Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 17 sites. We chose these from 1963 articles found on 36 sites.
The court struck down the government’s use of immigration law to threaten lawful noncitizens with deportation for protected speech.
Trump has criticized DEI initiatives for lowering hiring standards. A whistleblower now says ICE did that on purpose.
Both seek sweeping government control over the economy, thereby imperiling liberty, prosperity, and democracy.
TweetDaniel Hannan, Director-General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, righty criticizes J.D. Vance’s clueless hostility to economics and free markets. Two slices: JD Vance is the latest postliber...
The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to add four-legged robots to ICE’s growing enforcement arsenal. They are often called “robot dogs,” a friendly label that makes the machines sound more...
The fuss over Lake Ontario may seem like another dumb distraction. In a way, it is. But its essence is serious, particularly because many people involved are acting so frivolous. As with everything Do...
The chief justice finds himself in dissent in his latest showdown with the president.
The court rightly concluded that the order is barred by the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Barbara.
“Economic D-Day” might sound like a clean alternative to missiles, but economic war has its own escalation ladder. Today with guest Andrew Day, we break down the Trump administration’s reported shift ...
Sept. 3, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government today announced a discussion on lawfare, dark money and foreign influence targeting U.S. economic infrastructure critical to national secur...
The New Right's "common good" dresses textbook collective action problems in lofty philosophical language.
Alejandro Betancourt has become the key go-between for the Trump administration, Venezuela’s new regime, and American oil companies.
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States gov...
The US Treasury has doubled the size of its buyback operations for longer-term government securities from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation after long-term yields surged to levels not se...
Plus: Times Square stabbing, free-range kids case, Gloria Steinem dies, and more...
—– Writes Moon of Alabama: The Trump administration has yet to learn of cause and effect … Bessent Blames High Energy Prices on Ukraine’s Russia Strikes (archived) – Bloomberg, Sep 2 2026 Treasury Sec...
This op-ed originally appeared in the Winston-Salem Journal on August 27. While Black voters have long been the most consistent supporters of the Democratic Party, they are also some of the most polit...
Chuck Ross writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a wealthy Democrat’s electoral shenanigans. The crypto billionaire and Democratic megadonor Chris Larsen is pouring millions into Republican prim...
The predatory state becomes expert at using narratives to conceal its abuses.
This is Entergy Arkansas LLC v. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc., a case I blogged about yesterday, where a data center construction company sought a temporary… The post Judge's Opinion Denying TRO Agai...
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about a new election integrity measure from the federal government. With a little more than two months to go before November’s midterm elections, the Department o...
Dan McLaughlin writes for National Review Online about disturbing comments from two high-profile Democrats. A resurfaced, since-deleted September 11, 2021, tweet from Michigan Senate candidate Abdul E...
Punishing a company for building the best product doesn't serve the businesses or users antitrust enforcers claim to protect.
The only “reform” that changes our lives in a fundamentally positive way is radical decentralization via distributing centralized power. Presidents like to deal with the CEOs of corporate monopolies f...
On June 24 the (acting) president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced a 40-day campaign: “I approved a 40-day operation by the Service to influence the aggressor state in order to press for ...
The Iranian conflict is going very well for Israel. Israel has succeeded in turning the conflict into one between Iran and Israel’s proxy, Washington, just as Washington has succeeded in turning Ukra...
Sonoma County launched the program to find illegal cannabis grows, but it secretly morphed into a wider search for minor building code violations.
From Tuesday's decision by Judge Lara Montecalvo, joined by Chief Judge David Barron and Judge Sandra Lynch, in Díaz v.… The post Puerto Rico Has Rational Basis for Allowing Only Two Genders for Birth...
People in our sphere like to talk about this thing called the Overton Window. Anytime somebody proposes a political initiative or a protest movement or a petition or a publicity campaign that is eithe...
From the Tom Woods Letter: Here’s a recent item from Reuters you’ll find interesting: “The US Education Department has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls ‘racial balancing’ in stud...
Thousands of Moroccans remain in Ceuta, looting, assaulting women, and paralyzing commerce in the small Spanish enclave.
In this week’s episode we cover climate collusion between California and Quebec, how luxurious college campuses are breeding socialists, and government regulation’s protection paradox. Our interview i...
The Ottoman red flag was once on the verge of fluttering right beside the Spanish and English banners across the Americas. While this remains a provocative historical “what-if” rather than proof of an...
In the Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard argued that aggressive war is always immoral and must always be opposed. The just war doctrine should be understood not as a moral toolkit that can be harness...
From the docket this morning; for more on the case, see here and here (the latter item notes the sealing,… The post Brief Update on the Entergy / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Matter appeared first on Rea...
9/3/2005: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 3, 2005 appeared first on Reason.com.
A former school administrator and two others received federal prison sentences after pleading guilty to wire fraud. Brian Metcalf, a… The post Brickbat: School of Hard Knocks appeared first on Reason....
We’re told “inflation” is just needing more dollars to buy stuff – not that the stuff actually costs more. This is bullshit. I can prove that it is bullshit. In the mid-1990s, I was working as a journ...
A foreign government buying ads on a US senator’s podcast sounds like satire until you follow the money. We dig into reporting from Connor Echols at Responsible Statecraft on how Israeli government “I...
Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers.
Donald Trump may have declared, “I love inflation,” but for regular families, inflation is perhaps their worst enemy.
The argument for AI solving inflation runs through productivity: better technology lowers costs, so prices fall. Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute takes that apart. Technology genuinely made co...
Because of Keynesian inflationary bias, economists, politicians, and journalists celebrated the huge financial moves that Ben Bernanke made in 2008 and beyond to deal with the financial meltdown and i...
Noah Rothman writes for National Review Online about President Donald Trump’s “big bet” on data centers. When the paranoid style in American politics gets in the way of the Trump administration’s init...
“Great Houses, multi-generational, business owning, succession oriented, households are the Pillars of Civilization,” says Gregory Treat. “If we want to rebuild Civilization we must start by building ...
The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deporta...
The American people are complaining about affordability. The prices of groceries, automobiles, movies, clothes, gasoline, rent, mortgage payments, and just about everything else are soaring. Many Amer...
Do you remember over the course of the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections when Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement promised to launch the United States into yet another M...
Plus: Stephanie Slade's book is out! and more...
Founded more than a century ago in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the New York City based Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) ranks as our oldest and most mainstream foreign policy or...
It has been accepted for months that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was instrumental in convincing U.S. President Donald Trump that war with Iran was a good idea. In February, The New York ...
Some excerpts from U.S. v. Aleman-Lozano, decided yesterday by Third Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz, joined by Judges Theodore McKee: Aleman-Lozano… The post Third Circuit Rejects Facial Challenge to Ban...
How do you know what a lawyer really believes when he is always representing a client?
Despite President Donald Trump’s announcement on Friday of an oil deal with Venezuela, oil prices rose on Monday. That’s because 65 billion barrels of potential future oil do not move markets the way ...
The case smacks of a desire for retribution that cannot be satisfied by prosecuting the actual killers, who committed suicide.
With the conflict over Hormuz dragging on, the administration is betting on a strategy that failed at the beginning of the war.
By unilaterally razing and replacing the East Wing, the president again shows his disregard for the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Through the instigation of a particular LRC reader I have written articles on French medicine and Italian libertarianism, The Conscience of French Medicine and A Rare Breed: Alessandro Fusillo, respec...
The Trump administration isn't trying to end socialism in Venezuela. Instead, it is doing socialism in Venezuela.
From Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, joined by Judges Felipe Restrepo and Cindy Chung, in yesterday's U.S. v. Berger: Gun… The post Second Amendment Doesn't Protect Machineguns, Doesn't Preclude ...
Today, I had this conversation with ChatGPT: – “IS THERE ANY RELIABLE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE MEASURE OF THE AMOUNT OF GOVERNMENTAL CORRUPTNESS IN U.S., OR RUSSIA, OR CHINA, OR INDIA, OR GERMANY (OR EU)?” ...
Most people carry a mental image of collapse that looks like a movie scene. Tanks rolling through streets. Banks locking their doors overnight. Crowds panicking in front of empty stores. These dramati...
It argues that strengthening protection for property rights is essential to liberty, and to benefiting the poor and disadvantaged.
New Mexico required kindergarten through second-grade students to learn literacy skills from a purple-haired AI avatar called Amira. Parents are pushing back.
A federal lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the Flock cameras without a legitimate government purpose and in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right...
On the same day that he accuses President Trump of bypassing Congress to build a new structure, his own entity bypasses Congress to build a new structure.
What if Hitler had won the war? That’s the question that Pat Buchanan never explicitly asks in his book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, but it’s also the question for which the author prov...
President Donald Trump says he is not interested in negotiating an end to the war against Iran. “I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported. I couldn’t care less ...
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is sparring with the teachers union over bonuses. But is he really concerned about New York City’s education budget?
Flock cameras, and the online surveillance network behind them, offer many ways for law enforcement officials, and other government bureaucrats, to abuse their access to information about the personal...
AI may replace some human labor, complement other workers, and create entirely new opportunities. Taxing its computing power now bets on one uncertain future before we know how the labor market will a...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to threaten civilian air traffic in Russia. “Today, we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, and everyone who still use...
Last year, European Students For Liberty volunteers hosted almost 600 events, ranging from small book clubs to multiple-day trainings and large-scale conferences. The largest volunteer-run event and a...
He was remarkably frank about how little modern Aristotelians can truly explain.
Construction of new housing collapsed in the Minnesota city as builders took their business elsewhere.
From KARK (Alex Kienlen) today, reporting on a decision by Judge Lee Rudofsky (E.D. Ark.) in Entergy Arkansas LLC v. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette… The post No TRO Against Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as to ...
Bureaucrats who intend to do good still restrict competition and suppress liberty.
—– Writes Paul Craig Roberts: The lives and billions of dollars are not the only cost. Interest rates are rising in a global bond selloff renewed by Trump’s attacks on Iran, which pushed oil above $9...
Authored by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity August 28, 2026 MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Dangerous Talk of Putin’s ‘L...
Diverging interests between the US and Europe are becoming increasingly apparent. One sign of these tensions is Europe’s loss of priority status within US strategic affairs. European partners now appe...
Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it or not, the definition st...
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about the latest bad news for anti-Trump forces within government. New York Attorney General Letitia James has run her office like a mob boss, using taxpayer mone...
Jon Levine of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a questionable appointment from former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, now the Democrats’ US Senate candidate. North Carolina’s Democratic Senate no...
Stephanie Slade discusses the rise of the post-liberal right, the growing appeal of state power, and why fusionism still matters.
If you oppose the draft, you should oppose the measures that would make it easier to implement too.
Vice President JD Vance called for the US and Israeli relationship to be maintained at a private event. The Vice President’s mild criticisms of Israel have resulted in attacks from the Israel lobby an...
Neither JD Vance nor Marco Rubio is the inevitable choice.
Victor Davis Hanson writes for American Greatness about an apparent historical regression. For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent crime, and episo...
TweetUntil recently I did the following such calculations ‘by hand,’ but I recently realized that ChatGPT can reliably perform these calculations accurately and much more quickly than I am manually ab...
What would an American victory over China look like? I don’t mean the kind drawn with arrows on a Pentagon briefing slide. I mean a victory that leaves American families safer, American liberties inta...
Are government interventions truly caring? The post Coolidge’s Corrective to Socialists’ Corrupt Caring appeared first on Free the People.
It sets a precedent for releasing other bioengineered organisms into the wild to repair ecological damage.
In an incident report, the officer who shot the donkey wrote that he had to shoot the donkey to save himself and a K-9 team from injury.
From Townsend v. The Gardens at Aldersgate LLC, decided Monday by Magistrate Judge Rachel Schwartz (D. Kan.): This is a… The post "[A]n Unopposed Grant" of Sealing "Carries Little Weight in a Conteste...
Look, there's an attorney fee award. Oh my god!
—– Writes Martin Armstrong: A new poll out of France should not be viewed as some sudden political awakening. It is confirmation that the nationalist trend we have been watching throughout Europe for ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s fight to withdraw his name from the ballot in 2024 exposed the need to reform North Carolina’s candidate withdrawal and absentee ballot deadline laws. Two years later, they sti...
Every day, we place remarkable trust in people we don’t know. That simple expectation of peaceful behavior is one of the hidden foundations of a functioning society.