Why do large companies sometimes lobby for regulation in their own industries? When major crypto exchanges advocate for licensing or tech companies urge regulation of artificial intelligence, the …
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UK newsstand. Picture: Shutterstock Print circulation figures for the Mirror, Express and Star newspapers will no longer be made public. Publisher Reach has decided to keep its national newspaper ABC …
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is in a penitent mood. “I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics,” she said in an interview Sunday on CNN, where all normal, …
What does a federal firearm prohibition and a hate crime have to do with the Commerce Clause? Sarah Isgur and David French look at the constitutionality of two cases and whether the Supreme Court will …
While NASA is a large, sprawling organization, with various objectives and programs, China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) —a civil-military agency of the Chinese government—has been narrowly …
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Declassified Documents Detail the FBI's Surveillance of a Libertarian Sci-Fi Author
Vernor Vinge—the Hugo Award–winning science fiction author who passed away in March 2024—imagined a world where individuals, not governments, held the power. His 1981 novella True Names featured …
In the early months of 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that might not initially appear to share anything in common. In Tyson and Brother v. Banton , the Supreme Court struck down a New …
Politics Today in Supreme Court History: November 18, 1811 Josh Blackman | 11.18.2025 7:00 AM 11/18/1811: Justice Gabriel Duvall takes judicial oath. Professor David P. Currie said that an …
From Eighth Circuit Judge David Stras (joined by Judges Steven Grasz and Jonathan Kobes) in yesterday’s U.S. v. Taylor : Taylor, who was born in Vietnam, moved to the United States over 20 years …
[A.] M.B.’s Right to Formal Education Past the Eighth Grade We begin by recognizing that this issue is unique: whereas the relevant precedents guiding our consideration all involve the right of …
What’s going on in Silicon Valley? Revenue is looking good almost across the board. Advancements in artificial intelligence—and the infrastructure that supports it—are surging. But layoffs also …
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 …