(NA) In a helpful recent Vox article, Rachel Cohen suggests the “YIMBY” (“yes in my backyard”) housing deregulation movement may be “divided against itself”: These days, it seems as though everyone is something of a YIMBY: a “Yes in My Backyard” activist advocating for more housing and fewer barriers to making that happen… Yet as […]
In an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.) on ABC’s This Week last March, host George Stephanopoulos repeatedly and inaccurately asserted that Donald Trump, now the president-elect, had been “found liable for rape.” A week later, Trump sued ABC and Stephanopoulos for defamation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, noting that […]
Homeless encampment (Oakland, CA). (Blackkango | Dreamstime.com)  Homelessness has been in the news a great deal lately, and become a major focus of public debate. I’ve written previously about how homelessness is greatly exacerbated by exclusionary zoning rules and other restrictions that make it difficult or impossible to build new housing in response to demand. […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie welcome special guest Jacob Sullum to discuss President Joe Biden’s latest batch of pardons and clemency grants, as well as President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to pardon January 6 Capitol rioters.  01:01—Biden’s clemency grants and pardons 14:13—Trump intends to pardon January 6 […]
Children are surprisingly frequent victims of identity theft—around 25 percent of them will experience identity fraud or theft by the time they reach adulthood. The consequences of bad credit caused by fraud are both steep and difficult to reverse. Thankfully, the government is required to alert child victims of identity theft. However, it is failing […]
The UCLA Law Library has a new guide by librarian Lynn McClelland with recommendations on that, Understanding Scholarly Metrics and Retractions for Law Students. Let me know, please, what law reviews that you’ve worked Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, […]
It is often taken as a given that corporate retail giants like Amazon are “killing Main Street.” “Amazon is a retail monopoly that threatens every corner of our nation’s economy,” United Food and Commercial Workers International Union president Marc Perrone said in 2020. “Left unchecked, it will eradicate jobs, small businesses, and countless American retailers […]
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The Senate is reportedly set to vote on a bill boosting Social Security payouts to public sector workers who receive pensions and did not pay taxes to support Social Security. If it passes, the proposal will cost nearly $200 billion and will hasten the insolvency of Social Security for all beneficiaries—the vast majority of which […]