Even an AI-Sparked Economic Miracle Will Not Save the Federal Budget Congress cannot sit by and hope for AI to fix the deficit. Reason · Jun 16
Trump Sees World Cup Visitors as a Threat, But America Sees a Chance for Hospitality Plus: How the UFC and MMA went from outsiders to the sporting and political establishment—to the point where they’re being used for “diplomacy.” Reason · Jun 16
Trump's Ceasefire Definition Sounds Wrong. History Sadly Suggests Otherwise. The history of ceasefires is plagued by continued violence, ranging from "moderate shooting" to full-scale offensives. Reason · Jun 16
Judge Ross Recuses From Election Interference Case "[P]erceived support of Willis's position on election integrity could cause an objective observer to significantly doubt the undersigned's impartiality in this case" Reason · Jun 16
Birthright Citizenship, the Common Law, and the 39th Congress A new paper with Ben Keener on the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Reason · Jun 16
Trump, Scalia, and the Unitary Executive How a four-decade-old dissent may now help the president fire independent federal agency heads at will Reason · Jun 16
1776 All-Stars: Why George Mason Is Extremely Underrated I'm not saying that just because I teach at the university named after him. Reason · Jun 16
Brickbat: Keeping a List Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, has signed a letter calling on the British government… The post Brickbat: Keeping a List appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Jun 16
Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Trillionaires Plus: the Supreme Court's biggest pending decisions, renewed court-packing debates, and the economic fallout from the Iran war Reason · Jun 15
Britain Wants To Ban Teens From Social Media. The Evidence Suggests It Won't Work. Britain is following Australia into a policy that has already struggled to keep children off social media, while forcing adults through intrusive age checks. Reason · Jun 15
Colorado Becomes Second State To Create Right to an Attorney When Police Seize Your Property A bill tightening Colorado's civil asset forfeiture laws passed the state legislature by wide bipartisan margins and was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis. Reason · Jun 15
SCOTUS To Newman: Drop Dead The 98-year old life-tenured judge loses her final appeal. Reason · Jun 15
The White House vs. Anthropic's New AI Model The government says this is about national security. But given the history—and ongoing litigation—between the White House and Anthropic, something more may be going on. Reason · Jun 15
Reason · Jun 15 Trump's Lawyers Insist There Is 'No Evidence' of 'Collusion or Fraud' in His 'Settlement With Myself' The sweet deal that resolved the president's fatally flawed lawsuit against the IRS was business as usual at the DOJ, his attorneys told a federal judge.
Reason · Jun 15 The Iran War Is Over, For Now The U.S. and Iran have moved to the next stage of the peace process. Hawks on all sides are terrified that it will succeed.
Reason · Jun 15 New in Civitas: "Our American Legal Tradition Is Not the Warren Court's Tradition" "Which tradition prevails: the first 175 years when the people were allowed to govern themselves, or the last 75 years when we lived under judicial rule?"
Reason · Jun 15 The Art of the Deal Plus: Anthropic vs. the government, Knicks win, bread and circuses, and more...
Reason · Jun 15 Two New Large Libel Models Lawsuits, Though Alleging Mischaracterization Rather Than Outright Hallucination They are, by my count, the 8th and 9th such claims filed in U.S. courts.
Reason · Jun 15 Congress Should Be in No Rush To Renew FISA's Section 702 Surveillance Powers It’s long past time to open federal surveillance powers to scrutiny and reform.
Reason · Jun 15 Brickbat: Get Off the Bus Brenda Brooks, a former school bus driver in Ohio, received the maximum sentence of 18 months in jail and five… The post Brickbat: Get Off the Bus appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Jun 15 Second Amendment Roundup: Arms and Accoutrements The Ninth Circuit illogically excludes firearm parts from the text of “arms.”
Reason · Jun 15 An Unconstitutional War Results in a Bad Deal Trump's failure to secure constitutionally required congressional authorization for his war with Iran helped ensure the US lacked the staying power necessary to prevail.
Reason · Jun 14 Justice Barrett v. Justice Jackson On Textualism Textualists cannot rest on Justice Scalia’s laurels. They need to address modern criticisms.
Reason · Jun 14 "American Diabetes Association Ejects Researchers from Conference for Sharing Editorial from Its Own Journal" Aaron Terr (FIRE) reports, based on accounts from various publications. Some excerpts: The incident occurred outside a conference hall where… The post "American Diabetes Association Ejects Researchers from Conference for Sharing Editorial from Its Own Journal" appeared first on Reason.com.