Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson announced Tuesday that the 2023 joint merger guidelines adopted by the Biden administration’s FTC and Department of Justice (DOJ) are still in effect. While continuity in merger policy is crucial for economic decision making, the 2023 guidance abandons the consumer welfare standard for an anachronistic approach based on […]
My sense is that such claims are often made but nearly never win—yet here they did. From Hartman v. Does 1-2, decided earlier this month, Eleventh Circuit Judges Adalberto Jordan, Robin Rosenbaum, and Barbara Lagoa upheld a $12.5M verdict (including $9M under RICO) in such a case: In this action, Plaintiffs-Appellees real-estate professional Jason Hartman […]
Transgender Americans like me are trapped in a grim paradox. Our progressive champions may have introduced notions of “birthing persons” to corporate America, but they have done little to safeguard our fundamental right to bodily autonomy. As legislative threats from Republicans escalate, those same progressive champions stand to benefit, undeservedly, from a style of civil […]
Pretty good start: On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed what might possibly be his best executive order yet, focused on majorly curbing the power of agencies within his purview. “It is the policy of my Administration to focus the executive branch’s limited enforcement resources on regulations squarely authorized by constitutional Federal statutes, and to commence […]
I’ve always enjoyed movies and TV shows about parallel universes, where the protagonists somehow enter another world that looks just like the real one but is fundamentally different and usually quite twisted. Perhaps my favorite of the genre is The Man in The High Castle, where the alternative universe is one in which the Nazis triumphed […]
Americans think government is wasteful when it’s not outright fraudulent and abusive. That should create a welcoming environment for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its mission to cut fat out of federal agencies on the way to (hopefully) reducing the state and balancing the budget. But support for DOGE is lukewarm. Unsurprisingly in […]
2/21/1868: President Johnson orders Secretary of War Edwin Stanton removed from office. In Myers v. U.S. (1926), the Supreme Court found that Johnson’s actions were lawful. President Andrew Johnson The post Today in Supreme Court History: February 21, 1868 appeared first on Reason.com. Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a […]
Science fiction novelist Jeff VanderMeer returns readers to Area X for a gruesome romp in Absolution, the fourth book in his deeply weird Southern Reach Series. Area X is an abandoned stretch of the Southeastern U.S. coast surrounded by an invisible alien border. Expeditions sent through the border encounter unnatural phenomena and sanity-shattering anomalies. Most never […]
Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, explores the shifting boundaries of identity, using surreal cityscapes to explore borders both literal and figurative. The novel unfolds as a meditation on how people transfo Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative […]
In England, former West Mercia Police Constable Mark Cranfield has been sentenced to eights months in jail after being convicted on two counts of misconduct in public office and one count of accessing comput Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, […]