Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 16 sites. We chose these from 1966 articles found on 36 sites.
TweetPeter Earle remembers the late Victor Niederhoffer. Ilya Somin, a GMU colleague over in the Scalia School of Law, writes with insight about the (il)legality of the latest round of Trump’s tariffs...
The war in Ukraine is, but in reverse, actually the same situation that America’s President JFK had faced with regard to the Soviet Union in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the U.S. would have inv...
When Congress eliminated taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, it also eliminated the constitutional justification for regulating them.
Homeownership helped build the American Dream, but easy credit is undoing it. A new executive order promises
Her concurrence in Trump v. Barbara tries to undermine the colorblind Constitution.
Plus: right-wing burrito wars, a star scholar resigns, Fauci's pandemic phone, and more...
If the Trojan War were being fought today, the Greeks would not need to hide inside of a big, wooden horse and hope to be dragged inside Troy’s city gates. They’d simply disseminate all kinds of lies...
In the year 711, a Berber commander named Tar-iq ibn Ziyad crossed from North Africa with a reported 7,000 men and landed at the base of the mountain that still carries his name: Jabal Tar-iq (Tar-iq’...
The “father of the Constitution” worried about federal and state overreach.
Netanyahu, the Israel Lobby, and warmongers like Mark Levin have put Republicans in danger of losing control of Congress. On August 3, the Drudge Report carried a story that said GOP Senate candidates...
The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not...
President Trump said late Tuesday that talks with Iran are “moving along very nicely” – in a highly fluid and ambiguous situation where it appears the two sides are only interacting indirectly at best...
Six years after the COVID pandemic and nearly two years after he was pardoned for any and all crimes he may have committed since 2014 relating to his role at Health and Human Services (HHS), Anthony F...
Want to distill spirits at home? Congress says you can’t. This ban from the Reconstruction era was not instated for health or public safety reasons. Rather, the prohibition arose from the inability to...
Steven Richards writes for Just the News about the impact of Spain’s border crisis. The Spanish immigration crisis has exposed cracks in the European Union and an opportunity for right-wing leaders he...
Misconduct and misrepresentations by Justice Department lawyers have led some federal judges to question the traditional benefit of the doubt they give to the government.
“We are standing at the precipice of something we cannot comprehend, and the silence from those who know is deafening. The mechanisms are already in motion, the chess pieces positioned with mathematic...
The Senate Commerce committee advanced four bills related to online and AI safety in the name of protecting children.
A new Hawaii law reclassifies corporate political speech as a "power" the state can revoke at will.
OT 2026 leads off with climate litigation.
"Plaintiff should be treated like any other employee in his position, not that he should be favored based on his identity."
President Donald Trump claimed that American weapons stockpiles were full and said he would arrest leakers who have been sources for multiple reports that the military’s arsenal is running low. “The ...
Yemen’s ruling Ansar Allah said it conducted a large-scale attack on several military sites in Saudi Arabia. “Our armed forces have detected large-scale Saudi military mobilizations in their final st...
Adam Smith understood two centuries ago that commerce was no guarantee of peace.
Rodríguez-Cotto v. González-Colón, decided Tuesday by First Circuit Judges Gustavo Gelpí and Seth Aframe and Seventh Circuit Judge David Hamilton,… The post First Circuit Strikes Down Puerto Rico Ban ...
Jay Town writes for the Federalist about potential consequences of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s refusal to answer questions from Congress. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and...
Each person has a different makeup, a different history, different information, and different understandings. In short, each person lives a different life than other people live and, as a result, know...
Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy. (First three lines of The Odyssey, trans. by Emily Wilson) T...
In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region.
In this week’s episode we cover the effect of tariffs on car prices, trends in electricity supply and demand, and the future of the trucking workforce. Our interview is with Marc Wheat, General Counse...
Patrick Reilly writes for the New York Post about one of the New York City mayor’s many bad ideas. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s universal childcare plan will cost 50% more than he advertised, according to a...
Charles Hilu writes for National Review Online about a significant development on Capitol Hill. Senator John Cornyn of Texas said Tuesday that he does not support doing away with the filibuster, in a ...
Seventeen years ago, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released a video explaining that America’s fiscal problem is excessive spending rather than red ink. Here’s the 2026 version of that presenta...
Dissent: "We judges can write all we want, but this public voted with its eyeballs."
A new podcast from the National Constitution Center
According to her, Zelensky is either incompetent or a criminal himself – and his personal enrichment from the conflict is evidence that he is engaged in corruption. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensk...
A former high school baseball player, with a successful businessman as a father and, a promising young man with a ‘bright future’ ahead of him avoided prison for the rape, strangulation, and violent a...
From perjury trap to contempt of Congress – from frying pan to fire?
By convincing Congress to permit the government to take equity positions in private firms, Donald Trump has completed the transition of the economy from free markets to political capitalism.
From O.A. v. Devita, decided June 25 by L.A. Superior Court Judge Dean Kitchens, but just recently posted to Westlaw:… The post #TheyLied Defamation Suit Over Sexual Assault Claims Involving High Scho...
An analysis of the use of subjective language in scientific papers.
8/6/1792: Justice Thomas Johnson takes judicial oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 6, 1792 appeared first on Reason.com.
Among the commentariat, America’s problem with “forever wars” is usually discussed as a failure of grand strategy. In this telling, presidents misjudge threats; generals overestimate what military pow...
Memos released by the White House reveal an agency weaponized against a president.
Peace in Gaza has been vexingly elusive, but now there is a glimmer of hope.
Prediction markets have become an increasingly prominent tool for forecasting elections, economic indicators, geopolitical developments, and other uncertain events. Their growing popularity has also f...
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The democratic socialists taking over the Democratic Party often say they just want affordable healthcare. They actually want to end America's constitutional system as we know it.
Elise Stefanik discourses on the decline of higher ed.
The law is written so broadly it could punish services that let you fake an image of yourself in a swimsuit.
The pandemic provided a glue that held the Democratic Party together. Without it, they don't know what they believe.
The article explains why the new tariffs are harmful and illegal for many of same reasons as those invalidated by the Supreme Court.
Denaturalization isn't new, but it has been used sparingly in modern history, in part because it is extremely costly and time-consuming.
Plus: Youth leftist organizer wins in Michigan, Mamdani vs. business, George R.R. Martin struggles to finish Game of Thrones, and more...
One of President Donald Trump’s defining campaign themes was refreshingly simple: America should stop fighting endless wars. He repeated that message across three presidential campaigns. Iraq was a mi...
The Senate’s funding bill stops the Trump administration from handing political appointees control over federal grants, but Congress isn’t eager to rein in spending.
The second installment in a SCOTUSBlog series with recommendations for Unilateral Supreme Court Reform.
The thesis of my forthcoming book Politics, Economics, and New Testament Interpretation is quite simple: the New Testament does not endorse modern authoritarian socialism. For libertarians, this shoul...
An idea that's wildly out of tune at a time when Americans are trumpeting their worries about affordability.
An insightful critique of ten ideas advocated by leading American "democratic socialists."
From today's decision in U.S. v. Romain by Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and Andrew… The post Court Upholds African People's Socialist Party Convictions for B...
El-Sayed is pushing a mendacious claim: that people would be wealthier if they endured yet another massive transfer of money and power to a vast federal health bureaucracy.
After three years on the "interim" docket, Hamburger Mary will no longer be able to show "adult live performances" to minors.
An excerpt from a detailed analysis at FoxNews.com from John Malcolm, a former federal prosecutor and current VP of the… The post "Did Fauci Properly Take the Fifth?" appeared first on Reason.com.
Rescinding the egregious Slush Fund Order should not obscure the fact that Blanche was a central participant in, and possibly the architect of, a scheme to defraud the court and the American taxpayer....
An excerpt from the long majority opinion (by Judge Andrew Brasher, signed by eight judges) yesterday in HM Florida-ORL, LLC… The post Eleventh Circuit En Banc Upholds Florida Ban on Knowingly Admitti...
Once again the U.S. president threatened to bomb Iran to smithereens. Once again he pulled back, while, once again, claiming that Iran was begging for negotiations, which, once again, Iran denied. Wel...
In an interview with conservative political commentator and best-selling author Michael Knowles released at the end of June, Vice President JD Vance repudiated the free-market elements of the pre-MAGA...
With Maggie Haberman’s new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump generating plenty of headlines—including from President Trump himself—I decided to give it a listen on Spo...
It is about time our selfless hero receives his due. The post Leave Fauci Alone! appeared first on Free the People.
Reuters and the U.N. accuse an operator with extensive U.S. government links of helping a Sudanese rebel group.
Ukraine can look stable on a map while collapsing through its supply lines and that’s where we start. Zelensky claims his relationship with Donald Trump has “absolutely changed” after a private meetin...
TweetThis letter of mine just came on line at the Washington Post and will appear in tomorrow’s (August 6th’s) print edition: Matthew Lynn’s July 31 online op-ed, “Trump’s tariffs aren’t crushing glob...
Jewish Insider: Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, urged pro-Israel college students to distinguish between protected speech… The post Harmeet Dhillon on Distinguishing ...
In preparation for a potential military or regime change operation, the US is sending more intelligence assets to Cuba. A source told Politico that the White House had recently sent additional spies ...
From Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove's dissent last week from the one-line denial of mandamus in In re Mylan, Inc.… The post "This Direct Monetization of Prior Government Service Is Beyond the Pale" app...
From Gonda v. Duering, decided Friday by the Hawaii intermediate appellate court (Justices Katherine G. Leonard, Keith K. Hiraoka, and… The post Stop-Talking-to-Me Order Against Ex-Landlord Who Kept T...
Trump still seems to think the question of individual guilt or innocence is irrelevant.
Economists who worry about wealth disparities between racial groups are preoccupied with addressing the causes of racial inequality. They all have different theories and explanations about the causes ...
“All Western nations are essentially on the same path to dispossession.” See this. Immigrant-invader elected to US Congress introduces bill to abolish US border protection. White ethnicities in Europe...
Is Trump's mail-in ballot order constitutional?
Ethan Barton writes for the Washington Free Beacon about one congressman’s disturbing link to the Chinese communist government. New York Democratic congressman Josh Riley’s father-in-law cofounded an ...
Only an individual person can be generous.
The regime is paying lip service to undoing a policy that caused incalculable human suffering but is hesitant to relinquish control.
Limited evidence of effectiveness combined with privacy concerns raises questions about the sensors.
In Australia, Ian Minus was fined $1,500 dollars (U.S. $1,050) after being convicted of knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol in… The post Brickbat: Banned T-Shirt appeared first on Reason.com.
The U.S. government continues to demonstrate its knack for pursuing remarkably foolish foreign policies that have terrible consequences. Many thought that President Trump was going to rectify this pro...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. There’s so much militarized crazy in America today that it’s entirely overwhelming. Here’s a “top ten” list: 1. The illegal and unconstitutio...
This past June marked the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s FSC v. Paxton decision. The Court held that states may require age verification to access online adult content without violating t...
When I’ve written about Ireland over the years, it’s almost always been for two reasons. To praise the country’s low corporate tax rate (see here, here, here, here, and here). To criticize every other...
Just posted today at SSRN.
UPDATE: Though this opinion was handed down just two weeks ago, it turns out to be a slightly revised version of an opinion from July 2022; my apologies for not noticing this at the outset.
Ukraine’s capital city was slammed with Russian missiles, killing 17 people and injuring dozens. “As of now, 44 people have been reported injured in the massive Russian strike on Kyiv and the Kyiv re...
Download Audio. Scott interviews Jeff Deist about the significance of Ron Paul, who Deist used to work for, as well as Murray Rothbard. They then discuss the challenges and opportunities that the move...
Dr. Mark Thornton joins David Lin to discuss the AI investment surge, tariffs, inflation, the Fed’s interest-rate dilemma, and the broader risks facing the economy.
Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about one high-profile athlete’s latest tirade involving COVID. Anthony Fauci has received much-deserved mockery for his refusal to answer for his many Covid ...
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online reports a significant development in the search for truth about COVID-19. Interviews on the Sunday morning news talk shows don’t generate as much buzz as they us...
Consent distinguishes justice from mere preference. If violating consent is wrong in every other context, why is government the one exception we rarely question?
One prefers an offset smoker. The other swears by a pellet grill. In a free market, that friendly disagreement stays exactly that: friendly. When people can choose for themselves instead of imposing o...