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Politics Josh Blackman | 11.17.2024 7:00 AM 11/17/1880: The United States and China sign treaty that protects Chinese laborers residing in the...
Maps Matthew Petti | From the December 2024 issue Is the film Night of the Living Dead too racy for daytime television? What about double...
Education Emma Camp | From the December 2024 issue Last year, student-led protests over the Israel-Hamas war broke out at dozens of college...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 11.16.2024 10:25 PM How does European free speech law differ from American free speech law, when it comes to "hate...
Eugene Volokh | 11.16.2024 10:16 PM I erroneously put it up before rechecking it, and fortunately caught the error quickly and deleted the post....
Alcohol C. Jarrett Dieterle | 11.16.2024 7:00 AM With Chicago facing an expected budget shortfall of nearly $1 billion next year, Mayor Brandon...
Josh Blackman | 11.16.2024 11:54 PM The 2024 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention is a wrap. I already wrote about our change of venue...
Music Fiona Harrigan | From the December 2024 issue Going Varsity in Mariachi is a bit like Friday Night Lights: an illustration of a cherished...
Josh Blackman | 11.15.2024 1:18 AM The first day of the 2024 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention is in the can. And unfortunately, the...
Drugs Charles Oliver | 11.15.2024 4:00 AM A court in Liverpool sentenced Andrew Talbot, a former officer with the Greater Manchester Police, to 19...
Nuclear Power Jeff Luse | 11.15.2024 3:58 PM The Biden administration has an ambitious plan to triple America's nuclear power capacity by 2050 from...
Government Spending J.D. Tuccille | 11.15.2024 7:00 AM President-elect Donald Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is getting a...
Robert Kennedy Jr. Liz Wolfe | 11.15.2024 9:30 AM Better than EPA: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—bear scavenger, Peter Luger Steak House appreciator,...
Election 2024 Steven Greenhut | 11.15.2024 7:30 AM Few Americans were thinking about historical and political trends when they cast their votes for...
Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.15.2024 9:53 AM If President-elect Donald Trump gets his way, his National Security Council will be a very lively...
Robert Kennedy Jr. Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2024 5:25 PM President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up the Department...
Politics John Ross | 11.15.2024 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the...
Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 11.15.2024 2:10 PM "Are you shittin' me?" Rep. Mike Simpson (R–Idaho) asked when informed that Donald Trump planned...
Women Emma Camp | 11.15.2024 1:40 PM "Women need to stop dating & having sex with men immediately and im not even joking or being dramatic in the...
Civil Liberties C.J. Ciaramella | 11.15.2024 1:25 PM Two years after a mentally ill man died malnourished and covered in insects in Atlanta's...
vote fraud Joe Lancaster | 11.15.2024 1:55 PM After the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump and his allies floated numerous hypotheses to...
Oklahoma Kevin Garcia-Galindo | 11.15.2024 1:10 PM On Tuesday, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma's State Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the...
National Debt Eric Boehm | 11.15.2024 4:30 PM In last week's elections, Americans rejected the status quo in the federal government and asked...
Congress Ilya Somin | 11.15.2024 12:05 AM President-elect Trump has demanded on X that Senate Republican leadership "must agree to Recess...
Josh Blackman | 11.14.2024 12:58 AM I am deeply saddened by the passing of Theodore Olson. Ted, as he was known, was a giant in the conservative...
Buses Charles Oliver | 11.14.2024 4:00 AM A grand jury in Hamilton County, Tennessee has indicted school bus driver Brandy Renee Smith for reckless...
Business and Industry Elizabeth Nolan Brown | From the December 2024 issue Antitrust law has a storied place in modern American history, where it...
Energy & Environment Jonathan H. Adler | From the December 2024 issue The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have a typical origin...
Government Waste Veronique de Rugy | From the December 2024 issue Everyone loves small businesses. But that's no reason to keep an agency dedicated...
War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the December 2024 issue In 1973, the year the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was born, the federal...
Josh Blackman | 11.14.2024 11:49 PM Yesterday I wrote about my memorable experience at the 2008 FedSoc student leadership conference at Ted Olson's...
Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 11.14.2024 5:40 PM If he is confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, former Florida congressman...
Politics Liz Wolfe | 11.14.2024 9:30 AM A raid, for show: Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan, 26, had his Soho apartment raided yesterday...
Federal Reserve Brian Doherty | From the December 2024 issue In a 1995 interview, I asked Milton Friedman whether "it would be preferable to...
Jesse Walker | 11.14.2024 10:39 AM Robby Wells is a former football coach who has picked up a habit of running for president. He made his first bid...
Alcohol C. Jarrett Dieterle | From the December 2024 issue When the 21st Amendment was ratified in 1933, ending America's "noble experiment" with...
Transportation Policy Jason Russell | From the December 2024 issue Who can resist the romance of the rails? The glorious train halls of old; the...
TSA Robby Soave | From the December 2024 issue In response to 9/11, President George W. Bush created the Transportation Security Administration...
Health Care Peter Suderman | From the December 2024 issue When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, passed...
Education Neal McCluskey | From the December 2024 issue Love or hate the Project 2025 blueprint for the next conservative president, it has done...
Minimum Wage Billy Binion | From the December 2024 issue The idea that the federal minimum wage should exist in some form may sound beyond debate...
Domestic spying Ronald Bailey | From the December 2024 issue Citizens surely expect the government to be on watch against terrorist attacks like...
Government secrecy C.J. Ciaramella | From the December 2024 issue Over the past decade I've submitted hundreds of records requests to federal...
Drugs Jeffrey A. Singer | From the December 2024 issue It takes 10–15 years and hundreds of millions of dollars for a pharmaceutical company to...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 11.14.2024 3:01 PM From Tuesday's press release by the U.S. Attorney's office in Colorado: The United States Attorney's...
Eugene Volokh | 11.14.2024 2:39 PM You can read the Complaint (filed yesterday) in Moody v. Criswell (S.D. Fla.); there are all sorts of...
Eugene Volokh | 11.14.2024 2:39 PM I've been reading and much enjoying Paul Mirengoff & Bill Otis's Ringside at the Reckoning. I don't always agree...
Eugene Volokh | 11.14.2024 1:04 PM We're at: Please let us know if you have any difficulties with accessing any of these. We'd also be glad to get...
Eugene Volokh | 11.14.2024 12:53 PM A very good Substack post by Yascha Mounk; two short excerpts: The aspiration of many journalists to save...
Politics Eric Boehm | 11.14.2024 1:05 PM When Republicans officially take control of the U.S. Senate in January, a longtime critic of the national...
Politics Robby Soave | 11.14.2024 1:20 PM In the closing weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris had an opportunity...
Politics C.J. Ciaramella | 11.14.2024 2:00 PM A California woman won't be allowed to sue the police officer who allegedly leaked a confidential...
Politics Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe | 11.14.2024 1:43 PM HD Video Download Subscribe to the new Just Asking Questions Youtube channel here!...
Immigration Fiona Harrigan | 11.14.2024 2:40 PM Just over a week after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump has begun to assemble a team...
Energy Subsidies Jeff Luse | 11.14.2024 3:00 PM For decades, the federal government has propped up energy sources and technologies through...
Politics Liz Wolfe | 11.13.2024 9:30 AM Elon Musk x Vivek Ramaswamy: Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump announced these two oddball...
Sanctions Matthew Petti | 11.13.2024 10:18 AM Can the U.S. government use counterterrorism as an excuse to stop Americans from talking to...
Environmental Protection Agency Jeff Luse | 11.13.2024 9:45 AM President-elect Donald Trump is picking former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R–N.Y.) to lead...
Russia Billy Binion | 11.13.2024 10:45 AM A Russian court on Monday denied relief to a U.S. citizen serving 12 years in a penal colony for treason...
Podcasts Zach Weissmueller, Liz Wolfe, and John Osterhoudt | 11.13.2024 8:40 AM Interrogating current events, challenging assumptions, uncovering...
Free-Range Kids John Stossel | 11.13.2024 12:00 PM I often report on fake "crises" pushed by media. Here's one that may be real: Kids are anxious....
Sex Work Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.13.2024 11:30 AM Eleven Texas police officers have been disciplined for misconduct related to prostitution...
Government Spending Eric Boehm | 11.13.2024 12:30 PM Possibly the biggest pile of waste in the federal government is the amount of "improper...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 11.13.2024 2:41 PM Yesterday, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in two cases, G-Max Management v. New...
Climate Change Jonathan H. Adler | 11.13.2024 2:22 PM In yesterday's Orders List, the Supreme Court denied the petition for a write of mandamus in ...
First Amendment Emma Camp | 11.13.2024 11:30 AM A Louisiana law mandating that public school classrooms display posters of the Ten Commandments has...
Election 2024 Nick Gillespie | 11.13.2024 11:00 AM HD Video Download In the wake of massive victories by Donald Trump and Republicans, here's a...
Antitrust Jack Nicastro | 11.13.2024 11:15 AM American Airlines and Jet Blue violated the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, a federal appeals court...
Immigration Kevin Garcia-Galindo | 11.13.2024 11:45 AM During a June appearance on the Business and Technology podcast All-In , then-presidential...
FDA Emma Camp | 11.13.2024 3:39 PM Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled almost 80,000 pounds of Costco's popular store-...
Government Spending Jack Nicastro | 11.13.2024 4:15 PM The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's...
Motherhood Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.13.2024 6:43 PM This week's featured article is "Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career?" by Elizabeth Nolan...
Josh Blackman | 11.13.2024 4:47 PM Ed Whelan writes that President Trump may adjourn Congress as a means to instantly confirm his entire cabinet...
Government Spending Veronique de Rugy | 11.14.2024 12:01 AM Donald Trump won the election. The House and Senate are in Republican hands. That means...
Josh Blackman | 11.13.2024 8:53 AM Louisiana law requires the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. A group of Plaintiffs...
Gas Stations Charles Oliver | 11.13.2024 4:00 AM In England, Lincolnshire Police Superintendent Fran Harrod says officers won't arrest drivers who...
FEMA J.D. Tuccille | 11.13.2024 7:00 AM At a time when Americans worry—for good reason—that the apparatus of the state is used to punish the...
Trump Administration C.J. Ciaramella | 11.13.2024 5:53 PM In a surprise move, President-elect Donald Trump announced today he is nominating Rep....
Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 11.13.2024 4:50 PM The name of President-elect Donald Trump's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is...
David Post | 11.12.2024 5:16 PM This is #8 in a very occasional series plucked from my files of quotes and snippets and what-have-you. I've spent a...
Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 11.13.2024 12:01 AM Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump's bounciest adviser, thinks he can identify "at least" $2...
Discrimination Ilya Somin | 11.12.2024 7:11 PM During Donald Trump's first administration, his travel ban policy barring almost all migration...
Elon Musk Joe Lancaster | 11.12.2024 5:47 PM One of President-elect Donald Trump's biggest benefactors in his bid for a second term was Elon Musk,...
Election 2024 Ilya Somin | 11.12.2024 6:05 PM There is a lot of talk about how the election result is a great realignment and/or a "mandate" for...