March 17, 2022 6:30 am
30 Percent of Americans Still Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
Plus: Research says neuroscience studies are largely unreliable, Elizabeth Warren’s new antitrust bill, and more…
Tags: discrimination, gay marriage, LGBT, marriage, Polls, REASON
March 17, 2022 5:01 am
How Corporate Criticism Threatened Online Anonymous Speech
“This was now in their face, and it was in print.”
Tags: free speech, REASON
March 17, 2022 4:00 am
Today in Supreme Court History: March 17, 1777
3/17/1777: Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s birthday.
Tags: REASON
March 17, 2022 3:00 am
Time To Close the Car Snitch Loophole
When you plug your phone into your car to listen to your favorite band or podcast, you give police a way to rummage around in your personal data without a warrant.
Tags: Civil Liberties, Fourth Amendment, REASON
March 17, 2022 1:00 am
Brickbat: Who’s Your Daddy?
New York lawmakers are considering a bill that would bar universities in the state, including private ones, from giving special consideration to the children of alumni in admissions. State Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D–Brooklyn) said such legacy admissions discriminate against low-income and first-generation students.
Tags: REASON
March 16, 2022 8:46 pm
Fifth Circuit Stays Erroneous District Court Injunction Against Social Cost of Carbon Estimates
In a brief per curiam opinion, the Fifth Circuit concludes the plaintiff states lack standing to press their claims.
Tags: Climate Change, REASON
March 16, 2022 4:48 pm
“Pulsed Nuclear Space Propulsion and International Law: Some Preliminary Observations”
Any fan of SF and law has got to be interested in this one.
Tags: REASON
March 16, 2022 2:38 pm
Missouri S. Ct. Strikes Down Requirement That Defense Lawyers Inform Sexual Assault Victims of Certain Matters
Such a requirement violates the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech, the court held, and can’t be justified as a regulation of professional conduct.
Tags: free speech, REASON
March 16, 2022 2:30 pm
‘Grow Up’: Yale Law School Students Interrupt Event, Demand Right To Talk Over Speakers
“FedSoc’s decision to lend legitimacy to this hate group…profoundly undermined our community’s values of equity and inclusivity.”
Tags: First Amendment, free speech, REASON
March 16, 2022 2:15 pm
We Can’t Fund COVID Treatments for the Uninsured Because We Spent Trillions of COVID Aid on Wasteful Garbage
Congress used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to throw money around in ways that would be comedic if the results weren’t so tragic.
Tags: Congress, Government spending, Government Waste, REASON
March 16, 2022 2:00 pm
Officials Won’t Let Some Ukrainian and Russian Ship Crews Enter the U.S. Because They Might Try To Stay
Now is the time to welcome vulnerable Russians and Ukrainians, not turn them away.
Tags: immigration, REASON, Russia
March 16, 2022 1:44 pm
The Decomposition of Cuba’s Communist Regime
Martha Bueno’s organization, People 4 Cuba, smuggles food and medicine directly into the hands of suffering Cubans to help undermine an oppressive dictatorship.
March 16, 2022 12:35 pm
‘Fear Is the Tool of Totalitarians’: Ron Paul on War, Money, and the Libertarian Moment
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
Tags: 9/11, Capitalism, education, europe, Federal Reserve, freedom, libertarianism, military, Osama Bin Laden, Politics, REASON, ron paul, Russia, socialism, war
March 16, 2022 12:20 pm
Tackling Mass Incarceration Requires More Than Freeing Nonviolent Drug Offenders
A new report emphasizes that the U.S. would still have a very high incarceration rate even if all drug war prisoners were released.
Tags: REASON