Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources. Today's edition includes 100 articles from 16 sites. We chose these from 1962 articles found on 36 sites.
Plus: Tariffs and Michigan, LGBT teens, Stewart Brand fanfare, and more...
GOP's new mantra: "Free speech for me, but not for thee."
It’s a small victory for financial privacy against escalating surveillance.
Tax revenue increased by about 3 percent last year, but spending increased twice as fast. And interest payments on the debt cost more than $1.1 trillion.
TweetThe Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal explains that Trump’s tariffs punitive taxes on Americans’ – including American businesses’ – purchases of imports are harming the GOP politically. ...
A forgotten monument in Budapest reveals truths about immigration, assimilation, and civic gratitude.
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with living in a small nation on the peripheral map of the American Empire. Living in Serbia, or any of the smaller sovereign nations scattered acro...
Modern-day Americans have engaged in what might be called “liberty suicide,” an act by which they have willingly killed their own freedom through their support of various liberty-destroying government...
International Man: We’ve entered October, a month that has a history of producing surprise events that can change the course of an election. With the country already facing economic, political, and ge...
U.S. voters continue to be motivated more by whom they loathe than whom they like.
Note: This is a blast from the past article that I published 3 years ago in November of 2023. As Jon Bon Jovi so eloquently put it — “It’s all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems w...
Sometimes I wish I’d never watched the movie The Truman Show. It really made me question the whole nature of our reality. 9/11. Sandy Hook. The Boston Bombing. So many events of the 21st century leave...
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about another example of media malfeasance. In the left’s quest to stop Donald Trump from winning a second presidential term in 2024, the Biden Department of Just...
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online ponders discouraging words from Republicans’ US Senate candidate in Texas. It is not exactly surprising to hear that, according to an audio recording from an eve...
Shmoo & Ozzie Go to Washington is supposed to be about bipartisanship, but it's really about wasteful spending.
The Iran War has cost Americans over $170 billion, including hundreds of millions in military hardware accidentally destroyed by allies or intentionally blown up by the United States. Meanwhile, the e...
Eliana Johnson writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing trend on American college campuses. A nationwide survey of undergraduate students conducted by Yale University’s Buckley Institu...
It is still possible to tune out the endless broadcast.
I’m a big advocate of lower tax rates on businesses, so this chart warms my heart. It’s evidence that tax competition in recent decades has forced greedy politicians to enact better tax policy. The ab...
TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Marco Rubio rightly defends western civilization and acknowledges debts owed to the ancient Athenians (“The Birth and Rebirth of Western Civili...
Be warned: What happens in Portland does not stay in Portland. The post Portland Re-Emerges as Woke Zombie HQ appeared first on Free the People.
The world’s largest research funder asked its grantees whether it should audit them. Guess what they said.
Form (not genre) is the key to understanding literature that opens cracks in conventional understanding. But exactly what form is is unknowable. Goethe said there was “an open mystery” to every form. ...
French President Emmanuel Macron went full Orwell this week. While long the darling of Western media, Macron has been one of the most anti-free-speech leaders in the world. This week, he declared that...
Editors at Issues and Insights ask what do South Americans know that US voters don’t. By all accounts, socialists and their brethren in the Democratic Party will sweep the upcoming midterm elections, ...
Indiana State Police arrested Hancock County sheriff's deputy James Heneghan and charged him with 220 counts each of official misconduct… The post Brickbat: …in All the Wrong Places appeared first on ...
Lately I’ve been thinking about the philosophical shallowness and mendacity of most of the literature on autism. Notable exceptions include the seminal 1998 Wakefield et al. paper “Ileal-lymphoid-nodu...
The US trade deficit has yet to balance out.
In a small country like Canada, a 68K job loss is huge. The decline follows 42,000 job losses in August.
10/9/1954: Justice Robert H. Jackson dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 9, 1954 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Some lanternists believed that film was a fad their medium would easily survive.
The entire world is currently engaged in the race to develop UAVs and actively enhancing its military-technical capabilities. However, while for most nations this is just a part of its defense strateg...
On October 8, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) introduced the Lower Premiums, Faster Payments Act as a fix for the disastrous No Surprises Act (NSA). The new bill largely follows the approach he pushed in th...
Editors at National Review Online assess the recent Iranian scheme to wreak havoc with drones. The U.S. rushed to evacuate its fleet of B-1 bombers from England’s Royal Air Force Fairford base. Accord...
Tweet… is from page 10 of the “The Purpose of International Trade,” which is Chapter II of the 1932 report of a commission in the U.K., chaired by Sir William Beveridge; the title of the collection is...
The DSA would abolish the police, open borders, socialize medicine, abolish the Department of War, and abolish the Senate.
Multiculturalism as a subversive movement is the defining political schism of our time. Is is the fulcrum point for numerous civilization changing events and a direct trigger for the exponential decli...
The DSA is set to grow its influence in government after the 2026 elections.
From Maine to Michigan, voters are fed up with tariffs and trade wars.
An influx of military spending has been moving tech companies away from serving consumers and back toward chasing government contracts.
The propaganda press continue to lie about the fiery riots spreading across France. Both European and American outlets have described the violent insurrections as spontaneous gatherings of students w...
The holiday brings out many of the worst excesses of identity politics.
The ex-girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. asked a Republican fundraiser to pay off her credit card debt.
“United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation.”—President Donald Trump, Executive Order 14365 The era of small government is over. Anyone who tells you differently...
“National conservatism” is the latest in a long line of re-branded conservative groups which attempts to explain to the world how they are oh-so-very different from the conservatives who came before t...
Plus: AI weirdness, Amazon algorithm data, bond markets, and more...
Ben Weingarten writes for the Federalist about the need for accountability for rogue Biden-era prosecutors. In exposing Jack Smith’s lawless, corrupt, and tyrannical effort to criminalize the MAGA mov...
A report from Amnesty International and the ACLU argues that if universities allowed misbehavior in the past, they must continue to do so.
It is impossible to inform most people of the truth because most are ignorant and apathetic and the source of their information is the Media that refuses to tell the truth. The Media is owned or contr...
Since March, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have displaced more than a million civilians and killed or wounded more than 17,000 people. Al Jazeera reported last month: “Israeli artillery shelling is still...
Two very different sorts of drone warfare
The conservative justice seems to favor the kind of results-oriented judging that originalists are supposed to oppose.
“Only because I wanted to go further.” That single line from Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview changes how you should read the entire Iran war timeline. I’m solo today, digging into the most rele...
The league's amicus brief warns about game integrity and underage betting, but the NFL has a financial stake in keeping prediction markets under state control.
At a press conference, the vice president offered a strange new definition of the word. But his full remarks revealed a deeper irony.
Why MAHA Is Fracturing It now seems clear that the Make America Healthy Again movement is fracturing because its leaders chose power over principle, and the people who built this coalition are now wat...
Barely four years after the Pretoria Agreement formally ended one of the deadliest wars of the twenty-first century, large-scale fighting has returned to Ethiopia. In late September the principal anti...
Campus free speech sees little improvement in FIRE’s annual report.
Unions rallied against a D.C. robotaxi bill that already favors them. Riders would pay for their win in higher fares and more dangerous roads.
Annie Palmer was banned from the district's Facebook page for expressing her displeasure at the hiring of a new elementary school principal.
"Senator Ted Cruz’s new biography about Justice Clarence Thomas, Going Further, is a must-read contribution to this third genre of Supreme Court books."
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Social Security Administration now estimate that the Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to run out of reserves in 2032 under current law...
As we reflect on the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I find the comparison between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and the three geological collapses described in Part 1 both unse...
When Frederick Douglass began to appreciate the Constitution, it was a turning point in the drama of emancipation.
After $118,000 in fines for allowing unvaccinated students to attend Amish schools, the plaintiffs are pursuing a case that could reshape how the courts protect religious exercise.
Price controls are seductive because any benefits are highly and immediately visible, while their grave costs are often harder to spot.
An excerpt from a long opinion by Judge Jasmine Yoon (W.D. Va.) Monday in Doe v. Albemarle County School Bd.:… The post Does Allowing Turning Point USA "Two Genders: One Truth" Event to Be Held and Pr...
“That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also on...
When I’ve done online budget exercises, I’ve earned results such as “minimalist” and “classic conservative.” Now I’ve taken another do-it-yourself budget quiz and this time I’m supposedly a “disciplin...
Part I and Part II. Perhaps the most wrongheaded analysis in the Report is this: Because the government may not… The post Problems with the New US Civil Rights Commission Report on Antisemitism, Part ...
Shutting down the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness is the right thing to do, but the Trump administration's approach allowed a dozen federal employees to collect paychecks for a year.
A US and Syrian official said Syria is considering sending troops to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom battles Ansar Allah in Yemen. Reuters reported on Thursday that a US official and a Syrian defense off...
President Donald Trump said the US will not launch attacks against Iran before the midterm elections in early November. The statement follows a report that Trump ordered the military to prepare for re...
In this week’s episode we cover the case of Suncor v. Boulder County at the Supreme Court, the problems with the Los Angeles mansion tax, new polling on tariffs, and the latest job-creation numbers. O...
A North Carolina state trooper shot Lydia Nikac's two dogs, but an appeals court ruled she doesn't have a right to publish body camera footage of the shooting under the state's restrictive public reco...
Biskupic no longer has any inside information so instead she is forced to make up reporting based on the Justice's apparent body language.
Earlier this year, as the energy crisis sent gasoline prices soaring, Washington began waiving the very fuel regulations it had insisted were necessary. The government relaxed summer-blend requirement...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: After last week’s pow-wow at Camp David with his top advisors, President Trump is rumored to be seriously considering a quick but definitive attack on Iran before t...
A potpourri episode covering Martin Luther King, Jr., immigration and the Founding Fathers, the unknown history of states’ rights, and how to survive and prosper in a hostile world. Sponsors… Read Mo...
From Outlaw v. Outlaw, decided in 2019 by Judge Katharine von Ter Stegge (Ore. Cir. Ct.) but just posted on Westlaw;… The post Outlaw vs. In-Law Outlaw appeared first on Reason Magazine.
From Straight Arrow News (Devin Pavlou): One morning in late September, Carli Heller opened up an artificial intelligence chatbot and… The post Can a Chatbot Prompt Be a Punishable Threat? appeared fi...
A just released episode of the Blessings of Liberty podcast.
In Texas, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office fired Deputy Carlos Ramos after a video showed him tailgating a driver without… The post Brickbat: Bumper to Bumper appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Watch today’s Liberty Report here. The post Out With A Bang? Trump May Attack Iran BEFORE Midterms! appeared first on LewRockwell.
Everyone, you might say. But I don’t think so. Them? Us? A little of both, I’m sure. So what’s the point? If you can determine who is brainwashed, you know who to keep your mouth shut around. Complete...
From John Mearsheimer’s new YouTube channel: It seems clear that the Trump administration and its allies are working overtime to create the false impression that the United States is well on its way t...
Jonathan Newman joins Dennis Tubbergen to discuss Federal Reserve independence, the relationship between the Fed and U.S. Treasury, debt monetization, interest rates, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), and...
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi weigh in on the Russian plague, whether superintelligence is sentient, and Tucker Carlson's shaky grasp of history.
10/8/1888: Chief Justice Melville Fuller takes the judicial oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 8, 1888 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kiev on October 4 for an unannounced visit, accompanied by Economy Minister Katherina Reiche and a delegation of German defense and energy executives. Speaking fro...
The GOP is doubling down on a brilliant strategy – from 2024.
There’s out of context, and then there’s trans-dimensional out of context.
Contrary to propaganda from unions and the maritime industry, the Jones Act creates hardships and is helping to drag down the US economy. The only proper outcome is to repeal it immediately.
Editors at National Review Online promote one good way to make the federal government better. For decades, the federal government’s byzantine and overlapping permitting regimes for infrastructure and ...
David Friedman joins us once again to discuss differing legal systems (and Renaissance fairs). The post David Friedman Returns! | Words & Numbers | Ep 527 appeared first on Free the People.
Bray and Dublin to Debate as Early Voting Opens; Cooper and Whatley Campaigns Never Responded to Invitations Libertarian and Green Party U.S. Senate candidates will take voter questions live on Facebo...
The respondents did not think much of the policies that the president says produced "the largest drop in violent crime in American history."
The senator wants to “triple union density by 2035” and pay for a host of social welfare programs with new taxes on data centers and AI companies.