Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 16 sites. We chose these from 1968 articles found on 36 sites.
“The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” —Justice Hugo Black, New York Times Co. v. Unit...
The eyes of the world have been fixated on the war in Iran for the past six months, meanwhile, the single-most dangerous flashpoint on the planet has gone mostly ignored. Until, that is, waves of Ukra...
“No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?” George Mason No, no man is above justice, not even Pete Hegseth. Hegseth equals...
In National Republican, SCOTUS moves toward banning open primaries.
It was a direct result of President Donald Trump's trade war, as even the Department of Agriculture now admits.
It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic. Last week provided one such experienc...
When President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing this past May, the outcome was largely as anticipated: ceremonial pomp, a handful of commercial commitments, rhetorical emph...
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly is skeptical of the belated "national security" rationale for banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.
Plus: Manhole climbers, Beshear mulling 2028 run, God bless the commenters, and more...
Song Jian was very good at math. He was one of China’s top missile scientists, and his specialty was the equations that steer a rocket to its target. In 1978 Song traveled to Helsinki for an engineeri...
An academic fight wasn't a RICO or antitrust violation, but a false light claim can still go forward.
TweetPete Earle, writing in the Wall Street Journal, tells the tale of Thomas Edison warning about the dangers of alternating-current electricity delivery. A slice: Thomas Edison published an article ...
A new poll finds widespread support for slowing advanced AI, but government controls could create risks of their own.
“I am the code,” he told the architect, according to The Washington Post.
The court's rationale is that revoking reporters' passes violated the Due Process Clause, given D.C. Circuit precedent on the subject; the court didn't reach the outlets' First Amendment arguments.
Politics without limits is not the answer to discontent over the technological revolution.
The dismissal of the president's lawsuit against The Des Moines Register is a victory for freedom of the press.
Joshua Gibbons says his embarrassing videos of police officers in Kingsport, Tennessee, were a motivating factor in their decision to arrest him on minor charges that were thrown out of court.
Farnaz Fassihi is the New York Times reporter for the United Nations. She often also writes about Iran. Earlier this month her report How Iran’s Hard-Liners Prevailed and Sabotaged U.S. Peace Deal (a...
The Houthis have not technically seized the entire Red Sea, but that distinction is becoming almost meaningless for Saudi Arabia. Their forces have swept down Yemen’s western coastline, taking Mokha, ...
Over the past few weeks I have randomly come across life stories that I found to be amazing. I thought I would pass them along to you. A Tragic Love Story I am watching too many podcasts these days. F...
Located in Northeast Africa, Sudan receives relatively little attention in discussions of global geopolitics. This is despite the country being embroiled in a devastating civil war between Sudan’s arm...
A miracle survival story can be true and still be used as propaganda, and that tension is exactly what we can’t ignore. We bring back Lt.Col. Karen Kwiatkowski to react to the long-awaited 60 Minutes ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Miami later this year. Rubio made the announcement after meeting with ...
“It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly repre...
Eddie Scarry writes for the Federalist about a disturbing article in a major legacy media outlet. Just a few days after the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, The New York Times is here with...
Editors at National Review Online explain why President Donald Trump should reverse his decision to ban disfavored media outlets from the White House. Stop us if you’ve heard this before — President T...
Kamden Mulder writes for National Review Online about the latest challenge for Obamacare. Vice President JD Vance and the White House’s anti-fraud task force canceled Affordable Care Act policies cove...
Darryl Cooper joins me for the conversation the thought controllers, who call everything “racism” like the mental midgets they are, won’t allow. Sponsors Bank On Yourself is a better way… Read More Th...
A federal judge sentenced former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Christopher Cadman to 21 months in prison after Cadman pleaded… The post Brickbat: California Scheming appeared first on Reason Mag...
“When inveterate war hawk Mike Rogers suddenly declares, ‘The war in Iran needs to end—and end quickly,’ you know he’s losing— and losing badly”...
In this week’s episode we cover how data centers power our lives, how modern technology is fueling family togetherness, and the origins of America’s rebellious spirit. Our interview is with Sam Raus, ...
Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest disturbing revelations involving Michigan’s Democratic US Senate candidate. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed demanded in 2012 ...
apparent denial of access to the reporters early this morning.
A great opportunity for law students
9/24/1755: Chief Justice John Marshall's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 24, 1755 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and remind...
The chalkboard is the test. When Nigerian traders start painting their prices again, the reform will have worked, and no statistical release will be needed to confirm it.
Tweet… is from page 181 of F.A. Hayek’s 1950 essay “Economics,” written for Chambers’s Encyclopaedia, as this essay is reprinted as chapter 11 in Essays on Liberalism and the Economy (2022), which is ...
On the 18th September 2026, Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, gave a lecture to the Global Warming Policy Foundation. His subject was Energy Security: Blowing in the Wind. In this, he explains why...
Consider these recent news headlines: (1) “NYC Turns Back to Gas Buses After Finding Out the Hard Way That the Electric Versions Have Big Problems,” (2) “As a Former Head of MI6 it’s Clear That Britai...
In an exclusive interview with Reason, Anthony Scaramucci identifies three Washington decisions that helped fuel the anger that Trump harnessed.
SparrowMap uses volunteer cameras to track the police in the same way police track the public. The government considers it a potential threat.
On Saturday, the Houthis launched ballistic missiles at targets in Saudi Arabia setting a fuel storage facility ablaze while forcing the closure of the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Sau...
The disgraced former congressman is imploring voters not to abandon Republicans over gas prices and war with Iran.
The president hopes that post-hoc rationalization will override due process and freedom of the press.
Plus: Playboy's Gen Z sex survey, toy sales spike among childless adults, lesbian mask feuds, communism, and more...
[1.] Some excerpts from Judge Steven McAuliffe (D.N.H.) Monday in the longish Fosu v. Univ. of R.I. Bd. of Trustees… The post Court Upholds Nonrenewal of URI Lecturer Who Circulated Combative "Declara...
As I noted Friday, according to the D.C. Circuit (the federal appellate court with jurisdiction over D.C.), it's unconstitutional for… The post "White House Access Is a Privilege—Not a Right" appeared...
Conscription is a form of indentured servitude. Murray Rothbard argued that everyone has a natural right to self-defense, but “we have no moral right to use coercion—the bayonet or the revolver—to for...
One of the three autumn elections that I thought might give us an indication of future events has been held. On the surface, it doesn’t look as if Putin’s 4.5-year-old war against the proxy of Russia...
Critics of liberalism have identified serious problems, but they cannot be solved by abandoning our constitutional principles.
The Republican Party suffered big losses in 1990 and 1992 after President George H.W. Bush broke his read-my-lips-no-new-taxes promise. Based on all the polling data, it appears that Trump’s protectio...
The paper provides an overview of the legal vulnerabilities of the Trump tariffs against Canadian goods, and what can be done to prevent a recurrence of his abuses.
Four Republican Senators penned a letter calling on the White House to approve massive weapons sales to Taiwan. According to sources speaking with Reuters, US arms sales to Taiwan will top Chinese Pre...
Anthony Scaramucci discusses how China’s rise, the War on Terror, and the 2008 financial crisis fueled populist anger.
Trump has now signed the sweeping Russia sanctions legislation championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham. The bill passed the Senate 86-11 and the House 262-159, targeting Russian officials, banks...
President Donald Trump signaled that he is entitled to raze the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if he is not permitted to add his name to the building’s front wall. Trump’s appointees to the ce...
What price, war? The post The Iran War Is a PR Disaster for Republicans | Guest: Joe Kent | Ep 405 appeared first on Free the People.
A plague of federal rules and spending is bad medicine.
Here's an excerpt from the opposition to plaintiffs' temporary restraining order motion (for my view on why the plaintiffs should… The post President Trump's Legal Argument in Support of Excluding CNN...
The president has a long history of retaliating against journalists who offend him.
he AI panic is not going away, in fact it’s gathering the kind of fevered hysterical momentum we have not seen since the birth of Covid. Nothing about it is organic, it is all 100% cultivated and stee...
Sixty thousand bombs is not a headline you just scroll past, especially when the bill is picked up by U.S. taxpayers. We start by unpacking reports that Washington has agreed to provide Israel a huge ...
Collin Anderson writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest spin from Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate. Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has attempted to address mounting concer...
From today's long decision by Iowa state trial court judge Scott Beattie in Trump v. Selzer [UPDATE: link fixed]: J.… The post President Trump's Lawsuit Against Iowa Pollster Ann Selzer Thrown Out app...
The Left wants to cure the city's high housing costs by expropriating 225,000 apartments owned by large real estate corporations.
Michigan sued fossil fuel companies under an imaginative antitrust theory that the district court could not accept.
Over five decades ago, between grad schools, I served as the assistant to conservative writer and philosopher Russell Kirk, in Mecosta, Michigan. Being a Southern boy, the one significant thing I reca...
President Donald Trump met with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss Seoul’s right to enrich uranium and develop nuclear-powered submarines. Nort...
Supply disruptions expose how much daily life depends on fragile networks. A resilient voluntary community needs more than ideology—it needs food systems, mutual aid, trusted institutions, and real wa...
Schools are ending gifted and talented programs in low-income areas, leaving “kids who are poor but academically gifted” to “suffer the worst of both worlds,” says education researcher Michael Petrill...
The rationale for AI facial scanning—to prevent bad actors from following students into buildings—makes little sense.
North Korea claims to have successfully tested a missile system it previously labeled as hypersonic. “The Missile Administration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea successfully tested a new...
Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about President Donald Trump’s latest tirade. On Friday, fresh off a rebuke from the court about any potential surprise demolition of the Kennedy Cente...
The Smithsonian Should Declare Its Independence from the Federal Government
The Circuit Justice, like Zeus on Mount Olympus, instantly strikes down wayward lower courts with a bolt of lightning.
President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that he is considering making a deal with Iran, but also may choose to annihilate the Islamic Republic. “I have a big decision to make. Will a deal...
America’s dependence on cars was not simply a consumer choice. Decades of zoning, subsidies, and planning helped make driving a necessity for millions.
Some communities actually want growth.
It’s the “war on women” redux. The post Up with Lindsay, Down with Patriarchy! appeared first on Free the People.
In the South Texas Law Review, Rehnquist described his opinion in Dames & Moore as "similarly important" to Gibbons v. Ogden. His law clerk, and future Chief Justice, would disagree.
The only art that the Prince must totally master it’s the art of war – Machiavelli The Supreme Warrior Wins Without Fighting -Sun Tzu This was supposed to be the calm before the storm. Where the Epste...
Editor’s Note: The following letter was received by the Institute from Dr. Michael K. Launer, Emeritus Professor of Russian at Florida State University and is published with his permission. This is a ...
The UK will deploy an RAF midair refueling aircraft to support Saudi Arabia as it wages a war against Ansar Allah in Yemen. “Following a request from the Saudi Arabian Government, the UK has agreed to...
Matt Margolis writes for PJMedia.com about the latest misleading commentary from former President Barack Obama. When President Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press ...
Ramesh Ponnuru offers an idea that could improve the Federal Reserve’s operations. Kevin Warsh aspires to be a Federal Reserve chair of few words. He doesn’t think the central bank should provide as m...
TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Reporting on the GOP’s call to ban diesel exports, you quote President Trump: “I’ve said let’s not send out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel...
Arielle Kayabaga, a Liberal Party member of Canada's Parliament, has distanced herself from a petition that she herself sponsored after… The post Brickbat: I Disavow My Actions appeared first on Reaso...
Idropped my youngest son off August 22 as a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology. I couldn’t help reflecting that—almost to the day—49 years earlier I started as a freshman at St. Mary’s Coll...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that the majority of Americans agree with Rep. Thomas Massie that Defense (or “War”) Secretary Pete Hegseth should be impeached. E...
Many proposals for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a digital form of the US dollar issued by the Federal Reserve, have circulated in recent years. For now, the creation of a US CBDC is prohibi...
Removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles is what Montesquieu said is the only path forward. Everything else is doomed to failure: “every other correction,” he warned, ”is either usele...
Cherry Creek North offers a real-world lesson in spontaneous order: loosen constraints, clarify the rules, and let builders, businesses, investors, and customers discover what works.
TweetHere’s a letter to a long-time friend. R__: It’s always good to hear from you. In response to my letter pointing out that Trump contradicts himself in wishing both to reduce U.S. trade deficits a...
Donald Trump’s second presidency should eventually be remembered as one of the great wasted opportunities in American history. This is not because he failed to make America great again, whatever that ...
From the Indictment in U.S. v. Khrameev (D.D.C.), filed last week: Since at least in or about 2024, a network of individuals… The post Indictment Alleges Russia Tried to Arrange Murders of Russian Dis...
9/23/1971: Justice John Marshall Harlan II resigns. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 23, 1971 appeared first on Reason Magazine.