Socialism Killed My Father
I was working in Silicon Valley when my mother called me from back home in Caracas with some alarming news: My father had experienced sudden kidney failure. I immediately flew …
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Virginia Legislature to Repeal the Racial Integrity Act of 1924
The Racial Integrity Act In Loving v. Virginia (1967), the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of criminal convictions of Richard and Mildred Loving for violating the Racial Integrity Act of …
Michael Bloomberg and the Imperious Presidency
If Donald Trump could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it, what bit of brazenness might we expect from his fellow septuagenarian Manhattanite presidential …
Elizabeth Warren Would Rather Make You Fix Your Terrible Public School Than Let You Send Your Kid to a Charter School
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) has a plan for public education, and it starts with parents. “If you think your public school is not working, then go help your public school,” …
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. There is a pressing need for home health services among Louisville, Kentucky’s Nepali-speaking community, but …
The L Word Returns, with an Unwelcome New Obsession with Identity Politics
The L Word: Generation Q. Showtime. Sunday, December 8, 10 p.m. Except as a symptom of total intellectual bankruptcy, television’s obsession with remakes and reboots is impossible to understand. Few of them last long enough …
Michael Bloomberg Plays Dumb About All the Criticism of His Stop-and-Frisk Support
The decline and collapse of Kamala Harris’ presidential ambitions should serve as a lesson that Democratic presidential candidates shouldn’t try to paper over a history of harsh practices in the …
New on Lawfare: Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
Seth Barrett Tillman and I published a new essay on Lawfare. We discuss a theory of “bribery” for the impeachment clause. Here is an excerpt: Just as the executive branch …
Bill Would Roll Back Prohibition-Era Gun Rules
Rep. Roger Marshall (R–Kan.) thinks short-barreled rifles are overregulated, and he’s looking to change that. On Tuesday, Marshall introduced the Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act of 2019. This would …
The Chance of Your Uber Ride Ending in a Rape Is .00002%
99.9 percent of Uber rides are safe, according to the latest U.S. safety report from the ridesharing company. Nonetheless, the report—which covers 2017–2018—has been raising a lot of concern, fear, …