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One might have hoped that the media—and the broader public too—would have learned the lesson that it's unwise to prejudge a sexual assault dispute, automatically take the side of the victim, and demand the heads of the alleged perpetrators.

Some teens have been using the comments section of an NPR podcast as a group chat to communicate with one another.

If there's one thing that absolutely drives me crazy, it's when conservative commentators start complaining that libertarians like me, and maybe you, are the real problem, because all we do is fight for drugs and gambling and pornography and prostitution,…

TikTok and the state of Alabama were supposed to face off in court on Monday, but a $100 million settlement stopped the case from going to trial.

Randy Barnett and I have started a new series on SCOTUSBlog which charts the evolution of constitutional over the past two decades.

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

Seattle recently passed the Fair Pricing and Transparency Ordinance, which prevents large online and brick‑and‑mortar grocery retailers from using consumers' "behavior, location, demographic characteristics, biometric data, or other personal information"…

For a reminder as to SMOD, see articles on SMOD 2016, e.g., this CBS item: Some voters took to social media Tuesday to share photos of their preferred write-in candidate: "Sweet Meteor O' Death 2016", or SMOD 2016 for short.

Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother, made headlines last spring after AI facial recognition identified her as a suspect in a bank fraud case halfway across the country.

National Socialist German Student League poster.

In In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Rapkin, decided Sept. 17 by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Stephanie Rapkin was subjected to discipline by the Wisconsin OLR (Office of Lawyer Regulations) for charging a client "thousands of dollars with…

In my previous post, I argued that contrary to a new US Civil Rights Commission Report, plaintiffs alleging an illegal hostile campus environment don't need to show that the hostile environment was created by individuals or groups with discriminatory anim…

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent!

Since the beginning of the war on drugs over 55 years ago, the federal government has been classifying and regulating drugs through a "scheduling" system.

I Want to Be Famous: When Everybody and Nobody Is a Celebrity, by Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, Crown, 256 pages, $33 In the spring of 2025, I started seeing fan-made videos of the same young man everywhere on TikTok.

The case is U.S. v.

So far, Democrats are turning out way more than Republicans in contested statewide primaries across the country.

Yesterday, the US Civil Rights Commission, composed of four Republican and four Democratic appointees, with a Democratic Chair and Vice-Chair, issued a unanimous report on antisemitism on university campuses.

From Judge Casey Pitts (N.D.

Last year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal officials to create new systems that would allow state and local authorities to check the immigration status of both registered voters and would-be voters who were seeking to re…

9/29/2005: Chief Justice Roberts takes oath.

Nathaniel Stephens of Grayson, Kentucky, became the subject of a DUI investigation after a teenager backed into his car in his neighborhood.

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This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss Republicans turning against President Donald Trump's war in Iran as gas prices rise and the midterm elections approach.

Around 5 p.m. on a Wednesday in June 2022, Mario Rosales was driving his red Mustang on Jackson Street in Alexandria, Louisiana, waiting to turn left onto Dorchester Drive, when a police SUV pulled up behind him.

On Sunday, instead of ads for pizza deals from Papa John's or the latest insurance pitch from Jake at State Farm, fans watching their favorite NFL or college football teams were shown a 30-second, black-and-white video of President Donald Trump.

One week from today, the Supreme Court will open its term with oral argument in Suncor Energy v.

From an opinion last week by Florida Administrative Law Judge Garnett W.

When President Trump moved to bar CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House over "biased" coverage, it set off a fast-moving legal showdown.

In a preview clip from his new podcast, A Great Book with Barack Obama, former President Obama said, "The federal government is so much less corrupt than probably it's ever been, in terms of just pure bribes, or patronage or favors."

From a state court decision by Grand County (Utah) Judge Don Torgerson in State v.

Tennessee can't stop people from telling teens how to get abortions in other states, per a new ruling from the U.S.

What if we just bribed them?

9/28/1787: Confederation Congress adopts Constitution and sends it to the states.

The Washington, D.C. area has long had a reputation for being both wealthy and recession-proof, based on money forcibly extracted in the form of taxes from people living productive lives elsewhere in the United States.

For years, members of Congress and advocates of open government have been urging the federal court system to eliminate fees for its electronic records.

5 years ago October 2021 "Cancel culture operates on at least three different levels: the personal, the corporate, and the political.

Laurie Moore, a senior investigator with the Albany County, New York, Sheriff's Office, faces misdemeanor charges of official misconduct and falsifying business records after investigators accused her of abusing access to law-enforcement databases.

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"Communism's easy to sell.

9/27/1787: First Anti-Federalist letter by "Cato" is published.

In July, police in Houston fired dozens of shots into a local woman's car, totaling the vehicle.

In 2024, Blackstone—the world's largest private equity firm at the time, with $1 trillion in capital under management—announced it was buying the sandwich chain Jersey Mike's.

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Friday evening, shortly before I signed off, I was able to dash out a very short post on my phone about the Missouri redistricting case.

In the Fall 2026 issue of Regulation, Ben Zycher argues that my critique of the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to rescind the "endangerment finding" which triggered the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles under the C…

My brief essay, "The Road Not Taken in Trump v.

From Lewis v.

Like many large progressive cities, Chicago receives its fair share of criticism for overbearing regulations and sclerotic government.