Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 99 articles from 14 sites. We chose these from 1965 articles found on 36 sites.
The primaries are over, and the November general election looms. Suddenly, the Islamo-socialist podcaster Hasan Piker—who is now infamous for blaming America for 9/11 and warning Jews that “someone’s ...
The American people are not merely dissatisfied with Washington. They have concluded that the government itself is corrupt. A new Gallup poll found that 89% of American adults believe corruption is wi...
Plus: AI doom, trolling the DSA, and more...
TweetNational Review‘s John Puri decries J.D. Vance’s latest collectivist policy proposal: Government subsidies for stay-at-home parents. Two slices: Meanwhile, the administration’s proposal would exp...
Gasoline is up nearly 30 percent, and diesel prices are at a record high since the war began.
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in ...
I spent the past weekend as a participant in the annual Ron Paul Institute conference that takes place in the Washington area, in northern Virginia. This year the theme was “Front Row at the Revolutio...
Aspiring builders do have a problem, but democracy isn't it.
The ban was accompanied by a new set of tariffs targeting Canadian motorboats, cheese, and other products in the latest expansion of an absurd trade war.
The move further escalates this harmful and illegal trade war with a vital ally.
From Dep't of Health v. Lawler, decided Sept. 1 by Florida Administrative Law Judge Robert Cohen: On or about January… The post Judge Recommends Fining Delivery Nurse for Vulgar TikTok Video "Wish[ing...
He who controls the weather will control the world. Vice President Lyndon Johnson said those words in 1962 during a commencement speech at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State University. By then, th...
Reports of Russia’s “Iskander-1000” are not just about a new weapon—they are the logical consequence of Washington’s systematic dismantling of the arms control architecture, which has ultimately backf...
Amnesty International recently reported on the 225th extrajudicial killing conducted by the U.S. government in its campaign against boats in the Caribbean. Boasts made by the U.S. Southern Command are...
A Massachusetts case reminds us of the dangers and abuses of using history in legal rulings.
"Alienation of affection" actions like the one Sinema is facing undermine the idea that adults have agency in their romantic and sexual choices.
Recent comments by Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis reflect a bipartisan backlash against warrantless surveillance.
As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Sau...
TweetHere’s a letter to a new correspondent. Mr. Barnett: Thanks for sharing Oren Cass’s September 4th post in which he argues that Trump’s tariffs are successful. Here are two reactions – one general...
With every prognostication, every handicap, every conjecture, we scribbling soothsayers put the Gods of the Copybook Headings into a rage. The post Pweeease and Phhwaank You, Mr. Pwesideeeent appeared...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Taylor Rogers didn't show that it was clearly established that it was excessive force to be held down on a pile of fire ants while handcuffed.
Defendant's playing "the KRS-One song entitled 'Sound of da Police' at a high and disruptive volume from her vehicle while simultaneously directing offensive, suggestive, and threatening remarks towar...
Adam Kredo writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a damaging new revelation involving the United Nations. The U.N. internal investigation into whether its own staff at the embattled United Nation...
Unions do protect the jobs of existing workers and sometimes get them raises. But that protection kills jobs later.
Nicholas Ballasy writes for Just the News about a disappointing report involving projected federal government savings. The Department of Homeland Security will not realize the $10.5 billion in potenti...
Read Part 1 here. The AI deregulatory alternative: Liberalize networks and what flows through them This is where the warnings of CEI founder Fred L. Smith Jr. matter enormously. Smith emphasized the l...
It’s been a fascinating year as the nation celebrates America’s independence. An important part of that celebration has been learning about North Carolina’s often-neglected role in both the decision t...
The order from the Justice is listed before the reply briefs.
Last Monday, a day before the Republican-controlled House passed a resolution condemning socialism, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital announced that it had acquired a 35 percent stake in Nort...
Tyler O’Neil writes for the Daily Signal about an interesting source of opposition to President Donald Trump’s reforms. Who ultimately decides how the executive branch works? Is it the president, elec...
Editors at National Review Online offer an interesting idea for countering misleading union propaganda. Every Labor Day, unions claim responsibility for much of modern America’s cushy living standards...
From today's decision by Judge Darrin Gayles (S.D. Fla.) in Belafonte v. Brown: This case arises out of abuse allegations… The post Scary Spice off the Hook in Florida appeared first on Reason Magazin...
9/9/1806: Justice William Paterson dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 9, 1806 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Sven Hüber, the deputy chairman of Germany's largest police union and a high-ranking government official with the Federal Police, has… The post Brickbat: Mein Gott appeared first on Reason Magazine.
The F35 is a disaster and I have written about it endlessly here. The drama continues. But the F-35A remains the cheapest and least complex variant of the three. The F-35B—the short takeoff and vertic...
In 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided “full funding” for one Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki for studies in civil engineering at Colorado State University. There was o...
Download Audio. Scott interviews Elizabeth Lane about the domestic and geopolitical situation facing the country of Georgia. Lane, who is Georgian, digs deep into the relevant history and explains how...
Download Audio. Scott interviews Scooter Downey, a producer at the Tucker Carlson Network, about his new documentary series on the Oklahoma City bombing. Discussed on the show: The OKCBOMB Files An Am...
Tweet… is from page iv of the late Nobel-laureate Gary Becker’s Foreword to the 1990 second edition of David Friedman’s superb textbook, Price Theory: An Intermediate Text: [C]onsider tariffs, quotas,...
This series (see here, here, here, here, here, and here) has a very simple purpose. Simply stated, I want people to understand that none of America’s economic challenges will be solved by copying Euro...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 7, 2026 “Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.” — F. A. Hayek Governor Josh Shapiro’s Department of H...
There is something most clarifying about being young when old men begin discussing conscription. People who have spent forty years becoming progressively less likely to encounter hostile artillery sud...
A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform
I think it evident to anyone that we are in the middle of a real “cultural war,” that is, a vigorous, often vicious, mostly angry, take-no-prisoners struggle for what is left of the American country w...
It seeks to usurp state and congressional power over election administration.
Meanwhile, the top court of Massachusetts considers whether the state can deny carry permits to applicants who are deemed "unsuitable."
In November, we will learn whether Buckeye Republicans have been sufficiently persuaded by a more tolerant vision of the fusion of faith and freedom.
Plus: Capitalism blaming, desalination innovation, Houthis fire on Saudi Arabia, and more...
More is at stake in the US-Canada trade war than just tariffs and revenue.
Plus: The NBA’s punishments to Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers are great, but not quite enough; and an ode to the friendships connected by fantasy football
Walk through the financial districts of London, New York, or Singapore at six in the evening, and you’ll catch the last act of a performance that grows harder to maintain by the quarter. The tailored ...
For the life of me, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose serfdom over freedom. After all, we’ve been given only one life to live. Wouldn’t it be better to live that one life in freedom rat...
August’s job numbers were better than expected. President Trump threatened to cut off trade to all nations that export more to America than they import. Hostilities in Iran flared up again. Diesel fue...
Instead of abolishing the department, the president increased its budget. It's now pursuing investigations against school districts for seemingly political reasons.
Writes Bill Madden: What we are experiencing is the logical conclusion of an economic cycle where a relatively few super-rich families own and control everything. The wealth transfer from the people ...
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks will arrive this Friday but I’m not sure how much attention that date will receive. Those landmark events of a quarter-century ago were certainly among...
Roughly 4,000 soldiers of the Army’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, unpacked their gear in the second week of May. The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon had scrapped ...
A shrinking middle class sounds alarming—until you see where many families went. Rising prosperity complicates the familiar story about wealth inequality.
China's growth is not the result of command.
Ukraine is in trouble. It is losing the war in Eastern Europe, it is losing its land, and it is losing its people. Ukraine’s demographic survival is in danger: it is wasting away. Since the conflict i...
Five votes can do anything; six votes should do everything.
The D.C. Circuit just let a case making this allegation go forward.
In 1845, the French economist Frédéric Bastiat petitioned parliament on behalf of the nation’s candlestick makers. They were being ruined, he wrote, by an unscrupulous rival that was flooding the mark...
AOC gets asked a simple question with enormous consequences: should Benjamin Netanyahu be arrested if he lands in the United States while an ICC warrant hangs over him? We unpack why her cautious answ...
AnCapville has no monopoly government, but it isn’t without rules or order. Here’s how private law, market incentives, restitution, and freedom of choice could make it work.
Plus: J.D. Vance wants to pay stay-at-home parents, what America got wrong after 9/11, and whether FDA cuts are putting food safety at risk
The free speech organization, FIRE, says the Polk County Sheriff’s Office’s bans on its social media pages violate the First Amendment.
C.J. Ciaramella discusses 250 years of prison reform, the crisis facing state prisons, and whether America can build a more humane system.
US military and intelligence officials are discussing reducing the number of American troops and permanent bases in the Middle East. CNN reported that it spoke with six officials who said the quiet co...
Robert Romano writes for the Daily Torch about the impact of falling oil prices on gas prices. “The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower price...
Magistrate Judge rejects plaintiff's theory that, because President Trump has claimed he was the rightful winner in 2020, he was therefore ineligible in 2024.
Plus: A nightmare squatting situation in Washington, D.C.
The Court rebuffs this effort to claims the Fourteenth Amendment protects positive rights.
“America’s state religion, is ‘patriotism,’ a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.” ~ William Blum One meaningless jingoistic clich...
The AI debate asks how the federal government should regulate commercial artificial intelligence and “big tech,” with little recognition or appreciation that the government has demonstrated itself to ...
California may become the first state to take major statutory action to regulate wearable recording devices like smart glasses. Senate Bill 1130 has passed both chambers of the California legislature ...
I’ve written several times (here, here, here, here, here, and here) about Trump’s economic illiteracy. Five of those columns were about Trump’s blind spot on trade and one dealt with his affinity for ...
On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered. Five days later, O.J. Simpson took the LAPD… The post O.J. Simpson and Lindsay Clancy appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Their defamation and breach of contract case against Stefanie Lambert can go forward, a judge concluded.
AR-15 ban issue attracts filing of 45 amicus briefs in Supreme Court.
The Leipzig false-flag event is a desperate attempt to cover up and gaslight the public into perceiving Russia as a threat. European news headlines have been dominated by Germany’s accusation that Rus...
Qatar is warning that there will be significant global consequences if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened soon. Iran closed the Strait in response to the war started by the US and Israel. President ...
Editors at the New York Post highlight Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest bad idea. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist revolution is on the march — with an army of nearly 200 social-media “influencers” promo...
Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing.
Stalin once said, `The death of one person is a tragedy. The death of thousands is a mere statistic.’ He was quite right, of course. Palestine is the current example of Stalin’s cynical observation. T...
It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis....
Corruption in Ukraine is a long standing issue. As the Guardian headlined more than a decade ago: Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe – Guardian, Feb 6 2015 The inflow of money to Uk...
President Donald Trump held a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin after his envoys met with leaders in Moscow and Kiev. According to the Kremlin, Trump told Putin he wants to bring the war in U...
Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations. This second episode examines an historical example of...
Editors at the New York Post ponder a US senator’s proposal for holding a national teachers union accountable for its misdeeds. A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider revoking the Nationa...
In AnCapville, roads, schools, security, arbitration, and even neighborhood rules emerge through voluntary agreements rather than political monopoly. Alex Kane’s ordinary day offers a glimpse of what ...
Law schools will still voluntarily follow the standard, and the Department of Education will still remove the ABA's accrediting authority
9/8/1953: Chief Justice Fred Vinson dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 8, 1953 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
A police officer in Greenville, North Carolina, was placed on administrative leave after a Ring doorbell video showed officers entering… The post Brickbat: Thinkin' About My Doorbell appeared first on...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: After trillions spent on Middle East wars, hundreds of billions on Ukraine, a staggering $100 Billion has already been spent by the American people for extra energy...
Thaddeus McCotter writes for American Greatness about the importance of studying lessons from the nation’s history. Once more in these trying times, Americans are compelled to recognize and reflect up...
TweetEconomics textbooks teach that a core function of government is to “internalize externalities.” Observation teaches that a core function of government is to externalize internalties – as I explai...
The unusual victory arises from a connection to the Contracts Clause.
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