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After Banishing Journalists for Writing 'Purposely Negative' Stories, Trump Invokes 'National Security'
The president hopes that post-hoc rationalization will override due process and freedom of the press.
Scan Your Face To Enter Your Dorm? University of Kentucky Installs Facial Recognition Tech Around Campus
The rationale for AI facial scanning—to prevent bad actors from following students into buildings—makes little sense.
The Far-Left Wins Berlin's Election on the Promise of Seizing Private Apartments
The Left wants to cure the city's high housing costs by expropriating 225,000 apartments owned by large real estate corporations.
Homeland Security Is Monitoring Activists Building Anti-Flock Tech
SparrowMap uses volunteer cameras to track the police in the same way police track the public. The government considers it a potential threat.
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'Bro We Need Your Vote': Matt Gaetz and a Desperate GOP Wrestle With Trump's Unpopularity
The disgraced former congressman is imploring voters not to abandon Republicans over gas prices and war with Iran.
Three Mistakes That Made Donald Trump
In an exclusive interview with Reason, Anthony Scaramucci identifies three Washington decisions that helped fuel the anger that Trump harnessed.
What's Going on in North Carolina?
Plus: Playboy's Gen Z sex survey, toy sales spike among childless adults, lesbian mask feuds, communism, and more...
The 'AI Safety' Movement Is Making AI Less Safe
The fear of superintelligence is driving decisions that make AI less transparent and more consolidated.
The 'Strange Death' of Libertarianism Is Greatly Exaggerated
On some of the key policy questions of the second Trump administration, libertarians are clearly punching above their weight.
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Anthony Scaramucci: How America Got Trump
Anthony Scaramucci discusses how China’s rise, the War on Terror, and the 2008 financial crisis fueled populist anger.
Americans Say the United Nations Is Doing a Bad Job. They're Right.
A new Gallup poll finds most Americans think the U.N. is failing at its core missions.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Admits Failing NYC Schools 'Betrayed' Daughter
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss what’s gone wrong in New York City public schools.
Trump Says He Wants Drones and Snipers in 250-Foot Triumphal Arch, Complicating His Controversial Proposal
The arch has yet to receive final approval—and Trump’s newly announced military use was not part of the original federal review.
3 Leading News Outlets Say Their Sudden Banishment From the White House Is Unconstitutional
In a federal lawsuit, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico argue that Trump's bans violate due process and freedom of the press.
California Wants to Write America's AI Rules
Newsom's expert panel has two months to consider new AI rules, including "kill switches," that could spread nationwide.
How Will History Remember Anthony Fauci?
Fauci's diary reveals a self-obsessed career bureaucrat who refused to consider the possibility that his research contributed to origin of COVID-19.
The E.U. Just Proposed Its Most Sweeping Social Media Restriction to Date
The KIDS Act could age-gate the internet for hundreds of millions of users.
No, Banning Diesel Exports Won't Lower Gas Prices
It would actually make a bad situation worse in the long run.
Reflections on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's Privacy Fence
Don't expect the celebrity couple's battle with local planning officials over a privacy fence to turn them into YIMBYs.
Free Speech Groups Say the FCC's Disney/ABC Investigation 'Reeks of Political Pretext'
FIRE, Cato, PEN America, and others take on the broadcasting police.
Paramount Bends the Knee to Rob Bonta
California and 11 other states weaponized antitrust law until Paramount agreed to film quotas and an oversight board for CNN and CBS.
College Sports Don't Need Saving: Here Are 7 Myths Fueling the Protect College Sports Act
College sports are thriving, not dying, despite what politicians on both sides of the aisle are trying to tell you.
AOC's World
Plus: Detroit and the midterms, Amazon bans certain AI agents, and more...
Flock's Gunfire Alerts Raise a New Fourth Amendment Question
Gun owners should be paying attention to how police use gunfire microphones in conjunction with license plate cameras.
Biden's Team Wanted War in the Middle East Without Owning It
Crossing the Red Line peels back the curtain on the bureaucratic machinery behind U.S. involvement in Gaza and beyond.
Does CNN Deserve To Be Banned From the White House?
Plus: why parents are abandoning public schools, whether AI requires government intervention, and what happened to fusionism in the conservative movement.
Judge Blocks Warrantless ICE Construction Site Raids After Agents in Alabama Arrested a U.S. Citizen 3 Times
Being on a construction site "does not open the floodgates to warrantless government intrusion," a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit filed by a construction worker who has been detained three times by ICE.
November 2026
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J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions
