Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 10 sites. We chose these from 1969 articles found on 36 sites.
James Patterson and David Upham discuss the Fourteenth Amendment in this episode of the Law & Liberty Podcast.
On the evening of August 4, an airport employee at Leipzig/Halle noticed a small drone resting on the apron near a parked Ukrainian Antonov freighter. It carried an explosive charge and a detonator. T...
I will undertake no unjust wars; will enter into no sinful alliances; will not oppress my subjects by excessive taxation, to support extravagance in my court. What is good for nothing or evil in its o...
The Kentucky congressman says he will force a vote on removing Hegseth, who is accused of "abusing the power of his office to ignore congressional war powers resolutions, to kidnap foreign leaders, an...
No matter how often Republicans recite the conservative mantra of the Constitution, limited government, individual freedom, private property, traditional values, free enterprise, and a strong national...
What did the Justices tell Trump during their interviews to make the President think otherwise?
Late last week sudden, unexpected developments in the Middle East forced me to refocus my attention to the ongoing conflict in that region. The Houthi forces of Yemen—the widely used name for Ansar Al...
Editors at National Review Online pan one of President Donald Trump’s latest bad ideas. During his address to the Republicans’ novel “midterm convention,” President Donald Trump plucked a new politica...
TweetHere’s the abstract of a new paper by the great economic historian Gary Libecap: The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, t...
Last December, in Part I of this series, I observed that incomes were rising under Trump. But the increase was rather anemic and I warned that Trump’s trade taxes were having a negative impact. Trump ...
Plus: Working-class politicians, blueberry race, and more...
On the anniversary of 9/11, we described the harrowing tales of two people who escaped the towers. These heroes deserve to be honored, as do the dead, their families, and the countless victims who car...
Europe urgently needs to re-establish access to Russian oil and gas. Gas prices are high – as all UK energy consumers know – and German gas storage is at a record low for September. Gulf production is...
A notable legal defeat for the Trump administration
Nothing says “small government” like having politicians run college sports.
In California, gas stations are facing a unique challenge. The station signs are only configured to go up to $9.99 per gallon and at several stations the price of diesel has reached that maximum. Dies...
Operation Epic Fury, a war of aggression launched on false pretenses, has failed to topple the government of Iran or force the “unconditional surrender” President Donald Trump demanded on the seventh ...
Miranda Devine of the New York Post questions the timing of recent commentary questioning the future of artificial intelligence. The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate ...
An interesting discussion of recusal, timeliness, and the social relationships between judges and lawyers and their families.
The decision was 7-2.
Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down for a fireside chat at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and told the room what the plan is for the national debt. “We don’t have a revenue p...
And yet governments deny reimbursement claims more often than approving them, according to the Institute for Justice.
I have more details on this morning's First Circuit decision (written by Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson) in Doe v. Smith… The post No Closed Trial for Billion-Dollar Maine Lottery Winner Suing Over Allege...
"This is the eighth and final piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better."
This case, which I blogged about last year, just settled yesterday for $175K ($108K to S.E. and his family, $40K… The post $175K Settlement in Suit Over Requiring Fifth-Graders to Read Pro-Gender-Ideo...
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom Of Night Will Stop The Shadow Docket.
The Trump administration’s midterm election security efforts are dead in the water.
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “equal time” rule aims to foster competing voices and ensure opportunities for debate. It was created in an era of scarce media options, when radio was th...
Thomas Catenacci writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a helpful Trump administration energy policy. The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is planning to propose the permanent repeal of fede...
Wesley Smith writes for National Review Online about a disturbing proposal in Nature magazine. The science journal just published a piece urging the U.N. to establish a panel of scientists — the Inter...
There are few things politicians hate more than insignificance.
"[O]ur precedent makes paramount the principle of transparency as a bulwark of the effectiveness of our judicial system and the public's trust in it."
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This is completely unacceptable. We have reached the point where you can purchase a television for your own home, pay for the television with your own money, put it in your living room, and discover t...
The 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA) has been used to overturn only a few dozen federal regulatory directives since its enactment, most during the two Trump administrations. Some 110,000 rules have...
TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: You rightly decry Senator Katie Britt’s (R-AL) hypocrisy for seeking to exempt her constituents from the same Trump tariffs that she insists “w...
From Nada v. United Arab Emirates, decided by Judge Amy Berman Jackson (D.D.C.) today: Plaintiffs Hazim Nada and his privately… The post UAE, the Muslim Brotherhood, RICO, and Defamation appeared firs...
From Booth v. NITV, LLC, decided yesterday by Judge D.P. Marshall Jr. (E.D. Ark.): Trayesha Booth worked at the Arkansas… The post Another Libel-by-Product Case, Here by Voice Stress Test Rather than ...
California couple who wanted to abort their surrogate child now seek to remove one-month old baby to California where they could put him in hospice care.
Readers: If you're a lawyer, active or otherwise, or a law student, tell us a few things about yourself in… The post Who Are You? (Lawyers, Active and Otherwise, and Law Students) appeared first on Re...
Readers: If you aren't a lawyer/ex-lawyer/future lawyer, tell us a few things about yourself in the comments. If you are… The post Who Are You? (Non-Lawyers) appeared first on Reason Magazine.
9/15/1857: Chief Justice William Howard Taft's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 15, 1857 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
The European Union has placed ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox under stricter rules after all three passed the threshold of 45 million… The post Brickbat: E.U. Blues appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Earlier this year, James Corbett delivered a presentation on Applied POSIWID to the Approaching Humanity conference organized by Larken and Amanda Rose. This is the video of that presentation. TRANSCR...
I have always been drawn to puzzles that contain large amounts of “unknown information” as this forces you to consider a wide range of possibilities, but simultaneously have the discernment to recogni...
Download Audio. Scott interviews John Dudlicek, a civil engineer from Indiana, about the critical state of America’s water mains, dams and other crucial components of the infrastructure we rely on eve...
Christopher Jacobs writes for the Federalist about another example of media malfeasance. Congress may have spent most of the last few weeks out of session. But despite lawmakers decamping from Washing...
I have lost confidence in Trump, who represents Israel and not Americans. But when you look at the Democratic alternative, it is genuinely scary. The Democrats used a totally corrupt Department of ...
We can protect the First Amendment’s liberties without endangering public safety.
A lawsuit argues that a recently passed law to protect immigration service providers in California is "overbroad and vague."
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city grocery store proposal is not a serious socialist threat to free enterprise. We already know they don’t work: Baldwin Market (2019-1924), owned by the town of...
From Judge Maragaret Garnett (S.D.N.Y.) in Amin v. Spiegel & Grau LLC: Plaintiff is Dr. Mahendra Amin, a gynecologist who… The post Libel Suit Against Book Publisher by Doctor Accused of Performing Un...
The country reflected on the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. President Trump promised a $5,000 check to every American adult if Republicans win the midterm elections. Inf...
An inspection of the now-closed detention camp found overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and an "unprecedented" use of small metal cells to confine detainees.
Since 2001, the United States has embarked on a path of “endless wars” or “forever wars”. Twenty-five years ago this week, the United States and the world were shocked by the terrorist attack that bec...
Why the major questions and nondelegation doctrines bolster the legal case against Trump's Section 338 tariffs.
On January 3, 2026, American aircraft struck targets across Caracas while special operations teams seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flew both to New York on n...
Dario Amodei is calling for coordinated international limits on AI development while Anthropic prepares to go public.
The history of the Excessive Fines Clause shows why Alaska pilot Ken Jouppi should not lose his airplane simply because he helped a passenger defy a local alcohol ban.
Plus: Commercial surrogacy regulation, Russian weapons, a new drug in San Francisco, and more...
A year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, his organization has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from the Israel-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With close ties to t...
Plus: California's new restrictions on social media, Trump's $5,000 “dividend,” and the future of libertarianism.
The Cato Institute, Michael McConnell, and I filed an amicus brief in litigation challenging Trump's massive Section 301 tariffs, which use "forced labor" as a pretext for sweeping protectionism.
With their reputation figuratively underwater, data centers might be going literally underwater too.
Something shifts beneath the surface of ordinary life. Not with announcements or spectacle, but through the quiet consolidation of systems that now track, verify, and gatekeep nearly every exchange be...
John Milton’s Areopagitica reveals the poet’s commitment to freedom as the pursuit of virtue and truth.
"[T]he Department submitted credible evidence that threats, doxxing, and other forms of harassment have been directed toward law enforcement charged with enforcing existing federal immigration laws."
John Solomon writes for Just the News about one congressman’s angry response to two high-profile leftists. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, who is leading efforts to gird America a...
As Americans turn against artificial intelligence, AI companies are building programs to surveil and identify troublemakers in advance. An investigative report published this week by The American Pros...
Starting a trade war with Canada is one of the strangest decisions of Donald Trump’s presidency. Over at the Daily Wire, I try to make sense of it: Politics is almost never about the merits. This is o...
For a century, the British Conservative Party has put interest over constitutional fidelity.
Welcome to America, where apparently standing around is now enough to have your movements searched through a nationwide surveillance network. Records obtained from the Plano, Illinois Police Departmen...
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” — Matthew 6:12 When we look into antiquity, we tend to see primitive people. But ancient Babylon (c. 2000–539 BCE) and our world today are not t...
President Donald Trump says he is once again open to talks with Iran. Negotiations to end the war have stalled since the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed in June. Trump previously said he ...
Immigrant-owned small businesses in East Harlem that spoke out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan for city-owned supermarkets say they are suddenly… The post Brickbat: Keeping the Peace appeared firs...
We’re at the end of the line. After seven months of unprovoked warfare, the situation in the Middle East has ballooned into a full-blown crisis. Overnight, Saudi oil exports have fallen to zero. ZERO!...
The more upset his taxpayers become with their country’s lack of tangible returns from the billions of euros that it’s given to Ukraine, the more that support for the AfD is expected to surge. German ...
Saudi Arabia bombed dozens of targets in Yemen in hopes of turning back the offensive by Ansar Allah. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) requested that President Donald Trump order American ...
Stan Veuger and other American Enterprise Institute scholars offer a legal argument against Trump administration tariffs. For the President to invoke authority under Section 122 in the way that he has...
As explained in my four-part series (here, here, here, and here), politicians are loathsome creatures who put their personal ambition above the national interest. The opposite of genuine patriotism. B...
From today's decision by Judge Thomas Durkin (N.D. Ill.) in Keene v. Google LLC: Keene is an author, television producer,… The post Federal Court Allows Libel-by-AI Claim (Brought by Protagonist of Ap...
Capitalism doesn’t build surveillance states — it builds infrastructure. What gets done with that infrastructure afterwards is somebody else’s problem, and it’s a problem the folks building it never s...
As we settle into the second week of absentee voting in North Carolina, let’s take stock of how voting by mail in North Carolina stacks up to previous midterm elections. This is also a good time to lo...
TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Aluminum-industry lobbyist Mark Duffy’s case for tariffs on aluminum is weak (Letters, September 14). He trumpets a reality that no tariff oppo...
Now available online for free, from NYU Press. I am one of many contributors.
From the New Mexico Supreme Court last week in State v. Sandoval, via Ars Technica (Jon Brodkin): WHEREAS, Respondent acknowledged… The post The Brief "Contained False Testimony from Wholly Fabricated...
Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing.
A planned meeting between Iran and Gulf states over the Strait of Hormuz was postponed as the war in Yemen rapidly escalates. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that Iran a...
There isn’t much time for work between now and Election Day, but Congress doesn’t seem to mind.
From Reuters (Mike Scarcella) last week, linked to yesterday by David Lat (Original Jurisdiction): The judge, Lawrence Wheeler of the… The post Oklahoma Judge's Ruling Contained AI Hallucinations appe...
9/14/1901: President Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated. He appointed three members to the Supreme Court: Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rufus Day,… The post Today in Supreme Court History: September ...
How Wayfair, Taskrabbit, and Instacart simplify your transition to a new house or apartment
World War II is the one war we’re still not allowed to talk about like history, and that’s exactly why we should. I’m joined by Darryl Cooper to dig into what happens when a past conflict becomes a ci...
You can’t spell China without AI.
Millions of Europeans are turning to private care as state-run systems struggle with waiting lists and shortages. More competitive models point to another path.
I’m not a fan of the “Caviar Communist” who is now Mayor of New York City. So I very much appreciate this video produced by a long-time friend. Before addressing the core message of the video (taxpaye...
Dave Smith joins Kyle Anzalone for a wide-ranging conversation about Trump’s failures, the changing American political landscape, and what Dave sees as the rise of “Woke 2.0.” After years of backlash ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he wanted to meet with President Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader attends the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Miami in December. Zelensky was asked in an i...
North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, one day after the US, South Korea, and Japan concluded their trilateral Freedom Edge war games. The South Korean Joint Chie...
President Donald Trump said he does not object to Gulf states meeting with Iran to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, a significant shift after he previously threatened to bomb Oman over its negotiations w...