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'They Just Took Me Away'

Adults declared “incapacitated” by the courts can lose everything— their homes, their savings, their freedom—to Florida’s sprawling guardianship system.

Welcome to the Nicotine Prohibition Era

Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there’s new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.

Why Do Legalizers Keep Blocking Pot Banking?

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer claims to favor repealing the federal ban on marijuana. The New York Democrat nevertheless helped sink legislation that would have removed federal obstacles to banking services for state-licensed marijuana businesses.

This Is the School Choice Moment. Will the GOP Screw It Up?

REPUBLICANS ARE IN DANGER OF SQUANDERING A PROMISING OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION REFORM ON CULTURE WAR SQUABBLES.

THE PANDEMIC KILLED DISSENT IN HONG KONG

WHEN GREAT BRITAIN returned control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, a condition of the transfer was that Beijing would allow the territory to maintain its own government until 2047. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never liked this agreement, and the COVID-19 pandemic provided the excuse to all but erase the “one country, two systems” distinction.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OATH KEEPERS

How Stewart Rhodes went from denouncing authoritarianism to urging an authoritarian crackdown

MIKE SOLANA WANTS YOU TO COMMIT THOUGHT-CRIMES

The Hereticon organizer on deplatforming, tribalism, and why tech dudes and journalists are natural enemies

SAVING THE RAINFOREST, ONE PET FISH AT A TIME

DESPITE THE OBJECTIONS OF ANIMAL PROTECTION ORGANIZATIONS, CAREFUL COMMERCIAL FISHING MAY BE THE BEST BET FOR THE AMAZON AND THE WORLD’S AQUARIUMS.

The Real Cost of a Magical Education

Blood, sweat, and tears in Naomi Novik’s scholomance novels

Two Libertarianisms

Within the big tent, a divide over libertarianism’s limits

Can We Fix San Francisco?

San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger on homelessness, crime, addiction, and his differences with progressives and libertarians

Weather Is Not Climate. Or Is It?

Science

Why Can't We Build Anything?

Future

THE BIG LABOR PRESIDENT

SCORES OF MILLIONS of Americans have zero memory of living under a White House of, by, and for Big Labor. So we are going to have to make new memories to accurately assess President Joe Biden.

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES’ NEW BOOK SIDESTEPS SCHOLARLY CRITICS WHILE QUIETLY DELETING PREVIOUS FACTUAL ERRORS.

Some People Love a State of Crisis

Can’t we get back to some version of normal? That’s a fair question now that every American who wants a COVID-19 vaccine has had the opportunity to get one. But we still get breathless coverage of every variant and new rounds of travel restrictions, mask mandates, and vaccine document checks as if it were still the early days of the pandemic.

Corruption and Crackdowns in California's Marijuana Market

Black markets thrive under mismanaged legalization.

How Anti-Smut Activists Made ‘Louie, Louie' Famous

Censors wore out their welcome during the 20th Century’s indecency wars.

The Destruction of Black Bottom

How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit

A Nation of Quitters?

Has America become a nation of quitters? It might seem so.

Two Courts Debunk Persistent Opioid Myths

Since 2014, state and local governments have filed thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies they blame for causing the “opioid crisis” by exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the risks of prescription pain medication. The theory underlying these cases is pretty straightforward: Drug manufacturers lied, and people died.

Two Years to Slow the Spread

Government can’t stop moving the Covid-19 goal posts.

When Is Drinking Ayahuasca a Religious Experience?

Inside the vast apparatus of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), there’s a bureaucrat who is tasked with investigating the tenets of psychedelic churches. That improbable job figures in the legal troubles encountered by Arizona’s Vine of Light Church.

Inflation Will Make Government Budget Problems Worse

"Recent comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy. Until recently, inflation was described as transitory. But at some point, that story has to change."

MASSACRE at FLOWERTOWN

2.5 MILLION DEAD BEES, AND AN UNLIKELY TEST OF PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS

IS HIGH INFLATION THE NEW NORMAL?

ECONOMICS

HOW THE WAR ON SPRAWL CAUSED HIGH HOUSING PRICES

REGULATION

How Robots Will Transform the 2020s

THE SERVICE BOT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE WAREHOUSES, HOSPITALS, FARMS, AND MAYBE YOUR HOME.

China's Quest to Take Taiwan

Chinese officials have started directing citizens to stock up on food amid rising vegetable, egg, and pork prices. Encouraging people to become preppers could just be how the Chinese government expresses concern about cold snaps and potential future COVID-19 lockdowns. But some fear it’s a more sinister sign, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants people to prepare for the growing threat of war.

What Progressives Get Wrong About Judicial Review

IN FEBRUARY 1958, a distinguished liberal jurist named Learned Hand told a distinguished liberal audience some-thing that it did not want to hear. The U.S. Supreme Court’s celebrated power of judicial review, Hand declared in a lecture at Harvard Law School, was fundamentally illegitimate.