Caitlyn A. Kinard and Matthew Cavedon In the 1994 decision Heck v. Humphrey, the Supreme Court held that “in order to recover damages for allegedly unconstitutional conviction … or for…
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Tad DeHaven Donald Trump’s autocratic instincts returned to the White House in January, but this time, no adults would be in the room to dissuade him from going full bore.…
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How the Argument of Murder the Truth Erodes Accountability and the Value of Free Expression
Dan Greenberg In my post last week, I explained how David Enrich’s new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, provides an…
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Colleen Hroncich “We realized there was really a need here for differentiating of learning,” explains Fig Newton, an entrepreneur in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife had extensive national…
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Jeffrey Miron In 2019, Chinese authorities restricted minors to 90 minutes of video games on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends, while also banning gaming between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Authorities further tightened…
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RICO, But Not Suave: President Trump Threatens George Soros with Dragnet Justice
Matthew Cavedon President Donald Trump yesterday called for progressive billionaire George Soros and his son, Alexander, to be charged under RICO (the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act). Their…
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Trump’s “State Capitalism … a Hybrid Between Socialism and Capitalism” Won’t Make America Great Again
Michael Chapman In 1982, the gifted libertarian Roy A. Childs Jr. warned that the American New Right was working to build a “populist, authoritarian movement” hostile to free markets and committed…
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Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Which states have the highest and lowest levels of public corruption? Public corruption generally involves elected or career government officials stealing public property or receiving…
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Walter Olson A brushback pitch, according to the Baseball Reference site, “is a pitch thrown close enough to the batter to intimidate him.” That’s a fair description of the lawsuit…
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Jeffrey A. Singer News that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, MD, due to disagreements over vaccine…