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9/11/2001 in Staten Island, New York

My annual remembrance of September 11, 2011

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Raphael Warnock Admits Laws Won't Stop School Shootings but Wants More Anyway

Often, the best thing for lawmakers to do is nothing.

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Brickbat: License To Drive

Susie Holland faces potentially thousands of dollars in fines—officials won't say how much—for giving people rides to Burning Man. The 61-year-old was among more than a dozen people caught in a sting by the Nevada Transportation Authority (NTA) and charged with violating various state laws, including one requiring a certificate…

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Trump and Harris Both Favor Tax Hikes That Would Hurt Ordinary Americans

The costs of steep tariffs and a higher corporate income tax extend far beyond the advertised targets.

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At the Presidential Debate, Trump Again Falsely Claimed Crime Is Rising

Violent crime dropped in 2023 and appears to be on track for another large decline this year.

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The Best of Reason: How Inflation Breaks Our Brains

From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational.

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Vance Says He'd Have Gone Along With Trump's Plot To Block Certification of the 2020 Election

"I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate," Vance said when asked if he'd refuse to certify the election.

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Are Teachers Really Underpaid?

The answer is more complicated than you might think.

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The First Amendment Right To 'Greenmail' Developers

Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.

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Kamala Harris Pledges To Soak the Rich—But Her Policies Have Showered Them In Cash

Corporate subsidies and regressive tax breaks show who really benefits from Harris' agenda.

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The Feds Won't Let You Use These Cheap Chinese Cellphones

American cellphone service providers don’t carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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Unfortunately There's a Debate Tonight

Plus: Columbia's outside agitators, E.U. antitrust crackdown prevails, and more...

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The Lesson From Supreme Court Justices Changing Their Minds

For all of the commentary West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette has received over the years, perhaps one of the more stunning aspects of that case was two Supreme Court Justices changing their minds.

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We Still Live in the Physical World

The digital world has not effaced our humanity, no matter what social critics like Christine Rosen say.

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The Fantastical Scenarios of Yuval Noah Harari: From the Roman Past to the AI Future

In his haste to cram complex events into crisp little episodes, the historian passes over inconvenient details.

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The Supreme Court Reined in Federal Regulators. What Happens Now?

The Court this year reversed Chevron, a decades-old precedent giving bureaucrats deference over judges when the law is ambiguous.

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Brickbat: Bubble Ban

Sandy Snakenberg, a street performer whose act involves blowing bubbles, was performing at a San Diego park when two park rangers approached and told him he was "littering in bubble form." Snakenberg, who has been doing the act for a decade, protested that his bubbles were just water and soap…

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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate

Plus: A listener asks if rebranding tariffs as taxes would make any difference in reducing their appeal to politicians and voters.

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9th Circuit Partly Upholds Injunctions Against Location-Specific Gun Bans in California and Hawaii

The ruling says some restrictions on guns in "sensitive places" are constitutionally dubious but upholds several others.

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Court Lets Plaintiff Suing Over "Pro-Hamas Demonstrations at Northwestern" Proceed Pseudonymously

Plaintiff had alleged that being publicly identified would put him at risk of physical harm.

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Gavin Newsom Wants California To Have More Restrictive Drug Laws Than Florida

Newsom's "emergency" rules banning all THC in hemp products doesn't square with his insistence that his state provides more freedom than Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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My New Article "The Presumptive Case for Organ Markets"

t makes case that enormous benefits of organ markets create a strong presumption in favor of legalization that standard objections don't even come close to overcoming.

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Ruth Shalit Barrett's Defamation Lawsuit Against The Atlantic Survives in Part

The opinion includes some interesting discussion of defamation by implication.

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Federal Judge Rules Inmate Death Records Can Remain Secret Because They Could Embarrass Prison Officials

The Reason Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit last year seeking reviews of deaths at two federal women's prisons with numerous allegations of medical neglect.

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Journal of Free Speech Law: "Speech Regulation and Tobacco Harm Reduction," by Jonathan H. Adler & Jacob James Rich

The final article from the Information as Medicine symposium.

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