Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 15 sites. We chose these from 1960 articles found on 36 sites.
Stephanie Slade joins the Law & Liberty Podcast to discuss her new book, Fusionism.
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions
September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War II in Europe. On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Poland from the west and a few weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded f...
Alas, another election year is upon us with political signs polluting the roadsides and lying politicians appearing in television commercials. Although the general election is not until November 3, pr...
State preemption worked for housing. It's unlikely to come to the rescue of incredibly unpopular data centers.
TweetThe Wall Street Journal Editorial Board decries the unwarranted hysteria over data centers. A slice: It’s true the AI industry has hurt its own cause by fueling speculative anxiety about mass une...
Plus: SCOTUS allows Trump’s White House ballroom construction to proceed.
After the publishing of George Orwell’s 1984, communist governments and organizations around the world condemned the book as “anti-Soviet slander” and “capitalist propaganda.” Orwell died only eight m...
If you don’t want another Civil War to separate the Democrat Communists in Blue Cities and states from Constitutional Patriots, you can separate them financially. This will save untold Death and Destr...
When visiting a new place, one should follow local rules and customs. Hence the old axiom, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Apparently, in modern Britain, that requires a nine-page government inst...
Despite labor support for President Trump, the legislation could advance workplace policies that directly conflict with administration priorities. Sept. 1, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Gov...
Plus: Nuns who podcast, Burning Man's median age is 40, Danish reparations, and more...
In the 1995 film, The Usual Suspects, what appears to be a hapless man named Roger “Verbal” Kint memorably paraphrases the French poet Charles Baudelaire with the remark: The greatest trick the devil ...
The United States has crossed $40 trillion in gross federal debt, and Washington will treat it as another unfortunate milestone before returning to the business of spending money it does not have. The...
“Economic war” sounds like a tidy solution until you look at what it actually does and what it rarely accomplishes. We sit down with Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski to pressure-test the latest U.S. messagi...
A US senator gets a basic Taiwan and South China Sea question and freezes, defaulting to “I support the military.” That clip sets the tone for a hard look at how casually America treats foreign policy...
“Economic D-Day against Iran” makes for great TV, but it only matters if the US can actually enforce it. Kyle sits down with Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and the writer behind Sonar21, to press...
ABC is challenging the Federal Communications Commission, arguing that the agency is using its licensing authority to punish the network… The post Free Speech Unmuted: The Process Is The Punishment: <...
"I played a small role in trying to stop the ABA’s collapse, which I have not previously discussed, but now wish to share."
It's time to reexamine our assumptions about prisons and punishment.
Prediction markets can no longer offer sports event contracts in Nevada after the appellate court's decision, giving other states a roadmap for regulating the platforms.
So the Third Circuit held yesterday, though it left room for challenges to laws that make it too hard to get cross-licensed from one state to another.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief said a meeting of the bloc’s defense ministers did not result in progress towards a weapons transfer to Ukraine that included Patriot missiles. “There were c...
Over the years, we have seen numerous examples of how businesses benefit from war. Look no further than Lockheed Martin receiving $313 billion and Raytheon $145 billion between 2020–2024 from Pentagon...
Editors at National Review Online offer words of caution to the Trump administration’s top treasury official. A heavily indebted debtor is not well-advised to be seen to play games with his creditors,...
Last Friday, August 28, the U.S. Central Command claimed to have removed all sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that U.S. forces have cleared Iranian sea...
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro on Tuesday for denying religious exemptions to vaccines and also confirmed that ab...
A Cuban official said that there are no ongoing negotiations with the US. President Donald Trump has threatened to conduct a regime change in Havana after the US concludes its war against Iran. “The ...
TweetHere’s a letter to Foreign Affairs. Editor: Michael Pettis continues to stir up unwarranted fear of “trade imbalances” (“A Great Rebalancing Is Coming,” August 28). Although the global economy is...
American infrastructure is paralyzed by local communities looking out for their short-term interests.
The world’s worst-performing economy for 100 years has – in a remarkably short period of time – become an amazing case study of economic liberalization. Thanks to President Javier Milei, Argentina is ...
A short excerpt from the longish Dole v. Connetquot Central School Dist., decided yesterday by Second Circuit Judge Alison Nathan,… The post School Can Control What Flags Schoolteachers Hang on Classr...
From Tyson-Phipps v. Rubio, decided yesterday by Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein (S.D.N.Y.): [The Complaint] alleges that defendant's decision to discipline… The post No Second Amendment Right to ...
We’ve noted repeatedly how in 1913, with the establishment of the Fed, the monetary system got on the wrong track. Then, in 1971, it went off the rails. By the late 1960s, the US government lacked rea...
Why Trump’s Venezuelan Oil ‘Deal’ Is a Fantasy President Trump is selling the American people a fantasy. The announcement of a “historic” deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of o...
Two oil tankers were hit by unknown munitions in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night. A UK maritime shipping agency reported that a Saudi and a South Korean oil tanker were struck by projectiles in ...
The fastest way to lose a war is to start one without an end state, and that’s the thread we pull from start to finish with Jim Webb. We get specific about what “no strategy” looks like in the real wo...
What kind of ruling can we expect from SCOTUS?
With Dr. Krassen Stanchev (Founder and Board Chairman of the Institute for Market Economics in Bulgaria). There is a curious paradox in today’s debates over capitalism: The only economic system that h...
Most recent appeals to the common good avoid the hard political questions, aiming to gratify the desire for “harmonious monism.”
From De Ford v. Koutoulas, decided last month by Judge Paul Byron (M.D. Fla.) but just posted on Westlaw, which… The post What About a "'Let's Go Brandon' Was a Hallucination in the First Place" Defen...
Scalia made no plans for his papers.
It wasn’t that long ago that our society valued heroes and heroic virtue. Young people would look up to certain individuals who possessed the qualities of virtue, perseverance, humility, and courage. ...
America’s unspoken military practice from World War II to the present consists in routinely targeting civilians, which constitutes a crime against humanity. When a global military agenda is heralded a...
Will they not do it, or will they just not talk about doing it?
Fake wide receivers running scams, Djokovic bounced, Messi retires, The Giving Tree wasn't about stadium subsidies, and more…
9/1/1823: Justice Smith Thompson takes judicial oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 1, 1823 appeared first on Reason.com.
St. Louis County, Missouri, Police Chief Juan Cox says he does not know why police officers shot at a car full… The post Brickbat: Ask Questions Later appeared first on Reason.com.
—– Writes Tyler Durden: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the audience at the Group of 20 finance ministers’ meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, that Iran’s ability to weaponize the Strait of H...
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Thousands have been killed, and there looks like no end to it.
Mass unemployment gave the protectionists their best argument in a generation, and they nearly won.
Democratic socialists claim they can painlessly transform the US economy into one where no one has debt, housing and medical care is free, and the state meets everyone's needs. Their ideas are interna...
Aaron Sibarium writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the skewed priorities at one high-profile law school. When Maya Parthasarathy, a student editor at the University of California, Berkeley’s l...
Wesley Smith writes for National Review Online about the latest bad idea from a leading science journal. Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requ...
It doesn't matter if you're right. If you don't cave, the government might stop at nothing to destroy you.
Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stop...
A SCOTUS petition argues that the practice, which allows a judicial finding of dangerousness based on a preponderance of the evidence, violates the Fifth Amendment.
Trump threatened the Center for American Progress with a defamation lawsuit, while Jason Watson faces a court martial for offending the president.
“You kill people and break things for a living.”- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in Quantico, Virginia on September 30, 2025 The primary male sex hormone, testosterone, has been in the news of late. St...
Plus: Gustavo Gordillo's lies, measles among the Amish, Milo Yiannopoulos deported, and more...
American consumers and businesses are being taken advantage of by Canadians who are…offering to sell us aluminum, oil, and wood? How?
The fluorescent hum of a grocery store at 6 AM carries a different pitch now. You can hear it if you listen—the way the ballasts vibrate against half-empty shelving units, creating an acoustic signatu...
On the heels of the Leah File’s expose of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s major skill-set, this time targeting us, we find a new 25-year “US government agreement” to take ownership of 65% of Venezu...
At the White House on August 19, President Donald Trump said he anticipates a face-to-face session with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before December. Pressed on whether it would happen, he answered...
[1.] First, the facts from an earlier decision in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG: John Doe and Robert Roe are… The post Lawsuit Over Outing of Gay Saudi Residents by Lufthansa in Saudi Arabia Can Procee...
Trump administration officials didn’t try to hide that they were punishing the company for its views.
Americans are starting to recognize the dangers of pervasive surveillance by automated license plate readers.
America’s data center backlash may have produced an irresistible solution for the government and tech tycoons pushing the buildout. If communities do not want the giant facilities next door, put them ...
Matthew Continetti explores significant shifts in the Democratic Party’s coalition since Barack Obama roamed the White House. At first glance, it seems as if the same groups that powered Mr. Obama’s r...
After years of inflation, deficits, and economic stagnation, Argentina chose a radically different course. Javier Milei’s chainsaw reforms are putting free-market ideas to a real-world test.
There is a growing national outcry to ban Flock cameras. We do not give up our constitutional rights when we get into our vehicles, and we do not want authoritarian control freaks watching us, monitor...
Recently, there have been striking new developments that imply major changes in the correlation of forces. These developments have largely gone unacknowledged and their implications unexamined. I ma...
The number of new final regulations in 2026 topped the 2,000 mark. President Trump escalated his trade war against Canada and issued an executive order to rename Lake Ontario. Dolly Parton and Tim Cur...
The majority didn't decide whether the construction violated federal law, only that plaintiffs' purely aesthetic interests didn't allow them to assert a federal claim.
[The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, Jacob Siegel, March 24, 2026, Henry Holt and Co., 336 pages.] Jacob Siegel visualizes that, in an information-state form of government, a ...
Several years ago, I assembled a “Costberg” working paper surveying the largely impenetrable and undisclosed costs of regulation. The project grew out of several simple observations: Office of Managem...
In spring of 2008, I was living in Vienna, Austria and carefully followed the reporting on the NATO Bucharest Summit from April 2-4. For readers who don’t remember this momentous occasion: it was duri...
On Wednesday CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow for a few hours of talk with Russian security officials. The trip was no secret as the planes transporting Ratcliffe and his entourage were re...
My friend, Karl Miller, is out with a great piece that exposes Trump’s claims about Venezuelan oil as a massive case of gaslighting. I am summarizing his piece, which is titled,“Venezuela Oil: The Phy...
The Court rejects the D.C. Circuit's erroneous "aesthetic injury" standing precedents and the Chief can only wax about Churchill.
President Donald Trump posted that Iran is “officially a failed nation” and “dead.” “Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD!” he wrote on Truth Social Monday. “They have no Navy, they have no ...
Bringing manufacturing back to America won’t mean recreating the factories of the past. A competitive industrial future will depend on robots, automation, and workers becoming more productive alongsid...
Plus: the escalating war with Iran, Meta's $17 billion settlement, and Milo Yiannopoulos gets deported.
The donkey's owner says officers wandered onto her property without permission and shot the small donkey because they felt threatened.
The case is a decision by Judge Susan Illston (N.D. Cal.) Friday in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (see also… The post Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Apply to Foreign Speech by Foreigners appeared first on Reas...
Griffith Rutherford was a civic and military leader from the North Carolina frontier who was involved in all aspects of the colony’s Revolutionary struggle. He lived just southwest of Salisbury in Row...
Frederick Hess ponders recent efforts to counter left-wing bias in American universities. Conservatives’ trust in higher education has plummeted since 2015, and for good reason. A deluge of canceled s...
Hume's philosophic project unfolded over decades, but it was rooted in his view of human nature.
The American Constitution is not as “godless” as postliberal critics say—but the people must sustain spiritual capital for it to work.
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. The world is better off for Carney walking away from the Trump trade negotiations. But we must demand far more from Ottawa in terms of distancing the country from...
President Donald Trump said he would order another round of attacks on Iran. On Sunday, the US bombed an Iranian military site on Larak Island. Washington claimed that the IRGC was preparing to fire ...
The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government.
Chris Miller assesses the potential impact of the Trump administration’s approach toward science. The Trump administration has a contentious relationship with America’s scientists, strong-arming unive...
The presence of European Students For Liberty has been steadily rising on the continent, reaching over 40 national chapters, defending liberty in their countries by hosting events, writing articles, o...
8/31/1995: Students at Santa Fe Independent School District voted to allow a student to say a prayer at football games.… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 31, 1995 appeared first on Reas...
Top military command across multiple branches and commands warned that prolonged large-scale operations were unsustainable. The Washington Post spoke with multiple officials familiar with a bi-weekly...
Chinese electric cars and Venezuelan crude oil.
Matt Weidinger explains the significance of recent federal government unemployment data. Federal lawmakers created major temporary unemployment benefit programs during the pandemic, which collectively...
David Jäkle wanted out of Germany, but every conventional path seemed to require someone else’s approval. Eventually, he realized that building a freer life meant finding his own way out.