[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article “Cheap Speech and What It Will Do,” written for a symposium called “Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.) Thirty years later, I thought I’d serialize the piece here, to see what I may have gotten right—and what I got wrong.] The new technologies will have […]
Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the extremist Islamic group has unleashed sweeping draconian policies to transform the nation into a more traditional society that espouses the moral and religious values of Sharia law. The banning of girls from secondary education, forcing women out of work, and extreme media censorship have made headlines, […]
Do you hear those alarm bells ringing? Looks like June is bustin’ out all over, as the old Broadway ditty goes. Bedlam is in the air, and in more varieties than Heinz has pickles. Take your pick: civil war blooming in France and the UK, maybe even Germany — if it can shake off its […]
When a drone popped out of the back of a broken-down truck on the side of a Siberian highway on Sunday, bystanders didn’t know what to make of it. “Holy smokes! Technology’s come so far! Why are we even driving anymore? Better off piloting that drone,” the narrator of a viral video said. “The cops […]
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: A win for starter homes in Texas… …and a defeat for them in Arizona A new constitutional challenge to affordable housing fees in Denver A veto of a rent-recommendation algorithm ban in Colorado Starter Homes Are Resurrected in Texas… After suffering […]
Good morning and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Maybe think twice before jumping for joy today (especially because the A’s still lost). Plenty to talk about today, with college football in turmoil again (I could copy and paste that every week), plus an interesting sports-related tax issue to discuss, along with two new […]
Tonight will be fateful for the conflict’s future. Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia that are known to house elements of its nuclear triad. This came a day before the second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul and less than a week after Trump warned Putin that “bad […]
(NA) Particularly since our win in the US Court of International Trade, there has been considerable public interest in the case against Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day Tariffs” filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself, on behalf of five small businesses harmed by the tariffs. For the benefit of the media, legal commentators, and other […]
Japanese company Nippon Steel’s plan to purchase US Steel was bound to provoke a strong reaction from left- and right-wing economic nationalists. After all, US Steel was once the world’s largest company, and it was the first company to be valued at over a billion dollars. US Steel was thus a symbol of America’s economic […]
From a Minnesota Tax Court decision Thursday, Delano Crossing 2016 v. County of Wright (Chief Judge Jane N. Bowman and Judges Bradford S. Delapena and Beverly J. Luther Quast): In support of a motion for summary judgment, which the court denies in a concurrent order, the County submitted a brief that included five case citations […]