The Texas Bill That Prohibits Social Media Censorship Is a Mess
The whole thing is arguably voided by Section 230.
The whole thing is arguably voided by Section 230.
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"I've lost everything," says Vicki Baker.
Greg Abbott's fear is hard to take seriously, but it jibes with hoary stereotypes about immigrants.
The governor's new policy represents a pretty modest shift from the existing rules.
It's true that the freedom to make your own decisions comes with both benefits and consequences, but Krugman is squarely focused on just one side of that equation.
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The same is true of Texas and California, which suggests that legal restrictions are not as important as politicians imagine.
Neither wind power nor deregulation are responsible for the Texas power disaster.
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The appeals court concluded that the officers' use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.
Texas officials' rush to enforce price gouging laws during that state's winter storms will only make residents worse off.
The vast majority of the shortfall is from failures at fossil fuel-powered plants.
Kim Ogg ran for district attorney as a criminal justice reformer. Maybe she should think about what that entails.
In 2014, Reason reported on the misbehavior of Rod Ponton, who has suddenly risen to internet stardom after being unable to turn off an adorable filter during an online legal case.
Despite taking a much more restrictive approach, California saw a bigger surge than Texas, and the drop began around the same time in both states.
Meanwhile, he’s still trying to downplay corruption within his own force.
A comparison of Texas and California suggests that legal edicts matter less than The New York Times thinks.
A 7-1 Supreme Court rejected Texas's claims against New Mexico
The Supreme Court, 7-2, voted to deny Texas AG Paxton's motion for leave to file its election complaint. Justices Alito and Thomas would grant Motion for Leave, but provide no other relief.
If you thought the briefing in Texas v. Pennsylvania could not get worse, you are in for a surprise.
The four defendant states in Texas v. Pennsylvania file their briefs in opposition.
17 states submitted a brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to prevent the selection of electors in four states, but only 6 joined today's motion to intervene. [Update: Meanwhile, Ohio files a brief that's worth reading.]
The case is within the Court' original jurisdiction. But longstanding precedent still allows the Court to dismiss it without full consideration.
Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton is the latest to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 Presidential election results.
Steve Adler attended his daughter's 20-person wedding and then traveled with out-of-state family and friends.
That makes the disease much deadlier than the seasonal flu but not nearly as deadly as modelers initially assumed.
As the coronavirus reshapes daily life, two Reason editors crisscross the country and describe what they’ve seen.
A new lawsuit says the state's electioneering statutes violate the First Amendment.
There was nothing remotely fraudulent about the 127,000 votes cast in Harris County's drive-thru voting station.
A lawsuit filed just days before the election asks federal courts to toss out all the votes already cast at drive-through polling stations in Harris County.
Across 14 states that track party affiliations of absentee-ballot-voters, 56 percent of mail-in votes have been cast by Democrats and only 23 percent have been cast by Republicans.
Holly Barlow-Austin suffered horrifying medical neglect at a Texarkana detention facility, according to video evidence in a new lawsuit.
One very sketchy story about an Oklahoma City teen’s tragic death has gone viral.
The New York Times thinks so, but the data do not fit that hypothesis very well.
An interview with the directors behind the breakout political documentary about a Texas camp for aspiring leaders
The trend means we should see declining daily deaths in the coming weeks.
The charges, which grew out of a lethal 2019 raid based on a fraudulent search warrant affidavit, suggest that cops routinely built their cases on lies.
"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."
Meanwhile, the case fatality rate is still falling.
We are starting to see the fatal consequences of the recent infection surge.
Expanded testing, a younger mix of patients, and improved treatment help explain the seemingly contradictory trends.