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Attacks on France's Infrastructure Highlight Modern World's Vulnerability

Enjoy your conveniences. But don’t let yourself become helpless in their absence.

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Brickbat: Go Big or Go Home

A federal judge in Texas has sentenced a civilian employee of the U.S. Army to 15 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to five counts each of mail fraud and filing a false tax return. Janet Yamanaka Mello, who worked as a financial program manager at Fort Sam Houston,…

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Trump Values Judicial Independence Only When It Benefits Him

His criticism of President Joe Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reform is hard to take seriously.

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The Best of Reason Magazine: A Baby Dies in Virginia

The lethal consequences of a common, obscure hospital licensing law.

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Texas Prisoners Are Being 'Cooked Alive' by High Temperatures, Investigation Says

Last year, one prison's temperatures stayed above 100 degrees for 11 days.

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Majority of Public Comments Support Descheduling or Legalizing Marijuana

While lawmakers remain resistant to change, most of the public thinks it's high time to stop treating marijuana as dangerous.

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Struggling with Standing

The Supreme Court's conservatives are not cutting conservative litigants any slack (and that's a good thing).

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A Fetus Doesn't Need Its Own Medical Marijuana License, Oklahoma Court Says

The ruling means it's not child neglect for a pregnant woman prescribed medical marijuana to use it. But some judges say it should be.

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Biskupic's Second Installment on Trump Immunity

We learn very little new: Roberts made no efforts to appeal to the left, as he sought to reclaim his Court.

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California Forever, Forever

The company needs a lot of government permission slips to build its planned new city in the Bay Area. It's now changing the order in which it asks for them.

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Biden's Last Gasps

Plus: Venezuelan election follow-up, racial segregation is back (for Kamala), and more...

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Paris Spent $1.5 Billion Cleaning Poop Out of the Seine, and It's Still Too Dirty for Olympic Swimming

Athletes still can't swim in the Seine River after Paris wasted $1.5 billion trying to clean it for Olympic events.

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Kamala Harris's Indian Background Was Once a More Prominent Part of Her Curated Image

I was looking through some online archives available through my university's library, and noticed that there was a time in her political career that Kamala Harris talked a lot more about her Indian heritage. For example, from 2009 (this was reprinted online in 2020): "One of the most influential people…

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Today in Supreme Court History: July 30, 1956

7/30/1956: Congress enacted a resolution, declaring that the motto of the United States is "In God we Trust." The Supreme Court declined to grant review in Newdow v.Congress, which considered the constitutionality of that motto.

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Brickbat: Short Fuse

A court in Milan has ordered journalist Giulia Cortese to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni 5,000 euros ($5,411 U.S.) after Cortese mocked Meloni on social media. In 2021, Cortese tweeted a fake photo showing Meloni and the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, igniting a war of words between the…

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Leaks From Moyle

My speculation was just the tip.

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What Kamala Harris' Coronation Says About the Democratic Party

Plus: A listener asks the editors about Project 2025.

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Venezuela Illustrates the Perils of "Democratic Socialism"

The Venezuelan experience shows that democracy cannot cure the evils of socialism, and that a democratic socialist system is unlikely to remain democratic for long.

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Banana Splits

I appreciate the replies from Orin, Will, and Sam. We have very different conceptions on what role a scholar should play and what role a judge should play. My writings in this area are both retrospective and prospective. I look backwards to see what qualifications a judge had at the…

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Proposed New York City Hotel Regulation Threatens To Push Prices Even Higher

With prices skyrocketing, the city is weighing whether to regulate hotels further by barring them from hiring contracted workers.

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Trump's Favorite Justice Was One of Those 'Stupid People' Who Think Flag Burning Is Protected Speech

Antonin Scalia twice joined Supreme Court decisions rejecting bans on that particular form of political expression.

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"Time to Retire the Notion of Judicial Courage," Reprise

I'm with Sam and Will.

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Thoughts on Biden's Proposed Supreme Court Reforms

The proposals include term limits for Supreme Court justices, a binding ethics code, and a constitutional amendment limiting the president's' immunity from prosecution. All 3 are potentially good ideas. But devil is in details.

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J.D. Vance Says Childless Americans Should Pay Higher Taxes. They Already Do.

Donald Trump's running mate has discovered the most politically toxic way to demand the status quo.

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Did Nicolás Maduro Just Steal Another Election?

And if the results are proven false, will Venezuela finally move away from authoritarian rule?

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