Politics
Journal of Free Speech Law: "Making Broadcast Content Regulation Aggressive Again," by Stuart Minor Benjamin
The article is here; some excerpts from the Introduction: Starting in the 1980s under President Reagan, the FC...
The Data Center Water Panic Has a Better Answer: Water Markets
When water rights are secure and transferable, new demands can be met without harming existing users.
How Not To Write About Space Exploration
Reach for the stars, but not for this book.
Felon Gun Possession Bans, the Commerce Clause, and the Second Amendment
In U.S. v. Williamson, Fifth Circuit Judges Jacques Wiener, Don Willett, and Cory Wilson followed Fifth Circui...
Mail-In Ballots, the 2026 Election, and the Supreme Court
What’s at stake in Watson v. Republican National Committee.
Welfare on Wheels: The Truth About the Supposed Truck Driver Shortage
Is there really a truck driver shortage? Or are companies just using that story to pull off an outrageous corp...
Archives: April 2026
Excerpts from Reason's vaults
Brickbat: Next in Line
Connecticut lawmakers have proposed a bill that would limit grocery stores to no more that eight self-checkout...
It's Elementary, My Dear Watson
The 2000 and 2020 elections are still on the Justices' minds.
The First Rule Of Traveling Is Never Stop Moving
Never wait until it is too late.
Justice Gorsuch's Recusal in Glynn Environmental Coalition v. Sea Island Acquisition
One of my favorite hobbies is scanning the Supreme Court's orders list and trying to figure out why a Justice…...
Court Rejects Women Inmates' Objections to California Law Related to Housing of "Transgender, Nonbinary, or Intersex" Inmates
The court's reasoning mostly turns on a conclusion that much of the prison behavior that plaintiffs complained...
It's Time To Abolish the TSA
Plus: the real legacy of Cesar Chavez, blue state tax policies are driving out wealth, and a jury clears Afrom...
Court Reject Women Inmates' Objections to California Law Related to Housing of "Transgender, Nonbinary, or Intersex" Inmates
The court's reasoning mostly turns on a conclusion that much of the prison behavior that plaintiffs complained...
The DOJ Wants To Drop Charges Against 2 Cops Who Played a Crucial Role in Breonna Taylor's Death
But for a fraudulent and misleading warrant affidavit, Taylor would not have been killed during a fruitless la...
ICE Insists Liberia Is the Only Place It Can Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The administration insists it can only deport him to Africa. It's not clear why, other than to be vindictive.
S. Ct.: Police Had Qualified Immunity for Use of Wristlock on Capitol Sit-In Protester
From Zorn v. Linton, decided today in an unsigned per curiam opinion: On the Governor's inauguration day in Ve...
Justice Sotomayor on the Freedom of the Press and the Right to Ask Questions
The Justice largely agrees with Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho's dissenting opinion below, but writes alone in d...