What Jimothy the Raccoon Reveals About Seattle A local lawmaker said she wants to "keep my measured distance from him so he can live his good little life." What about humans? Reason · Jul 24
Trump Can't Just Pretend Iran War Casualties Don't Count However the government chooses to list war casualties, it doesn't change the fact that Americans are dead because of the administration's choices. Reason · Jul 24
Trump's Newest Tariffs Are Likely Illegal Too The Section 301 tariffs announced on Thursday overstep the powers granted by Congress and likely run afoul of the major questions doctrine. Reason · Jul 24
Trump's FAA Moves To End the 50-Year Ban on Domestic Supersonic Flight Supersonic flight is legally limited to the ocean. But the federal bureaucracy is (slowly) changing, and at least one company wants to take advantage. Reason · Jul 24
Florida Wildlife Agency Tracked Critics Using Law Enforcement Database The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says it followed the law when it pulled the driving records of more than a dozen critics of the agency. Reason · Jul 24
Did Decriminalizing Drugs Lead to More Deaths in Washington and Oregon? The Manhattan Institute’s Charles Fain Lehman overstates the evidence supporting that conclusion. Reason · Jul 24
Will This Mississippi Man on Death Row Get a Chance To Prove His Innocence? Recent court rulings in Louisiana and Texas give hope to Devin Bennett. Reason · Jul 24
Tariff Man Plus: House votes on war powers as Trump enters Iran war "revenge mode," Ted Cruz worries about AI, Marvel movies are planned through 2042, and more... Reason · Jul 24
Court Considering Whether Litigant Should Be Barred from Further Self-Represented Filings, Because of Fabricated Citations The court orders the litigant to explain why she shouldn't be so barred, and notes that hallucinated citations are "a growing problem in Florida's appellate courts." Reason · Jul 24
"Plaintiff Argues That, If She Does Not Use Her Chosen Name, She Will Suffer Serious and Lasting Effects to Her Mental Health" Not a basis for allowing what is in effect a form of pseudonymity, says a district court. Reason · Jul 24
Jewish Teacher Sued Portland Public Schools + Union for Discrimination Over Colleagues' Anti-Israel Speech (among other things). A federal Magistrate Judge has recommended that the lawsuit be dismissed. Reason · Jul 24
California's Prison Reform Experiment Worked. The State's Crime Rate Has Fallen by 27% in 15 Years. Facts don't care about the GOP's "crime wave" feelings. Reason · Jul 24
Review: The D.C. Museum Where Everything Is for Sale The Mansion on O Street showcases consumerist artifacts, and none if it is taxpayer-funded like many of the city's other museums. Reason · Jul 24
Brickbat: Deadly Hurry Former Florida police officer Zachary Krug has been charged after investigators say he drove 104 mph in a 50 mph… The post Brickbat: Deadly Hurry appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Jul 24
Reason · Jul 24 Trump Imposes Massively Harmful and Illegal Section 301 Tariffs The new policy is based on sham investigations, and runs afoul of the major questions and nondelegation doctrine.
Reason · Jul 24 Justice Kagan Rejects Charge that Supreme Court Is "Rubber Stamp" for Trump Administration In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Justice Kagan rejects the conventional liberal narrative about the Supreme Court.
Reason · Jul 24 "There Is an Error in the Supreme Court's Analysis in Loper Bright." The Supreme Court's Chevron decision did not cite the Administrative Procedure Act perhaps because it was not an APA case.
Reason · Jul 23 E.U. Fines Google $1 Billion and Orders It To Give Competitors Equal Treatment European regulators claim to promote innovation while extracting billions from the companies producing it.
Reason · Jul 23 The Trump Coin Case Ends, but Legal Questions Remain As the coin moves closer to production and distribution, it will be up to the American people to decide whether the controversial coin is deemed a success.
Reason · Jul 23 Lots of Trump's Tariffs Expire on Friday. It's Thursday Afternoon, and No One Knows What Will Replace Them. The U.S. economy is not a reality show. The Trump administration should stop acting like it is.
Reason · Jul 23 Zohran Mamdani Tells Jon Stewart Socialism Is Just Having a Library Please stop letting these people lie about what their preferred economic system entails.
Reason · Jul 23 Debate: Did Wokeness Actually Ruin The Odyssey? Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi spar over The Odyssey.
Reason · Jul 23 The 'App Store Freedom Act' Would Be Bad for Freedom And for competition and innovation too
Reason · Jul 23 Brendan Carr Says ABC's Refusal To Air a Trump Speech Could Affect Renewal of Its Broadcast Licenses The FCC chairman thinks the "public interest" standard is a license to interfere with freedom of the press.
Reason · Jul 23 Flesh-Eating Screwworms Are Back. Gene Drives Could Stop Them for Good. Using genetic engineering to drive at least some pest species to extinction is ethical.