Trump Has Been Trampling Free Speech for More Than 40 Years—and It Keeps Getting Worse The president stands out from his modern predecessors by openly displaying his contempt for the First Amendment. Reason · Oct 11
Canada's First Nations Are Using Their Land To Build Dense Housing Exempt from Vancouver's building restrictions, Squamish Nation is constructing a 6,000-unit residential high-rise. Reason · Oct 11
New York's Controversial Anti-Swastika Law Turns Prosecutors Into Speech Police Graffiti vandals are now being investigated for hate crimes. Reason · Oct 11
SpaceX Found a Way Around the FCC The company’s spectacular IPO obscured a quieter breakthrough that could transform satellite communications. Reason · Oct 10
Mamdani's $131.5 Million DoorDash Settlement Is Not What He Says It Is The mayor characterized it as a victory against corporate greed. Meanwhile, 65 percent of affected drivers were underpaid by $1 or less, and the average underpayment was $7.70. Reason · Oct 10
The Great British Exodus: Taxes, Housing Costs, and Terrible Healthcare Are Driving Young Brits Away More than 1.2 million British nationals have left the United Kingdom since 2021. Reason · Oct 10
Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Actionable Group Defamation From today's First Circuit decision today in Bean Maine Lobster, Inc. v. Monterey Bay Aquarium Found., written by Judge Julie… The post Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Actionable Group Defamation appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Oct 9
Kafka's The Trial "Was Not Supposed to Be an Instruction Manual" In a Fifth Circuit case (which the court just declined to rehear en banc), a woman had faced potential prosecution for publishing a photo of a transgender politician washing hands in a women's restroom. Reason · Oct 9
Don't Blame AI Labs for What Hackers Do With Their Tools AI executives are planning for a public revolt after a major attack. A federal power grab is the wrong response. Reason · Oct 9
Will Mamdani Make Housing More Affordable? Emily Eisner and Kenny Burgos debate Zohran Mamdani's housing policies. Reason · Oct 9
Is Hair on Your Head "Personal Property" for Purposes of Robbery Law? From the Sept. 30 decision in People v. Barraza by California Court of Appeal Justice Richard Huffman, joined by Justices… The post Is Hair on Your Head "Personal Property" for Purposes of Robbery Law? appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Oct 9
Anthropic Is Banning 'Cruel Behavior' Toward Claude. Chatbots Are Still Not Your Friends. The AI company's decision might be a justifiable idea. But it appears it was made for the wrong reason. Reason · Oct 9
Despite a Notable Victory in Oklahoma, Legal Challenges to Flock Cameras Still Face Long Odds State and federal courts have almost uniformly ruled that searches of ALPR databases do not implicate the Fourth Amendment. Reason · Oct 9
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Prison phone calls, volcanic eruptions, and animal testing. Reason · Oct 9
Reason · Oct 9 3 Congressmen Want to Strip Democratic Socialists of America of Legal "Rights, Privileges, and Immunities" Reps. Clay Fuller, Diana Harshbarger, and Keith Self are cosponsors of H.R. 10501, introduced three weeks ago: The Communist Control… The post 3 Congressmen Want to Strip Democratic Socialists of America of Legal "Rights, Privileges, and Immunities" appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Oct 9 The Federal Government Just Posted the Largest Annual Budget Deficit Since COVID Tax revenue increased by about 3 percent last year, but spending increased twice as fast. And interest payments on the debt cost more than $1.1 trillion.
Reason · Oct 9 The NIH Plan To Strengthen 'Replication and Reproducibility' Will Not Check Anything The world’s largest research funder asked its grantees whether it should audit them. Guess what they said.
Reason · Oct 9 Treasury Backs Down on Biden-Era Cryptocurrency Surveillance Proposal It’s a small victory for financial privacy against escalating surveillance.
Reason · Oct 9 Let Charter Schools Be as Flexible as Microschools Universal education savings accounts are giving families unprecedented choice in education. Now let's give charters a chance to catch up with the marketplace.
Reason · Oct 9 Livestreaming an Execution Plus: Tariffs and Michigan, LGBT teens, Stewart Brand fanfare, and more...
Reason · Oct 9 Trump's 'Free Speech Agenda: Siccing the FBI on Critics, Barring Reporters, and Threatening Broadcasters GOP's new mantra: "Free speech for me, but not for thee."
Reason · Oct 9 The Midterm Winner Will Be Whichever Party Americans Hate Less U.S. voters continue to be motivated more by whom they loathe than whom they like.
Reason · Oct 9 Review: These Talking Dogs Give Children the Wrong Idea About Government Shmoo & Ozzie Go to Washington is supposed to be about bipartisanship, but it's really about wasteful spending.
Reason · Oct 9 Review: Magic Lantern Shows Were Cinema Before Movies Some lanternists believed that film was a fad their medium would easily survive.
Reason · Oct 9 Brickbat: …in All the Wrong Places Indiana State Police arrested Hancock County sheriff's deputy James Heneghan and charged him with 220 counts each of official misconduct… The post Brickbat: …in All the Wrong Places appeared first on Reason Magazine.