Libertarian Reporting for 2026-04-05
Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources.
Trump Realized He Can Just Do Things. Who Can Stop Him?
There are far too few checks left on executive power.
Reason.com
Apr 4, 2026 - reason.com
Birth-Right Citizenship as a Second-Best Policy
I oppose Trump's efforts to deny birthright citizenship chiildren of undocumented immigrants. But birthright citizenship is not the ideal policy.
Reason.com
Apr 4, 2026 - reason.com
Some Links
TweetWriting about the recent jury verdict against Google and Meta, George Will warns that “diluting democracy’s foundational belief in individual agency opens the door to governmental overreach.” A s...
Cafe Hayek
Apr 4, 2026 - cafehayek.com
The Labor Department Just Freed Contractors—Again. Congress Still Needs To Act.
The government's new rule reverses a Biden-era anti-contracting directive and returns to a more contractor-friendly posture. But will this tug of war ever end?
Reason.com
Apr 4, 2026 - reason.com
Reconciliation – A Partisan Process Both Sides Love and Hate
By James Fite There are two ways around filibusters in the Senate: the so-called nuclear option and reconciliation. The latter is the safer and somewhat easier course, assuming the measure in question...
Liberty Nation News
Apr 4, 2026 - libertynation.com
The Cost of Ruling Looms Over the GOP Ahead of Midterms
By Corey Smith Several new polls show that President Donald Trump is losing a big part of the coalition that helped send him back to the White House: young men. These findings could no doubt have an i...
Liberty Nation News
Apr 4, 2026 - libertynation.com
China Went from Starvation-Level Poverty to Middle-Income Status Thanks to…
There’s some amateur foreign-policy analysis in this video clip, but notice what I say about trends in Chinese economic policy. Today’s column is going to show that China’s economic improvement – inde...
International Liberty
Apr 4, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Today in Supreme Court History: April 4, 1861
4/4/1861: Justice John McLean dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 4, 1861 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Apr 4, 2026 - reason.com
The Myth that Won't Die: "War is Good for the Economy"
One of the legacies of Keynesian thought is the belief that war is “good for the economy.” While war may help enable employment, nonetheless, its overall legacy is destructive, and even the jobs war “...
Mises Institute
Apr 4, 2026 - mises.org
Ep. 2749 Israeli Interests and U.S. Interests Aren’t the Same
Scott Horton makes the distinctions. Sponsors Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in the search engines? Your leads at a trickle — or nonexistent? Persist SEO can turn that all… Read More...
Tom Woods
Apr 4, 2026 - tomwoods.com
First Crash. Then Chaos. Or Worse.
By Thorsten Polleit The military strike by the United States of America and Israel against Iran has drastically driven up energy prices and called into question — or even destroyed — energy supply sec...
The Libertarian Alliance
Apr 4, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
What I Learned Talking About the Empire
Are the people as clueless as the Deep State expects them to be? You have to wonder. Standing on the tarmac in France before meetings with European foreign ministers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ex...
The Libertarian Institute
Apr 3, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
The Republican Plan To Nationalize Elections Is Performative Nonsense
There is no voting crisis that demands federal intervention.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Brotherly crooks, dueling bourbons, and a law from 1785.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
Bye-Bye, Bondi
Plus: pro-tech media sells to big tech, Trump's new tariffs, jobs numbers, and more...
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
No Sacred Ground
Churches have alienated many people with their politics. But did they have a choice?
Law & Liberty
Apr 3, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Trump's Call for a $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Is Irresponsible, Wasteful, and Unrealistic
The proposal is "an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars and would make Americans less, not more, safe." Thankfully, Congress is unlikely to adopt it.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
Trump's Answer to Iran's Hormuz Crisis: Sell Oil We Don't Have
The administration claims we're a "net oil exporter," but unfortunately that's not quite true.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
Colorado Becomes First State To Protect Defendants Against Faulty Roadside Drug Tests
A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests used by police.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
The U.K. Is Set To Spend $183 Billion on Pensions This Year. Nigel Farage Vows To Keep Hiking Payments.
The leader of Reform U.K. pledged to keep the "triple lock" mechanism in place, which is driving the state pension program to financial unsustainability.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump’s Iran War Is a Catastrophic Miscalculation! US to Lift Sanction of Iran as Oil Prices Spike
$200 billion is not a rounding error, it’s a signal that Washington is settling in for a long Iran war while pretending it can buy its way out of the consequences. We walk through the Pentagon’s lates...
The Libertarian Institute
Apr 3, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
North Korea’s Nuclear Status Requires Urgent Negotiation
On March 24, 2026, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un made it official that his country is now an unapologetic nuclear weapons power. In an address to the rubber stamp Supreme People’s Assembly of the ...
The Libertarian Institute
Apr 3, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Review: Church Committee Report on Illegal Spying Is Relevant Again in the Trump Era
A new book revisits this 50-year-old Watergate report as President Donald Trump pursues his own politically motivated investigations.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
The President Told The AG She Would Be Fired During The Car Ride To SCOTUS
And then Trump sat next to Bondi for an hour of oral argument.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Birthright Citizenship
By Michele White The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning prospective birthright citizenship. The president was seated in ...
Liberty Nation News
Apr 3, 2026 - libertynation.com
Quartz tariffs are looming and your kitchen could pay the price
Earlier this week, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that increased quartz imports are injuring the domestic quartz industry. The petitioners, the Quartz Manufacturing Alliance of Amer...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Apr 3, 2026 - cei.org
Birthright citizenship and the framers’ intent
Ramesh Ponnuru writes for National Review Online about a key issue the US Supreme Court will address in the weeks ahead. The outcome of the court’s deliberations could have a significant impact. One o...
John Locke Foundation
Apr 3, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Trump Says ‘New’ Iranian President Requested Ceasefire, Tehran Denies Claim
President Donald Trump said that the “new” President of Iran had accepted a ceasefire with the US. Tehran quickly denied Trump’s statement. “Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far ...
The Libertarian Institute
Apr 3, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Trump and the GOP Try Again: Is the End Nigh for the DHS Shutdown?
By James Fite The House GOP killed the Senate’s unanimously passed bill to fund DHS, sans ICE and CBP, last week – but it’s reportedly on board with it now. Or, at least, Speaker of the House Mike Joh...
Liberty Nation News
Apr 3, 2026 - libertynation.com
Questioning Justice Jackson’s grasp of the law
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about the latest pronouncement from US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. During Tuesday’s oral arguments on a widely-watched birthright citizenship cas...
John Locke Foundation
Apr 3, 2026 - johnlocke.org
The Trump Speech: An Exaltation of Violence and Thuggery
There are speeches that attempt to disguise failure. There are speeches that attempt to redefine it. And then there are speeches that abandon the attempt altogether, and instead celebrate the failure ...
The Libertarian Alliance
Apr 3, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
Accusing Someone Who Called Police of "Blatant Racial Profiling" May Be Defamation
A short excerpt from an opinion by Judge Rebecca Pennell (E.D. Wash.) Wednesday n Riera v. Central Wash. Univ.: Mr.… The post Accusing Someone Who Called Police of "Blatant Racial Profiling" May Be De...
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
Maine Bill Proves States Are Capable of Adopting Bad Data Center Policies Without Federal Intervention
A week after Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to pause AI data center construction indefinitely, Maine is poised to institute the first statewide ban.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
Trump Threatens to Cut Arms Sales to Ukraine If NATO Does Not Aid War Against Iran
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off arms sales to Ukraine if NATO members do not join his coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. While Trump halted military aid to Ukraine, he has cont...
The Libertarian Institute
Apr 3, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
DeSantis Signs New Voter ID Laws for Florida Residents
By Kelli Ballard Florida has a new voter ID law, and leftists are in an uproar. “Governor DeSantis just signed one of the worst voter suppression laws in modern American history,” Abha Khanna, a partn...
Liberty Nation News
Apr 3, 2026 - libertynation.com
Bondi Out, Blanche In, and a Reshuffle in the Cards
By Mark Angelides Attorney General Pam Bondi has been removed as the head of the Department of Justice. President Donald Trump announced yesterday, April 2, that after 14 months as the nation’s top co...
Liberty Nation News
Apr 3, 2026 - libertynation.com
Placing global warming claims in perspective
John Hinderaker writes for the Powerline blog about facts surrounding global temperatures. Hysteria about global warming stems from the fact that, as best one can estimate, the Earth’s average tempera...
John Locke Foundation
Apr 3, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Questioning Trump’s ‘Hormuz handoff’
Editors at National Review Online question one piece of President Donald Trump’s approach to the Iran war. He talked with passion and relish about the devastating U.S. attacks on Iranian military capa...
John Locke Foundation
Apr 3, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Does America Still Make Stuff?
Free trade did not obliterate manufacturing.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
The Zendaya Romance The Drama Is Weirder and More Uncomfortable Than You Expect
A movie about marriage, memory, and the difficulty of knowing another person.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
Today in Supreme Court History: April 3, 1962
4/3/1962: Engel v. Vitale argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 3, 1962 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason.com
Apr 3, 2026 - reason.com
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt: Boxed in by Iran
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 29 March 2026, Steve Walt and I were together on “Switzerland” talking with Tom Switzer about the Iran war and its broader geopolitical consequences. We also spent c...
Antiwar.com Blog
Apr 3, 2026 - antiwar.com
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump’s Iran War Is a Catastrophic Miscalculation! US to Lift Sanction of Iran as Oil Prices Spike
$200 billion is not a rounding error, it’s a signal that Washington is settling in for a long Iran war while pretending it can buy its way out of the consequences. We walk through the Pentagon’s lates...
Antiwar.com Blog
Apr 3, 2026 - antiwar.com
Not One Dime for Aggression
The Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in war funding for the ongoing illegal assault on Iran: The Pentagon has formally moved to secure a staggering $200 billion supplemental budget to sustain ongoi...
Antiwar.com Blog
Apr 3, 2026 - antiwar.com
Why Naive, Pro-Democracy Classical Liberalism Doesn't Work
In this lecture from the 2026 Libertarian Scholars Conference, Ryan McMaken looks at how the old classical liberal program of democracy and constitutions has failed, and why we need a more realist vie...
Mises Institute
Apr 3, 2026 - mises.org
William Blake’s Daddy Issues
It's hard to explain why Blake, a radical possessed by apocalyptic visions and wild fancies, has so eclipsed his peers.
Law & Liberty
Apr 3, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Pam Bondi's Loyalty to Trump Wasn't Enough To Save Her Job
Ultimately, Bondi's fulsome defense of the president could not overcome blowback over her handling of the Epstein files.
Reason.com
Apr 2, 2026 - reason.com
One year of Liberation Day
Today marks one year since President Trump’s Liberation Day press conference in the White House Rose Garden. Trump declared a national emergency because Americans import more goods than they export, c...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Apr 2, 2026 - cei.org
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Netanyahu vs. Trump: Inside Israel’s SECRET Battle to Keep the Iran War ALIVE?!
The part that doesn’t get said out loud often enough is this: you can be “aligned” in a war and still be on a collision course. We dig into why U.S. goals in Iran and Israel’s goals in Iran don’t just...
The Libertarian Institute
Apr 2, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
The World Bank Used To Champion Markets. Now It's Surrendering to State-Led Industrialization.
The reversal wasn't because the economics changed. It is because their biggest shareholders turned toward industrial policy.
Reason.com
Apr 2, 2026 - reason.com
Satanic Temple Wins Legal Fight Over 10 Commandments Monument in Arkansas
A federal judge ruled the Ten Commandments monument at the state Capitol must be removed.
Reason.com
Apr 2, 2026 - reason.com
Alabama Birthing Center Regulations Are Nearly Impossible To Comply With. State Supreme Court Could Intervene.
"It shouldn't be this hard to give birth safely in the state of Alabama, and it doesn't have to," said the ACLU's lead counsel on the case.
Reason.com
Apr 2, 2026 - reason.com
What does “No Kings” really mean?
A friend of mine posted on Facebook about his experience last weekend at a No Kings protest in my hometown. He included some photos of what he thought were the most impactful protest signs. And this o...
Learn Liberty
Apr 2, 2026 - learnliberty.org
Infographic: Who Really Pays for Tariffs? These Scholars Tracked a Bottle of Wine To Find Out.
Consider it a boozy, tariff-themed version of "I, Pencil."
Reason.com
Apr 2, 2026 - reason.com
The Daily Mail's Dishonesty About Charlie Kirk's Alleged Killer
This is how a conspiracy theory grows.
Reason.com
Apr 2, 2026 - reason.com
My Amicus Brief in the Geofence Warrant Case, United States v. Chatrie
The case will be argued April 27th.
Reason.com
Apr 2, 2026 - reason.com
Stone Age Bombing
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I watched President Trump’s speech to the nation last night on the Iran War. The lies and boasts flew thick. According to Trump, America is w...
Antiwar.com Blog
Apr 2, 2026 - antiwar.com
Let’s put the next SpaceX in our 401(k)s before its launch onto public markets
As Artemis II achieved liftoff for the first moon voyage in more than 50 years, space news also rocked the investment world with the breaking story of SpaceX’s forthcoming IPO. Financial news sites re...
Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Apr 2, 2026 - cei.org
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Netanyahu vs. Trump: Inside Israel’s SECRET Battle to Keep the Iran War ALIVE?!
The part that doesn’t get said out loud often enough is this: you can be “aligned” in a war and still be on a collision course. We dig into why U.S. goals in Iran and Israel’s goals in Iran don’t just...