Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 15 sites. We chose these from 1953 articles found on 36 sites.
John McGinnis discusses the latest Supreme Court decisions in this Law & Liberty Podcast episode.
In Donald Trump’s America it is always possible to wake up in the morning and peruse online the overnight headlines to discover something new and exciting. Over the past week it has been a medley of g...
“The idea that deficits don’t matter as long as you have your own currency is just wrong. In a world of scarce resources, someone always pays.”- N. Gregory Mankiw Some are calling recent political eve...
TweetIlya Somin, a colleague over in GMU’s Scalia School of Law, criticizes Trump’s newly announced tariffs on Canada punitive taxes on Americans’ purchases of goods from Canada. A slice: Georgetown U...
Plus: San Francisco slashes affordable housing mandates, wide support for streamlining environmental review, and Mamdani's rent ripoff report.
The 50% tariffs on many Canadian imports are based on the long-defunct Section 338 of the notorious Smoot-Hawley tariff act.
The trade war caused exports to Canada to fall. Now, Trump is pointing to that fact to justify more tariffs.
The Iran War and Oil Prices Our Iran War has fully resumed and last week I published an article on that subject. After many weeks of negotiations, President Donald Trump finally signed a “Memorandum o...
After years of rigged elections and political repression, President Daniel Ortega says Nicaraguans will no longer vote at all.
Order may be preferable to anarchy, but Aeon Skoble’s new book provocatively challenges the sovereignty of the state.
Plus: nine books for your soccer summer reading list, and a problem with professional golf
Lindsey Graham died the other day. Suddenly. As in “Trust the Science.” His long career in politics will be remembered for his remarkable reluctance to side with the interests of the People. He never ...
Last week, the Trump administration imposed a new 25 percent Section 301 tariff on many imports from Brazil. The administration argued that the tariffs were necessary to address a range of concerns, i...
Plus: a few words about The Odyssey
Why has the IOC not banned Britain, France, Germany, and other European NATO states for arming a NeoNazi regime in Kiev that is bombing civilians in Russia? After nearly three years of being banned fr...
In books and articles I have written about law, I have emphasized that a law unfolds to the limit of its extent (and so do rules and regulations). For example RICO and asset forfeiture laws intended t...
Over the weekend the Pentagon announced that four more US soldiers have been killed in President Trump’s war on Iran. That brings the total to 17, but many believe the real number of dead US serviceme...
Andrew Kerr writes for the Washington Free Beacon about disturbing revelations involving California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife. Documentaries produced by California’s “first partner,” Jennifer Siebel Ne...
It will review Alaska's confiscation of a $95,000 plane arising from the pilot's illegal transportation of up to 72 cans of beer.
Ken Jouppi's Eighth Amendment challenge asks the Court to decide whether a fine must be proportional to the gravity of the crime.
New York’s rent freeze will turn more rent-stabilized units into unlivable “zombie apartments.”
From Jones v. Jenkins Indep. School Dist., decided Thursday by Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove (E.D. Ky.): A public school in… The post Can't Ban Parent from School Property for "Mean and Demeaning Posts"...
Israeli Finance Minister Betzel Smotrich said that Tel Aviv was not interested in rejoining the war against Iran. Multiple outlets have reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convince...
President Donald Trump suggested he would relaunch his war on Yemen if Ansar Allah follows through on its pledge to prevent Saudi shipping through the Bab al-Mandab. Last year, Trump ordered a massive...
Let’s start today’s column by recycling my 2009 video about the link between big government and corruption. If you don’t want to spend a few minutes watching a video, I can summarize the message in a ...
On July 17, NBC News televised portions of a lengthy investigation proving that Israeli military forces had attacked medics at least 116 times in South Lebanon over the last several months. On that sa...
TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Among the reasons President Trump is imposing the newly announced 50% tariffs on Canadian goods is, as you report, White House opposition to “C...
As someone whose views once fit the description of the Oslo-and-beyond era Israeli security establishment view, I found this analysis,… The post Israel's Changing Strategic Calculus appeared first on ...
This is not sleepwalking into war. The European elites’ eyes are wide open and crazed. The European Union has officially joined the war effort against Russia. This week, European Commission President ...
Technology has an unusual habit of revealing itself twice. The first version appears quietly, almost unnoticed, inside research papers, patent filings, laboratory demonstrations and corporate presenta...
Seventeen military personnel have died in President Trump’s war on Iran. Compared to the 58,200 military personnel who were killed in the Vietnam War, that’s not a large number … well, unless one happ...
The official story is simple. The timeline is not. We take a hard look at the reporting around Senator Lindsey Graham’s death and ask a basic question that gets skipped too often in political news: do...
While many immigrants bring entrepreneurial skills, they often settle in US cities governed by leftists who are hostile to private enterprise.
The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a different path.
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division released their Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Annual Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. This is ...
During extreme heat waves and cold snaps, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under President Donald Trump has been issuing emergency orders that allow utilities to exceed their environmental emission...
Editors at National Review Online consider the best approach to thwarting terrorism from the political left. Marco Rubio gave a great speech last week. Addressing the delegates at a 60-nation conferen...
Kagan was in red and Barrett was in blue!
“JD Vance, VP in the Trump regime, is a political production, not a real person, a production of the worst pedigree. Vance is a creation of a tech billionaire PAC, a ‘tech-aligned super political acti...
Something has fundamentally changed in America, and it should concern everyone regardless of politics. The press was never supposed to decide what the public is allowed to hear. Their job was to repor...
The US intelligence community has briefed President Donald Trump that bombing Iran is unlikely to change Tehran’s positions in negotiations to end the war. Last week, the US resumed major military op...
As we plod through the dog days of summer, parents and grandparents are often looking for new ideas for outings with the youngsters. One possibility to consider is visiting the Halifax State Historic ...
A conversation with a lead attorney for one of the most significant academic freedom cases in recent years
7/21/1824: Justice Stanley Matthews's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 21, 1824 appeared first on Reason.com.
Watch today’s Liberty Report here. The post The Silver Lining In Trump’s Iran Debacle appeared first on LewRockwell.
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump’s decision to launch a war on Iran has been one of the greatest military disasters in US history. Instead of listening to his own intelligence commu...
Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago.
Ward Clark writes for RedState.com about the departure of a major player in Chicago’s business history. True Value hardware stores are, and have been, an American institution. They are scattered acros...
One year ago, Students For Liberty didn’t exist in Malta. Today, they are a finalist for organisation of the year in a national contest, with the highest number of jury votes of any nominee in the run...
Blue socialism. Red socialism. Same control, different color, and CBDCs are where they finally agree.
A federal judge ordered sweeping improvements to conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California. Families say their loved ones died of neglect inside.
Many "democratic socialists" want to abolish prisons. But this is in conflict with their objective of making many more activities illegal.
And it can't ban a former state lawmaker from wearing a sweatshirt that advertises that website, either.
In a moment when global attention remains fixed on conflicts in the Middle East, political turmoil in Venezuela, Sudan’s ongoing war, and Cuba’s deepening humanitarian crisis, the unfolding situation ...
Donald Trump — America’s self-proclaimed “peace president,” head of the world’s newly created Board of Peace, and the recipient of the first FIFA Peace Prize — has nonetheless been embroiled in more t...
Plus: new tariffs on Brazil, Trump's primetime address on election security, and the growing popularity of democratic socialism.
The US President recently wasted a half hour of national airtime struggling through his complaints about the voting system that delivers our Senators, Congressmen, governors and mayors. He might have ...
“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The Man Who Downgraded America In August 2011, Deven Sharma did something unprecedented. As presid...
The U.S.-Iranian peace memorandum has broken down, and violence is slowly ramping back up to a full-on war. Four Americans paid the price this weekend.
Yet another broken campaign promise.
In a decision written by a Joe Biden nominee, the appeals court addresses a long-simmering issue that the Supreme Court will consider during its next term.
“When progressives say they want to dismantle ‘whiteness,’ they want you to believe they mean some complicated sociological phenomenon,” wrote commentator David Marcus in 2021. “They do not. They mean...
Congress is considering honoring the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) by passing a counterproductive Russia sanctions and tariffs bill. Inflation numbers for June looked good, though the relief is like...
Petty theft is easy to condemn. Political looting is often legal, celebrated, and vastly more costly to society.
Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (2009) rounds out my three-part historical and theoretical exploration of the Arctic region by looking directly at the macro-l...
An old drug conviction could still stop you from waxing eyebrows, cutting hair, or giving massages.
Plus: Platner fallout, gas prices hit $4 per gallon, it's Kamala Harris' world (and we're just living in it), and more...
This case was argued and deliberated nine months before the Supreme Court granted cert in the Cook County case, but was decided two weeks after the cert grant.
The implicit notion–extant on both ends of the Accela Corridor—that the present financing arrangements for the $31 trillion of publicly held US Treasuries represent the natural order of things in the ...
Russia is at war with Washington and Europe, a war that has vastly widened, but Putin thinks Russia is engaged in a Special Military Operation confined to the battlefront in Donbas. Iran is at war, ...
President Donald Trump declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not be arrested if he enters the US. Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes committed in Gaza by the International Crim...
By eliminating the political cost of military casualties, drone warfare has enabled four successive American presidents to expand executive power and wage permanent, undeclared wars around the globe. ...
The Russian ideologue may seem insane, but to fend off his threat, the West should discern the method in his madness.
A potential new approach to state constitutional law.
The weight of the evidence indicates that such laws do not reliably benefit Republicans or hurt Democrats.
Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade inherits weak growth, record-high taxes, and a swelling welfare bill. His proposed cure is an even larger role for the state.
If someone is uncertain enough about meaning, they will censor themselves first.
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common...
One week after his victory in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump announced that he would create the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash exc...
From Barnes v. Scola, decided Thursday by Judge Richard Seeborg (N.D. Cal.): Selena Scola is an actress, entertainer, and influencer.… The post "Lexi Love": Drag or Porn (and Post-Porn)? + RuPaul's Dr...
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” – George Washington ...
For generations, the American supermarket symbolized abundance. Endless aisles filled with fresh produce, dairy, meat, and household essentials reflected not only the country’s productive capacity but...
Calling it a “lab leak” makes the story feel tidy, but the real scandal might be the system that makes lab-origin disasters plausible in the first place. We sit down with independent journalist Sam Hu...
President Donald Trump posted a poll that found over 60% of Americans support the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the US and Iran last month. Last week. Trump said he “couldn’t care less” t...
Matt Weidinger explores attempts to cut down on a significant piece of government fraud and waste. The Trump administration is threatening to use “every available enforcement tool” to compel states to...
John Taylor of Caroline warned that government privilege enriches the politically connected while weakening liberty, competition, and self-government.
This posture is very unusual.
A tattoo business is challenging South Carolina laws restricting how and where tattoo artists operate.
Tyler Austin Harper of the Atlantic has a recent X thread in which he challenges progressives to recognize that academia… The post The Ideological Imbalance in the Academy is Even Worse than Many Crit...
A colleague on an academic list asked if I agreed that the Holocaust wasn't unique, but just one of a… The post On the Uniqueness of the Holocaust appeared first on Reason.com.
Wearable bright patterns, infrared lights, and reflective coatings challenge the surveillance state.
Image citation: The image is AI generated Zhuangzi, sometimes referred as Zhuang Zhou, remains one of history’s most fundamentally subversive thinkers. As a writer in the chaotic period of Warring Sta...
TweetHere’s a letter to the Financial Times. Editor: Oren Cass’s attempt to discredit economists’ support for a policy of liberal immigration is flawed (“Mass immigration is not the silver bullet econ...
Ansar Allah announced that Yemen will begin preventing Saudi ships from transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Riyadh has relied on its Red Sea ports to export oil following Iran’s closure of the Strait...
Regarding Chinese economic policy, I’m both a cheerleader and a critic. On the positive side, I applaud how hundreds of millions of people in China have escaped poverty. On the negative side, I compla...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The most unpopular war in US history keeps getting more unpopular, with nearly seven in ten Americans opposed to Trump’s handling of the war. While it would make se...
As New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani extols the virtues of socialism, we examine the reality.
Last week, I read two articles in the summer 2026 edition of the Cato Institute’s Regulation magazine: “Defanging the FCC” by Paul Matzko and “Reforming the PCAOB” by Christina Ho. In the spirit of Do...
Last week, in Rutledge v. Walgreen Co., the Second Circuit revived failure-to-warn claims under state law relating to maternal use… The post The Second Circuit's Problematic Rule 702 Analysis in its R...