Today’s news coverage from libertarian media sources.
What is a greater rejection of America's founding ideals than an overreaching government trampling the First Amendment?
Plus: The U.S. blockade widens, Los Angeles teachers get a pay bump, the sunny side of a treeless national mall, and more...
Yes, there is a Domestic Emoluments Clause issue.
Republicans can’t decide whether the war is too early to stop, too late to stop, or nonexistent in the first place.
The third Gulf War is the latest in a long line of fumbles in the region.
Advocates of the unitary executive theory believe it reinforces the separation of powers. It actually destroys it.
For decades Washington has advertised its air and naval supremacy as the indispensable guarantor of global order. Recent events have shown this to be little but increasingly expensive theater. The 202...
Ward Clark writes for RedState.com about interesting new polling data. In recent decades, it has become an accepted feature of American national politics that the party in power will lose seats in bot...
The judge felt there was probable cause for an arrest but he declined to go so far as to convict.
The United States has the most progressive income-tax system in the developed world.
Stuart Schrader's new book details how police unions became a dominant force in U.S. politics.
The plan is not completely terrible. But many importers may still have difficulty getting the refund money owed to them.
The administration's goal to lower prices is a good one, but officials don't actually have a plan to make it happen.
Tweet.. is from page 16 of H.L. Mencken’s, A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (1995); specifically, it’s from Mencken’s Preface to his and George Jean Nathan’s 1920 book, The American Credo: The whole thin...
The Justice Department is permanently blocked from prosecuting Californians who fail to register when the state no longer requires it.
TweetTodd Zywicki, one of my GMU colleague over in the Scalia School of Law, warns that a hostile litigation environment is “behind the staggering drop in U.S. public companies.” A slice: U.S. public ...
Remembering the infuriating case of United States v. “The Spirit of ’76.”
In this week’s episode we cover AI development in China, how large investors recycle homes, and why permitting reform needs to take on the Clean Air Act. Our guest this week is Josh Bandoch, Head of P...
"Russell insisted that he didn't know how his credentials had been used to run the 'Gins' and 'Ginston' searches. But he theorized that 'potentially his cat had run across the keyboard and typed in th...
The Trump administration continues its bellicose war against Iran, destroying opportunities for prosperity through meaningful commerce along the way.
Editors at National Review Online assess a high-profile eastern European election result. For a supposed despot, Viktor Orbán accepted his election shellacking gracefully. The scale of that defeat, ir...
Buck Johnson, host of the Counterflow podcast, joins us to review the unforced errors that keep coming out of the White House. Sponsors Whether you’re running a business, doing a… Read More The post ...
Constitutionality of health-related speech meets public choice and social media
European and Gulf Arab countries do not believe the conflict in the Middle East will be resolved in the short term. Arab and European leaders speaking with Bloomberg estimated it will take at least s...
President Donald Trump announced a ten-day truce between Israel and Lebanon. Israel has been attacking and occupying Lebanon since 2023. “I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected ...
Editors at National Review Online explore one of today’s more bizarre political conflicts. The war between the United States and Iran, now in its seventh week, has produced an extraordinary confrontat...
People sometimes will get excited about big-picture tax fights – whether politicians should raise taxes, whether they should add a VAT, or whether they should scrap the IRS for a flat tax. On the othe...
There are moments when a political quarrel reveals something deeper than disagreement. What begins as a dispute over policy turns, almost imperceptibly, into a test of authority: who has the right to ...
US senators on Wednesday voted down a pair of resolutions aimed at blocking US bomb and bulldozer sales to Israel as it continues its genocidal war on Gaza and devastating bombardment and mass displac...
By Michele White A Canadian bill aimed at expanding the country’s hate speech laws could criminalize religious speech, including quoting the Holy Bible, conservatives and critics warn. The House of Co...
A government-run portal cannot be a substitute for simplifying the tax code.
I've written about Adrian Wooldridge's new book, Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism, for The Critic. I agree with much of it and it's very good as a history of liberal though...
Just learned this largely legalese word today; it means, according to Black's Law Dictionary, 1. The carrying on of trade… The post "Cabotage": It's Not "Sabotage" with the "S" Switched to Russian app...
4/16/1962: Justice Byron White takes oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 16, 1962 appeared first on Reason.com.
Leaked details from the recent high-level marathon in Islamabad, a grueling 21-hour session between U.S. and Iranian delegations reveal more than just a failure to communicate. It marks a profound str...
(*This is a reissue of a Dangerous History Episode first published in Aug. 2015) In this episode, CJ discusses two different paradigms of what war is supposed to be and how it is supposed to be fought...
By Elizabeth Lawrence During the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on what lawmakers described as “growing threats” against the Second Amendment, Chairman Rand Paul (...
By Mark Angelides A second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran is expected to take place before the two-week ceasefire runs its course. After the collapse of the weekend talks in ...
By Liberty Nation Authors Trump’s executive order on college sports is a major move that has a lot of support.
Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about new data exposing a major media outlet’s journalistic malpractice. A new database of all the New York Times articles published in the past 25 year...
TweetIn my latest column for AIER I challenge the conclusion of a new research paper that, to some workers, NAFTA was lethal – and, by extension, that globalization more generally is lethal. Two slice...
On or around March 14, 2026, Laura Loomer, a Jewish Zionist journalist whose screeds against Islam, tabloid approach to reporting, Air Force One conversations with President Donald Trump, and purge li...
After withdrawing a summons in the face of a legal challenge, the government is seeking a grand jury subpoena.
If Congress will not deploy the power of the purse to restrain a lawless administration and an illegal war, then it falls to the public to do so.
In the guise of investigating "potentially unlawful advertiser boycotts," the commission is punishing the organization for its views.
With its April 20 deadline for congressional renewal looming, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is back in the spotlight. The provision, first adopted in 2008 as a part o...
The war in Iran, like most American interventions in the Middle East, was not calculated to liberate anyone.
The war in Iran, like most American interventions in the Middle East, was not calculated to liberate anyone.
Everyone could see who, and what, was responsible for Hungary’s economic malaise.
Plus: New York wants to tax second homes, water in the Dupont Circle fountain, Polish robots chase wild boars, and more...
The president once said he wanted to kill warrantless electronic spying. So much for that.
With Kevin Warsh set to appear before the Senate for his Fed confirmation hearing, the question of his monetary priorities is taking center stage. Warsh has long emphasized the importance of price sta...
Some policies simply won't ever be "smart."
From yesterday's longish decision by Judge Robert Pitman (W.D. Tex.) in Qaddumi v. Davis: Qaddumi challenges his suspension (and the… The post Claim That U Texas Engaged in Viewpoint Discrimination in...
What if societies can thrive without central rule? From Cospaia to Ireland’s Brehon law system, history shows decentralized orders lasting centuries.
From Monday's order by Judge Brett Ludwig in Schmidt v. Naqvi (E.D. Wis.): Plaintiff Dale Schmidt is … the elected… The post Expedited Discovery Allowed in Sheriff's Defamation Case, Which Alleges Cla...
Emma Ashford discusses Trump’s incoherent Iran strategy, the failures of post–Cold War foreign policy, and why a multipolar world limits American power.
A resolution proposed by Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, instructing President Donald Trump to end the war against Iran, was rejected by the Senate. On Wednesday, the upper chamber rejected the l...
The poster, which included a rainbow flag, counts as "instruction that includes sexuality content" and triggers an Ohio parents' rights law, the board said.
I sometimes think tax day should be reserved for serious columns about the wretched internal revenue code. Or maybe articles on a more humane tax system. But I’ve established a tradition of laughing o...
New York City plans to open five city-owned grocery stores by 2029.
Smuggled smokes account for more than a third of consumption in France and Ireland.
John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government helps explain recent developments in AI technologies.
Paul Sperry writes for the Federalist about the impact of recently declassified documents. A former inspector general who fast-tracked a “whistleblower” complaint that led to the first impeachment of ...
Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about another case of legacy media malpractice. “Never read just one newspaper” is one of my media literacy rules. Sometimes even that fails, as it did ...
To advance in competition, Miss North Florida 2025, Kayleigh Bush, was told to sign a contract that forced her to… The post Depends on What the Meaning of "Miss" Is: The Miss America Gender Identity C...
From S. Fla. Muslim Fed., Inc. v. Atrium Trs I, LP, decided Jan. 27 by Judge Raag Singhal (S.D. Fla.),… The post Lawsuit by Muslim Group, Over Alleged Public Pressure Campaign That Caused Cancellation...
A noncomprehensive list
Picture this: you’re an illiterate French sailor pulled from your wedding banquet by royal gendarmes into the office of a deputy crown prosecutor. It’s not a public hearing. You have no written compla...
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real world: geography, international law, ship insurance, and the uncomfortable question of what happ...
John Solomon writes for JustTheNews.com about an interesting suggestion from a longtime liberal legal expert. Famed Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says he believes President Donald Tru...
[Cross-posted at PFS Blog] Someone forwarded to me the email below from one Martin Gundinger of the Austrian Economics Center to one Britt Schier of the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute urging support ...
Image citation: Robot on a wooden bench by Andrea De Santis, licensed under Unsplash Economic progress has always been shadowed by the fear of technological unemployment. It is a belief that a new mac...
Fortunately, an appellate court just reversed the decision.
Matt Margolis writes for PJMedia.com about a new revelation involving the Biden administration. When Joe Biden was installed as president, he wanted one thing more than almost anything else: to be rem...
We hit an ignominious milestone recently when the national debt crossed $39 trillion. The post Degrees of Seriousness on the National Debt appeared first on Free the People.
Families have complained for years that the Bureau of Prisons fails to notify them when their incarcerated loved ones are seriously ill or even dying.
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said that he approved attack plans for Iran and Lebanon. The statement was made in the middle of a two-week ceasefire. On Wednesday, Zamir said he “approved plans for th...
By Graham J Noble In 2019, then-President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for allegedly pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption supposedl...
Probably, I should stop writing about this godawful war. Giving up, however, is as hard as looking away from some gory public execution: you know you should, but the latest spurt of blood and shudderi...
"I don't even care if you or your mom are inside. I actually hope you are. You both deserve to die. I am going to kill you, Robyn. I don't understand why you don't get that. I will burn you. You will ...
4/15/1931: Stromberg v. California argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 15, 1931 appeared first on Reason.com.
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 14 April 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with Judge Napolitano about Iran. My central point to the judge was that Trump is in no position to work out a deal...
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real world: geography, international law, ship insurance, and the uncomfortable question of what happ...
US Central Command reports that no ships have exited the Persian Gulf carrying oil since President Donald Trump ordered a blockade on Monday. “Yesterday, an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel tried to evad...
By Andrew Moran Well, it’s Tax Day…again. This is the annual deadline for most individuals to file their personal income tax return and pay any balance owing for the previous calendar year. It just hu...
For every tax dollar extracted by state governments, the federal government demanded nearly 3.5 dollars. Even if combined with local taxation, the Federal government is the biggest tax collector by fa...
"As much as Senate Republicans seek an off-ramp that would smooth the path for Kevin Warsh's confirmation as Fed chair, the legal stalemate holding things up has escalated."
Through it all, we will likely hear the regime come up with every reason under the sun to explain rising prices in terms other that the real cause: monetary inflation.
The anti-federalist Luther Martin predicted government would be so hungry for your money to feed its power, they would squeeze you like “the juice from an orange.” On this episode, it’s Martin’s warni...
Sarah Burns says that Congress must decide whether it wants to struggle or remain in the president's shadow.
Hungary’s voters turned against the poster boy of the national conservative movement.
The president claims he was oblivious to the picture's blasphemous implications, which is troubling if true.
An excerpt from D.C. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard, joined by Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson and J. Michelle Childs in today's… The post D.C. Circuit Opinion About the No Fly List appeared first on R...
Some short excerpts from the 35K words of opinions in the very long In re Trump, decided today by the… The post D.C. Circuit (2-1): Contempt Proceedings Regarding Tren de Aragua Deportations "Are a Cl...
While there are legitimate antitrust concerns regarding the merger, doomsday predictions are unwarranted.
The White House will allow the waiver on Iranian oil sanctions to expire on Sunday. The US granted sanctions waivers for Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan oil after starting a war against Iran in an ef...
Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 10 April 2026, I was on Breaking Points talking about why Trump cannot win against Iran if he goes up the escalation ladder and why his only exit option is to conced...