Let freedom ryng: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of 20 Zyn nicotine pouch products, allowing them to be legally sold by tobacco retailers nationwide (barring any additional state and local restrictions). Fellow Zyn users might find the news that the sale of their daily fix is now officially legal […]
From Tuesday’s decision by Chief Judge Richard Myers in Glover v. RDU Airport Authority (E.D.N.C.): Plaintiffs allege that Plaintiff Glover, a rideshare driver who regularly serviced the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (“Airport”), sought assistance from Defendant concerning a male rideshare driver “who had been stalking, harassing, and intimidating her.” One of Defendant’s officers told Plaintiff Glover […]
[I am serializing my short Harvard Law Review Forum essay titled “Free Speech and Private Power”, responding to the Harvard Law Review’s publication of Evelyn Douek & Genevieve Lakier’s excellent new article, Lochner.com? I actually agree with much of what Douek & Lakier say, but offer a somewhat different perspective on the matter, mostly asking what the Court’s recent cases mean going […]
This isn’t rocket science. University officials know how to set campus culture. Whether it’s entrepreneurship, public service, environmental consciousness, or anything else, they instill values in their students all the time. It wouldn’t be that hard to do with commitments to academic freedom, intellectual diversity, civil discourse, and returning to the core educational mission of […]
A recent news story gave the anti-self-driving car pearl-clutchers some ammunition, although it was more comical than tragic. In West Hollywood last month, a goofy sidewalk-delivery robot collided with a robotaxi at around 4 miles per hour. There obviously were no injuries and neither vehicle was damaged, although writers had a field day depicting this […]
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973) and United States v. Virginia (1996) were argued on the same day, twenty-three years apart. Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued the former 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, […]
California’s incompetent governance has been on full display as wildfires rage around Los Angeles—and also long before, if we’re being honest. Bizarre priorities, policy failures, unforgivable neglect, and officials who are out to lunch (or at overseas shindigs) have all played a role in throwing Californians on their own efforts to substitute for government institutions […]
Song for Our Daughter, the title of the British singer-songwriter Laura Marling’s 2020 album, was a shrewd prediction. Marling gave birth to a daughter in 2023, and her recently released eighth album, Patterns in Repeat, is a meditation on early motherhood and the transition to a slower, richer stage of Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason […]
Documents obtained by local media indicate police in London, Kentucky were at the wrong address when they fatally shot Doug Harless. Officers were trying to serve a search warrant at 11:54 p.m. on December 23 in connection with a weed eater stolen from a local elected official. Poli Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe […]
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