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Top governments officials in Australia have asked lawmakers to restrict people from sharing clips of parliamentary hearings on social media, arguing that short clips can remove important context and expose officials to ridicule, abuse, and personal attack…

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NA Prominent journalist, academic, and anti-racism activist Nikole Hannah-Jones recently wrote a controversial New York Times article, in which she expresses regret for her and her husband's decision to place her daughter in underperforming majority-Black…

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by senior editor Stephanie Slade to discuss President Donald Trump's decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House over coverage he dislikes.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked tactics used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct warrantless immigration raids on construction sites in southern Alabama in response to a lawsuit filed by a Latino construction worker who has been

From today's decision by Judge Loren AliKhan (D.D.C.) in Passantino v.

On September 9, President Donald Trump announced his intention to pay every American adult $5,000 if his party wins the House and the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.

A short excerpt from the long opinion in Barlow v.

Part of the bedrock of American civil liberties is the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches.

From Judge Rudolph Contreras (D.D.C.) last week in 4chan Community Support LLC v.

Barred from entry: On Friday, President Donald Trump declared that he was done with the negative news coverage of his administration that was coming from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.

From a YouGov Sept. 4-8 survey: Thus, there's a 10-point gender gap, with women being less likely to vote guilty; a 4-point gap between Hispanics and whites, with whites being less likely to vote guilty; a 6-point gender gap by education, with college gra…

In the middle of the night on Sunday, October 12, 1958, fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in the entryway of an Atlanta synagogue.

In Magistrate Judge Lara Eshkenazi's opinion Monday in Mercante v.

About 4,000 people in America die every year while waiting for kidney transplants.

9/21/1981: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is confirmed by the Senate, 99-0.

Politics is an industry in which ideas demonstrated to be ineffective and morally reprehensible live on long after they should have died.

High school principal Eric James has been arrested and charged after authorities discovered four hidden recording devices in areas where female students changed clothes at Brooke High School in Wellsburg, West Virginia.

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9/20/1968: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission denied a certificate of no exterior effect to the Penn Central Transportation Co.

Thanks to a settlement with several property owners, a wrecking ball is about to hit one California county's cannabis code-enforcement scheme—a system that piled ruinous fines on people for violations they say they did not actually commit.

The newest home robots look less like a Roomba and more like C-3PO.

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From Soliz v.

An excerpt from a longish opinion by Judge David Alan Ezra (W.D.

Escort Gigi Lenoir recently went viral for a chilling warning on social media.

9/19/1907: Justice Lewis Powell's birthday.

We are at the dawn of a golden age of biosciences, characterized by massive leaps in molecular biology.

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So held Elite Precision Customs L.L.C. v.

From today's decision by Judge Rebecca Brady Jennings (W.D.

States' efforts to regulate election deepfakes keep colliding with the First Amendment.

President Trump posted today: Is that constitutional?

This week on Freed Up, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi have a lot to say about effective altruists who think we are all doomed.

Do Flock cameras actually reduce crime?

Who is on trial for the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy?

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.

Travelers entering the U.S. through New York, Vermont, or Connecticut should be aware: The government can search your cellphone even if it doesn't suspect you of criminal activity.

Data centers are horribly unpopular right now.

As Americans debate Iran and artificial intelligence, lawmakers have found common ground on what is apparently a more pressing issue: requiring AM radios in cars.

James Taranto is the editorial features editor of the Wall Street Journal.

Russia had its infamous "three-day special military operation" in Ukraine.

Unless President Donald Trump can attach his name to the John F.

Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work during 2025, in large part because of the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal workforce and reduce spending.

Finally, a movie for people who love shooter video games but are terrible at aiming.

From Wednesday's decision by Florida Court of Appeal Justice Gross in Lisandrillo v.

As Americans face rising healthcare costs, Montana is offering a novel right-to-try program that lawmakers hope will bring relief to consumers in the state.

Randy Barnett and I co-authored a new article forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Landor v.

From Judge Fred Slaughter Tuesday in Defending Education v.