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.
New Jersey is the first state to ban single-use bags made from both plastic and paper, but one is actually worse for the environment than the other.
Who does he think ultimately pays those taxes?
We already know what happens when governments try to impose prohibitions: messy, deadly black markets.
Nikki Fried hopes to challenge Gov. Ron DeSantis, who agrees with her on guns and weed.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the makeup of the Democratic Party has recently been trending toward high-earning professionals.
The metaverse platform Somnium Space plans to let its users' personas live on.
The pediatric neurosurgeon who first popularized shaken-baby syndrome has doubts about how it is used in courtrooms today.
The Export-Import Bank enjoys bipartisan support, even though there is little evidence that it's effective.
The last thing the U.S. should be doing is poking a nuclear bear.
Florida's governor has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's the taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.
The Trump administration invoked Title 42 in late March 2020. Biden repeatedly extended it. Now, a federal judge has blocked the administration from lifting the order.
The gun control policies under discussion are fundamentally ill-suited to prevent mass shootings.
There is telling people how to live, and there is maximizing people's ability to live the lives they want.
Even Obamacare's fiercest advocates say it has not lived up to its goals.
Stimulus checks, government spending, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are only part of the problem.
"It may be the case that [some American] children give up control of their attention when it's always managed by an adult," say some experts.
The Supreme Court justice is wrong when he says abortion rights aren't deeply rooted in American history.
Government officials have declared an Oxford home's shark roof sculpture a protected landmark, against the wishes of the current owner of the house.
In America, social change often comes after a politician or government goes too heavily on offense against individuals wishing merely to stand their ground and assert their rights.
With its unnecessarily complicated and contentious provisions, the MORE Act received only three Republican votes in April.
The events of 2022 can be seen as another chapter in a very long story: Ukraine looking westward and seeking freedom while Russia slides deeper into autocracy.
South Carolina's NAACP and ACLU are challenging the state's ban on automated data collection.
Now that the pandemic is fading and much of the available rent relief has been spent, L.A.'s eviction moratorium seems like pure regulatory inertia.
Can a web designer be compelled under the First Amendment to host wedding pictures?
People believe and say things that aren't true all of the time, of course. But efforts by public officials to combat them may well make things worse, not better.
Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has a good track record on cases involving qualified immunity.
Lawmakers stuffed more than $8 billion in pet projects into an omnibus federal spending bill passed in March. But wait, didn't Congress ban earmarks back in 2011?
Civil liberties groups argue that debt-based license suspensions are unfair and illogical since they deprive people of transportation, preventing them from earning money to pay off debts.
The first innovative nuclear reactors designed by American companies may well begin operation in Eastern Europe before they get built in Idaho.
Though the United Nations has yet to recognize the Free Republic of Liberland, its metaverse equivalent will exist in the cloud.
Unfortunately, an automatic crypto purchase made with after-tax earnings won't lower your taxable income.
Xiulu Ruan, a pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for prescribing opioid analgesics "outside the usual course of professional medical practice."
How Stewart Rhodes went from denouncing authoritarianism to urging an authoritarian crackdown
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