Politics
Closing the Door to New Americans
The federal government slashed the annual cap of refugee intake to the United States by 94 percent last year.
Brickbat: Breaking In
Senior officials in the United Kingdom Cabinet Office's Propriety and Ethics team broke into a locked safe to...
Tony Gilroy on Andor, the Force, and Authoritarianism
"The concept of the show was to talk about what happens when authoritarianism and fascism comes kicking down y...
Court Upholds New York's Limits on Unauthorized Practice of Law
From Upsolve, Inc. v. James, decided Friday by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.) (for the earlier decision reachin...
Today in Supreme Court History: March 8, 1841
3/8/1841: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 8, 1841 app...
Is it War?
America's longest, most depressing game show
Federal Government Lawyer's Filings Appear to Include "Fabricated Quotations and Misstatements of Case Holdings"
From Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers (E.D.N.C.) Monday in Fivehouse v. U.S. Dep't of Defense; the government's...
The 'Fairness' Law That Could Raise Grocery Prices for New Yorkers
Legislators are trying to pass their own state version of an outdated antitrust law—one that is dead at the fe...
Today in Supreme Court History: March 7, 1965
3/7/1965: Civil rights marchers are attacked by the police in Selma, Alabama. The event would become known as...
The Joys of Data Centers: Debunking the Backlash Against the $7 Trillion AI Building Boom
Contrary to the claims of the not-in-my-backyard technophobes, all this growth comes with minimal environmenta...
Do You Have a Right To Work From Home? This Australian Politician Thinks So.
A proposal in Victoria would require every business, no matter the size, to allow two days of remote work a we...
Kristi Noem, Iran War Predictions, Playing Video Games
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi say farewell to Kristi Noem before they move on to the war in Iran, "herit...
Previewing Suncor Energy v. Boulder County
A Federalist Society forum on the first big case of OT 2026.
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Lies, damned lies, and statutes of limitations.
California Appeals Court Upholds Trial Court Order That Cited Hallucinated Cases
The nonexistent cases were first introduced by opposing counsel, but the appellant's lawyer didn't spot the er...
California Billionaire Wealth Tax Would Cost the State $25 Billion, New Research Finds
"If Californians approve this measure in November, they may discover too late that the wealth they hoped to ta...
The Federal Government Was Told To Make a List of Everything It Funds. 15 Years Later, There Still Isn't One.
A sad commentary on the sprawling size and eye-watering cost of the government.
Kristi Noem's Lies About DHS Shootings Don't Seem To Have Figured in Trump's Decision To Fire Her
The president himself portrayed Renée Good and Alex Pretti as would-be murderers, and he did not seem troubled...