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The 5th Circuit Says the Federal Ban on Handgun Sales to Young Adults Is Unconstitutional

yesterday 20

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Jacob Sullum

An Unprecedented 22 Percent Drop in Drug Deaths Does Not Mean Prohibition Is Finally Working

yesterday 20

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A Tennessee State University That Nearly Expelled a Student for Racy Tweets Agrees To Pay Her $250,000

A Tennessee State University That Nearly Expelled a Student for Racy Tweets Agrees To Pay Her $250,000
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Trump's Citizenship Decree Signals His Willingness To Flout the Constitution

Trump's Citizenship Decree Signals His Willingness To Flout the Constitution
wednesday 9

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A Guilty Plea Implicates 'Almost the Entire' Albuquerque DWI Unit in Longstanding Police Corruption

A Guilty Plea Implicates 'Almost the Entire' Albuquerque DWI Unit in Longstanding Police Corruption
wednesday 2

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Trump's Orders Feature Nonexistent Emergencies, Illegal Power Grabs, and Blatant Inconsistencies

Trump's Orders Feature Nonexistent Emergencies, Illegal Power Grabs, and Blatant Inconsistencies
25.01.2025 40

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The Country's Largest Police Union, Which Repeatedly Endorsed Trump, Is Dismayed by His Capitol Riot Pardons

The Country's Largest Police Union, Which Repeatedly Endorsed Trump, Is Dismayed by His Capitol Riot Pardons
23.01.2025 100

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Biden and Trump Show Presidents How To Abuse Clemency

Biden and Trump Show Presidents How To Abuse Clemency
22.01.2025 10

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Trump's Blanket Clemency for Capitol Rioters Excuses Political Violence

Trump's Blanket Clemency for Capitol Rioters Excuses Political Violence
22.01.2025 40

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Biden's Preemptive Pardons Undermine Official Accountability and the Rule of Law

Biden's Preemptive Pardons Undermine Official Accountability and the Rule of Law
21.01.2025 90

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Jacob Sullum

Why Trump Should Keep His Promise To Free Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht

Why Trump Should Keep His Promise To Free Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
20.01.2025 30

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Jacob Sullum

Biden Has Now Issued Far More Commutations Than Any of His Predecessors

Biden Has Now Issued Far More Commutations Than Any of His Predecessors
18.01.2025 20

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Jacob Sullum

The FDA Proposes a De Facto Cigarette Ban, Which Would Expand the Disastrous War on Drugs

The FDA Proposes a De Facto Cigarette Ban, Which Would Expand the Disastrous War on Drugs
17.01.2025 20

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A Scary Government Report Implies That Moderate Drinking Is Manifestly Reckless

A Scary Government Report Implies That Moderate Drinking Is Manifestly Reckless
15.01.2025 4

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Jacob Sullum

The Law That Disarmed Trump Is Unfair, Illogical, and Constitutionally Dubious

The Law That Disarmed Trump Is Unfair, Illogical, and Constitutionally Dubious
15.01.2025 20

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The Law That Disarmed Trump Is Unfair, Illogical and Constitutionally Dubious

The Law That Disarmed Trump Is Unfair, Illogical and Constitutionally Dubious
15.01.2025 10

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The Best of Reason: 'The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact'

The Best of Reason: 'The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact'
15.01.2025 10

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Maryland Cop Who Recklessly Shot a 5-Year-Old Boy Got Qualified Immunity

Maryland Cop Who Recklessly Shot a 5-Year-Old Boy Got Qualified Immunity
14.01.2025 20

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Despite 2024 Setbacks, Drug Policy Is Still on a Long-Term Trend Toward Reform

Despite 2024 Setbacks, Drug Policy Is Still on a Long-Term Trend Toward Reform
13.01.2025 2

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'The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact'

'The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact'
11.01.2025 7

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Trump's Latest Defeat Is One of Many Decisions That Suggest SCOTUS Won't Rubber-Stamp His Agenda

Trump's Latest Defeat Is One of Many Decisions That Suggest SCOTUS Won't Rubber-Stamp His Agenda
11.01.2025 30

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Alvin Bragg's Misbegotten 'Election Interference' Case Against Trump Ends With a Whimper

Alvin Bragg's Misbegotten 'Election Interference' Case Against Trump Ends With a Whimper
10.01.2025 40

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Decrying First Amendment Threat, FIRE Will Defend Pollster Whom Trump Sued for 'Consumer Fraud'

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 1.8.2025 10:15 AM After Donald Trump sued pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register under Iowa's Consumer...

08.01.2025 3

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Why We Are Still Arguing About the Health Effects of Moderate Drinking

Alcohol Jacob Sullum | 1.8.2025 12:01 AM Even moderate drinking could give you cancer, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned last week. But according...

08.01.2025 10

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5th Circuit Reaffirms That Prosecuting a Marijuana User for Illegal Gun Possession Was Unconstitutional

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 1.7.2025 3:35 PM The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit this week reaffirmed its conclusion that the federal...

08.01.2025 20

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Medical Marijuana Legalization Takes Effect in Nebraska After Lawsuit Dismissal

Medical Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2025 1:25 PM Last November, when Nebraska voters overwhelmingly approved a pair of medical marijuana...

02.01.2025 2

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Supreme Court Can Protect Property Owners From Eminent Domain Abuse

Property Rights Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2025 12:01 AM Bryan Bowers and his business partner, Mike Licata, planned to build medical office space across...

01.01.2025 5

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SCOTUS Can Protect Property Owners From Eminent Domain Abuse

Bryan Bowers and his business partner, Mike Licata, planned to build medical office space across from a new hospital in downtown Utica, New York....

01.01.2025 20

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A University President Accused of Squandering Public Money Resigns in Exchange for a $2 Million Payout

Government Waste Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2024 4:05 PM It will be a happy new year for Joseph Shepard, the outgoing president of Western New Mexico...

01.01.2025 10

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Jimmy Carter Supported Federal Pot Decriminalization for Half a Century. It Still Has Not Happened.

Jimmy Carter Jacob Sullum | 12.30.2024 3:00 PM In his first year as president, Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, urged Congress...

31.12.2024 10

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Pointing fingers: How politicians and cops blamed victims, passed the buck in 2024

Last February, explaining why he thought President Joe Biden could not be successfully prosecuted for mishandling classified documents, Special...

28.12.2024 20

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The Government Took a Developer's Land and Gave It to a Competitor. In New York, That's Business As Usual.

Eminent Domain Jacob Sullum | 12.27.2024 3:05 PM After the Mohawk Valley Health System announced plans for a new hospital in downtown Utica, New...

27.12.2024 3

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Review: Illustrating Britain's Victorian Booze Restrictions

Alcohol Jacob Sullum | From the January 2025 issue In an effort to discourage alcohol consumption during the late 19th century, British temperance...

27.12.2024 10

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2 Florida Men Who Thought They Were Freeing Illegally Caught Sharks Are Now Felons

Criminal Justice Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2024 2:10 PM On a Monday in August 2020, Camryn Kuehl and her family embarked on a snorkeling trip in...

26.12.2024 3

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Shooting the Messenger and Blaming the Victim

Politics Jacob Sullum | 12.25.2024 12:01 AM Last February, explaining why he thought Joe Biden could not be successfully prosecuted for mishandling...

25.12.2024 5

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How Cops, Politicians and Bureaucrats Tried to Dodge Responsibility in 2024

Last February, explaining why he thought President Joe Biden could not be successfully prosecuted for mishandling classified documents, Special...

25.12.2024 4

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Even Without the Sex and Drug Allegations, Matt Gaetz's Nomination Should Have Been Doomed

Trump Administration Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2024 3:25 PM In a report released today, the House Ethics Committee says it found "substantial evidence"...

24.12.2024 10

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Trump Mounts a 'Direct Assault on the First Amendment' by Portraying Journalism As Consumer Fraud

Free Press Jacob Sullum | 12.19.2024 2:35 PM A month before the presidential election, 60 Minutes aired an interview with the Democratic nominee,...

20.12.2024 50

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Jacob Sullum: Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 Capitol rioters will reverse genuine judicial abuses

On his first day in office, President-elect Donald Trump promises, he will pardon at least some of the 1,500 or so people who have been charged...

19.12.2024 30

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Trump's January 6 Pardons Could Address Some Real Injustices

Clemency Jacob Sullum | 12.18.2024 12:01 AM On his first day in office, President-elect Donald Trump promises, he will pardon at least some of the...

18.12.2024 10

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Given George Stephanopoulos' Carelessness, ABC's Defamation Settlement With Trump Seems Prudent

Defamation Jacob Sullum | 12.16.2024 5:35 PM In an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.) on ABC's This Week last March, host George...

17.12.2024 10

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Don't
Credit Drug Warriors for Reducing Overdoses

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the January 2025 issue During their presidential campaigns, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both promised to fight...

16.12.2024 3

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5 Years After Giving Birth, a Mississippi Mother Was Arrested for a Felony Based on a Postnatal Drug Test

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2024 3:05 PM Since June 27, 2022 (three days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade), Mississippi has...

14.12.2024 30

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He Was Convicted of a Felony for Holding a Gun on the Sidewalk in Front of His House

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 12.12.2024 4:20 PM In the 1995 case  United States v. Lopez , the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had exceeded...

13.12.2024 10

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Trump's Plan To Fight Illegal Drugs With Punitive Tariffs Makes No Sense

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 12.11.2024 3:50 PM President-elect Donald Trump says the special tariffs he has threatened to impose on goods imported...

12.12.2024 10

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Trump, the Self-Described 'Tariff Man,' Does Not Understand How Tariffs Work

Tariffs Jacob Sullum | 12.11.2024 12:01 AM "I'm a big believer in tariffs," President-elect Donald Trump said this week, not for the first time. "I...

11.12.2024 5

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Kash Patel's QAnon Dalliances Reflect an Outlook That Pits Trump Against Evil Conspirators

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2024 5:45 PM If the Senate confirms Kash Patel as President-elect Donald Trump's FBI director, perhaps he will...

11.12.2024 20

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When Deciding Whether To Investigate His Opponents, Trump Says, He Will Defer to 'Very Fair' Kash Patel

FBI Jacob Sullum | 12.9.2024 1:20 PM Donald Trump has repeatedly declared that various people who have crossed him, including state and federal...

09.12.2024 3

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Biden Failed To Deescalate the Drug War

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the January 2025 issue In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we're giving performance reviews of Joe Biden's...

09.12.2024 4

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Kash Patel's Threats Against Journalists Make Him an Alarming Choice To Run the FBI

Free Press Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2024 5:35 PM Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to replace Christopher Wray as director of the FBI, has...

06.12.2024 10

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