Reason Sen. Mike Braun (R–Ind.) on Tuesday unveiled a bill to curtail qualified immunity, the legal framework that allows public officials to skirt civil liability for violating your rights if those …
The temporary 60-day pause that President Donald Trump declared on legal immigration in mid-April after the coronavirus hit was not so temporary after all. Starting tomorrow, Trump will extend this …
The current moment of public focus on police conduct, set off in part by the police killing of George Floyd, has revived a familiar call to “demilitarize” the police, as …
The United Kingdom passed a law in 2010 that required public institutions, including universities, to eliminate gender discrimination in their organizations. New research suggests that the method many universities adopted …
Why did the Trump administration lose the DACA case? I think the crass answer is that Chief Justice Roberts would have found something, anything, to nitpick. With so-called “hard look” …
Susette Kelo’s famous “little pink house,” which became a nationally known symbol of the case that bears her name. Today is the 15th anniversary of Kelo v. City of …
On Monday, protesters once again occupied the area just north of Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Park, declaring it the “Black House Autonomous Zone.” After a group of protesters failed to pull …
We are often told that law enforcement must have a way to get around strong encryption technologies in order to catch bad guys. Such a “backdoor” into security techniques would …
6/23/1987: South Dakota v. Dole is decided. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUK7-93Bdqo?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, …
Laney College, a public community college in California, has placed mathematics professor Matthew Hubbard on leave and is investigating him for sending racist messages to a student of Vietnamese descent, …