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This Activist Push To Destroy Dams Won't Save Fish—but It Will Waste Resources

Some politicians and environmentalists want to tear down Snake River dams in Washington state, even though they generate tons of electricity.

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Bowing to Public Opinion, Trump and Harris Both Agree That Marijuana Should Be Legal

It remains unclear whether either would do anything about that as president.

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Court Watchers Can Safely Skip Justice Jackson's New Book

She doesn't write about the Court, and the press is strictly prohibited from asking about anything of interest.

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Firing Teacher for Refusing Instructions Not to Call Police About Alleged Assault by Student May Violate State Law

From Friday's decision by Judge Ronnie Abrams in Samuels v. Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science (S.D.N.Y.), Samuels' allegations: On June 9, 2022, one of Samuels' students "threw a hard ball that hit Samuels in the head, causing a concussion." Upon being struck, Samuels immediately reported the incident and…

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How Should the U.S. Respond to Hamas Executing Americans?

Plus: A listener asks the editors, when it is right to revolt to stop repeated miscarriages of justice?

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Should Airliners Be Forced To Fly Through War Zones?

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D–N.Y.) claims that airlines are engaging in discrimination and enabling price gouging by canceling flights to the Middle East without government permission.

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Cornered Maduro Moves To Jail His Opponent

The arrest warrant against Edmundo González, the recognized winner of the contested Venezuelan election, only fuels the opposition's resolve against the regime.

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Repression of Anti-China-Government Speech in San Francisco

From today's long and detailed Washington Post article by Shibani Mahtani, Meg Kelly, Cate Brown, Cate Cadell, Ellen Nakashima, and Chris Dehghanpoor, "How China extended its repression into an American city": Chinese diplomats and pro-China diaspora groups based in the United States organized demonstrations in San Francisco that harassed and…

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Are You Living in San Diego's 'Worst ADU'?

Plus: The feds come for RealPage, a YIMBY caucus comes to Congress, and tiny Rhode Island enacts a big slate of housing reforms.

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This Texas Woman Was Jailed for Her Journalism. Is She the Future of Media?

Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.

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Campus Free Speech, 2024

For free speech on campus, Brandeis and Holmes should guide colleges and universities.

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$1.85M Award in #TheyLied Lawsuit Over False Accusation of Rape

The award consisted of $1.5M compensatory damages and $350K punitives.

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Cass Sunstein Guest-Blogging About "Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide"

I'm delighted to report that Prof. Cass Sunstein (Harvard) will be guest-blogging this week about this new book. Here's the publisher's summary: From renowned legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein, a concise, case-by-case guide to resolving free-speech dilemmas at colleges and universities. Free speech is indispensable on college campuses: allowing varied…

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A Very Tight Race

Plus: J.D. Vance shouldn't be near podcasts, Trump takes on marijuana laws, and more...

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When Biden's 'Bubble Wrap' Burst

Will the liars and hacks who covered up Biden's cognitive decline face any consequences?

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Brickbat: No Summer Snakes

Officials in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have banned snakes and other reptiles from its iconic boardwalk from Memorial Day to Labor Day. For the past few summers, Jason Wilson has allowed visitors to the boardwalk to pet and hold his Burmese pythons, which he says has been educational for those…

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Trump Repeats an 'Urban Legend' by Invoking 'Fentanyl Laced Marijuana'

At least he draws the right conclusion from this imaginary hazard, acknowledging the dangers created by prohibition.

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Help Workers By Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility

Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.

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The Teamsters' Alliance With the 'New Right' Was Never Going To Work

Autonomous vehicle developer Waymo is at the center of a fight between labor unions and venture capital that's dividing the populist right.

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Massachusetts Switchblade Ban Overturned on Second Amendment Grounds

The Second Amendment doesn’t protect guns; it protects the human right to self-defense.

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Brickbat: Finding Speech Dangerous

England's Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to "crack down on those pushing harmful and hateful beliefs and violence" in the aftermath of riots that followed the stabbing deaths of three girls in Southport. Almost 500 people have been charged so far in connection with the riots, and while many are…

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2+ Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Threateningly Vandalize Homes of Journalists

The Boston Herald (Flint McColgan) reports: One of the four men charged in a conspiracy to harass and intimidate a New Hampshire journalist for negative coverage of the founder of a mental health and addiction treatment center was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. U.S. District Court…

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Hawaii Law Mandating Sealing of All "Medical and Health Records" Unconstitutional

From last week's decision in Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest, Inc. v. Maile, decided by Judge Richard Paez, joined by Judges Milan Smith and Lucy Koh: Under the First Amendment, "the press and the public have a presumed right of access to court proceedings and documents." "By…

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Hanlon's Razor Is Getting Rusty in the 2024 Election

Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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Trump Doubled Down on Authoritarianism by Selecting J.D. Vance

The Ohio senator doesn't want to limit government power. He wants to use it against his political enemies.

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