Wisconsin’s Foxconn Boondoggle Looks Worse Than Ever
In June 2018, President Donald Trump and then–Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin broke ground on the outskirts of Milwaukee for what was supposed to be a $10 billion, 20 million-square-foot …
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What Should Have Happened at the Amy Coney Barrett Hearings
On October 16, the Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up its confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee and current federal judge Amy Coney Barrett. The questioning, which lasted for nearly 20 …
Today in Supreme Court History: October 20, 1973
10/20/1973: The Saturday Night Massacre occurs. President Richard Nixon ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, …
Rapid Home COVID-19 Tests Are the Best Path to a New Normal. They’re Illegal.
COVID-19 diagnostic testing has been greatly scaled up from a few thousand tests per week back in early March to 2 million tests per week in early August. But the …
Brickbat: Honor Thy Father … Or Else
When Geauga County, Ohio, Juvenile Court Judge Timothy J. Grendell ordered two teenage boys to resume visitation with their estranged father, they refused. So Grendell had them locked up in …
Classes #17: The Scope of the 14th Amendment II and Covenants IV
Class 17: The Scope of the 14th Amendment II – Congress’s Enforcement Powers Strauder v. West Virginia (Supplement) The Civil Rights Cases (862-880) Class 17: Covenants III Creation of …
Supreme Court Denies Request for Stay in Pennsylvania Election Dispute
The Supreme Court is not going to enter the Pennsylvania election law dispute. In Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar the Court denied two stay applications filed by Pennsylvania Republicans …
Politics and Social Media: Should We Use Exit, Voice, or Loyalty?
“Once social media sites take on the responsibility of policing speech,” David Harsanyi wrote at Reason in 2018, “they are transforming themselves into adjudicators of what ideas are tolerable on …
Senate Republicans Sour on Trump as They Try To Save Their Majority
Earlier this year, Senate Republicans saved Donald Trump’s presidency from a premature end. Now some of those same senators are acting like they don’t think Trump will be around much …
Supreme Court Decides to Take a Border Wall Case
Earlier today, as Jonathan Adler notes, the Supreme Court decided to hear Trump v. Sierra Club, one of several cases involving challenges to President Trump’s diversion of various funds to …