The disastrous fires in the Los Angeles area have now claimed at least 10 lives and damaged or destroyed 9,000 structures, according to local officials. With insured losses expected to exceed $20 billion, the wildfires are on track to be the most expensive on record. Though many factors contributed to the devastation (such as fire […]
It’s official. 2024 was the hottest year in the instrumental record. How hot? Last year the global average temperature rose more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 19th century pre-industrial mean, according to most of the scientific organizations that track global temperature trends. This exceeds, for the first time, the aspirational goal […]
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on the Short Circuit podcast: Major Questions about the SEC and dirt sampling without a warrant. Going in the other direction from most states, in 2023, Virginia legislators outlawed certain products containing THC […]
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Let us first stipulate that Los Angeles city and county, as well as the entire Golden State, could have had the best governance in the history of human affairs, yet still there would have been property-destroying fires in Southern California this week. When the National Weather Service issues a rare “Particularly Dangerous Situation” (PDS) fire […]
In January 2017, President-Elect Trump held a press conference and released a conflict of interest policy. In what feels like a lifetime ago, many people learned for the first time about the Emoluments Clause. The paper, produced by Morgan Lewis, offered this analysis: From President Washington to Vice President Rockefeller to President-Elect Trump, many of […]
The child-like obsession with buying stuff Read More Article from Mises Institute
Why are we forgetting history’s lessons? We’re told in school that we study history so as not to repeat its mistakes. But what if those lessons aren’t sticking? Today’s guest regularly invokes what he calls The Great Forgetting. The striking thing about this collective amnesia is that it doesn’t apply only to distant, ancient history, […]
A Georgia man is suing the Glynn County Police Department after he was arrested for refusing to give them his name. The arrest lacked probable cause, an officer later wrote in an incident report. Brunswick, Georgia, resident David Smiley filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on January 2 alleging that two Glynn County police officers […]