In April 2020, as the COVID outbreak was unfolding, Walton County, Florida, closed all beaches–public and private. Did this ordinance, as applied to private beaches, constitute a taking of …
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Leagues Are Doing Just Fine at Regulating Sports Betting Without Politicians' Help
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent ! Find your mission in life this week, even if it’s a narrow one . We’ve got a great newsletter today, starting with some sports betting …
The decider. To begin with, it’s a serious threat to the president’s previously unquestioned authority to define what is and isn’t MAGA orthodoxy. Trump has invoked that authority repeatedly over the …
Prisoners inside a sweltering South Florida prison were subjected to dangerously high temperatures this summer—peaking at a “real feel” of 119 degrees in one area—according to a recent …
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This Gun Case Harks Back to Constitutional Concerns About the Limits of Federal Power That Now Seem Quaint
Testifying in favor of the National Firearms Act (NFA) in 1934, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings noted that the federal government “of course” had “no inherent police powers to go …
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Missouri Town Will Pay $500K To Settle Lawsuit Over Deputy Shooting Blind and Deaf Dog
A small Missouri town will pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man whose 13-pound blind and deaf shih tzu dog was shot and killed by a police officer. It is one of the largest settlements of …
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The 'Emergency' That Demanded Huge Tariffs on Swiss Imports Is Now Over. So What Was the Emergency?
When President Donald Trump ordered a whopping 39 percent tariff on all imports from Switzerland earlier this year, he did so, of course, by claiming there was a national emergency. Officially, …
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AI Art in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Leads Rep. Ro Khanna To Call for More Regulation
Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) called for regulation that would stop companies from replacing workers with AI on Friday, following denunciations of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 for featuring AI-generated art. …
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Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Massachusetts' Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Against Instagram
[I.] Social media platforms create expressive products presumptively protected under the First Amendment The First Amendment protects the editorial choices that publishers and editors make when they …
This week, editors Peter Suderman , Katherine Mangu-Ward , and Nick Gillespie are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to unpack President Donald Trump’s sudden shift on the Jeffrey Epstein …
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Victims' Families Ask the Fifth Circuit to Overturn the Dismissal of the Criminal Case Against Boeing
Last Thursday, families who lost relatives in the crashes of two Boeing 737 aircraft petitioned the Fifth Circuit to reinstate the criminal charge against Boeing. In two petitions I filed, the …
The internet erupted earlier this year when the latest update of ChatGPT demonstrated that it could generate images eerily close to the lovable style of Japanese animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli. At …
Andy Mills, host of The Last Invention podcast, joins Dispatch CTO Steve Hayes to discuss the artificial intelligence revolution, the competing visions of utopia among the tech bros, and where AI will …
British law doesn’t mandate another general election until August 2029, but internal party fractures could force Starmer out well before that. And with both Labour and the Conservatives languishing …
One of the things that most offends me about American political corruption is how cheap our guys are. Sen. Menendez got some help buying his lady friend a Mercedes, which sounds pretty fancy, but it …
Open Thread What’s on your mind? Eugene Volokh | 11.17.2025 3:00 AM
Higher Education Brickbat: Doesn’t Add Up Charles Oliver | 11.17.2025 4:00 AM Share on Facebook Share on X Share on Reddit Share by email Print friendly version Copy page URL Add Reason to …
At September’s National Conservatism Conference, Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) argued AI “threatens the common man’s liberty” and that “only humans should advise on critical …
Politics Today in Supreme Court History: November 17, 1880 Josh Blackman | 11.17.2025 7:00 AM 11/17/1880: The United States and China sign treaty that protects Chinese laborers residing in the United …
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Judge Reverses Earlier Decision: Ex-Employee Can't Sue Planned Parenthood for Race Discrimination as a "Jane Doe"
In September, I wrote : Ex-Employee Can Sue Planned Parenthood for Race Discrimination as a “Jane Doe,” Because Abortion Providers Had Been Physically Attacked Jane Doe, a former Planned …
Epstein follow-up: “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical …
This new article [UPDATE: link fixed] is here. The Introduction: Over the past decade, the Roberts Court has sought to disrupt two major domains of the First Amendment: the Religion Clauses and free …
What is The Coin Laundry investigation? The Coin Laundry exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. Led by the International Consortium of …
T he Coin Laundry exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. Led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Coin …
VIDEO WATCH: Cryptocurrency exchanges, explained Are cryptocurrency exchanges the banks of the digital world? While there are some similarities, there are also important differences. By Sam Ellefson …