Reminder: AI chatbots are not people.
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A North Carolina state trooper shot Lydia Nikac's two dogs, but an appeals court ruled she doesn't have a right to publish body camera footage of the shooting under the state's restrictive public records laws.
Thank you to @reason.com for covering the data I collected with my students showing that between 2021 and 2025, states passed at least 654 criminal justice reform laws. The number of reform laws passed actually increased in 2025, the first year of Pres Trump's second term reason.com/2026/10/07/i...
This is the bed the GOP has made for itself by supporting Trump in three straight presidential races, by standing by as his administration raised taxes on American businesses and consumers without congressional approval, and by ignoring the economic and polling data for the past two years.
"This is nakedly corrupt, and Guilfoyle should resign as ambassador or be impeached and removed. She cannot be trusted to represent U.S. interests abroad when she has proven that she is willing to peddle influence with the Trump administration in exchange for personal enrichment."
A survey of crime experts deflates Trump's attempt to take credit for recent declines in the homicide rate.
For @reason.com I review the book "The New Dark Ages" which blames reading declines on screens. The book ironically doesn't learn it's own lessons, being weak on science literacy and long on "kids today" clichés. And somehow manages to avoid a critical issue: books bans.
Disney asked a federal court to end the FCC's investigation of its ABC broadcast licenses, which it has called "pretextual" and "retaliatory."
Lethal injection aims to disguise the brutal reality of capital punishment by dressing it in medical garb.
The SEC should not keep a searchable record of Americans’ lawful trades, much less make them pay for it.
Flock = "indiscriminate mass surveillance" says a federal court reason.com/2026/10/07/j...
Attorney General Todd Blanche, who complains that CNN's coverage is "almost 100 percent negative towards the president," also has trouble keeping the story straight.
"Parents have a right to speak about their experiences—the good, the bad, and everything in between. Advocacy is not harassment."
"The 10-year interest rate is the most important price in the economy. If it rises, the market is sending signals—to borrow less and save more. It is the only thing that can possibly force discipline on the government, since voters and Congress seem not to want to do it."
If marijuana users cannot be categorically disarmed, what about marijuana growers? A Supreme Court petition challenges the federal ban on gun possession by nonviolent felons.
The ruling has major implications for property owners when the government ruins their possessions in the exercise of "police power."
Here's my companion piece to this post, from @reason.com's print edition, on how the millennial internet is dead and (shocker, coming from a libertarian publication, I know 😏) it's largely the government's fault reason.com/2026/10/04/w...
The day rapidly approaches when the government will lose the ability to borrow more money, or even to pay the interest on existing debt.
There's been a fair amount of commentary on how social media has become less fun, less interesting, etc. And there's a ton on how it's become more passive—"everything is TV".
But I haven't seen much on these things tie together? And I think they clearly do. reason.com/2026/10/05/t...
With the power of the purse, Congress can pressure the president to stand down in Iran by doing what it usually does best: nothing.
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