Chicago taxpayers reportedly spent at least $107.5 million in 2024 to resolve police misconduct lawsuits—a problem that will be difficult to solve unless the city is able to identify and hold misbehaving police officers accountable. An analysis from WTTW News found 122 police misconduct lawsuits involving the Chicago Police Department (CPD) were resolved in 2024. […]
“It’s a joke,” a “waste of time“: That was the Democratic line on the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just months ago. But ever since Elon Musk and his “baby-faced assassins” stormed the bureaucracy—mass-firing employees, zeroing out budgets, and tossing agencies “into the woodchipper“—the tune has changed. Now, DOGE is “an agent of chaos […]
(NA) In a recent blog post, Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman have responded to my piece and others criticizing their NY Times op ed that had offered partial defense of President Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants, and migrants in the US on temporary visas. I think they fail to […]
Not to defend any particular action of the counter-resistance or the resistance, but just to obse 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 […]
A recent push for “reciprocity” in international taxation has gained traction, based on the claim that American companies pay disproportionately high taxes abroad while foreign firms pay far less in the United States. “US firms paid $370 billion abroad in value-added and income taxes,” White House economist Kevin Hassett recently noted, “whereas multinational firms operating […]
The United Kingdom’s Home Office is reportedly demanding that Apple, one of the world’s largest tech companies, provide law enforcement access to its users’ private data, not just in Britain but around the world. European regulators are no strangers to making demands that the rest of the world has to live with. In 2022, the […]
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s issue takes a look at the regulatory regime holding back the Los Angeles area’s wildfire rebuilding efforts. Stories include: California policymakers running in the opposite direction of productive property insurance reforms, Nightmare tales of past wildfire rebuilding efforts being strangled in red tape, […]
In Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the Mexican government is suing several of the most popular American firearm manufacturers in an attempt to hold them liable for violence committed by Mexican drug cartels in Mexico. The Mexican government seeks billions of dollars in damages and the imposition of extensive gun controls […]
In recent weeks, the Academic Freedom Podcast has released two new episodes focusing on campus free speech issues. First up was a conversation with Timothy Zick, the John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship at William & Mary Law School. He is the author most recently of Managed Dissent: The Law of Public Protests. The […]
Now that they’ve been deported, where do they go? There were 109 deportation flights in January, 65 before the inauguration of President Donald Trump and 44 after. The Department of Homeland Security posted publicly that agents had arrested almost 9,000 people between the start of the Trump administration and February 3. Meanwhile, Trump is apparently […]