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Coercion

Amanda Knox | Marco Provvisionato/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Criminal Justice

Amanda Knox Was Falsely Charged With Murder. Italy Calls Her Coerced Confession 'Slander.'

"I can tell you that I have never been put in a position of doubting my own sanity like I was in the hands of those police officers," Knox tells Reason.

Billy Binion | 1.24.2025 5:49 PM

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Joe Biden | PAT BENIC/UPI/Newscom

Free Speech

A Government Veto on Speech at the Supreme Court

Murthy v. Missouri challenges government efforts to suppress dissenting viewpoints on social media.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 6.26.2024 9:55 AM

Free Speech

Hamburger Responds: Prof. Somin Repeats His Errors

Round 3 in the debate between Hamburger and Somin over the First Amendment and Murthy

Jim Lindgren |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.26.2024 12:14 PM

Utah Senator Mike Lee | 	Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Free Speech

PROTECT Act Could Require Removal of All Existing Porn Online

Sen. Mike Lee's "technological exploitation" bill also redefines consent.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.12.2024 12:00 PM

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China

The Solution to Chinese Censorship Is Not Show Hearings

Government bullying won’t fix censorship caused by government bullying.

Jonas Du | 7.9.2023 6:00 AM

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California

Disability Rights Group Challenges California Law That Forces the Mentally Ill Into Court-Ordered Treatment

"On its face, the CARE Act violates essential constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection while needlessly burdening fundamental rights to privacy, autonomy and liberty," the petition states.

Emma Camp | 2.8.2023 1:24 PM

DeSantis speaks about indoctrination | Daniel A. Varela/TNS/Newscom

Ron DeSantis

Ron DeSantis' Misguided War on Woke

Plus: a lightning-round look at Super Bowl myths

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.6.2023 5:38 PM

A hand places a white piece of paper, which says "my vote," into a box. | Photo 36329798 © Flynt | Dreamstime.com

Voting

Washington State's Democrats Float a Proposal To Make Voting Mandatory

The proposal is "about behavior modification," argued state Sen. Patty Kuderer, likening the government's role in promoting voting to that of a parent.

David McGarry | 2.1.2023 10:40 AM

NYPD squad car | Tea / Dreamstime.com

Police Abuse

NYPD Cynically Suggests Parents Know Better Than Lawyers How To Guide Children Through Interrogations

Criminal justice advocates are pushing to pass legislation to tighten rules for juvenile interrogations, but the NYPD is not on board.

C.J. Ciaramella | 12.29.2022 4:15 PM

Conditional Spending

Ninth Circuit Concludes Arizona Has Standing to Challenge Conditions on COVID Relief Funds

Language in the American Rescue Plan Act prohibits states from using the funds "directly or indirectly" to offset lost revenues from tax cuts.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.19.2022 5:37 PM

TaxReturn

Taxes

Supreme Court Definitively Ends the SALT Tax Deduction Case

The highly dubious lawsuit filed by four blue states against the the law capping federal tax deductions for state and local taxes is now truly dead in the water.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.18.2022 8:26 PM

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Vaccine mandates

De Blasio's New York Shouldn't Treat Unvaccinated Kids as Second-Class Citizens

Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.

Liz Wolfe | 12.7.2021 9:50 AM

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Conservatism

Will-to-Power Conservatism and the Great Liberalism Schism

By virtue of representing the correct vision of the good, these conservatives say, they have every right to use the coercive power of the state to interfere with others' choices.

Stephanie Slade | 9.8.2020 6:00 AM

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Public Health

When Should Force Be Used To Protect Public Health?

Since meager testing resources left officials ignorant of crucial facts about the epidemic, they made policy decisions without the evidence necessary to assess their proportionality.

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2020 6:00 AM

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Nationalism

Against the New Nationalism

Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution

Stephanie Slade | 2.24.2020 8:30 AM

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Government

The Problem With Nudging People to Happiness

Cass Sunstein's latest book puts a lot of faith in the efficacy of government to structure our choices.

Randy E. Barnett | 4.28.2019 6:00 AM

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New York

Free Speech Attack by Attorneys General in ExxonMobil Climate Change Probe of Skeptical Non-Profit

Down the perilous path toward Lysenkoism in which only officially approved science is allowed

Ronald Bailey | 4.8.2016 11:01 AM

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China

China Drops Oppressive One-Child Policy: Too Late to Avoid Demographic Implosion

Reproductive central planning works as badly as economic central planning

Ronald Bailey | 10.29.2015 12:41 PM

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Politics

The Intolerant State

Sometimes, government is the things centralizers choose for us.

Matt Welch | 11.11.2013 10:00 AM

Policy

Bounced a Check? Go to Jail.

John Ross | 1.26.2013 6:15 PM

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Policy

The Man vs. the Therapeutic State

A remembrance of Thomas Szasz, courageous defender of freedom and responsibility

Jacob Sullum | 11.23.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Is Transhumanism Coercive?

Forcing humanity to remain relatively stupid and sick doesn't make us freer

Ronald Bailey | 10.18.2011 4:30 PM

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