bad as doing so for a religion.
True defenders of real liberalism need to take the word back from progressives and conservatives.
New studies blame Instagram and gluttony as causes of food waste.
Meanwhile, more television shows about time travel!
Fatally flawed metric or the most important number that you've never heard of?
California college tried to suspend student who recorded his sexuality professor's anti-Trump rant.
Hugh Jackman's Wolverine farewell introduces a new possibility for the series' future.
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