Libertarian Reporting for 2026-10-02

Updated on October 1, 2026 at 7:08:02 PM GMT

Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 15 sites. We chose these from 1967 articles found on 36 sites.


Today's featured sites are:
Reason Magazine, LewRockwell, Law & Liberty, Cafe Hayek, The Libertarian Institute, John Locke Foundation, Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute, Tom Woods, International Liberty, Antiwar.com Blog, Main Feed, Mises Institute, Free the People, The Advocates for Self-Government, Tenth Amendment Center.

Article Keywords: administration, border, defense, department of homeland security, federal judge, first amendment, immigration, iran, lawyer, maga, migrant, migrant rights, migration, national security, republican, supreme court, surveillance, trump

Border Agents Nabbed Their Phones. These Two Floridians Are Fighting Back.

A former assistant state attorney and an immigrant rights activist both had their phones seized, despite having attorney-client privilege. They're suing to protect their data.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  vance , border, china, conservative, enforcement, foreign policy, immigration, jobs, lawyer, maga, migrant, migrants, migration, senate, trade, trump

The Case for Good Faith

Why bona fides matters


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, conflict, congress, constitution, convictions, crime, iran, judiciary, murderer, national security, nuclear, supreme court, tariff, taxes, trafficking, trump

The Tyranny of One Man’s Opinion

Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two pr...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, communist, congress, constitution, crime, debt, enforcement, federal reserve, inflation, iran, law enforcement, national security, riot, senate

Unlike Ignorant & Apathetic Citizens, I Refuse To Starve and Die Quietly

I am told that the only possible reward for exercising my Constitutional Rights as a patriot writer is a bullet in the head if my writing moves citizens to vote all congressional incumbents in both pa...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: congress, constitution, debt, debt ceiling, economy, election, federal budget, fiscal, inflation, recession, recession, senate, taxes, unemployment

A New (Fiscal) Year’s Resolution

America's finances need more than empty promises.


Law & Liberty
Oct 1, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Article Keywords:  ice , administration, department of homeland security, detainees, dhs, enforcement, illegal aliens, immigration, maga, migration, prison, trump

ICE Deletes Reports Flagging Medical Neglect in Detention Center Deaths

The reports found medical care that "deviated beyond safe limits" in dozens of cases where ICE detainees died in custody.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: congress, crisis, debt, defense, economy, fiscal, inflation, maga, taxes, trade

The National Debt Has Exploded. The Reckoning Is Still Coming.

Even the best-case scenario means less investment, slower wage growth, and a budget increasingly spent on past obligations.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  vance , administration, economy, election, jobs, maga, midterms, republican, tariff, trump

Trump's Iowa Steel Mill Is a Win for Steelmakers. What About Everyone Else?

U.S. steel prices have surged, while overall manufacturing employment has fallen.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, conflict, enforcement, maga, observer, protest, protest, trade, white house

Smoking Is Bad for You. Nicotine Isn't—but Politicians Keep Trying To Ban It.

Nicotine has become associated with the worst harms of smoking, even though the chemical is not responsible for the cancers or lung disease caused by combustible tobacco.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: climate, constitution, crime, maga, protest, protest, supreme court, trump, white house

2 Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Month

Plus: This week in legal history.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: conflict, conservative, constitution, defense, observer, protest, protest, supreme court, trump

The 1787 Constitution as Counterrevolution: America’s Thermidorian Reaction

One of the most important and aspects of Murray Rothbard’s work on the American Revolution is his framing of the Constitutional Convention as a counterrevolution against the radicalism of the 1770s. I...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: china, conflict, crisis, escalation, invasion, iran, nuclear, trade, turning point

The Strait of Hormuz Could Become America’s Suez Moment

Forget the press conferences, casualty estimates, satellite images, and declarations of victory. In my view, one metric will tell us who won the Iran war: Who controls the Strait of Hormuz when the fi...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: climate, conflict, congress, economy, immigration, migration, national security, tariff, trump

Some Links

TweetRichard Stern writes wisely about AI. Two slices: There is an intelligence loose in the world that has no respect for humanity. It seeks to manipulate us, pit us against one another, and harness ...


Cafe Hayek
Oct 1, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Article Keywords: constitution, crime, enforcement, escalation, federal judge, law enforcement, maga, trump

Judge Preliminarily Blesses $1.5 Million Settlement for Victims of a Tiny Town's 'Policing for Profit'

Financially motivated traffic enforcement produced a huge surge in revenue for Brookside, Alabama, where "fines and forfeitures" accounted for half the city's income in 2020.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, border, debt, economy, federal reserve, inflation, nuclear, trade

The Wealth Test—Stored Energy and the Claims Built on Top of It

“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” — Proverbs 22:7 Wealth is not a number. It is not a currency. It is not a claim on someone else’s promise. Wealth is energy...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords:  ice , congress, election, foreign policy, maga, organizers, republican, senate

When Wikileaks Exposed the World: Assange Returns to Social Media

On September 17, Julian Assange’s return to Twitter/X did not go unnoticed. With more than fifty-one million impressions, it becomes clear his and WikiLeaks’ impact is undeniable. Still, his journalis...


The Libertarian Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: conservative, election, gop, midterms, observer, republican, senate, trump

GOP ‘doomers’ might be overreacting

Byron York writes for Townhall.com about Republican pessimism heading into the midterm elections. This has been the week that a deep sense of pessimism about the upcoming midterm elections set in amon...


John Locke Foundation
Oct 1, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: election, federal reserve, maga, murderer, prison, republican, trump

Will Texas Turn Blue?

Plus: Flydubai details, botched execution, Warsh criticism, and more...


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: china, debt, jobs, maga, migrant, migrants, systemic racism

Like Nikole Hannah-Jones, My Parents Put Ideology Over Pedagogy in Sending Me to Catholic School

Parents are indispensable to improving educational outcomes, but are often trapped by their own pasts.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, border, conflict, disarmament, election, escalation, iran

War Returns to Ethiopia As the Horn Edges Closer to Abyss

Barely four years after the Pretoria Agreement formally ended one of the deadliest wars of the twenty-first century, serious fighting has returned to northern Ethiopia. As we begin October, Tigrayan f...


The Libertarian Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: border, conflict, gerrymandering, iran, observer, trump

Ansar Allah’s Unperceived Advantages Against Saudi Arabia

Ansar Allalah [Houthis] enjoys many perhaps unperceived advantages in its conflict against the ‘wealthy’, westernised Saudi Kingdom. This is a war recently rekindled by Saudi’s September rupture of th...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, china, defense, foreign policy, nuclear, trump

Trump’s Greenland Security Deal Is a Danish Sop for Keeping NATO United Against Russia

Trump’s plan for militarizing the Arctic at the cajoling of Europeans is another ominous sign among many. James Jatras, a veteran U.S. foreign policy analyst, discusses how the recent security deal be...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: congress, crime, defense, federal judge, national security, tps

Uncle Sam the Bioterrorist

In the 2020 HBO psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing, Hugh Grant plays Dr. Jonathan Fraser, a pediatric oncologist who seems to have it all—a great medical practice and family—is undone when ...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: china, conflict, constitution, crisis, defense, invasion

What Happened to Swiss Neutrality?

Switzerland built its reputation over generations on one simple principle: NEUTRALITY. It survived two world wars without joining either side, became a diplomatic meeting ground precisely because it w...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: conflict, economy, iran, midterms, republican, turning point

National Review sees encouraging signs from Hormuz

Editors at National Review Online point to positive news in the Iran war. We’ve all heard the apocryphal Winston Churchill line about the Americans always doing the right thing after exhausting all th...


John Locke Foundation
Oct 1, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: administration, conservative, constitution, defense, republican, riot

God, Man, and Academic Freedom

Universities should form citizens by teaching them to seek and value the truth.


Law & Liberty
Oct 1, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Article Keywords: crisis, maga, mamdani, mamdani::2

How Nikole Hannah-Jones Gets School Choice All Wrong

Robert Pondiscio discusses the competence crisis in public schools, the limits of school choice, and the importance of parental involvement in education.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: china, economy, jobs, trade, unemployment

Diagnosing unemployment

The unemployment rate is a symptom, not a diagnosis. When it rises or falls, it shows that something is changing in the labor market, but the number alone cannot explain what is driving the change. Th...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: migrant, of color, republican, trump

The Demise of the American Nation

I do not know whether this is a real Trump post or not. The digital revolution has created a world in which we cannot know whether  any information we receive from whatever putative source is real or ...


LewRockwell
Oct 1, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: climate, economy, jobs

Free the Economy podcast: Real-world economics with Paul Mueller

In this week’s episode we cover spiraling health care costs, reforming state-level regulations, and how to keep asset managers accountable to shareholders. Our interview is with Paul Mueller, senior r...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: mamdani, mamdani::2

Mamdani strategy for protecting Jews criticized

Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a negative response to the New York City mayor’s proposals for addressing antisemitism in the Big Apple. The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, a ...


John Locke Foundation
Oct 1, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: gaza, iran, tps

Ep. 2800 The Panicans Were Right About Iran, with Scott Horton

Scott Horton updates us on Iran, Gaza, and Ukraine. Sponsors In case you’re thinking now might be a good time to start contemplating an international Plan B, my go-to expert,… Read More The post Ep. 2...


Tom Woods
Oct 1, 2026 - tomwoods.com
Article Keywords: border, economy, inflation

America’s Affordability Problem Is Government

I have a series of columns (2021, 2024, 2025, and 2026). documenting that Americans are getting richer. And here’s a chart that adds additional evidence. More and more households over time are high in...


International Liberty
Oct 1, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Article Keywords: impeachment, maga

Which Parts of an Expert's ChatGPT History Related to Preparing Expert Report Must Be Disclosed?

From Judge Anne Traum (D. Nev.) Monday in Villanueva v. Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep't (the underlying lawsuit alleges a… The post Which Parts of an Expert's ChatGPT History Related to Preparing Expert...


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: maga, supreme court

Today in Supreme Court History: October 1, 1924

10/1/1924: Chief Justice Rehnquist's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 1, 1924 appeared first on Reason Magazine.


Reason Magazine
Oct 1, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: invasion, trump

Ron Paul asks Is Trump About To Invade Cuba?

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The US Southern Command appears to be putting assets in place for a possible invasion of Cuba. Last week President Trump told a reporter, “I think I’ll have the hon...


Antiwar.com Blog
Oct 1, 2026 - antiwar.com
Article Keywords: iran, trump

John Mearsheimer: Trump Talks Genocide – Again!

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  On 29 September 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge about Iran. We focused considerable attention on President Trump’s genocidal threat against Ira...


Antiwar.com Blog
Oct 1, 2026 - antiwar.com
Article Keywords: communist, invasion

What to Do About Cuba?

Reports of invasion planning could point to the communist island nation.


Main Feed
Oct 1, 2026 - libertynation.com
Article Keywords: debt, iran

Why the AI Rush, Rising Bond Yields, and the Gulf Point to a Bust - Mark Thornton

Paul Buitink of Reinvent Money interviews Mises Institute economist Mark Thornton on AI, debt, and the Middle East. Thornton sees the AI build-out as an Austrian boom: cheap credit funneled cash and b...


Mises Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - mises.org
Article Keywords: tariff, trump

President Trump’s Tariff Tantrum


Mises Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - mises.org
Article Keywords: elon musk, trump

"Entrepreneur" Elon Musk appointed by Trump to help with new Pentagon spending sprees

Will join forces with deep-state spy adjunct corp. Anduril to build a bigger federal government.


Mises Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - mises.org
Article Keywords: debt, federal reserve

Buy Now, Pay Later doesn’t mean pay more, owe more, and panic more

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has become a familiar way to pay for everything from discretionary purchases to everyday expenses. BNPL lets consumers divide purchases into installments instead of paying up...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Oct 1, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: propaganda, republican

Countering the plague of online antisemitism

Eva Terry writes for National Review Online about an effective tool against antisemitism. Young Americans of all political persuasions are marinating in anti-Israel propaganda on social media and on c...


John Locke Foundation
Oct 1, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: climate, trade

Quotation of the Day…

Tweet… is from page 39 of Razeen Sally’s superb 2008 book, New Frontiers in Free Trade: Globalization’s Future and Asia’s Rising Role: It is always difficult to gauge the influence of ideas (or ideolo...


Cafe Hayek
Oct 1, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Article Keywords: asylum, biden, china, chinese, communist, congress, defense, election, election law, house minority leader, immigration, maga, migration, national security, nuclear, offender, prison, protest, protest, republican, senate, trade, trump, white house

Nancy Pelosi Championed a Hong Kong Dissident. She May Have Doomed Him.

American politicians who cooperate with foreign activists, whether individual or institutional, often do more harm than good.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, biden, border, congress, conservative, election, fiscal, immigration, migrant, migrants, migration, republican, supreme court, trump, white house

Trump Uses Recission ‘Loophole’ To Cut Nearly $1 Billion in Funds For Illegals

To summarize the Democrat Party’s current strategy on immigration, here is essentially how it works: Whenever in power, they create billions in incentives and subsidies to entice third-world migrants ...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, biden, china, congress, inflation, jobs, maga, migrant, migrants, republican, taxes, tps, trade, trump

Americans Are Wealthier Than 30 Years Ago. Here's the Data To Prove It.

Americans with upper, middle, and lower incomes are all better off today than in the 1970s or 1990s, new CBO data shows.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: economy, enforcement, immigration, jobs, maga, migrant, migration, supreme court, tariff, trade, trump

How Regulation, Immigration Policy, and Tariffs Made Your BLT More Expensive

A BLT looks simple, but bacon rules, lettuce labor shortages, and tomato tariffs show how government meddling can make even lunch more expensive.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: constitution, defense, enforcement, immigration, kings, maga, migration, newsom, newsom::2, supreme court

You Can Now Sue Federal Agents in California. Good Luck Getting Past Qualified Immunity.

Californians can now sue federal officers for civil rights violations, but cops can still claim qualified immunity as a bona fide defense for official misconduct.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad, conflict, defense, election, escalation, iran, maga, observer, rule of law, trade, trump

Friedrich Hayek Predicted Donald Trump

Populism trades long-term institutional stability for the short-term high of mob rule, eroding the rule of law to feed its own ego. By reducing complex social realities into a toxic divide of “us vers...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: border, department of homeland security, dhs, enforcement, feds, immigration, law enforcement, lawyer, maga, migration

Homeland Security Admits To Watchlisting Americans Based on 'Potential Inaccuracies'

The feds’ response to a lawsuit over their voter fraud investigation program is an admission that their approach didn’t work. But some questions are still unanswered.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  ice , administration, congress, enforcement, immigration, maga, migration, tps, trump, white house

AI-Powered Concierge Government

Plus: FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv forced to emergency-land, ICE hiring surge, and more...


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, china, climate, constitution, first amendment, judiciary, lawyer, maga, supreme court

On FOI Requests and Other Benefits of Working at a Public University

For twenty-five years I never had to think about freedom-of-information requests, but in the last year I have been the subject of two such requests.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: china, climate, enforcement, hollywood, jobs, law enforcement, nuclear, tps, trump

Bill Gates Predicts a Billion Deaths Via ‘Evolutionary Event’

Bill Gates is back on the Sunday-show circuit spreading doom and predicting a massive reduction in the human population. In an exclusive Meet the Press interview set to air this weekend, the Microsoft...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: china, chinese, crisis, defense, epstein::-3, escalation, iran, national security, nuclear, protest, protest, trump, white house

All Hell Set To Break Loose by the End of September

Window of Supreme Risk: September 30 to November 3. West Asia is about to burn. The sociopath President of the United States completely disregarded the Chinese solution to end the Iran drama, presente...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: crime, economy, maga, migrant, migrants, republican, riot, trump, white house

The Rove Roll

History’s Mover isn’t done. The post The Rove Roll appeared first on Free the People.


Free the People
Sep 30, 2026 - freethepeople.org
Article Keywords: constitution, crime, enforcement, invasion, law enforcement, maga, supreme court, surveillance

Your Right to Privacy Doesn't Disappear When You're in Public

Defenders of Flock-style surveillance systems argue that people “have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.” They're wrong.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: election, first amendment, invasion, lawyer, maga, surveillance, tps, trade

NFL Player's Penis Size Is a 'Matter of Legitimate Public Concern,' Says Court

That means his ex-wife can talk about it on a podcast if she wants to. But you probably shouldn’t follow suit.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: defense, judiciary, lawyer, maga, of color, prison, redaction, supreme court

No Sealing of Property Information in Motion Challenging Diversity Jurisdiction

From Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter last Wednesday in Kazazian v. Wilson Elser LLP (D. Colo.) (plaintiff appears to be the… The post No Sealing of Property Information in Motion Challenging Diversity...


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords:  canad, defense, election, foreign policy, national security, republican, senate, white house

Eisenhower and Washington Both Spoke Out Against War

“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do,” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster....


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: administration, biden, constitution, executive order, protest, protest, trump, white house

Protestations aside, Washington wants to regulate AI. It also wants to run it

Washington’s latest AI summit between Trump and tech executives was billed largely as a meeting about safety. Ultimately, it was a meeting about something more consequential: who gets to govern the te...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: china, chinese, communist, conflict, congress, economy, offender, prison

Mao’s Great Leap: Mass Starvation on the Road to Serfdom

Mao’s land seizures and collectivization stripped farmers of control over production. When central plans failed, coercion intensified—and tens of millions died in the resulting famine.


The Advocates for Self-Government
Sep 30, 2026 - theadvocates.org
Article Keywords: administration, china, economy, jobs, tariff, trade, trump, white house

Where’s the Evidence of “Hollowing Out”?

TweetHere’s a note to a long-time correspondent. Mr. McKinney: Thanks for sharing the report on the Trump administration’s announcement of a new steel plant to be built in Iowa. By now, you should kno...


Cafe Hayek
Sep 30, 2026 - cafehayek.com
Article Keywords: administration, congress, enforcement, federal judge, maga, trade, trump

The FDA Promises To Streamline the Dauntingly Complex Rules for Approving Nicotine Products

The planned reforms could promote harm reduction by addressing a huge backlog that has resulted in routine violations of a statutory deadline.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: conflict, congress, constitution, enforcement, federal judge, republican, supreme court

How Conflicting Interpretations of Dred Scott Undermine State Sovereignty

For those who understand that unlimited federal power is a threat to individual liberty, one area of great concern is the fourteenth amendment’s “equal protection” clause. The aim of this amendment wa...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: china, defense, enforcement, escalation, iran, nuclear, trump

The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Joe Terwilliger: Tensions Flare in East Asia as North Korea Tests Hypersonic Missiles!

A single phrase can change the whole global chessboard: nuclear first use. We start by reacting to speculation about a US nuclear strike in Iran and lay out why even “unlikely” decisions matter when e...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords:  canad, administration, constitution, crime, defense, invasion, trade

Canada Has A Ukrainian Blindspot

On September 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Canada where he and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a 100-year partnership “elevat[ing] the relationship between their coun...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: china, election, gerrymandering, gop, republican, senate, trump

Sensing the bottom dropping out

Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about bad electoral news for Republicans. And here we are, days away from October in a midterm year. This is beginning to feel a bit like a nightmare a...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 30, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: constitution, crime, enforcement, law enforcement, maga, surveillance

Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.

AI-powered license plate readers flagged an abnormal driving pattern. Then officers made up reasons to pull him over and interrogated him, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search....


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: conflict, crime, federal judge, first amendment, maga, supreme court

Miami Beach Can't Dodge First Amendment Lawsuit After Police Questioned Woman Over Anti-Israel Facebook Post

Miami Beach detectives questioned Raquel Pacheco at her house over her pro-Palestine Facebook comments. A judge ruled several key claims in her First Amendment lawsuit against the city can proceed.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: border, china, chinese, first amendment, maga, of color

Anti-White Speech Stemming from Seattle "Race and Social Justice Initiative" Training May Have Been Legally Actionable Workplace Harassment

From Diemert v. City of Seattle, decided by Chief Judge Mary Murguia, joined by Judges William A. Fletcher and Lucy… The post Anti-White Speech Stemming from Seattle "Race and Social Justice Initiativ...


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: economy, fiscal, maga, prison, taxes, white house

Filing Taxes Will Cost Americans $544 Billion This Year

The complexity and burden of the tax code add insult to injury.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: circuit court, constitution, defense, maga, second amendment, supreme court

Second Amendment Roundup: Bruen's Footnote 9 Not a Carve-Out from Text and History

Judge R. Nelson’s dissent from 9th Circuit’s Yukutake decision thoroughly analyzes footnote 9.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: climate, election, elon musk, enforcement, law enforcement, observer

Bill Gates Joins Regulation Chorus Despite Ties to AI Funding

Bill Gates has boarded the artificial intelligence scare train. He’s joined the chorus of high-profile people warning that AI will wipe out humanity if the government doesn’t step in and regulate it. ...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: crisis, economy, federal reserve, feds, inflation, tps

One Vote I Insist You Cast

Whenever there’s a crisis, you can be sure of one thing: the federal government and its lackeys will come up with an explanation that exonerates it, and will push that version of events until it becom...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: crime, crisis, fiscal, immigration, migration, taxes

Your House Is Private Property Until the Government Decides It Needs It

Britain has decided that leaving your own property empty for six months may now be sufficient reason for the government to begin taking control of it. Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has announced tha...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords:  canad, china, constitution, protest, protest, republican

The Patron Saint of Freedom

All lovers of liberty can admire the newly beatified Fulton J. Sheen.


Law & Liberty
Sep 30, 2026 - lawliberty.org
Article Keywords: administration, maga, trade, trump, white house

Trump Wants AI Companies To Police Themselves. His FTC Isn't Waiting.

While the White House settles for a voluntary accord, the Federal Trade Commission is preparing subpoena-like demands and plans to compel testimony from frontier lab executives.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: constitution, crime, first amendment, maga, national security

Journalist's Publishing Information About Sealed Arrest Protected by First Amendment

Tech CEO who sued over the publication had to pay about $400K in defendants' attorney fees as a result of the trial court's throwing out the lawsuit, and the Court of Appeal just affirmed the decision...


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: maga, scotus, scotus::2, trump

SCOTUS Stays Third-Party Removal Injunction 40 Minutes After Reply Filed

It seems the Justices worked out a plan before the briefing concluded.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, biden, congress, enforcement, maga

Hazy Drug Classification Criteria Invite Dubious Bureaucratic Judgments

A GAO report notes that the Controlled Substances Act does not define "potential for abuse" or "accepted medical use."


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: china, conflict, election, jobs, nuclear

The UN’s Bankruptcy Can’t Happen Fast Enough

Every September, world leaders take turns at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and give pointless speeches. If they really cared about CO2 emissions, they’d skip the event ...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: border, defense, escalation, nuclear, trump

North Korea Denies Planting Mines that Injured Three South Korean Soldiers

North Korea denied that it had planted landmines south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), leading to an explosion that injured three South Korean soldiers. The US-led United Nations Command (UNC)...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: administration, biden, jobs, trump, unemployment

Reading the fine print on unemployment

When politicians talk about unemployment, it is worth remembering an old principle: buyer beware. The unemployment rate is a statistic, but politicians can transform it into a story. A falling rate ca...


Blog Posts Archive - Competitive Enterprise Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - cei.org
Article Keywords: congress, election, medicare for all, republican, senate

Democrats in battleground districts want no AOC

Kyle Becker writes for RedState.com about bad news for one of the political left’s most prominent figures. Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) is getting major pushback from swing-state Dem...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 30, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: china, chinese, climate, communist, foreign policy

Report details ‘dangerous’ ties between Rockefeller fund and China

Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing new report. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a $1.4 billion U.S.-based charity with funding from the Rockefeller family and other donor...


John Locke Foundation
Sep 30, 2026 - johnlocke.org
Article Keywords: congress, constitution, judiciary, maga

District Court Declares Vacatur (Likely) Unconstitutional

"Even if Congress were to enact a law clearly empowering Article III courts to vacate agency rules or regulations and automatically cause their erasure from the Code of Federal Regulations, vacatur wo...


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: administration, iran, nuclear, trump

Trump Downplays North Korean Nuclear Weapons, Says Kim Likes and Respects Him

President Donald Trump downplayed the nuclear risk from North Korea in comments comparing the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs.  The President was asked by a reporter on Tuesday, “You have sa...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: conflict, congress, iran, tps

The Reaper Has Been Seen a Dramatic Destruction Cycle

The USAF MQ-9A Reaper fleet is down to about 135 airframes — under half the 351 counted in FY2022 — and the production line is shut, Army Recognition reported from a 23 September CRS study. GA-ASI tol...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: climate, maga, supreme court

Justice Alito Says Recusal in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County a "Difficult Judgment Call"

Bloomberg reports on why Justice Alito decided to recuse from the first case of the Supreme Court's term.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: executive order, maga, trump

Trump Orders Mosquitoes and Rats Out of the District of Columbia

Time to deploy gene drives to eliminate these disease-carrying pests?


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: crime, crisis, maga

Why Is Seattle Keeping Her From Cleaning Up Trash?

Since 2020, We Heart Seattle has picked up over 2 million pounds of trash. In response, the state government is investigating the group for improper handling of materials.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: defense, maga, of color

Jewish Community Center's Lawsuit Against "Goyim Defense League" Can Go Forward

From Gordon Jewish Community Center v. Goyim Defense League, decided Wednesday by Judge Aleta Trauger (M.D. Tenn.): The following factual… The post Jewish Community Center's Lawsuit Against "Goyim Def...


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: election, iran, trump

John Mearsheimer on Bombing To Lose

Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 27 September 2026, I was on “Switzerland” with the host, Tom Switzer, and the distinguished author and columnist, Patrick Cockburn. We talked mainly about Iran, focu...


Antiwar.com Blog
Sep 30, 2026 - antiwar.com
Article Keywords: border, conflict, nuclear

Russia Warns It Could Use Nuclear Weapons if NATO Attempts to Isolate Kaliningrad

Russia sent a document to NATO warning the alliance that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in response to an attempt to isolate the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.  Reuters reported viewing the document o...


The Libertarian Institute
Sep 30, 2026 - libertarianinstitute.org
Article Keywords: crisis, debt, fiscal

Part III: Demographics + Entitlements = Europe’s Doom

Part I of this series looked at how Europe’s population pyramid is becoming a cylinder. Part II of this series looked how Europe’s age-dependency ratio is getting much worse. Today’s column will focus...


International Liberty
Sep 30, 2026 - danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
Article Keywords: lawyer, maga

Axel Kaiser Explains the Javier Milei Effect

Axel Kaiser discusses Latin America’s political realignment, the battle over culture, and why libertarians need to talk about virtue.


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: maga, supreme court

Today in Supreme Court History: September 30, 1857

9/30/1857: Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis resigns from the Supreme Court after Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 30, 1857 appeared first on Reason Maga...


Reason Magazine
Sep 30, 2026 - reason.com
Article Keywords: crime, prison

The Technocratic Terror State Being Built Is Entirely Dependent on Technology

“The Empire of Scientism will constitute governance of the machine, by the machine, for the machine.” ~ James Tunney In the Tunney quote above, ‘Scientism’ is equivalent to what is now called technocr...


LewRockwell
Sep 30, 2026 - lewrockwell.com
Article Keywords: constitution, tps

The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident.

That means the rules of the constitution apply whether someone calls it an “emergency” or not. On this episode, it’s the founders’ long-forgotten warning about the oldest weapon in the book. Let polit...


Tenth Amendment Center
Sep 30, 2026 - blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com