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A Conversation on Climate Change, Catastrophism, and Illiberalism

A panel discussion from the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference

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Republican Voters Got More Socially Liberal Under Trump

Liberals spent the last decade moving leftward on questions of race and sexual orientation—and so did conservatives.

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Free Speech and the Educational Mission

Some of the hardest free speech issues arise when a university argues that restrictions are justified by its "educational mission."

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Today in Supreme Court History: September 7, 1958

9/7/1958: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board's petition to suspend its integration program. In Cooper v. Aaron (1958), the Supreme Court ordered the integration of Central High School.

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Drive-Thrus Are Booming. Why Are Cities Banning Them?

Despite increasing demand, cities across the U.S. are pushing bans on new drive-thru restaurants in the name of reducing traffic and promoting walkability.

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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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QAnon "Patriot Reporter" Claims Newspaper Libeled Him by Saying He Had Admitted to "Sexual Relationship" with 15-Year-Old

But he loses: "As a result of Godlewski's guilty plea to 'inappropriate text [m]essages' and 'contact' ..., as set forth in the Affidavit of Probable Cause quoting the offending text messages admitting and memorializing a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old minor, Godlewski is collaterally estopped from denying his participation in…

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1 in 3 College Students Say Violence in a Campus Protest Can Be Acceptable, Survey Finds

The survey of over 50,000 students also found that 37 percent of students said it was "sometimes" or "always" acceptable to shout down a speaker, up from 31 percent last year.

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A Georgia Teenager Killed 4 People at His High School. Why Is His Father Charged With Murder?

The case is another example of stretching criminal laws to hold parents accountable for their children's violence.

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Prof. Robert Leider (GMU): Are Parents Responsible for School Shootings Committed by their Children?

I'm delighted to be able to pass along this item by Prof. Leider, who is an expert on criminal law: On Wednesday, an all-too-familiar tragic scene played out, when a student at a Georgia high school opened fire on his teachers and classmates. The student killed four and injured nine…

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Pizza wiretapping, free books, and a search during childbirth.

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A Federal Prison Was Warned About Synthetic Marijuana. Then Inmates Started Overdosing.

"We are living in pure chaos," an incarcerated woman at a federal prison in Minnesota tells Reason following a string of suspected overdoses.

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Journal of Free Speech Law: "The NIH's Genomic Data Sharing Policy and the First Amendment," by Prof. Adam Candeub

An article from the Information as Medicine symposium.

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Kamala Harris Now Opposes Plastic Straw Bans. America's Dumbest Moral Panic Is Finally Over.

On this small issue, America has finally come to its senses.

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The Suggest-to-Me State

I just learned that, in the Missouri dialect of legalese, the arguments supporting or opposing motions are called "suggestions," e.g., A party filing any motion, except motions for new trial, motions for trial settings, or motions which require proof by introduction of evidence (as distinguished from proof by affidavit pursuant…

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Why Trump's Child Care Policy Incoherence Matters

If the Republican Party's presidential candidate can't articulate a supply-side alternative to costly Democratic proposals, then government will get bigger.

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Claim That Someone Is "Racist" or "White Supremacist" Is Opinion and Thus Not Libel, Though …

claims that someone has engaged in specific conduct may be factual assertions and therefore potentially libelous.

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Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Fossils, Price Controls, and Traffic Lights (Vol. 17)

Good intentions, bad results.

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No, Not That David Sackler; No, Not That State Law

Law students: Take that Choice of Law (often called Conflicts of Laws) course your law school offers; it can be tremendously important.

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We Have Already Passed Peak Public School

As families continue to defect from government-managed K-12, teachers unions are tightening their squeeze on the Democratic Party.

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California Bill Requires All New Cars To Beep When You Speed

Drivers in the state narrowly avoided an even harsher restriction on their automotive freedom.

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Harris Attacks Trump for a Foreign Policy Proposal Backed by Her Own Advisors

Donald Trump believes that endless sanctions on Russia and Iran have serious downsides. So do Kamala Harris’ advisers.

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Kamala Harris Can't Stick to Her Story

Plus: Dutch housing policy makes literally no sense, Israel-Palestine gets litigated on campus (again), and more...

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Seizure of Russian Assets

I've been a bit skeptical about seizure of Russian assets, mostly on pragmatic grounds: Seizing a sovereign's money when one is not yet actually at war with the sovereign strikes me as a perilous matter, not quite as much as seizing the sovereign's territory but still a big deal. I…

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Harris' Candidacy Puts a Spotlight on California's Failed Policies

From overspending to the state's overly powerful unions, California keeps sticking to the taxpayer.

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