Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 97 articles from 17 sites. We chose these from 1965 articles found on 36 sites.
“Electric shock has long been a common method of inflicting torture or other forms of ill-treatment worldwide. While electric shocks are sometimes inflicted using makeshift equipment—for instance, car...
Plus: Postpartum psychosis, captain deportation, lady lawyers, and more...
TweetPhil Magness and Sara Albrecht wonder why the Trump administration refuses to reveal just how it came to devise the formula – ‘formula’ – by which it calculated its “Liberation Day” tariffs punit...
Large warships could prove to be expensive drone sponges without a clear mission.
The Trump administration is using so-called "third-country deportations" both punitively and to expel migrants who have been granted protection from their home countries.
"If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging and sharing your movements without a warrant," warns the ACLU.
It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up “leadership” vectors of the Ummah; not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult. The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between S...
International Man: A $20 burrito has somehow become a national political issue. Is this just another silly internet controversy, or does it reveal something important about the state of the American e...
Editors at Issues and Insights address different political factions’ approach to the US Supreme Court. If you want to understand the difference between the political left and right, just look at how e...
Ludwig von Mises defended the principle of equality before the law as it was understood within the classical liberal tradition of “the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.” Eightee...
While the settlement is a good thing, it's unfortunately still the case that at airports, the Bill of Rights is more of a list of suggestions.
Building boundaries around civil denaturalization
Bright red blood that covers towns and plains Of Kampuchea, our motherland, Sublime blood of workers and peasants, Sublime blood of revolutionary men and women fighters! The blood, changing into unrel...
I’ve been putting out more and more of these “today in dystopia” write-ups because our society is plunging into iron-fisted authoritarianism and AI-induced idiocracy so rapidly that it’s hard to keep ...
Editors at National Review Online assess Florida Democrats’ latest peculiar electoral choice. In 2018, Florida’s Senate election was decided by just 10,000 votes — a close-enough margin to trigger a m...
Since you didn’t ask, dear reader, I’ll oblige you anyway. The post Why the Burritocourse Will Never Wrap Up appeared first on Free the People.
Despite the Supreme Court's best efforts to rein them in, federal regulators continue to abuse their authority under the Clean Water Act.
John Puri writes for National Review Online about the origins of our massive federal government debt. This week marks an ignoble milestone: America’s national debt is crossing $40 trillion for the fir...
Their few defenders often misunderstand their benefits.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is supporting a proposed law that would require Amazon and other large delivery companies to… The post Brickbat: Paying More for Less appeared first on Reason.com.
Last week, I wrote to you about the operation in which the United States and Japan went into the currency market together to prop up the falling yen, the first coordinated action of its kind since 199...
Modern technology has provided government with growing capability to monitor our lives. The amount of freedom in a “free American” is slowly being reduced to nothing. Flock cameras are one such free...
Trump says the war is going great and the “bully of the Middle East” is no longer in charge. We’re not buying slogans, so we pull the thread on what “going great” is supposed to mean when U.S. munitio...
We covered many issues related to migration restrictions, arguments for and against them, and more.
Wednesday, District Judge Mark Norris (W.D. Tenn.) accepted the July 30 recommendations from Magistrate Judge Annie Christoff in Johnson v.… The post "Pussy Valley" Autobiography Appropriation Lawsuit...
The Hill resembles author Harriet Clark's own experience.
On 18 August 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about the Iran war, Israel’s never-ending outrageous behavior, the Ukraine war, and President Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior...
Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about potential legal peril for the nation’s former COVID czar. There are a lot of sordid government figures in need of real accountability for abusing their ...
There is a story circulating on the Internet about the small boats that has almost everything required for political success. It is infuriating and adorned with just enough legal terminology to sound ...
The Paradox of Centralized Power Let us begin with an obvious observation: the political outrage machine is running at maximum capacity. Every election cycle, and practically every news cycle, gets fr...
"Defense counsel ... seemingly cannot read the room when the Court's response was to summarily deny Defendant's previously filed request ...."
From Martins v. Romero, decided today by Judge Kay Behm (E.D. Mich.) (for more on the Complaint, see this post):… The post Exorcist Files vs. Jesus 911 Libel Suit Can Go Forward appeared first on Reas...
The N.Y. Times (Katie Robertson) so reports, and adds that "The Times had not lost a defamation lawsuit brought in… The post $9.25M Verdict Against N.Y. Times, in Libel Case Brought by Alabama Basketb...
Or at least college dancing instruction may create a “heightened risk of sexual misconduct”; a court is allowing an expert to so testify.
The record From Justice Rehnquist's 1984 civil trial does not provide an answer.
8/21/1798: Justice James Wilson dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 21, 1798 appeared first on Reason.com.
How Gerasa, Jerash, is the largest well-preserved Roman city outside Italy—and why did the Greeks choose this place to build a great city? In the fertile hills of northern Jordan lies Gerasa, ancient ...
It is coming up on a year since Charlie Kirk was assassinated – the right word, since this was not merely a murder. We do not use “assassination” to describe ordinary murders, as for example when a th...
From the Tom Woods Letter: I absolutely insist to you: I really am trying to stop writing about this topic. But too much insanity keeps breaking out, and I have no choice but to comment on it. You kno...
Still drawing international censure for his genocidal call to kill dozens of Gazans daily, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir faced fresh condemnation Thursday after visiting the const...
Confusion from the White House?
Our best athletes tend to play other sports, and yet, greatness has its intangibles.
As documented in my series on capitalism (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), markets deliver amazing results. One of my favorite charts shows when various technologies were unvei...
Plus: ICE chillin', Moderna-Merck melanoma advances, and more...
An August 13 Carolina Journal Poll offers a stark warning for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterm elections: North Carolina voters overwhelmingly believe tariffs make the things they buy more ex...
CBP claims dictatorial powers over Americans coming home. A big part of that is hiding information.
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive th...
The costs of war are vast and horrific. Most people know this, which raises the question of why the US government seemingly can’t live without it. Is it simply a matter of applied Keynesianism, that o...
President Trump wants gasoline retailers to bring prices down. But threatening private businesses over the prices they charge substitutes political pressure for the choices of buyers and sellers.
When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the d...
Hasn’t Bill O’Reilly done enough harm beating the drums for America’s failed foreign wars? But he’s still around somewhere, trying to top his earlier act with more of his trademark fever-swamp rants, ...
Minnesota officials were using the law to block contested claims about when felons were allowed to vote in Minnesota elections.
A major separation-of-church-and-state case lands at the Supreme Court.
South Korea has responded to Trump’s decision to reduce joint military exercises by talking about becoming more militarily independent. President Lee Jae Myung wants South Korea to regain wartime oper...
Editors at Issues and Insights ponder population trends in the Golden State under Gov. Gavin Newsom. Over the weekend, we came across two stories about California that, combined, tell you just about e...
Wealthy white residents want equity initiatives. Minorities would prefer order.
When government statistics are under question, it gets pretty hard to know what the hell is actually going on. The post The Death of Data | Words & Numbers | Ep 520 appeared first on Free the People.
Crime in D.C. had already fallen 29 percent before the National Guard showed up, yet the Pentagon plans to keep at least 2,500 troops in the city through 2029.
President Trump’s new Section 232 tariffs on drones and drone components are being justified as responses to national security vulnerabilities. In its proclamation, the administration points to depend...
Conservatives should develop an environmentalism that is rooted in tradition, place, and scientific realities.
It's not existential dread about the internet.
Many entrepreneurs with high net worths don't actually have much cash. What bank lends $100 million against illiquid stock in young companies that may or may not succeed?
Excerpts from Tuesday's long opinion by Judge Trevor McFadden (D.D.C.) in Sumrall v. Ali: [1.] Kimmara Sumrall and Janine Ali… The post Suit Over Defendant Allegedly Yanking on Israeli Flag Plaintiff ...
Something strange happened in these two cases.
"Professor Abdou provides no authority which stands for the proposition that expressing disapproval of a foreign terrorist organization in a Congressional hearing amounts to discrimination or creates ...
Christian Russia and Christian America Last week I published a long article comparing our society with that of the USSR, our great Cold War adversary. I noted the disturbing recent trends that have gr...
Download Audio. Ron Paul joins the show to talk about Iran, the economy, Flock cameras and the prospects for liberty in the years ahead. Discussed on the show: The Ron Paul Institute Former congressma...
Power bills are getting worse in North Carolina. While families try to cope, high rates have grabbed the attention of news media and politicians such as Gov. Josh Stein, Attorney General Jeff Jackson,...
We are often told that people can coexist only under one shared system. But religion, education, currencies, legal systems, and even languages show that pluralism can work without uniformity.
"Nor is it evident that the approach taken by Defendants insulated the process from undue 'political influence.' To the contrary, political influence would appear to have been the point."
Last week, the Tennessee Supreme Court denied the parents' application to review the Tennessee Court of Appeals' ruling, so that… The post Tenn. S. Ct. Lets Stand Decision That Copyright Law Doesn't B...
In this week’s episode we cover J.D. Vance and the strength of the US dollar, how to track extreme weather events, and reform options for the federal permitting process. Our interview is with Luca Gat...
A Justice Department report documents California's failure to protect incarcerated women from sexual assault going back decades.
In 2022, when the Russian forces swept into Ukraine, a number of kids were caught up in areas of fighting without any adolescent supervision. The Russian government took care of them and the kids were...
It is an exceedingly rare thing that I eagerly await the release of a book. However, Patrick Newman’s second installment in his series on the history of cronyism in the United States, just published b...
North Korea test-fired several short-range ballistic missiles as the US and South Korea are engaging in war games. The South Korean military reported the North Korean missile test on Thursday. The mis...
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that the USS George Washington aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in the Arabian Sea. The USS Washington will replace the USS Abraham Lincoln after multip...
Israeli fighter jets bombed a military base in northern Syria. Turkish troops near the base were alarmed by the Israeli attack. “Turkish forces were not aware that the Israeli aircraft were en route t...
"An abandoned warehouse complex overlooking the Moroccan border in this tiny Spanish territory has become a squalid village, with hundreds of migrants..."
Margot Cleveland writes for the Federalist about a disturbing new revelation involving the FBI. Documents recently obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, included an anomaly in the classification co...
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi take on press restrictions, the war on drugs, Flock cameras, data centers, dating, punk rock, and why war is still bad, actually.
8/20/1866: President Andrew Johnson proclaims an "end to insurrection in the United States." The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 20, 1866 appeared first on Reason.com.
—– Click here: Noah Hurowitz The post CE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War appeared first on LewRockwell.
—– Writes Adam Dick: The United States government minted its final penny in November of 2025. This came after fiat money inflation succeeded in depriving pennies of nearly all their value. Pennies ar...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The late Sen. Lindsey Graham was succeeded by his sister Darlene. Now the media is finding out that she is clueless on foreign policy and the neocons are having a p...
Trump’s locked-down border puts a crimp in nefarious cartel activities.
In keeping with its commitment to the deranged, the insane, the destructive, and the abnormal, the left celebrates the life and work of Jason Arday, the biggest academic charlatan of… Read More The po...
Newly released FOIA files reveal a back channel between ICE's office in Israel, the Qatari government, and the Islamic Republic.
Download Audio. Dave DeCamp returns to the show to run through the latest foreign policy news. He and Scott discuss Israel’s ongoing, ceasefire-violating strikes in Gaza, the risks of another escalati...
President Donald Trump says he plans to meet with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jung Un soon. When asked by a reporter if he planned to meet with Kim before the end of the year on Wednesday, Trump ...
Washington is considering a smaller military footprint in the Middle East after the Iran war. The Washington Post reports speaking with eight officials who said that the extensive damage to US bases ...
[PFS cross-post] Excellent recent column: Adam Haman, “Copyright’s Dirty Secret: It Was Born in the Inquisition,” Haman Nature (Jul 30, 2026). Related Philip Bodeswell, “How To Create A Flying Monkey:...
Some excerpts from the long opinion in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco v. FDA, written by Judge Don Willett and joined in… The post "Trendy Eateries May Keep a Secret Menu; the United States Code Does Not" appe...
The US military is conducting stealth operations to help commercial ships transit the Strait of Hormuz. Two US officials speaking with Axios said that over the past several weeks, the military has he...
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Why was a Canadian colonel awarded a medal but the government kept quiet about it? Because most Canadians don’t want to assist a genocidal apartheid state’s aggre...