Several proposed election reforms on the 2024 ballot offered promising solutions: Reduce the power of partisan primaries, ensure more robust competition in general elections, and increase the likelihood that winning campaigns represent the median voter rather than a lesser-of-two-evils result. But it seems voters aren’t interested in all that. In November, voters across several Western […]
Decorating for Halloween, Alexis Luttrell put a skeleton and a skeleton dog in her yard in Georgetown, Tennessee. She then left them up after the holiday, adding a Santa Claus and a Christmas tree, plus Christmas decorations on the skeletons. For her efforts, the city cited her for violating an ordinance requiring decorations to be […]
On December 23, the Third Circuit en banc handed Bryan Range an early Christmas present by ruling that despite his decades-old conviction for a false statement to obtain food stamps in violation of Pennsylvania law, he “remains among ‘the people’ protected by the Second Amendment.” Further, “the Government did not carry its burden of showing […]
I much enjoyed participating, and I hope some of you will enjoy watching. Here’s the panel description: Opaque algorithms shape what news stories you see on social media, dictate how artificial intelligence answers prompts, and can even decide whether applicants get a mortgage or a job interview. Amidst claims of algorithmic race, gender, and viewpoint […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman reflect on the failed policy decisions that have exacerbated the L.A. wildfire crisis, as well as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that the company is ditching third-party fact checking on Facebook.  01:54—L.A. wildfires and failed policy 28:06—Weekly listener question 37:36—Zuckerberg announces the company nixes […]
During an August 2016 standoff with an armed woman at an apartment in Baltimore County, Maryland, a police officer fired his rifle through an interior wall into the kitchen. The bullet struck the woman, Korryn Gaines, in the upper back, then ricocheted off the refrigerator, striking her 5-year-old son, Kodi, in the cheek. The officer, […]
President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office next week, and his second-term agenda is taking shape as he fills out his administration. One of the first hires announced after the November election was the elevation of Brendan Carr, who sits on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to be the agency’s new head. Trump dubbed […]
At the end of last year, California issued emergency new insurance regulations giving insurers more freedom to raise premiums while also requiring them to extend coverage to wildfire-prone areas of the state. The hope was that this compromise of higher premiums and more coverage would set right the crisis of insurers fleeing the state and […]
More than four in 10 public school teachers in Chicago were chronically absent last year, according to a new report released by the Illinois State Board of Education. Chronically absent teachers missed 10 or more days of school, including sick days and other personal leave, but not including most long-term leave, such as parental or […]
An interesting analysis by Prof. David Cole (Georgetown), the former National Legal Director of the ACLU, at Just Security; an excerpt: After more than two hours of argument Friday morning in TikTok v. Garland, the Supreme Court appears likely to allow the U.S. government to force divestiture or shuttering of the platform on January 19…. In my view, that’s […]