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Invoking Scalia, Sotomayor Presses for Broad Fourth Amendment Protections
The Supreme Court weighs police shootings and unreasonable seizures in Torres v. Madrid.
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Invoking Scalia, Sotomayor presses for broad Fourth Amendment protections
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Mark Zuckerberg to Congress: Please Regulate Us (Wink, Wink)
Plus: Unrest, looting in Philadelphia after the police shoot and kill a black man, Trump supporters stranded in Omaha, Biden faces new corruption allegations, and more...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will ask Congress to rewrite Section 230. That will impose huge new regulatory costs on social media sites that might compete with Facebook.
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Elections Can't Cure a Sick Political Culture
Letting America’s feuding tribes ignore each other might be the best medicine.
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Elections are no longer about turning out one officeholder and set of policies in favor of another with different schemes; they're existential battles between political tribes who see their enemies as dangerous and evil.
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Surprise: DOJ Is Not a Big Fan of Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
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The Justice Department barely notices the freedom cryptocurrencies provide and overly worries about crimes.
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Shrooms Are on the D.C. Ballot
The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they're optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending.
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The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they're optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending
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What Will President Biden Do to Us?
The Reason Roundtable war-games the domestic policies of the likeliest next administration.
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How big would President @JoeBiden's big government be? The @Reason Roundtable's @nickgillespie, @petersuderman, @mattwelch and @kmanguward discuss.
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Mark Meadows: 'We're Not Going To Control the Pandemic'
Plus: Libertarian mayor cancels speeding tickets, businesses don't fear Biden presidency, Senate prepares to confirm Amy Coney Barrett, and more...
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The Trump administration seems committed to its message of nonchalance about a disease that has killed more than 225,000 Americans.
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San Francisco Voters Will Have a Chance To Undo Regulations Strangling Small Businesses
Prop H will make it easier for businesses to set up shop or readapt their space, all while preventing nosey neighbors from bringing everything to a halt.
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San Francisco is famous for the miles of red tape and regulation that make it difficult to launch a business. Come November, voters will get a chance to take an ax to those innovation-killing restrictions
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U.S. Incarceration Rate Fell Last Year to Lowest Level Since 1994
Total prison population, imprisonment rates, and racial disparities in incarceration all continued their slide.
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The U.S. incarceration rate fell last year to its lowest level since 1994, continuing a decade-long trend of declining imprisonment
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Debate's Best Moment: Trump and Biden Bragging on Prison Reform
The U.S. incarceration rate peaked in 2008, but it's good to see two "law and order" candidates talking about clemency.
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The best moment of last night's debate? @realDonaldTrump and @JoeBiden talking up criminal justice and prison reform, says @nickgillespie
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Don't Be Fooled By Our Media Wars: Everybody Hates Free Speech
Treating free expression like an instrument of power means that the fight is more about who gets punished most when politicians write new restrictions.
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Trump vs. the media obscures the unhappy fact that free speech is taking it from all sides now.
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The more politics (and its worst form, war) subsumes life, the more free speech is treated as a means to an end rather than as a magnificent if always-threatened achievement of the Enlightenment.
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The Republican Antitrust Suit Against Google Is a Progressive Dream
The government is going after Google not to stop consumer harm but to level the business playing field.
The Foreign Policy Questions Trump and Biden Should Answer
American voters deserve careful scrutiny of the candidates' positions on individual conflicts.
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The final presidential debate is on Thursday. American voters deserve careful scrutiny of the candidates' positions on individual conflicts.
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Bob Chitester: How Free To Choose Changed the World
Here's the inside story of Milton Friedman's path-breaking PBS series about economic and political freedom, from the man who produced it.
The CDC's Latest Antibody Data Confirm Huge Interstate Differences in COVID-19 Fatality Rates
The findings suggest that people infected in Connecticut were 10 times as likely to die as people infected in Utah or Oregon.
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The findings suggest that people infected in Connecticut were 10 times as likely to die as people infected in Utah or Oregon.
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545 Migrant Kids Snatched by the U.S. Government Are Still Missing Parents
Plus: What Jeffrey Toobin teaches us about Section 230, Wisconsin's Foxconn boondoggle, Breonna Taylor juror speaks out, and more...
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After snatching babies and kids from migrant parents, the Trump admin didn't bother keeping records. More than 3 years later, the parents of 545 kids still can't be found #ReasonRoundup
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Is the Senate Filibuster a 'Jim Crow Relic'?
The filibuster is not inherently a tool of oppression simply because segregationist politicians in the 1950s and '60s found it useful.
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When politicians are in the mood to defend filibusters (i.e., when their party is not in charge of the Senate), they often say the tactic helps ensure that the minority's views receive adequate consideration as legislation is crafted.
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Wisconsin's Foxconn Boondoggle Looks Worse Than Ever
President Donald Trump and Gov. Scott Walker promised thousands of jobs in return for billions of dollars in subsidies from the state. More than two years later, there's little to show for it.
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Foxconn was supposed to hire more than 13,000 people. It currently employs 281. Wisconsin is pulling the plug on the tech giant's subsidies.
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The Foxconn deal had always been more about economic nationalism and the fetishistic approach to industrial jobs that Trump has elevated to the forefront of the Republican Party.
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Massive Rent Declines in America's Most Expensive Cities Prove, Once Again, That Supply and Demand Is Real
San Francisco, New York City, Boston, and other large metro areas have posted double-digit drops in rent.
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The coronavirus pandemic proves that building more housing is the key to improving affordability in the country's most expensive cities
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The country's priciest cities are seeing massive declines in rents as people who are now free to work remotely and unable to enjoy the typical amenities of urban living decamp for less expensive metros.
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Ted Cruz Threatens To Force Facebook and Twitter Heads To Testify About Hunter Biden Article
Plus: Supreme Court won't stop Pennsylvania from counting late ballots, proposed amendment would limit Court to nine justices, and more...
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Twitter and Facebook may have to answer to Senate Republicans for their handling of the New York Post article on Hunter Biden #ReasonRoundup
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