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Steven Calabresi writes, here on the VC, that our President has been "bold, brave, and right," and "done all the right things," in pushing ahead attacking Iran.

This week, President Donald Trump expressed support for automated license plate readers (ALPRs), which record and store images of license plates in a searchable police database.

"We are not into bestiality," FBI Director Kash Patel told members of Congress yesterday, moments after assuring them that they were "not going to disqualify" any of the agency's "great canines" for engaging in sexual activity with FBI agents.

The "safety" of artificial intelligence is the talk of the town in Washington.

In the 1930s, there were Nazis in America.

Today's guest is Boston College psychologist Peter Gray, whose new book is Restoring Childhood: How To Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety.

I'm delighted to welcome Prof.

Fight comes to a close?

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is perhaps the nation's most prominent "progressive prosecutors."

Some excerpts from the long opinion yesterday by Judge Beth Bloom (S.D.

9/16/1787: The Constitutional Convention finalizes Constitution.

Behind the battles over ideas and policy proposals, at its core, democratic politics is about buying votes.

A South Korean police officer admitted that he closed missing-person cases without properly investigating them because he wanted to avoid doing the work.

The post Open Thread appeared first on Reason Magazine.

President Donald Trump is trying to "shift the exercise of core tariff authority from Congress to the Executive Branch," three former trade officials warn in a brief they filed last week.

An excerpt from the longish opinion today by Judge Rudolph Contreras (D.D.C.) in Streever v.

From today's decision in Jensen v.

On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump slammed his own picks for the Supreme Court, condemning them as both cowardly and "highly political."

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.

Last year the Trump administration shut down a national database of misconduct by federal law enforcement officers.

The article is here; the Introduction: In 1909, Urban Walter, a 28-year-old mail clerk, founded a small magazine with large ambitions.

If you are someone who gets their news primarily from the New York Times and NPR, as many liberal-leaning Americans do, you often get a distorted picture of what is going on the US and the world.

I'll never get tired of quoting the geographer Trevor Paglen: "One of the contradictory things about the United States is that an incredible amount of the government is dedicated to doing things in secret.

From Nada v.

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Civil libertarians and longtime Reason readers are no doubt familiar with police raids, often at the hands of SWAT teams, that inflict considerable damage on the properties and psyches of innocent people.

I have more details on this morning's First Circuit decision (written by Judge O.

From today's First Circuit opinion in Doe v.

Last night, I wrote a post titled, "Chief Justice Roberts Goes Postal on Trump's USPS Rule."

From Booth v.

From Magistrate Judge Marty Fulgueria Elfenbein yesterday in Fontainebleau Florida Hotel, LLC v.

My final installment on unilateral Court reform addresses the law clerk problem.

I have previously blogged about a tragic surrogacy case that involves Alaska, California, and Texas.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent!

Amodei skepticism: "The calls by four American tech CEOs for a slowdown in AI development is a big economic and political moment, though to what end isn't clear," writes The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, responding to the Dario Amodei letter publ…

Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety, by Peter Gray, Penguin Random House, 352 pages, $32 There's one chart that anyone who thinks they know all about smartphones, social media, and kids should see.

This case, which I blogged about last year, just settled yesterday for $175K ($108K to S.E. and his family, $40K to P.D. and his family, and $27K to the lawyers).

Readers: If you're a lawyer, active or otherwise, or a law student, tell us a few things about yourself in the comments.

Readers: If you aren't a lawyer/ex-lawyer/future lawyer, tell us a few things about yourself in the comments.

9/15/1857: Chief Justice William Howard Taft's birthday.

Last month, the U.S.

The European Union has placed ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox under stricter rules after all three passed the threshold of 45 million average monthly users in the E.U.

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NA Earlier tonight, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling, refused to stay a lower-court decision blocking the Postal Service's policy implementing Donald Trump's executive order intended to curb mail-in voting.

This evening, the Court finally decided United States Postal Service v.

NYU Press Democracy's Challenges: 100 Ideas is a new book published by New York University Press, and edited by Robert Bauer, Samuel Issacharoff, Richard Pildes, and Rosa Po.

From the New Mexico Supreme Court last week in State v.

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss whether warnings from leading artificial intelligence companies that AI could pose an existential threat should be taken seriously.

The article is here; the Introduction: If you purposefully set out to concoct a government policy guaranteed to be unconstitutional, here is how you would do it.

Detainees at Florida's now-closed "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention camp were held in phone booth–sized cages as punishment, a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report released Monday found.