Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 15 sites. We chose these from 1963 articles found on 36 sites.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”— Thomas Jefferson When the Trump administration—and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in particular—began...
Some Democrats are licking their chops over other economic powers that Trump has claimed for the presidency.
TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague, Veronique de Rugy, explains that “Trump’s beef tariff cut accidentally makes the case for free trade.” Two slices: Take the most recent paper by economists ...
Plus: Mail-in ballots, mortgage rates reach new high, arcade.gov is a new low, and more...
In MAGAfied versions of Tapper and Tetris, the seed oils will eventually get through and the border wall will be breached.
International Man: For decades, the US has been the world’s dominant military, financial, and political power. Where is the American empire today? Are we witnessing a temporary period of weakness—or s...
The percent of Americans who believe that their Government is corrupt is now the 4th-highest ever recorded for any country: 89%. Only Lebanon in 2024 (92%), Peru in 2025 (92%), Ghana in 2024 (90%), an...
If we are ever to get our country back on the right track, it is imperative that we never forget that the U.S. national-security state and its foreign policy of interventionism are responsible for the...
Multiculturalism’s advocates present their agenda in terms of enhancing diversity. By diversity they mean more variety, not what the DEI advocates mean by the word–replacement of merit by some defini...
I cannot, indeed, understand the way you live, and your house is strange to me. You give me a bath such as the Emperor himself might envy, but no one attends me to it; a bed softer than sleep itself, ...
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about the Justice Department’s plans for keeping tabs on upcoming elections. Last month, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon ...
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online predicts one likely consequence of a Democratic congressional election victory this fall. Democrats are licking their lips at their prospects in the 2026 midterm...
For decades, the high priests of the Arctic establishment—the tenured mandarins, the deep-state bureaucrats, and the military-industrial gatekeepers—have policed the intellectual boundaries of the Far...
[This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman.] Over the past decade, many legal challenges have turned on whether… The post Eleventh Circuit Holds Qui Tam Relators Are Not "Officers o...
Steven Richards writes for Just the News about one leading congressman’s critique of FBI actions under past administrations. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday said that the de...
At Reykjavik, Reagan paired principle with strategy and hard-nosed negotiations.
Montgomery County officials want to prevent houses of worship from making security decisions.
For some strange reason, there is a certain minority of libertarians out there who think that Curtis Yarvin is some sort of libertarian—or at least some kind of pro-freedom intellectual. Much of this ...
Somewhere in America there’s a local ordinance that tells you which way your garage has to face. Another one dictates what your fence can be made of, and a third sets how many square feet of window yo...
Zelensky’s talk about “negligence” and “holding to account” is cynical pap that the Western media lend credibility to. A Russian drone strike on an ammunition depot near Kiev last week resulted in 38 ...
Iceland successfully defended its territorial waters and defeated the British Royal Navy through non-military tactics across three (some say four) major conflicts known as the Cod Wars between 1958 an...
Editors at National Review Online criticize the Trump administration’s latest bad idea. The United States has a long history of declining to put living people on its currency. This history dates back ...
Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.
The Departure of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll from the Pentagon this week has touched off another wave of speculation over the rivalries in the Trump administration and whether the “Rubio faction” is b...
It can help us find like-minded people who are quietly reclaiming our culture.
Who’s really fighting the power—figurative and literal—here? The post Distracted on Data Centers appeared first on Free the People.
An interesting perspective from D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Glickman concurring in Douglas v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co.… The post Lawyers' Responsibility for Hallucinations in Briefs That ...
This podcast appeals to both history dads and true-crime girlies.
On 31 August 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking about Iran and Ukraine. I made the case that despite all the hype in the West about how well Ukraine is doing in its war with Russia, the fact is ...
Tweet… is from page 213 of Menzie Chinn’s and Douglas Irwin’s superb 2025 textbook, International Economics: The past few decades have been an era of globalization. Most countries have moved to reduce...
D.C.’s highest court strikes Deutsche Bank’s appellate brief as a sanction.
9/4/1851: Justice Levi Woodbury dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 4, 1851 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
The American Folk Art Museum curates works by self-taught artists.
It’s more about what he does than what he doesn’t.
The US had tried unsuccessfully for more than 60 years to bring down Cuba’s regime, it being done at a huge cost to the Cuban people. The Trump administration’s latest embargo expansion is only making...
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.
The bipartisan bill, which passed the House, takes aim at university boycotts of any “major strategic partner.”
Criticism from Trump allies and recent survey results show that resistance to widespread deployment of automated license plate readers spans the political spectrum.
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...
As the president liberalized the market for beef, he also imposed new 50 percent tariffs on some $20 billion worth of Canadian goods. Americans will suffer.
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...
Despite carrying a REAL ID, Leo Garcia Venegas has been repeatedly detained by immigration agents. Now he’s suing to block immigration raids targeting Latinos on private construction sites.
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...
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...
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...
What's the deal with bonds and interest rates? The post Disinteresting Rates | Words & Numbers | Ep 522 appeared first on Free the People.
Sonoma County launched the program to find illegal cannabis grows, but it secretly morphed into a wider search for minor building code violations.
President Donald Trump is asking Europe to pay the US billions of dollars for military aid sent to Ukraine under the Joe Biden administration. “Also, please let it be known, that the Biden Administra...
Pangram founder Max Spero urged social media not to pile on too much though.
There's “no reason to think a federal incentive would work any differently from state incentives,” says one expert.
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...
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho hit on a variety of topics, including meaningful rollbacks of Flock in the south, a look at immigration protests in Spain, and Washington's new...
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...
Norway seized a Russian ship in the Arctic after a court ruled that it should be used to compensate Ukraine. The ship was departing a Russian port in the Svalbard archipelago when authorities seized ...
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the stalled jury deliberations in Lindsay Clancy’s case and the police killing of Heehaw.
Plus Mozambique.
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 Magazine.
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...
President Donald Trump is attacking the US media for reporting that the US military is concerned about the depletion of resources during the war against Iran. “The people and Media Outlets that keep ...
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...
Japanese, German, and US bonds are all rising to multiyear highs. Huge global debt loads are triggering demands for higher yields.
Vance apparently believes that the Fed should lower interest rates as price is rising and lower rates are the “ proper and responsible” response to recent U.S. inflation data.
“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 case smacks of a desire for retribution that cannot be satisfied by prosecuting the actual killers, who committed suicide.
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?
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...
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 ...
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...