Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 17 sites. We chose these from 1956 articles found on 36 sites.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Attributed to Voltaire Our federal government—especially under Donald J. Trump—is doing everything it can to suppre...
The weekend news that Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71 is a shock; even more curious is the tedious whitewashing of his death by the warmongering state he served. It was only a few weeks ago that ...
TweetWishing Boston Globe columnist – and my friend – Jeff Jacoby the very best as he struggles with some health issues. A slice from Jeff’s most-recent column: AS SOME of you know, I am on medical le...
The late senator was one of the last advocates of hawkish policies out of step with public opinion.
Trump’s nominee for attorney general has repeatedly subverted justice to benefit his boss.
Some news stories disappear before the coffee gets cold. Others refuse to leave, quietly growing in the background while the public moves on to the next headline. The recent military confrontation inv...
Plus: More strikes on Iran, Nayib Bukele runs for a third consecutive term, private dinosaur-bone ownership, and more...
If successful, it could do more harm than good to the entertainment industry.
Skye Graham writes for the Federalist about an interesting new analysis of US Supreme Court partisanship. A new Wall Street Journal analysis found that Ketanji Brown Jackson is the most partisan justi...
While propensity evidence is generally inadmissible in criminal cases, an exception for sexual assault cases is both common practice and good public policy.
In September of 2025 when President Trump was attacking Thomas Massie I wrote Donald Trump Is a Putz!. “The one thing that Trump could actually accomplish to make the US and the world at large a bette...
Vice President JD Vance said that, while he had some objections to the war against Iran, he believes it is legal and supports President Donald Trump. Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience Wednesday, t...
Part I of this series began by showing how New York ranked at or near the bottom in several measures of state competitiveness. Updated numbers from various analyses show that the Empire State is not g...
It's coming faster than you might think.
The Manhattan Institute’s Charles Fain Lehman misstates the findings of a new paper to claim he was right all along.
Sunday, I was interviewed by Sullivan Ahmed for an hour. I explained that the tit-for-tat game that Iran and Washington are playing works perfectly for Israel. Israel is the source of the violence. ...
Iranian officials told Vice President JD Vance that President Donald Trump’s lead negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, were exploiting their role for financial gain. Drop Site News reported ...
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online analyzes responses to US Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden and unexpected death. While Graham spent his 23-year Senate career advocating for a lot of causes, he was b...
Hot. Blistering hot. A charring, moisture-evaporating heat that singes all over, inbreaking your skin and boiling your insides. The post Collective Action Is Necessary for Collective Benefit appeared ...
Despite decades of panic, a new reactor has been approved for the first time in 10 years.
"In nearly two decades, very little about the practical right to keep and bear arms has changed."
Against the new war on SSRIs.
So the Fifth Circuit held a few weeks ago.
Donald Trump planned to secure Russian support for an attack on Iran in exchange for “handing over” Ukrainian territories that, in opinion polls conducted before 2014, identified much more strongly wi...
It is best to see the Declaration as one part of a larger story, not as an all-purpose tool.
Tal Fortgang’s majoritarianism owes more to the New Deal than to the Constitution.
A proposed bill would legalize commercial autonomous vehicles in D.C. under one of the country’s most expensive regulatory frameworks, but unions still want the brakes applied.
"[T]he Fifth Circuit ... discerned that pedanticism ought to be favored over practical wisdom."
Hostilities between the US and Iran have officially resumed. During the recent NATO summit in Ankara, US President Donald Trump announced that the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding was “over” and ...
President Donald Trump, broadly speaking, is not at base a liar. Sure, almost every word out of his mouth is a lie. You don’t have to go back to his marriage vows to prove this; a simple survey of his...
Rusty Weiss writes for RedState.com about the cost associated with New York’s bad tax policies. New York has spent years aggressively taxing its wealthiest residents in the name of fairness, and the r...
7/15/1819: John Marshall publishes defense of McCulloch v. Maryland in the Alexandria Gazette under the pseudonym "A Friend of the… The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 15, 1819 appeared firs...
On 10 July 2026, I was on the “Deep Dive” with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis, where we talked mainly about Iran, although we did discuss Ukraine in the last part of the show. On Iran, we talked about th...
The first time I met Vladimir, my Russian college roommate freshman year, we got to talking about politics and it turned out he was all for the free market, and in fact went on to join the college inv...
The founders knew - freedom cannot exist with a government - that doesn’t have strict rules, a clear line in the sand that it’s not allowed to cross. In other words, when government determines the ext...
The Telegraph recently headlined a report titled ‘Monstrous’ Equality Act has gone too far, warns Lord Sewell. It seems that conservatives in the UK believe the Equality Act 2010, which is based on th...
The underlying story of the past 50 years has been the offloading of risk onto workers and consumers. On my map of how the world works, we start with structures of control that distribute the good stu...
The death of 71-year-old Senator Lindsey Graham has brought the debate over U.S. foreign policy over the last 25 years or more to the fore: Graham was an unapologetic Cold War warrior who promoted eve...
The US Embassy in Lebanon announced that the State Department is offering grants of up to $250,000 to groups that help promote American propaganda. “The US Embassy in Beirut is opening a new Notice o...
Donald Trump is a man of much cunning but limited intelligence. Throughout his business career he displayed an instinctive talent for bluff and for escaping situations that would have ruined less adap...
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss what's next for the U.S. Senate after Lindsey Graham's passing and Mitch McConnell's continued absence.
A Brazilian court sentenced Audato and Ieda Denardi to 50 days in prison after convicting them of "intellectual neglect" for homeschooling… The post Brickbat: Reading, Writing, and Gender Studies appe...
Read Part I here, Part II here. I left you, dear reader, having come home at last after a crisis of aphasia in one — good — hospital, and after two and a half days of abject misery, and soul-searing p...
The International Criminal Court, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio complains in a July 13 Wall Street Journal op-ed, styles itself “a standing world tribunal with near-unlimited reach, empowered to o...
The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things are useful tools for a state that wishes t...
For conservative leaders like Buckley, what really matters is that you support the American imperial warfare state. The stuff about freedom is window dressing.
Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about questionable activity involving the teachers union in one of the nation’s largest cities. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) hosted a Marxist, viru...
Editors at National Review Online criticize a Democratic congressman’s recent publicity stunt. It used to be that politicians exploring a presidential campaign would show up at the Iowa State Fair or ...
Tweet… is from page 26 of the late Tom Wolfe’s brilliant 1981 book, From Bauhaus to Our House: In fact, here was the great appeal of socialism to architects in the 1920s. Socialism was the political a...
From executive power to civil liberties, what to make of a momentous year at SCOTUS?
On Friday morning the New York Times reported that America had launched waves of attacks on Iranian targets, one of the most intense rounds of strikes since the war had begun more than four months ear...
Are critics talking about a government-to-government weapons embargo, or are they trying to shut down private trade? There's a big difference.
Plus: YIMBY high schoolers, Vance alienates Jewish donors, AI for homework help, and more...
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams concludes that the case never presented a true "case or controversy" because both sides were controlled by the president.
Despite regularly denouncing the rising socialist menace, President Trump has been pursuing a policy arguably just as, if not more, dangerous to liberty and prosperity as anything proposed by Zohran M...
America in the mid-1770s was a jumble of spontaneous formations amid the ruins of an empire.
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 While Am...
It’s common knowledge that Donald Trump always came across as the “peace candidate”. His sweeping criticism of America’s “forever wars” (particularly in the Middle East) reinforced the image of a real...
A US president casually threatening to cut off trade with Spain is not normal “tough talk” it’s a signal flare for how unstable alliance management can get when policy is driven by impulse. We walk th...
Catching up with developments in the cinematic Game of Thrones/House of Ice and Fire Universe.
A market downturn in the U.S. – exacerbated by an energy crisis – could spell disaster for Trump’s midterm hopes. When the U.S. Navy, in co-ordination with Qatar and Oman, tried to slip a convoy of fo...
When the World Sleeps, a book (256 pages), was published by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Gaza, in April 2026. It is a personal and political account of Palestine that combines ten hum...
Washington’s yearly defense measure has ground to a halt, and one buried clause explains why a widening bloc of lawmakers wants the whole thing pried back open. Members voted down the procedural rule ...
Many Americans dislike federal home appliance regulations, perhaps nobody more so than the current White House occupant, who routinely rails against them at his rallies. Trump has worked with Congress...
Editors at National Review Online react to the sudden death of South Carolina’s US Sen. Lindsey Graham. There might be senators who’ve had more zest for the job than Lindsey Graham, but we can’t think...
A Tomahawk missile struck an Iranian school and reportedly killed over 100 children in February.
My essay on the topic collects the available empirical research. There is support for the theory that, as police across the nation pulled back from some forms of proactive policing after protests surr...
President Donald Trump suggested Congress add Iran and Hezbollah to the bill that places massive sanctions on Russia. The legislation, authored by the late Lindsey Graham, has received renewed attenti...
Two decades ago, the first of what has evolved into a full baker’s dozen of my published books went under contract, marking a shift from my prolific writing of articles and book chapters to much longe...
America's most business-friendly states are proof that permitting reform works. Still, they have a bad habit of handing out tax breaks to favored industries.
I'm sure that readers are as anxious as I am to see how Todd Blanche explains this all away during his confirmation hearings.
Jessica Schwalb writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest evidence that Virginia’s governor is no moderate. A cabinet official “moderate” Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) tapped ...
A new volume of Russell Kirk’s writings shows how the traditionalist admired America without sentimentality or ideological passion.
Colin Kidd’s new book charts the fate of Britain’s elite intelligentsia in the postwar period.
The political mood across Europe is beginning to shift, and even governments that have strongly backed Ukraine are discovering that public opinion has its limits. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni...
Arthur Schaper writes for American Greatness about a disturbing development in American politics. For decades, the Democratic Party exploited—but also restrained—its more liberal, anti-American activi...
The Supreme Court just told the copyright cartels that your ISP isn’t liable when you pirate something, because the ISP didn’t tell you to do it. So what’s Hollywood’s response? They’re openly demandi...
The agency pretends to loosen scientifically unjustified regulations but does nothing of the sort.
Developers rush to use California's new apartments-near-transit law, North Carolina eliminates parking requirements, and the federal housing bill finally becomes law.
This week, all the advanced thinkers agree that kids are reading less and we are entering a post-literate age. It must be true; the Atlantic says so. Kindergarten teachers say that many of their stude...
Just a day after announcing that the US would charge a 20% security fee for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump reversed his decision under pressure from US allies. On Monda...
A bloc of Kiev allies will hold war games in states that border Ukraine in preparation for deploying troops to the country once a ceasefire is reached with Russia. On Monday, the Coalition of the Wil...
Last week, on the sidelines of the NATO summit, Volodymyr Zelensky repeated his demand that Ukraine be invited to join NATO, which was bold, considering that Ukraine’s president wasn’t even invited to...
TweetHere’s a letter to a commenter at my Facebook page. Mr. Beveridge: In a comment on this Facebook post of mine – a post in which I criticize Trump’s tariffs – you write that my post “seems to igno...
Nine years ago, I shared some depressing charts about Medicaid. The fiscal outlook today is even worse, as illustrated by this chart based on national health expenditure data from the Centers for Medi...
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss the strange turn of events in the congressman's trip.
From yesterday's Illinois Appellate Court decision in Grasso v. Mottl, decided by Justice Matthew Bertani, joined by Justices Linda Davenport… The post Political Defamation Case Can Go to Jury as to "...
The briefs in the transgender sports cases were styled as "By next friend" but the Court captioned the case as "By her next friend."
A jury in Wales convicted Detective Inspector Emma Gardner of the North Wales Police of unauthorized access to computer material,… The post Brickbat: Making Myself Useful appeared first on Reason.com....
Former Trump attorney and dedicated loyalist Robert Barnes joins George Gammon of Rebel Capitalist to discuss the decline and fall of the imperial Trump administration. Not only is Robert Barnes a mas...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: While Trump Administration officials continue to provide low-ball figures for how much the Iran war has cost the United States, a thorough look at this “most unpopu...
Critics from both sides of the political aisle on Monday denounced President Donald Trump’s effort to construct a facade of legality for the illegal US-Israeli war of choice on Iran by notifying Congr...
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s one-year moratorium buys time for the state to create a convoluted regulatory regime.
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss U.S. Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed's socialist beliefs.
Plus: a survey on fixing soccer, the Home Run Derby’s format changes again, and a goal you have to see to believe
7/14/1913: President Gerald R. Ford's birthday. He would appoint Justice John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 14, 1913 appeared first on Reason.com.
Is Trump at the end of his patience?
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is Congress’s most sweeping housing legislation in years. As I previously covered, the legislation deserves some credit for reducing a couple significant regulator...
Editors at National Review Online analyze the latest information about Charlie Kirk’s murder. Within hours of Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination, conspiracy theories started spreading on social media...