Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 96 articles from 16 sites. We chose these from 1946 articles found on 36 sites.
TweetThe Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal, although finding much with which to agree in Pope Leo’s new encyclical on AI, is dismayed at the Pope’s naive faith in the state. A slice: Technolo...
Also, can Stephen and Katie Miller stop whining?
The two judicial conservatives continue to disappoint criminal justice reform advocates.
The judges of the Fourth Circuit continue to act as advocates.
As I noted in a separate post, the legal advocacy group Neutral Principles engaged Erik Jaffe and me to draft… The post Amicus Brief in Suncor Energy on the Foreign Commerce Clause and Climate ...
Compare what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky to what "Subject Judge" did with her paramour.
Austrian economics gets its name not from a particular connection to the country in technical terms, but rather because it was born there in the 1870s from great minds such as Carl Menger, Eugen von B...
The legal advocacy group Neutral Principles engaged Erik Jaffe and me to draft an amicus brief for them in Suncor… The post Amicus Brief in Suncor Energy on the First Amendment and Climate Chan...
At least 15 states have enacted significant restrictions on noncompete agreements, ranging from minimum income thresholds to outright bans. Eight states have passed restrictions in the last five years...
From Doe v. U.S. Dep't of State, decided yesterday by Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.): Plaintiffs are 49 U.S. visa… The post No Pseudonymity for Most Challengers of Visa Vetting Policy appeared fi...
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explores a likely presidential campaign from a high-profile leftist. Axios reports that New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is “making ne...
New York lawmakers want to close loopholes in anti-shackling laws to protect incarcerated pregnant women.
The documents reveal BusPatrol’s plan to equip tens of thousands of school buses with license plate readers and share the data with law enforcement.
Over at National Review, I summarize my recent paper making three arguments against tariffs. These are the knowledge problem, the incentive problem, and the impossibility problem. The knowledge proble...
If the government does not reduce the cost of public services, then a special tax break for one group merely forces everyone else to pick up the slack.
Plus: when the city government starts covering Ozempic, Jill Biden's lies, and more...
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
One upcoming ballot measure would expand the state's taxing power. A lesser-known measure would limit it. Which will win?
The increasing arc of instability running across Africa today resembles less a series of isolated crises than a single, widening belt of state collapse, insurgency, proxy war, and foreign intervention...
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report showing that it will take the US two to three years to replace the weapons used during the Iran war. In the first six weeks...
Americans may have debated the meaning of the Declaration of Independence, but it has always been at the core of our political tradition.
Trump says he wants “few people killed,” then talks like bombing Iran is a weekly calendar event. That contradiction is where we start, because the public narrative around the Iran war keeps snapping ...
Dmitri Bolt writes for Townhall.com about the New York City mayor following through on his socialist ideology. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani kicked off his plan to “fix” the city’s affordability ...
Jessica Costescu and Ethan Barton write for the Washington Free Beacon about education mischief in the Lone Star State. A Houston-based education advocacy group fighting to eliminate standardized test...
Editors at National Review Online ponder the pope’s reaction to artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV telegraphed his intention to write a document on AI upon his election. The very selection of his n...
Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade saved Democrats from a blowout loss in November. With the tables now turned and Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress
The US military launched a new round of strikes against Iran on Wednesday, May 27, in what officials described as acts of self-defense.
The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon.
In this week’s episode we cover bank privacy, SNAP benefits, a new study on tariffs, and a great new podcast about ideas and innovation. Our guest this week is Kent Lassman, president and CEO of the C...
Breccan Thies writes for the Federalist about a disturbing revelation involving a prominent left-wing organization. The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), currently under federal indictment ...
Author and investor Doug Casey joins us to discuss the meaning of the Thomas Massie primary, the prospects for political solutions in America, how to raise (or become) a Renaissance… Read More The pos...
AI will not kill the legal profession, but it will impact what clients buy and what law schools need to teach.
Adding to what I wrote in April, let’s look at dramatic changes in state taxation. And we’ll start with this video about the foolishness of class-warfare policy. I’m sharing that video because polit...
Now that her identity is known, the consequences should begin.
In this post, I shall continue down the free speech as autonomy-enhancing path, contending that engagement in freedom of expression… The post Student Speech and Civic Education appeared first on Reaso...
I am happy to pass along this hiring notice from my friends at ADF: Alliance Defending Freedom is seeking Senior… The post Alliance Defending Freedom Is Hiring A Senior Counsel appeared first on Reaso...
5/28/1906: Justice Henry Billings Brown retired. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 28, 1906 appeared first on Reason.com.
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Is it really a breakthrough this time, or just more market manipulation? The pattern has been obvious: talk up a deal and oil drops then threaten “annihilation” and...
It was refreshing to walk into a full cinema for a film that was not attached to a video game or some 20th century property suffering through needless cannibalism. Alas, Blumhouse has managed to produ...
On Thursday, May 28, US District Judge Carl Nichols ruled that the lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s executive order providing restrictions on mail-in ballots was not likely to move forward.
Donald Trump’s administration has decided to take it a step further and require most visa holders to return to their birth country to apply for green cards.
American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of “the uniparty” ...
The president's last-minute endorsement of Paxton was driven by his petty grievances against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who was clearly the safer bet to retain the seat.
As the U.S. and Israeli governments flirt with peace with Iran while preparing to unleash Armageddon, the struggles within the American Mainland continue to percolate. In March, Immigration and Custom...
The Democratic candidate dresses up a negative, partisan appeal as genuine moderation.
The Trump administration invokes the notoriously vague FARA to threaten a critic.
Plus: Plan B for STIs, justifying "deadly force" to protect fertilized eggs, and more.
Plus: NDAs for federal employees, standardized test standards slipping, SpaceX IPO, and more...
A judge last week threw out a criminal indictment against him on the grounds that it was tainted by vindictiveness. But that same spirit infects another part of his story that few people have discusse...
Though some of their products may have been redirected elsewhere, American farmers are likely eating most of the losses.
What if the institutions meant to protect us are often the biggest source of the harm themselves? This piece challenges the government “brochure” narrative.
He famously said the Founders had created "a republic, if you can keep it." How have we kept it? And can we continue?
Using taxpayer money to reward the president’s allies has nothing to do with the president's claims against the IRS.
The courts have an opportunity to legalize small-scale distillation, but taxes remain a problem.
The lawsuit asks the court to (among many other things) "Rescind and award to the United States restitution of all grant payments made to UCLA during the time of UCLA’s noncompliance with Title VI."
Couched with good intentions, new laws aimed at housing and artificial intelligence development will add more layers of red tape to Maryland’s growing bureaucracy.
A professor makes a $500 campaign donation and suddenly gets cast as the “most important man in America” pulling congressional strings. That absurd story is the perfect doorway into what we really car...
The clues in the memorandum point to a specific judge.
A 2024 paper claimed higher minimum wages don't kill jobs. It was statistically significant—and almost certainly misleading.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin E. Roth discusses the moral limits of markets, how bans create black markets, and why harm reduction often works better than prohibition.
Paul Bradford writes for American Greatness about a major tech company’s questionable actions. Microsoft is one of the largest tech providers for the American government. That’s in spite of the compan...
A new book on the challenge of postliberalism aptly shows its weaknesses while suggesting a path towards moderation.
A new Bears stadium and Gov. J.B. Pritzker himself stand to gain if the legislation passes.
President Donald Trump said that the current offer for ending the war against Iran is insufficient. He threatened to resume strikes on Iran if Tehran did not propose a satisfactory offer. “Iran is ve...
A semi-official Iranian outlet reported that Tehran is demanding that Washington agree to release $24 billion in frozen funds as part of an agreement to end the war. According to an official speaking...
A top US military official told their European counterparts that Washington plans to provide NATO with fewer warplanes, drones, and refueling tankers. The German outlet Der Spiegel reports that Depar...
“A refusal to cooperate.” That’s the strategy James Madison gave us to stop federal programs. In Federalist #46, he laid out a series of steps to combat “unwarrantable measures of the federal governme...
Chris Medrano and Brian Blase write for the Federalist about the importance of enforcing Medicaid work requirements. In the Working Families Tax Cut Act — also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill — Co...
Editors at National Review Online ponder the current state of President Donald Trump’s Iran war. In response to hawkish critics of the reported outlines of a memorandum of understanding with Iran, Pre...
It's actually a pretty long list.
In my book, in defense of considerably more constitutional protection for student speech, I make an autonomy-enhancing argument, relying not… The post Free Speech and Respect for Student Autonomy appe...
Officials say that the Board of Peace fund, intended to provide aid to the Palestinian people and rebuild Gaza, is empty. In October, Hamas and Israel signed a peace agreement brokered by President D...
US Central Command said reports that the Navy is escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported speaking with US military officials who said the ...
if you’re an elected Republican and you’re not on the Trump train, you’re out.
One of the glories of the modern economy is that you can walk into a store anywhere in America, or indeed much of the world, pay with a credit or debit card, and complete the transaction seamlessly an...
Empires rarely understand the sources of their own success, and therefore almost never recognise the causes of their decline. They notice military reverses. They notice budget crises and foreign defea...
Matt Kibbe is joined by James Harrigan and Antony Davies, hosts of the “Words and Numbers” podcast, to bemoan the fact that every new generation forgets the economic lessons of the past. The post Econ...
If a small but exceedingly obnoxious minority can dictate what the local government does, it’s reasonable to conclude that there’s no such thing as “democracy.” The post Democracy Also Fails at the Lo...
5/27/1935: Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 27, 1935 appeared first on Reason.com.
Selene Varela pleaded guilty to theft concerning a program receiving federal funds and faces up to 10 years in federal… The post Brickbat: Help Yourself appeared first on Reason.com.
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump’s war of choice on Iran has been an unmitigated disaster. However for those of us opposed to the global US military empire the silver lining is that...
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 26 May 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about Trump’s constantly changing rhetoric about whether he is going to re-start the bombing campaign...
The GOP’s setbacks are minimal in the broader gerrymandering grudge match
As the debate over federal- versus state-driven artificial intelligence (AI) regulation intensifies, many observers emphasize the risks of an emerging state AI patchwork filling the void left by the a...
Alana Goodman writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the disturbing views of a teachers union leader in one northeastern state. The newly elected vice president of Massachusetts’s top teachers’ u...
Housing becomes more affordable when more homes get built. Research increasingly shows new housing creates broader opportunities across the market.
In the finale of my three-part series on lower corporate tax rates (here, here, and here), I shared this old video of me arguing for a lower corporate tax rate. But a lower corporate tax rate is just ...
The administration is avoiding conflict with China to focus on war in the Middle East. Taiwan’s democracy hangs in the balance.
The House passes a housing bill that protects build-to-rent development while still cracking down on large investors.
For decades, reformers have proposed some version of a Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis (CORA), a congressional counterpart to the regulatory oversight apparatus housed within the White Hou...
Plus: Spencer Pratt’s mayoral campaign rattles Los Angeles, Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund" sparks backlash, and the editors revisit Project 2025
The French government has criminalized the use of nicotine pouches. Users can be punished with up to 5 years in prison and a fine of almost half a million dollars.
"Eby alleged an anonymous group of KWMU's staffers published an article on Medium.com [in 2020] accusing him of upholding 'white supremacy at the station by remaining complacent with the status quo.'"...
"Plaintiff claims that these policies and laws 'have been exported to the United States through their nationals' and 'have directly caused catastrophic harm to Plaintiff, a gay United States citizen r...
Related (All by Kinsella), “Patents, Pharma, Government: The Unholy Alliance,” Brownstone Institute (April 1, 2024) The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright Tabarrok and Murphy: Wh...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Right before Memorial Day Weekend, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, announced her resignation. Her husband has a rare fo...