The Future Is Florida
The siren song of the Sunshine State is the promise of freedom tinged with the idea of escape.
The siren song of the Sunshine State is the promise of freedom tinged with the idea of escape.
The growing anti-transparency atmosphere in the state might make the Florida Man extinct.
"Marsy's Law guarantees to no victim—police officer or otherwise—the categorical right to withhold his or her name from disclosure," the Florida Supreme Court ruled.
Too bad that was only a small part of the 90-minute affair.
Libertarians will read Ditch of Dreams as a story about bureaucracy and environmentalism run amok.
Death's 1990 Spiritual Healing paints a right-wing culture warrior’s nightmare vision of America.
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While minors were required to be accompanied by an adult to attend the event, state regulators still went after the "not appropriate" drag performance.
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The former two-term governor discusses why Florida is attracting more people than any other state in the country.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush makes the case for why "Florida works pretty good."
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.
The change came after concerns were raised about "potential personal liability for university actors who deactivate the student registered organization," according to state officials.
"Is there any way to stop this from happening tomorrow?" Ron DeSantis' former chief of staff asked about a Christmas-themed drag show on tour in Florida.
Almost 10 years after his arrest, Marvin Guy will soon learn if he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.
It's unlikely to stop would-be shooters, but it certainly would allow more innocent people to be locked up with little recourse.
Democrats and Republicans are united in thinking their political agendas trump the First Amendment.
Douglass Mackey's case raised questions about free speech, overcriminalization, and a politicized criminal legal system.
Even content creators outside of New York would feel its effects.
Following reports that the Iranian government aided in Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, the governor plans to expand restrictions on business with Iran.
If Facebook et al. are pushing a "radical leftist narrative," why don’t they have a constitutional right to do that?
The laws require major social media platforms to host content they disapprove of for substantive reasons.
More than 1 in 3 Florida foster kids over 13 is taking psychotropic medications, but the state often doesn't follow rules requiring it to keep records of prescriptions.
DeSantis has already removed two reform prosecutors from office in Florida. A federal judge ruled he violated the First Amendment in one of those cases.
But will it solve the team's attendance woes? Probably not.
Kaia Rolle's ordeal led Florida to raise its minimum age of arrest to 7 years old, but her family and activists say that's not nearly high enough.
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"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.
It's high time for Congress to end a program that routinely goes into debt providing subsidies to wealthy people living in high-risk areas.
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
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In an attempt to make the student body more conservative, Christopher Rufo says the school is actively "rebalancing" the ratio of male and female students.
It was never a principled fight against special privileges granted to a private company.
How Florida prison officials let a man's prostate cancer progress until he was paralyzed and terminally ill.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
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"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
After firing the staffer blamed for a video that borrowed Nazi imagery, is Ron DeSantis finally backing away from the authoritarian edgelords?
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DeSantis talks a lot about freedom but increasingly only applies it to those who agree with him.
He'd be a stronger candidate if he applied that thinking to situations that don't involve former President Donald Trump.
The 11th Circuit rejected Sosa's constitutional claims, and he is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
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