Libertarian Reporting for 2026-09-10

Updated on September 9, 2026 at 7:08:23 PM GMT

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.


Today's featured sites are:
LewRockwell, Reason Magazine, Cafe Hayek, Law & Liberty, The Libertarian Institute, Free the People, John Locke Foundation, Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute, International Liberty, The Republican Liberty Caucus – RLC.org, The Libertarian Alliance, The Advocates for Self-Government, Antiwar.com Blog, C4SIF.org.

Article Keywords: administration, biden, border, constitution, defense, election, fossil fuels, illegal aliens, immigration, mamdani, mamdani::2, migration, newsom, newsom::2, primaries, prison, republican, sanctuary, senate, supreme court, taxes

The Democratic Chicken—or the Socialist Egg?

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 ...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: biden, congress, debt, defense, election, foreign policy, government corruption, immigration, lawyer, migration, republican, rule of law, taxes, trade, trump, white house

89% of Americans Finally Understand That Government Is Corrupt

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, border, china, conservative, economy, election, executive order, iran, maga, mamdani, mamdani::2, republican, tps, trump

Should the State Pay Stay-at-Home Moms?

Plus: AI doom, trolling the DSA, and more...


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad, administration, border, china, conservative, constitution, election, iran, republican, supreme court, tariff, taxes, trade, trump

Some Links

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...


Cafe Hayek
Sep 9, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Article Keywords:  vance , administration, conflict, economy, escalation, gas price, iran, maga, nuclear, republican, scott bessent, trade, trump

Trump's War in Iran Has Cost Americans Over $101 Billion at the Pump

Gasoline is up nearly 30 percent, and diesel prices are at a record high since the war began.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: border, china, conflict, debt, federal reserve, indictment, inflation, kings, migrant, propaganda, tariff, trade

The Sacrificial Machine—How Private Finance Turned War Into Permanent Profit

“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 ...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: biden, congress, constitution, defense, election, foreign policy, gaza, iran, nuclear, republican, riot, trump

Front Row At the Revolution

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: congress, crime, crisis, feds, jobs, midterms, nuclear, prison, protest, protest, transitioning, white house

Hearts, Minds, and Dollar Signs

Aspiring builders do have a problem, but democracy isn't it.


Law & Liberty
Sep 9, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Article Keywords:  canad, border, china, conflict, escalation, maga, tariff, taxes, trade, trump, white house

Trump Bans Canadian Beer, Wine, Motorcycles, and More

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.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad, administration, congress, economy, maga, supreme court, tariff, trade, trump

Trump Expands Illegal Section 338 Tariffs Against Canadian Imports - and Bans Some Entirely

The move further escalates this harmful and illegal trade war with a vital ally.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  vance , administration, constitution, defense, first amendment, maga, redaction, trump, white house

Judge Recommends Fining Delivery Nurse for Vulgar TikTok Video "Wish[ing] a Gruesome Birth Injury on the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, While She Was Pregnant"

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...


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad,  ice , administration, climate, congress, election, propaganda, senate, trump

Weather Warfare Questions Rise as UN Demands Immediate Climate Action

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, biden, border, china, iran, nuclear, republican, trade, trump

How the US Destruction of the INF Treaty Backfired

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: crime, defense, gaza, iran, kings, maga, national security, rule of law, surveillance

Will You Be Killed By a Software Program?

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 9, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: constitution, first amendment, immigration, migration, protest, protest, second amendment, supreme court, taxes

Adjudicating “History and Tradition”

A Massachusetts case reminds us of the dangers and abuses of using history in legal rulings.


Law & Liberty
Sep 9, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Article Keywords: border, federal judge, maga, protest, protest, senate, supreme court, tps

Kyrsten Sinema Headed to Home-Wrecker Court After Judge Says Texts to Married Lover Could Leave Her Liable

"Alienation of affection" actions like the one Sinema is facing undermine the idea that adults have agency in their romantic and sexual choices.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: congress, conservative, enforcement, law enforcement, maga, republican, surveillance

Why Conservative Republicans Are Worried About License Plate Cameras

Recent comments by Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis reflect a bipartisan backlash against warrantless surveillance.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, border, crime, economy, iran, rubio, trump

Trump Lifts Sanctions on Top Al Qaeda Recruiters, Financiers Days Before 9/11 Anniversary

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: china, economy, inflation, tariff, tps, trade, trump

Oren Cass Should Get Real About the Theory and Facts of Trade

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...


Cafe Hayek
Sep 9, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Article Keywords:  vance , election, explosive, maga, republican, riot, trump

Pweeease and Phhwaank You, Mr. Pwesideeeent

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...


Free the People
Sep 9, 2026 - freethepeople.org
Article Keywords: appeals court, circuit court, constitution, federal judge, maga, supreme court

Appeals Court Grants Immunity to Texas Cops Who Held Handcuffed Woman Face Down in a Fire Ant Hill

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.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: constitution, enforcement, escalation, first amendment, law enforcement, maga

Sound of da Harassment Prosecution

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...


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: congress, enforcement, judiciary, law enforcement, observer, senate

UN sought to cover up its agency’s role in Oct. 7 attacks

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 9, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: jobs, lawyer, maga, republican, trade

I Celebrate Labor—Just Not Organized Labor

Unions do protect the jobs of existing workers and sometimes get them raises. But that protection kills jobs later.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: department of homeland security, dhs, executive order, fiscal, trump

Homeland Security’s DOGE savings won’t all pan out

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 9, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: escalation, surveillance, trump, white house

Misalignment by design: How AI could become the operating system of the administrative state (Part 2)

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...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 9, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: protest, protest, riot, taxes

What happened when, back then?

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 9, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: congress, maga, supreme court

A Strange Sorting Feature On The Supreme Court's Docket

The order from the Justice is listed before the reply briefs.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, republican, trump

Corporatism Goes Global

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 9, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, trump, white house

Executive branch officials fight Trump reforms from within

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 9, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: economy, minimum wage, propaganda

Renaming this week’s holiday ‘Economic Growth Day’

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 9, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: maga, supreme court

Scary Spice off the Hook in Florida

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...


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: maga, supreme court

Today in Supreme Court History: September 9, 1806

9/9/1806: Justice William Paterson dies.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 9, 1806 appeared first on Reason Magazine.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: border, maga

Brickbat: Mein Gott

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.


Reason Magazine
Sep 9, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: congress, jobs

F35 Follies: On and On and On

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 9, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: administration, biden

9/11, Anwar al-Awlaki and Our Unanswered Questions

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 9, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: foreign policy, tps

9/4/26 Elizabeth Lane on the Corruption of Georgia’s Past and the Battle for Its Future

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 9, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: foreign policy, tps

9/4/26 Scooter Downey on Waking People up to the Truth About the OKC Bombing

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 9, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: tariff, trade

Quotation of the Day…

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,...


Cafe Hayek
Sep 9, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Article Keywords:  canad, inflation

The United States vs. Europe, Part VII

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...


International Liberty
Sep 9, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Article Keywords: republican, tps

REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS STATEMENT ON PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR’S PROPOSED HEALTH POLICY

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...


The Republican Liberty Caucus – RLC.org
Sep 9, 2026 - rlc.org
Article Keywords: gaza, trump

No, I Will Not Fight Your War

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...


The Libertarian Alliance
Sep 9, 2026 - libertarianism.uk
Article Keywords: administration, asylum, border, circuit court, climate, conflict, congress, constitution, crime, criminal justice reform, crisis, enforcement, federal judge, indictment, jobs, judiciary, law enforcement, lawyer, maga, mass incarceration, migrant, migrants, migration, murderer, offender, prison, protest, protest, republican, riot, supreme court, tps, trade, trump, white house

The American Prison Experiment: A 250-Year History of Good Intentions and Bad Results

A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: communist, conservative, defense, demonstrator, election, foreign policy, gop, impeachment, jobs, maga, prison, protest, protest, republican, taxes, trump

‘Normals’ vs. the Revolutionary Pod People

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, congress, constitution, election, election law, executive order, gop, maga, republican, supreme court, tariff, trump

Trump's Executive Order on Mail-in Ballots is an Assault on Federalism and Separation of Powers

It seeks to usurp state and congressional power over election administration.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: appeals court, constitution, convictions, crime, defense, gun rights, maga, scotus, scotus::2, second amendment, supreme court

A SCOTUS Petition Argues That the Second Amendment Requires Carry-Permit Reciprocity

Meanwhile, the top court of Massachusetts considers whether the state can deny carry permits to applicants who are deemed "unsuitable."


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: conflict, conservative, constitution, immigration, maga, migrant, migrants, migration, organizers, republican, taxes, trump

Can Ohio Tolerate Ramaswamy's Religious Toleration?

In November, we will learn whether Buckeye Republicans have been sufficiently persuaded by a more tolerant vision of the fusion of faith and freedom.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad, administration, iran, maga, mamdani, mamdani::2, scott bessent, tariff, trade, trump

Retaliation

Plus: Capitalism blaming, desalination innovation, Houthis fire on Saudi Arabia, and more...


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad, anti-american, china, chinese, economy, foreign policy, protest, protest, tariff, trade, trump

The Advantage of the Stronger

More is at stake in the US-Canada trade war than just tariffs and revenue.


Law & Liberty
Sep 8, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Article Keywords: congress, defense, foreign policy, jobs, maga, republican, surveillance, tps, trade, white house

Referees Have Nothing To Hide. The NFL and NCAA Should Show Every Big Replay Review Live on TV.

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


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: china, conservative, crisis, debt, defense, economy, federal reserve, fiscal, inflation, trade

The Reckoning of 2028

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 ...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: border, conservative, immigration, migrant, migrants, migration, surveillance, tariff, taxes, trump

Better Serfdom Is Not Freedom

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, asylum, biden, border, congress, executive order, iran, taxes, trade, trump

The week in regulations: Honey taxes and airline delays

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...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: administration, conflict, congress, conservative, executive order, fiscal, maga, republican, trump

Trump Is Weaponizing the Department of Education After Pledging To Kill It

Instead of abolishing the department, the president increased its budget. It's now pursuing investigations against school districts for seemingly political reasons.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: congress, constitution, debt, defense, election, federal reserve, recession, recession, tps

The Illusion of Freedom: How Wealth and Oligarchy Captured America

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 ...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, conflict, congress, conservative, constitution, doj, epstein::-3, foreign policy, iran, observer, prison, trafficking, trump

The Epstein Files, 9/11, and Other Important Matters Obscured by the Iran War

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, biden, border, congress, defense, iran, national security, senate, trump

Donald Trump Is Rearranging the Empire, Not Dismantling It

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 ...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: crisis, economy, inflation, migration, recession, recession, taxes, trade, wealth inequality

Inequality Is Not the Problem

A shrinking middle class sounds alarming—until you see where many families went. Rising prosperity complicates the familiar story about wealth inequality.


The Advocates for Self-Government
Sep 8, 2026 - theadvocates.org
Article Keywords: china, chinese, communist, constitution, economy, election, rule of law, tariff, trade

China and the Rule of Law

China's growth is not the result of command.


Law & Liberty
Sep 8, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Article Keywords:  canad, conflict, crime, crisis, defense, election, migration, riot

All That’s Wrong In Ukraine

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: constitution, maga, scotus, scotus::2, supreme court, supreme court reform

New in SCOTUSBlog: Empower the Supreme Court's supermajority on substantive matters

Five votes can do anything; six votes should do everything.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: constitution, first amendment, maga, observer, protest, protest, supreme court

Was D.C. Bar's Liquor License Denied Partly Based on Owner's Speech Criticizing Anti-Masking/Vax-Proof Requirement?

The D.C. Circuit just let a case making this allegation go forward.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: china, chinese, climate, inflation, jobs, national security, tariff

The Candlestick Makers Are Back, and This Time They’re Not Joking

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: election, escalation, foreign policy, gas price, iran, nuclear, republican

The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Harrison Berger: AOC 2028 | U.S. BOMBS Iranian Wedding | 2028 Dems CAN’T Escape the Israel Question

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: conflict, crime, debt, defense, election, offender, prison

How AnCapville Works: Order Without Government

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.


The Advocates for Self-Government
Sep 8, 2026 - theadvocates.org
Article Keywords:  vance , administration, maga, national security, surveillance, trump

Why Public Schools Lost 1.4 Million Students

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


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: constitution, enforcement, first amendment, law enforcement, lawyer, maga

Animal Advocates Say a Florida Sheriff's Office Blocked Them Online. Free Speech Lawyers Are Fighting Back.

The free speech organization, FIRE, says the Polk County Sheriff’s Office’s bans on its social media pages violate the First Amendment.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: criminal justice reform, crisis, maga, mass incarceration, prison, surveillance

Why America's Prisons Keep Failing

C.J. Ciaramella discusses 250 years of prison reform, the crisis facing state prisons, and whether America can build a more humane system.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: conflict, defense, economy, iran, trump, white house

US Officials Discuss Smaller Military Footprint in Middle East After Iran War

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: doj, federal reserve, gas price, gouging, observer, trump

Probing the link between oil and gas prices

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: biden, election, maga, second amendment, trump

Donald Trump Hasn't Violated Twenty-Second Amendment

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.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: crime, maga, mamdani, mamdani::2

The Silver Lining to Empty Subsidized Apartments

Plus: A nightmare squatting situation in Washington, D.C.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: conflict, constitution, crisis, maga, supreme court

En Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects Claims that Jackson, MS Water Crisis Violated Constitutional Rights

The Court rebuffs this effort to claims the Fourteenth Amendment protects positive rights.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: debt, enforcement, inflation, propaganda, riot

The Near Entirety of Americans Are Engulfed by a Nationalistic Stockholm Syndrome

“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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, biden, jobs, trump, white house

Misalignment by design: How AI could become the operating system of the administrative state (Part 1)

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 ...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: enforcement, first amendment, senate, surveillance, trade

Out, damned spot! Precautionary regulation could threaten the future of wearable AI

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 ...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: biden, kings, taxes, trade, trump

Donald Trump’s Historical Illiteracy

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 ...


International Liberty
Sep 8, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Article Keywords: conservative, crime, lawyer, maga

O.J. Simpson and Lindsay Clancy

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.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: conflict, election, maga, senate

Forensic Election Fraud Analysts Allege Defendants Defamed Them as "Retaliation for Plaintiffs' Refusal to Report False Findings of Election Fraud"

Their defamation and breach of contract case against Stefanie Lambert can go forward, a judge concluded.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: defense, maga, second amendment, supreme court

Second Amendment Roundup: 1st Volley of Briefs Filed in Viramontes

AR-15 ban issue attracts filing of 45 amicus briefs in Supreme Court.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: defense, election, escalation, explosive

Leipzig False-Flag Drama Is Cover for Germany’s Expansion of Drone War on Russia

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: conflict, defense, iran, trump

Qatar Warns of ‘Industrial Catastrophe’ If Strait of Hormuz Remains Closed

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 ...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: mamdani, mamdani::2, propaganda

NYC tax dollars to fund influencers promoting socialism

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: conflict, first amendment, maga

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Permission to Speak Freely: An Introduction," by Sam Lebovic

Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad, crime, gaza

God’s Little Helpers

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: crime, crisis, lawyer

Is AI Creating a ‘Society of Cheats’ — and Incompetents?

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....


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: defense, protest, protest

The ‘Longstanding Tradition’ of Defense Corruption in Ukraine

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...


LewRockwell
Sep 8, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: conflict, trade, trump

Trump Tells Putin He Wants a Rapid End to War in Ukraine

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: china, conflict, congress

Ep 087 “Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Japan Expands the Conflict Aperture (Part Two)”

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...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 8, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: anti-american, congress, riot

Senator seeks to revoke NEA charter

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: debt, prison, trade

Morning in AnCapville

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 ...


The Advocates for Self-Government
Sep 8, 2026 - theadvocates.org
Article Keywords: maga, supreme court

Will It Matter That ABA Council Repealed The DEI Standard?

Law schools will still voluntarily follow the standard, and the Department of Education will still remove the ABA's accrediting authority


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: maga, supreme court

Today in Supreme Court History: September 8, 1953

9/8/1953: Chief Justice Fred Vinson dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 8, 1953 appeared first on Reason Magazine.


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: crime, maga

Brickbat: Thinkin' About My Doorbell

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...


Reason Magazine
Sep 8, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: iran, trump

Ron Paul on the ‘Golden Age’ Iran War Update: Americans Have Paid $100B in Extra Energy Costs

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...


Antiwar.com Blog
Sep 8, 2026 - antiwar.com
Article Keywords: constitution, riot

Learning valuable lessons from American history

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...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 8, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: economy, tariff

The Practice of Government Is the Opposite of the Theory of Government

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...


Cafe Hayek
Sep 8, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Article Keywords:  ice , administration, congress, conservative, constitution, defense, enforcement, executive order, feds, immigration, law enforcement, maga, migration, protest, protest, sanctuary, supreme court, trump

Trump Loses Two More Sanctuary City Cases - And Picks up A Rare Win

The unusual victory arises from a connection to the Contracts Clause.


Reason Magazine
Sep 7, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: constitution, enforcement, lawyer, trade

Trademark Censorship and Bullying: A Lawyer Named Atticus v. “Atticus”

See A Lawyer Named Atticus v. “Atticus”: Trademark Law, Referral Fees, and Who Gets to Practice Law: Related The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files The Velvet Elvis and Other ...


C4SIF.org
Sep 7, 2026 - c4sif.org