The War on Drugs Has Come to the Maternity Ward Doctors are drug testing pregnant women without their consent, then handing their results over to the state. Reason · Aug 11
"In Its 870 Paragraphs, 269 Pages, and 63 Causes of Action," the Complaint "is just too damned long"—no, actually, it "includes the kind of extraordinary level of extraneous detail that necessitates repleader." Reason · Aug 11
How Flock Camera Defenders Are Missing the Point Robby Soave and Amber Duke attack The Free Press' latest attempt to defend Flock cameras. Reason · Aug 11
AOC Admits Woke Is Over. Does Anyone Believe Her? Soave and Duke argue that it is a bit rich for Ocasio-Cortez to laugh off the excesses of a cultural movement that caused real harm—and that many progressives once helped mainstream. Reason · Aug 11
The Trump Administration's Secret YIMBY Grant Proposal Plus: a win for "housing first" funding in court, zoning reform passes in North Carolina, and Harry Potter NIMBYism. Reason · Aug 11
Free Speech Unmuted: Can AI Libel You? The Robby Starbuck Case Jane and I examine the Robby Starbuck v. Google decision, one of the first major court opinions arising from generative AI "hallucinations." Reason · Aug 11
Klein and Thompson's Abundance Shows Abundant Lack of Introspection The authors recognize the need to reconsider policies that make it hard to innovate and build, but do not ask why they and their allies were blind to such concerns for so long. Reason · Aug 11
New In SCOTUSBlog: The court should hold oral argument outside of the capital "I am confident there would be a bipartisan groundswell of support to get the justices out of the beltway." Reason · Aug 11
I Say No To SubStack, And Chief Justice Roberts Says Yes "Flagging for you a new essay by Chief Justice Roberts on William Howard Taft for In Pursuit..." Reason · Aug 11
RFK Jr. Wants More FDA Oversight of Food Ingredients. It Could End Up Costing $210 Million. A proposed FDA rule would require food manufacturers to disclose ingredients they deem safe, which the agency admits would have a “significant economic impact” on small businesses. Reason · Aug 11
Defamation Claim Against Academic from Stalking Allegations Against Another Academic, with a Trans Angle From Judge Kelley Hodge (E.D. Pa.) Friday in Duncan v. Lett (see also this February post that discusses a related… The post Defamation Claim Against Academic from Stalking Allegations Against Another Academic, with a Trans Angle appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 11
1 Year Later, Why Is the National Guard Still in D.C.? As the National Guard deployment stretches into its second year, questions remain about why the $55 million-per-month show of force is necessary at all. Reason · Aug 11
The Buffalo Bills Got Tons of Taxpayer Money for a Stadium With a Lot of Pretty Lame Problems Plus: No one is drafting Enes Kanter Freedom into the WNBA, Congress fails to reform NCAA again, and why Field of Dreams nostalgia is no good Reason · Aug 11
Poindexter Ascendant Plus: A setback for Mamdani's second-home tax, Jones Act waiver extended, Ross Douthat's final column, and more... Reason · Aug 11
Reason · Aug 11 $200K Libel Award for Cybersecurity Expert Accused by Substacker of Being "Israeli Spy" A short excerpt from the long opinion Friday by Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff (E.D. Va.) in Apelbaum v. Bloom: Plaintiffs… The post $200K Libel Award for Cybersecurity Expert Accused by Substacker of Being "Israeli Spy" appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 11 How Many More Jason Ardays Are There? I am intrigued by the story of Jason Arday, who recently resigned his professorship at Cambridge. Most of the press… The post How Many More Jason Ardays Are There? appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 11 "Litigation Often Takes a Toll on a Party's Mental Health on Both Sides of the 'v'" "But the mental-health effects of litigation are, in a sense, the cost of doing business."
Reason · Aug 11 Brickbat: Stop Asking Questions In England, London's Metropolitan Police investigated reporter Jack Grove after he and others raised questions about possible plagiarism and résumé… The post Brickbat: Stop Asking Questions appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 10 Are Socialists Actually Leaving Wokeness Behind? Plus: the rise of affordability politics, Trump attempts to end birthright citizenship, and the Cambridge plagiarism controversy
Reason · Aug 10 Reminder: Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop We've already received several submissions, but you can submit until August 16. Don't worry if the article draft isn't fully polished, or even if some portions are incomplete; we're reviewing drafts, not finished products.
Reason · Aug 10 Don't Let AOC Retcon Her Starring Role in 'Woke 1' Would President AOC eschew wokeness? I doubt it.
Reason · Aug 10 Trump Teased a Deal To Open Hormuz 'Tomorrow.' It's Been a Week. The war with Iran continues to hold up oil flows from the Persian Gulf, even though it was supposed to be finished many times already.
Reason · Aug 10 Suspending College Student for Saying Man Who Insulted Her "Needa Get Blasted" + Having Posted Shooting Range Video (Year Before) Violated First Amendment Some excerpts from today's long opinion by Judge Joseph Dawson, III (D.S.C.) in Lemoine v. Horry Georgetown Tech. Coll.: On… The post Suspending College Student for Saying Man Who Insulted Her "Needa Get Blasted" + Having Posted Shooting Range Video (Year Before) Violated First Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 10 Police Department in South Carolina Says It Has 'Zero Tolerance for Hate Speech' A free speech organization sent a letter to the police department last week, calling its anti–hate speech post unconstitutional.
Reason · Aug 10 Texas Man Arrested After Ranting About Age Verification Laws Blocking His Anime Did he make a true threat? Or was this just hyperbolic ranting about bad policy?