The most telling sentence in a lengthy Wall Street Journal article about Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a prominent Maryland family who is suspected of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is surprisingly banal: “It wasn’t clear what dealings he had with health insurance companies.” As Business Insider reported, Mangione complained about terrible back pain in […]
Take three: Congress is scrambling to put together a passable spending deal that will avoid a government shutdown for the third time this week after the House resoundingly rejected a compromise continuing resolution worked out by President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.). In a Thursday afternoon tally, representatives voted 174-235 against the […]
From Monday’s decision by Judge Joseph Dawson, III (D.S.C.) in Lemoine v. Horry Georgetown Technical College: In September 2024, Leigha Lemoine … was enrolled in the cosmetology program at Defendant Horry Georgetown Technical College (“HGTC”). On September 5, 2024, while Lemoine was off-campus, Lemoine’s boyfriend’s roommate—who was not an HGTC student—insulted Lemoine. Later that day, […]
From U.S. v. Wilson, decided yesterday by Ninth Circuit Judge Danielle Forrest, joined by Judge Patrick Bumatay and District Judge James Donato (N.D. Cal.) (for a similar result in a case alleging selective prosecution against alleged white supremacist rioters, see U.S. v. Rundo (9th Cir. 2024)): On May 31, 2020, Defendants-Appellees Nathan Wilson and Christopher […]
Every holiday season, the University of Chicago Law School collects and shares book recommendations from the faculty. Here are three from me: Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro: A first-person novel told from the point of view of a solar-powered Artificial Friend. It is hard to say much more about the plot without spoiling […]
12/20/1976: Craig v. Boren decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: December 2 Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, and thought-provoking commentary. Championing the principles of individual freedom, limited government, and free markets, the site offers a diverse range […]
Restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 did a huge amount of damage to our liberty, prosperity, kids’ education, and even our sanity. But now there’s evidence supporting what many of us suspected: Lockdowns also contributed to a surge in crime that temporarily reversed a decades-long decline in homicides. According to a new Brookings Institution report, […]
Capital Brutalism/National Building Museum”/> Developers, please feel free to tear down nearly any building erected during the 1960s and ’70s in the United States. Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why. Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks. Perhaps the most iconic is […]
It’s one of pop culture’s great questions: Why did MTV, a cable network literally called “Music Television,” stop playing music? Written and hosted by Dave Holmes—himself a former MTV host—the podcast Who Killed the Video Star? offers an answer. As Holmes demonstrates, what took the M out of MTV was largely supply and demand. When MTV premiered in 1981, […]
BeTreylin Elder, a teacher at Georgia’s DeRenne Middle School, has resigned after being caught on video tossing an 11-year-old student across the classroom. The boy reportedly confronted Elder after the teacher made sexual remarks about his mother. No charges have been filed against Elder. The post Brickbat: Yo Momma appeared first on Reason.com. Read More […]