Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 16 sites. We chose these from 1967 articles found on 36 sites.
Why preparation matters less than adaptation, and why the next crisis will not resemble the last My father kept his layoff notice from 1982 taped inside his toolbox until he died. The letterhead—blue,...
“It’s the rule of law. If you don’t have it, you have either anarchy or you have authoritarianism. You have Russia or you have China or you have North Korea.”
The 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, held in Koror, Palau, from August 31 to September 3, offered a revealing window into the limits of an increasingly ambitious external security agenda in...
The bill, which passed the House and Senate, would let Trump impose tariffs up to 100 percent on certain countries, but it fails to properly define which.
“What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the government was the reason we don’t h...
The events of September 11, 2001, are not a thing of the past. They have direct repercussions in the wars in Ukraine, Palestine, and Iran. It is possible to mistake the enemy and remain fixed, admiri...
TweetWall Street Journal columnist Barton Swaim decries Americans’ loss of an ethos of risk-taking. Two slices: Evidence abounds that most college-educated Americans have lost the ability to assess ri...
Plus: Rent freeze setback, AI misalignment, Bolshevik ridiculousness, and more...
After the US was essentially forced to conduct a major and rapid draw down of forces from the Gulf and Mideast region in the wake of Iran’s ‘unexpectedly’ large retaliation for Operation Epic Fury, it...
The false indoctrination that American children receive in their public (i.e., government) schools about America’s “capitalist” economic system is now boomeranging in a big way. Indoctrinated with the...
The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons. The First Amendment does not create that right; it pro...
Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the New York City mayor’s latest staffing decision. New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani named a self-proclaimed “gay communist” who has called for...
The conservative legal movement may be winning big at the Supreme Court. But Trump is not.
THAAD is one of the military-industrial complex’s most expensive boondoggles—and most Americans have never heard of it. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system ranks among America’s mos...
For decades, conservative and libertarian legal activists worked to ban race preferences in admissions. They won.
Last week I had some fun here with the economic nonsense of our DSA kiddies. For instance, DSA Wunderkind Mamdani proposed for New York City: Free and fast city buses Rent freeze Free universal child ...
Sept. 19, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging rejection of S. 2938: “Under S. 2938, developers of the most ...
A deepish dive into how copyright law and the First Amendment interact.
I wrote on September 9, 2014, just days before Scotland’s independence referendum, that we had been taking the prospect of Scottish separation seriously since the Berlin Conference in 2012. At that co...
The war in the Middle East keeps getting worse for President Donald Trump. The campaign to defeat Iran and establish a new order in the Middle East that left Tehran’s allies marginalized has imploded ...
thus deepening a circuit split. (Note that strip searches are generally allowed when and if the arrestee is placed in the general population of the jail.)
Agriculture depends heavily on immigrant labor, particularly for seasonal crops that cannot be easily mechanized. As I documented in my 2025 John Locke Foundation report, “Harvest on Hold,” North Caro...
The dismal science can be forced to reckon with richer accounts of human flourishing.
A new intellectual history of liberalism lays bare the ideology’s theological foundations.
It is increasingly difficult to function in society without a phone. So I'll turn mine off.
9/17/1787: The Constitution is signed. Happy Constitution Day! The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 17, 1787 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
What "From The River To The Sea" Actually Means
I submitted comments last week in support of the US Global Change Research Program’s proposal to amend the 2023 Fifth US National Climate Assessment (NCA5). The amendment would withdraw official suppo...
Thomas Barrabi writes for the New York Post about the clamor for new action to control artificial intelligence. Worried what AI will do to the world? Don’t fret — we got a group of woke elitists who w...
Editors at National Review Online explore current criticism of artificial intelligence. All of a sudden, all the AI mavens are aligned. Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, said this week that his company welc...
Brittany Bernstein writes for National Review Online about the latest fight between President Donald Trump and cultural elites. The Trump-appointed board of the Kennedy Center voted on Tuesday to imme...
Ernst Roets on what’s really been happening with race relations and white farmers. Sponsor Whether you’re running a business, doing a side hustle, flipping real estate, or just sick of… Read More The ...
This week, the state's educational leaders moved to eliminate Regents exam requirements for high school students.
Two sisters, ages 10 and 12, ended up in court after a playground swing broke while they were playing at Veterans… The post Brickbat: Swing, Swing appeared first on Reason Magazine.
From John Kiriakou’s Briefing Room: The United States is preparing its largest sale of bombs to Israel in years, carrying a massive $2.8 billion price tag. And get this… you are paying for it. Plus, R...
How will President Donald Trump respond to Kevin Warsh’s hawkish stance?
The latest reminder of the Federal Reserve's record of failure, which now extends longer than five years, comes with the most recent inflation measure.
Tweet… is from James Madison’s Federalist 47: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappo...
While fiscal policy in Washington has been deteriorating, there is some good news at the state level. In Part I of this series, I celebrated that top tax rates are declining. In Part II of this series...
The Republican midterm convention was recently held in Dallas. If that sounds strange, your instincts are correct. Usually, the two major political parties hold their national conventions in the summe...
The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge banners bearing his image festooning the front...
Plus: Embryos on ice, Venezuela's collapse, Talarico's lead, and more...
Tariffs won’t begin to fund the effort to purchase voters’ good will.
After David Streever castigated ICE's acting director in an email, investigators delivered a "warning notice" saying he "may be in violation of federal law."
Trump says he supports the cameras simply because law enforcement does, no matter that they can be misused or abused.
Steven Calabresi gets it only half right in his defense of Trump's handling of the Iran war
Their brief says the president is asserting "essentially boundless" authority to impose "economy-wide tariffs untethered from the statute Congress enacted."
An excerpt from the longish opinion today by Judge Rudolph Contreras (D.D.C.) in Streever v. Mullin: Americans have long voiced… The post Warning Notice to Man Who Sent Critical E-Mail to ICE Acting D...
They are just making up numbers at this point. Ukraine’s parliamentary Budget Committee chair Roksolana Pidlasa now says that one day of war costs Ukraine $190 million, up from $140 million per day in...
The Congressional Budget Office says the inflationary consequences of the war will be felt well into 2027.
Although the impact of the DHS rule "is likely to be catastrophic," a George W. Bush appointee writes, the government's rationale is "exceptionally weak."
The Trump administration’s strategy for the Export-Import Bank could repeat the mistakes of China’s failed Belt and Road Initiative.
Wait, what?
In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with its historical pursuit of global primacy and instead retreat to the Western Hemisphere while...
NIMBYism is more than retrograde reaction—it is a democratic practice.
Alex Saab admitted to profiting from food and medicine contracts and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
In the 1930s, New Jersey passed the most sweeping hate speech law in American history. [UPDATE: Originally erroneously posted under Eugene Volokh's byline; this post is from guest-blogger Samantha Bar...
Militaries are leaning on AI software for surveillance and targeting.
Some eight weeks before the midterm election the Trump administration has a fuel price problem: Diesel prices sped past $6.00 a gallon today for the first time ever – NPR, Sep 11 2026 Diesel prices sp...
Jonathan Turley explains in the latest edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis why we shouldn’t “cancel” the US Supreme Court. There is a radical movement rising in the U.S. with chilling parallels to...
Liberty International's second Phoenix from the Ashes mission took five researchers across Nepal to study institutions, enterprise and economic freedom. The post Phoenix from the Ashes: Uncovering Ins...
Anthropic's CEO wants federal regulation that would slow down AI (and his competitors' innovations). Has that ever worked?
so the individual defendants are entitled to qualified immunity, a court rules (citing cases where employees were fired for right-wing speech that many had likewise found offensive).
Judge concludes "progressive prosecutor" Larry Krasner and a deputy engaged in unethical--and potentially unlawful--conduct in their zeal to undo a criminal conviction.
The world is faced with two major war fronts, both of which are widening and could spin out of control. Ukraine is Washington’s proxy in the West’s war against Russia, a war that has moved deep within...
When former CIA Director James Woolsey served as chairman of the board for the non-governmental organization (NGO) Freedom House for roughly two and a half years, it was during a particularly turbulen...
A Pentagon Inspector General report reviewing the first four months of the war found that US munitions expenditures have created shortages in strategic weapons inventories. On Tuesday, Congress receiv...
Here’s something that isn’t discussed much. The Anglican Church was the state church of the English Crown. North Carolina colonists who were religious dissenters (members of any religious sect not fol...
The Canadian Confederation was based on liberal ideas. In nature every person has the right to life, liberty, and property and these rights precede government. Classical liberals believed that governm...
For more than a decade, tech experts have warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity. For the most part, it remained a niche issue among reporters, tech insiders, and news junkies. Bu...
The House of Representatives passed a third War Powers Resolution calling on President Donald Trump to end unauthorized hostilities against Iran. The following day, House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled...
The first post-Chatrie ruling on the question.
Three people in the Los Angeles area have been charged with fraud related to misappropriation of homelessness funds.
US officials secretly met representatives of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement over the weekend in Oman as President Donald Trump rejected a request from Saudi Arabia for direct US strikes on the group. Wa...
The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion arms sale to Israel that includes 40,000 2,000-pound bombs and 20,000 penetrator warheads, with the weapons to be purchased using US military aid. ...
Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest anti-Republican complaint from the New York Times. Between now and Election Day, the economic, technology, and geopolitical news will h...
I will be one of the speakers.
On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media:...
Degenerate cowards. That’s how the founders and old revolutionaries viewed people who refuse to protect and defend their own constitution and their own liberty out of fear for their own skin - or a la...
Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about a recent gathering of conservative state legislators. A common misconception throughout modern American politics is that, because a state is run by Repu...
TweetDeirdre McCloskey proposes to replace the term “capitalism” with “innovism.” I agree with her that the former term, because of decades of ignorant propaganda – and because the essence of “captial...
In September 2026, Conservative MP Dean Allison convened four days of independent hearings on Parliament Hill to hear from Canadians who reported injuries after COVID-19 vaccination. Fifty witnesses w...
One comment from Donald Trump cuts through the usual talking points: Ukraine should stop hitting Russian diesel refineries. We dig into why that matters, what it says about U.S. intelligence support f...
North Korean state media published an article slamming the US for encouraging South Korea and Japan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines. The author argued the move justified North Korea building up ...
If we cannot predict exactly what a future of genuine freedom would look like, what can we say about it? Drawing on John Hasnas’ insight into spontaneous order, we explore some of the many ways people...
Gregory Conti sheds new light on John Stuart Mill’s political life, constitutional writings, and distinctive liberalism.
"[D]efendant purportedly posted more than 20 videos ... attacking plaintiff's character with 'blatantly false allegations of wrongdoing' and 'highly offensive and demeaning fake [AI] videos.'"
rejected on First Amendment grounds.
I'm delighted to welcome Prof. Samantha Barbas (Iowa), who will be guest-blogging this week and next about her new book.… The post Samantha Barbas Guest-Blogging on "Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultura...
Some excerpts from the long opinion yesterday by Judge Beth Bloom (S.D. Fla.) in Rudnitsky v. Int'l Checkers Ass'n of… The post Checkers (or Is It Draughts?) Infighting Leads to Court appeared first o...
9/16/1787: The Constitutional Convention finalizes Constitution. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 16, 1787 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Writes Ginny Garner: Donald Trump, Bibi Netanyahu, Marco Rubio, and Joe Kent are among those who have stated Israel pushed the US into starting the war with Iran. See this. The post War in Iran Has Co...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: US Rep. Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth yesterday, charging him with violating his oath to the Constitution ...
Commander of Central Command (CENTCOM) Adm. Brad Cooper organized a meeting of Israeli and Arab military officials. At the summit, he informed his counterparts that the US military has no plans to wit...
Liberty International is hiring a Training Associate for a remote role supporting global courses, workshops, communications and participant engagement. The post Training Associate (Remote) | Job Descr...
Liberty International joined LOLA leaders from seven Asian countries in Kathmandu for leadership development, networking and deeper regional collaboration. The post Liberty International Represented a...
One of the best things about being a principled libertarian is summarized by this cartoon. Your knee-jerk instinct is to say no whenever someone suggests more power or more money for government. It’s ...
Writes Ginny Garner: Singer Tanya Tucker is leading 1,000s of Texas ranchers and farmers to protest the stealing of their lands and livelihoods to install 200 foot high 768 kilovolt transmission lines...