Pundits Predicted a Backlash Against Criminal Justice Reform in the Midterms. What Happened?
While rising crime created headwinds for candidates who supported criminal justice reform, the apocalyptic storm never quite arrived.
While rising crime created headwinds for candidates who supported criminal justice reform, the apocalyptic storm never quite arrived.
Standing with blank pages in hand, the protesters' goal is to make manifest the implied violence that authoritarian states use to keep order.
Living without government services isn't necessarily cheaper or easier, but it sure beats putting up with municipal bureaucracies.
To truly care about virtue is to recognize that it matters how you win: Ends don't justify means.
If political pressure to forgive debt can work once, why wouldn't it work again every five or 10 years?
If all Californians bought E.V.s tomorrow, it would be a nightmare.
Seventeen retired federal judges, appointed by both Republicans and Democrats, filed a brief supporting his appeal.
The Supreme Court said in 1942 that local activity, not just interstate activity, was subject to congressional regulation.
Yes, America benefits from immigrants who can write code. But we also need ones who can swing hammers.
While Biden issued pardons and ordered a review of marijuana's Schedule I status, he still supports the federal ban on weed.
"At this point, it is pretty much a fact that Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States," says one observer.
The Producer Price Index shows that grocery stores appear to be shielding consumers from inflation, not hiking prices to gouge Americans.
Employment is an ultimatum game, where playing along might get workers less than employers, but refusing to play gets everyone zero.
The regulations that increase building costs on Earth will have the same effect in space.
One insurance company started offering a space travel policy last year.
A dying star and a young star orbit each other within a plume of burning dust and gas.
Starlink is the biggest player in the satellite business, for now.
Privatization can free orbital innovation from ground-bound politics.
The ice cream's innovative freezers helped Pfizer keep COVID-19 vaccines stable during transit.
The 23-foot-tall polymer structure has room for two and fits inside a SpaceX Starship.
One critic calls it "arrogant vandalism," but advocates say it might be a necessary form of self-preservation.
It's best to avoid sparking up a doobie on a spaceship, but there are other ways to consume substances in the cosmos.
NASA has spent more than $420 million on the development of spacesuits with very little to show for it.
A dimming sky and overprotective parents make it harder for today's kids to observe the great expanse.
The last time there was a manned mission to the moon, Pong had just been released on Atari.
Why does the newest branch of the U.S. military need horses?
Democrats paid $435,000 to back a pro-Trump Republican in Michigan—nearly $100,000 more than the candidate himself raised.
The FDA delayed the delivery of 1 million vaccine doses, and many high-risk Americans were turned away from health clinics that had run out of vaccines.
Thousands of people from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka have died while working on enormous infrastructure projects in the lead-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Mendel had a history of run-ins with the state.
Despite experts recommending that birth control be sold over the counter, the U.S. still treats the pill like it's 1960.
At least we can treat the results of bad policy as case studies for what might otherwise have been dry lessons in economics and finance classes.
The Trump administration briefly liberalized dishwasher standards, but the Biden administration quickly reimposed the old rules.
The Department of Education has no idea how to project the costs of its own programs, and Biden's student loan forgiveness plan will be no exception.
The Constitution's commerce clause guarantees a domestic free trade zone. A state law that bars a resident from traveling to take advantage of another state’s economic activity would be unconstitutional.
The FDA's nicotine restrictions will push consumers toward black-market suppliers, who are completely unconstrained by the FDA’s regulations.
Uniting for Ukraine, a program providing private support to displaced Ukrainians, has proved more effective than the government's own resettlement efforts.
Can the government turn $80 billion into $204 billion? Probably not.
In China, 27 people were punished for their involvement in producing math textbooks that featured drawings of a child sticking his tongue out and making a peace sign.
The TSA at Syracuse Hancock International Airport showed off their loot of confiscated items over a three-day period.
Getting the best information when we need it will likely always be a challenge, but the Reddit hack helps.
Some states that do not border Mexico have sought to play a role in immigration policy.
Michigan is now a more dangerous place for anyone who flies with large amounts of cash.
The proposed policy was offensive to property rights and disincentivized construction. The mayor's rejection of it shows the state's increasing interest in allowing more building.
Under the new regulations, Title IX investigators can deny students access to the evidence against them.
You don't have to prove to a government official that you have “proper cause” to exercise your constitutional right, the Court ruled.
During his own inflation crisis, President Ford called on the American public to do their part through personal fiscal discipline.
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