The Government Stole Her Home Equity Over an Unpaid Tax Bill. Will the Supreme Court Vindicate Her?
A win for Geraldine Tyler, who is now 94 years old, would be a win for property rights.
A win for Geraldine Tyler, who is now 94 years old, would be a win for property rights.
Geraldine Tyler's case is not unique; home equity theft is legal in Minnesota and 11 other states.
He was hospitalized multiple times for diabetes while in state custody.
Her podcast Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children delves into abuse at a state-run institution.
What happens when anti-liberty zealots get the same powers?
The journalist and dissident, who was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony for criticizing the Russian government, has not received the same attention.
Plus: What the editors hate most about the IRS and tax day
"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."
The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
Industrial policy is never as simple as it seems.
The agency’s new report tells us practically nothing of significance.
"I didn't know if this would ever end," says Melissa Henderson. "I'm very relieved. A heaviness has lifted."
Plus: the terrible case for pausing A.I. innovation
Is an A.I. "foom" even possible?
Our mobile devices constantly snitch on our whereabouts.
Eye-opening insights into the messy motivations behind restrictive COVID-19 responses.
The Oregon DMV knew about the problem, but it "wasn't at a high enough level to understand the urgency" of the need to fix it.
"Then my baby started crying so I reached for my son, and as I'm reaching, a man held me and told me, 'Don't touch him. He's getting taken away from you,'" said the children's mother.
The Institute for Justice says Robert Reeves' First Amendment rights were violated when prosecutors filed and refiled baseless felony charges against him after he sued to get his car back.
One guy with gambling debts is a news story, but a formal policy of legalized theft is a national scandal.
Historian Jeff Guinn's account focuses on the ATF's oft-overlooked fiasco in the 1993 affair rather than the FBI's widely reported involvement.
A coming crackdown on $1.6 billion in unreported tips will continue the IRS' long and ugly history of targeting low-income Americans.
We may have finally discovered a limit to judicial immunity.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET for a discussion of Tyre Nichols, police reform, and violent crime in America, featuring Walter Katz.
Plus: Democrats doubt Harris' ability to win, an end to pandemic emergency status, and more...
Plus: The editors consider the ongoing debt ceiling drama and answer a listener question about ending the war on drugs.
Report author: “The COVID-19 pandemic was a catastrophe for human freedom.”
The five police officers involved in the deadly encounter have been charged with Nichols' murder.
"They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks," says the boy's father. "That's absolutely insane."
Irvington made national headlines last year when it filed a lawsuit against an 82-year-old woman for filing too many public records requests. Now it says a lawyer for FIRE should be prosecuted.
For 25 years, the law has been giving states kickbacks when they finalize adoptions quickly.
A staggeringly high number of families are subject to child abuse and neglect investigations in Maricopa County, Arizona.
State actors are increasingly willing to seize children even with little evidence of child abuse.
"This is an extraordinarily disturbing finding" that "represents a catastrophic failure by the Federal government to respect basic human rights."
Too much government authority lends itself to swatting-style abuse.
Limiting the supply of a controlled substance does not remove demand. Users simply look elsewhere, including more unsavory sources.
Plus: Virginia lawmaker wants to criminalize parents who don't affirm child's gender identity, inflation is up 8.2 percent over the past 12 months, and more...
"This is inhumane," one child told state inspectors.
The police admitted wrongdoing, but Denver moved forward with a plan to reduce crowds and crimes downtown—by targeting food trucks that did nothing wrong.
Multiple state agencies told Sheriff Randy ‘Country’ Seal that he had no right to collect taxes from a rancher in his parish. He sued anyway.
Hundreds of lives were upended by the University of Farmington, a fake university that took $6 million in tuition and fees from foreign students.
So why do Democrats keep equivocating on the point that households making under $400,000 may be targeted for more audits by an expanded IRS?
Doing so would be blatantly unconstitutional.
Just a week ago, New York City convinced a federal judge not to seize control of the jail.
Plus: International Whores' Day, U.S. Postal Service sued over the seizure of Black Lives Matter masks, and more...
A plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit says he had to declare bankruptcy after Chicago dumped $20,000 of ticket debts on him.
More than 25 million people remain locked down in Shanghai, with Guangzhou—a city of 18 million—looking primed to follow.
As officials forcibly separate parents from their COVID-positive children, criticism of the CCP mounts.