Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 94 articles from 18 sites. We chose these from 1944 articles found on 36 sites.
Plus: Risky play, strikes on Iran, Steve Hilton advances, and more...
TweetThe Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal decries Trump’s latest round of tariffs punitive taxes on Americans’ purchases of imports. Two slices: Courts keep knocking down President Trump’s b...
The president has repeatedly argued that courts have no business deciding whether his actions are legal.
Court-packing would cause great harm, including by boosting power-grabbing presidents like Trump. Callais's flaws are better addressed by other means.
"Article III life tenure is not a shield for misconduct in chambers. It is a constitutional trust conditioned on good behavior."
The Iran war and Trump's tariffs are pushing prices higher, and neither will be easy to undo.
From Taibbi v. Kamlager-Dove, decided Monday by Judge Evelyn Padin (D.N.J.): Representative Kamlager-Dove … is … the Ranking Member of… The post Author Matt Taibbi's Libel Claim Over House Member's So...
June 9, 2026, Fairfax—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising the House and Senate for completing its work on a second reconcili...
Great scientists probably cannot be relied upon to control the perils of new technologies by exercising personal restraint.
The Old Right journalist Garet Garrett, writing in 1952, understood that empires do not arrive with heralds. They come instead through “quiet aggrandizements of power,” accretions so gradual and so dr...
Margot Cleveland writes for the Federalist about a signification opportunity for the nation’s highest court. The EPA under the Biden Administration crafted a cap-and-trade scheme to allocate market sh...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay and threatened to attack the Cuban government if it acquired weapons that could strike the American military facility o...
Just like the swallows return every year to Capistrano, I write every year (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, etc) about the horrible fiscal outlook for Social Security. Since the Social Security Ad...
A new NBER study suffers from the same flaws plaguing previous research on phones and fertility rates.
A market-friendly ruling party, abundant energy, and ample talent could jumpstart a new tech hub in the Himalayas.
From State ex rel. Yost v. Google, LLC, decided Monday by the Ohio Court of Appeals (Judge Andrew J. King,… The post Google Isn't a Common Carrier, Ohio Court of Appeals Rules appeared first on Reason...
Brad Essex writes for RedState.com about an important speech the sight of the D-Day invasion. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer on the 8...
Simon Hankinson and Bryan Caplan debate immigration enforcement.
From yesterday's D.C. Circuit decision in Doe v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Justin Walker, and… The post No Pseudonymity for Accountant Challenging Publ...
Federal prohibition of hemp-derived THC products would destroy a $37.5 billion industry to solve a problem states are already handling.
The Iraq War didn’t just “happen” it was sold with a storyline, staffed by specific operators, and justified by a strategy that had been circulating for years. I’m joined by Scott Horton of the Libert...
Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about the shifting outcome of the Los Angeles mayoral race. [W]hat I feared most has come to pass in Los Angeles: With 93 percent of the vote now count...
Rosihan Anwar’s legacy invites reflection on the current state of Indonesian democracy. The post Rosihan Anwar and the Tradition of Constitutional Liberalism in Indonesia appeared first on Free the Pe...
The FDA's burdensome regulatory process has throttled sunscreen innovation.
The judge had, before she was appointed a judge in 2024, represented an adverse party in a different lawsuit brought by Trump in 2022.
I’m lucky that veteran investigative journalist Gareth Porter decided to take a break from his latest project on the Cold War to talk about how his 2014 book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of ...
Canada is in a recession, but there is more to the Great White North's economy than back-to-back quarters of negative GDP growth.
Last week, Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA) released a discussion draft of the Great American AI Act, an AI policy framework addressing frontier model safety, cybersecurity, and notab...
Gordon Wood was a towering scholar in every way. He was the best historian of the American Revolution and of… The post Remembering Gordon Wood appeared first on Reason.com.
Rebecca Goldstein discusses the search for meaning, the roots of modern discontent, and how people build purpose in a secular age.
Pressed on election fraud claims and a proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, the president abruptly ended a tense exchange with NBC’s Kristen Welker.
A lack of comprehension and sloppy language make a mess of a new tax scheme.
According to US officials, the latest proposal President Donald Trump sent to Tehran included allowing Iran to downblend its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. Axios reported speaking with US officia...
President Donald Trump claimed that Iran has been militarily defeated and will not pay the price for refusing to negotiate. “Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess. Much of it, like their Navy ...
And this time it comes from the hand of Jill Biden, whom many on the left blame for allowing Donald Trump back in the White House.
Trump is trapped in a genuinely difficult situation as he tries to reach a deal with Iran. But it is a crisis of his own making. Also, the establishment figures now condemning him should not be allowe...
“For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences.” From the Declaration of Independence, one of the charges against the King that justified secession. It was built on a violent Ame...
Note: This is the third in a series of research briefs discussing rational basis review, a judicial doctrine that is being used to shield economic regulations from constitutional challenges. How shoul...
6/10/1916: Justice Charles Evans Hughes resigns. The post Today in Supreme Court History: June 10, 1916 appeared first on Reason.com.
Denver Golmon, a police officer in Hammond, Louisiana, is facing federal charges for allegedly exposing the identity of a confidential informant… The post Brickbat: Rats and Roosters appeared first on...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Just days after news broke that the National Defense Authorization Act for next year would virtually merge the US and Israeli militaries, we now are hearing that th...
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 9 June 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about the Iran and Ukraine wars. On Iran, I emphasized that President Trump has no good option. His be...
Chuck Ross writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest disturbing revelations involving a US Senate candidate from Maine. Maine Democrat Graham Platner accused former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttr...
So much of the chaos of the present has to do with abandoning our own judgment for the judgment of others.
It's the latest example of Justice Department attorneys claiming broad and unreviewable powers for the president.
Protesters continue to clash with law enforcement outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility, but questions remain over whether DHS policies comply with First Amendment law.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin struck down the fee, saying it exceeds the president's statutory authority and violates the separation of powers.
Plus: Trump watches the Knicks, H-1B fee ruling, Mormons off the list, and more...
Plus: Should politicians talk more sports on the campaign trail, Formula 1’s Monaco mess, and who people are rooting for in the NBA and NHL finals
Plus: Gordon Wood, RIP
The Outer Space Treaty and other legal obstacles could block our sci-fi future.
His plan to expropriate rental housing violates the Takings Clause, and would exacerbate the City's housing crisis rather than alleviate it.
A medical examiner ruled Geraldo Lunas Campos' death a homicide by asphyxiation. Witnesses say guards choked him to death. Now a government report says evidence is missing.
Does America need an Anti-Federal moment?
Trump says he wants a deal with Iran. Netanyahu hints the real goal is regime change anyway. That contradiction is where diplomacy goes to die, and it is also where Americans get dragged into a war th...
Imagine Congress debating a bill to integrate Tunisia into the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). Shared military supply chains, joint research, and development, linked battlefield data, ...
New York lawmakers exempt some housing from the state's environmental review law while piling taxes on second homes.
It turns out wearing the glasses made no difference. In the John Carpenter film, They Live, our hero John Nada is one in many workers stumbling from hunger to poverty and piece work in an economy that...
As wars and skirmishes escalate, the risks to commerce increase and are reflected in market prices. In past conflicts, shipping firms faced soaring premiums as insurers incorporated risk, yet insuranc...
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about an interesting new poll involving election integrity in the Buckeye State. Ohio voters could decide in November whether they want to enshrine its photo ID l...
Two decades after Justice Scalia's Ricci concurrence, the "war between disparate impact and equal protection will be waged" very soon.
Odd Arne Westad’s account of the today’s geopolitics reveals the limits of historical analogy.
Uh, no, says the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, refusing to set aside plaintiff’s brother’s will, in which the brother left nothing to the plaintiff.
A couple of weeks ago, the litigants in the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation multi-district case tried… The post Attempt to Seal Court Filing, and to Ord...
From Judge Robert Hinkle (N.D. Fla.) May 27 in Shanks v. Schwadron: Shanks was an archaeologist employed at the National… The post Archaeologist's Libel Claim Over Allegations of "Trafficking in Stole...
Vice President JD Vance said that US and Israeli interests diverge, suggesting that Tel Aviv was acting in Lebanon without Washington’s approval. The US and Israel “have a lot of shared interests, bu...
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss renewed Republican criticism of California's slow election results.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called for Tel Aviv to “think outside the box” to conquer Lebanon. He suggested that the IDF could round up Lebanese women and children and throw the...
Florida law enforcement officers have taken thousands of illegals off the roads - how many Floridians are still alive because of it?
It's hardly news that you shouldn't file briefs with AI-hallucinated cases. But should you check all of your opponent's citations… The post Obligation to Cite-Check the Cases Cited by the Other Side a...
Today's anxieties about digital culture are prefigured in the long and wobbly history of books.
President Donald Trump said an Apache helicopter was shot down by Iran. He claimed that the crew members survived but that he would attack Iran in response. “I have just been informed by our Great Mi...
“I worry a lot about the broad scope and the vague language that [AICOA] contains that I believe would lead to an untold number of unintended and unforeseen consequences, like harming many of the very...
Oh, what a glorious time to be alive. The American Empire, that self-righteous colossus of endless wars and sanctimonious lectures on democracy, is collapsing in the most entertaining fashion imaginab...
An excerpt from Sunar v. Gray Local Media, Inc., decided today by Judge Kenneth Bell (W.D.N.C.): Defendants Gray Local Media,… The post "Desire to Undo the Past" Can't Justify Libel Claim Over "Indisp...
Free speech experts say the “Shrext” is protected by the First Amendment.
"In an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example of the risk associated with serving as a rubberstamp when acting as local counsel."
6/9/1970: Justice Harry Blackmun (no relation) takes oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: June 9, 1970 appeared first on Reason.com.
Just how would the federal government implement a voter list and would it be damaging to liberty?
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) has proposed changes to voter ID rules. I offered a public comment at an SBE hearing on June 9. The prepared text of that comment is below: I am Andy ...
TweetHere’s a letter to the Guardian. Editor: I was struck by a realization upon reading Jonathan Watts’s uncritical endorsement of Thomas Piketty, et al.’s, newly released “Global Justice Report: A P...
In 2024, I wrote a two-part series (here and here) asking whether the goal of government poverty policy should be dependency of self-sufficiency. Needless to say, self-sufficiency is the obvious answe...
Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the r...
I want to share two recent stories of police abuse of the citizenry. These stories hit hard, and they should. These kinds of incidents are shockingly commonplace. Not because cops are uniquely evil — ...
From today's Complaint in Fulcher v. Guardian News & Media LLC (D.D.C.); of course, these are just plaintiff's allegations: On… The post Ex-DOGE Staffer, Ex-Pete-Hegseth Advisor Justin Fulcher Sues th...
Germany's covid era shattered one young man's faith in institutions and set him on a path toward liberty, skepticism, and a new life in America
The White House is preparing to make Iranian assets available to Gulf Arab states to help the countries recover after the conflict caused significant damage throughout the region. CBS News reported s...
The CHATBOT Act seeks to make AI safer for children, but its privacy and free speech costs could extend far beyond minors.
Plus, the Alien and Sedition Acts.
President Donald Trump asserted he calls the shots in the Iran war and can force Israel to sign a peace deal. Shortly after the President’s remarks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he w...
The state doesn't just regulate sexuality — it needs it. Jyoti Puri's Sexual States makes a compelling case that India's antisodomy law was less about controlling behavior and more about reproducing ...
After an exchange of missile fire, President Donald Trump claimed Israel and Iran were now moving towards peace. “Both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate CEASEFIRE!” the President...