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A Silicon Curtain Descends

Trump escalated America’s war against Huawei and China. Biden should beware burgeoning technonationalism.

Fashion Crimes

When fabulous clothes are outlawed, only outlaws will be fabulous.

An Anti-racist Education for Middle Schoolers

K-12 STUDENTS IN large public school districts across the country spent much of the fall semester at home, a less-than-ideal result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom learning was hardly the only significant change to the education system. Some school districts are embracing trendy but dubious ideas about how to fight racism in the classroom.

Glenn Greenwald – ‘Journalists are Authoritarians'

Glenn Greenwald discusses what went wrong at the outlet he co-founded, what’s wrong with the ACLU, and what might go wrong in the Biden administration.

Biden Pledges To Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement

“Today, The Trump Administration officially left the Paris Climate Change Agreement,” tweeted President-elect Joe Biden on November 4, 2020. “And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it.”

MURKY LAWS MAKE IT TOO EASY TO LABEL GOOD PARENTS ‘NEGLECTFUL'

IS IT LEGAL for parents to let their kids play outside on their own or stay home alone for a little while? That’s a simple question without a simple answer.

STATES ARE FINALLY REVOKING COPS' LICENSE TO STEAL

A RECENT FLURRY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SUGGESTS WHY FORFEITURE REFORM SUCCEEDS—AND WHY IT FAILS.

The Truth About the Free Market Family

HERE IS AN ambiguity, if not a bait and switch, at the heart of Maxine Eichner’s The FreeMarket Family. In her telling, the last 40 years of American public policy have left families to fend for themselves in the marketplace while providing little in the way of support for children and working parents. Filled with both broad data and specific anecdotes, the book argues that we are failing to raise healthy, well-adjusted children because market incentives and poor public policy make it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, even as growing economic inequality, driven by free markets, has made it harder for lower-income adults to find good jobs.

WILL CITIES SURVIVE 2020?

COVID-19 IS REIGNITING OLD DEBATES ABOUT ZONING, PUBLIC HEALTH, URBAN PLANNING, AND SUBURBAN SPRAWL.

SOMETIMES BIGGER IS BETTER

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING TOGETHER ON AN ANTITRUST PUSH AGAINST BIG TECH. IT WILL BACKFIRE BIG-TIME.

Keeping Up With the Lees

SINGAPORE IS NOT A MODEL FOR AMERICA.

Would the ACLU Still Defend Nazis' Right To March in Skokie?

Former Executive Director Ira Glasser discusses the past, present, and increasingly shaky future of free speech.

$75 BILLION IN BAND-AIDS WON'T CURE AILING AIRLINES

REGAL CINEMAS ANNOUNCED in early October that it will temporarily close all 536 of its U.S. locations as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep customers away. This move affects about 40,000 employees across the country. Yet nobody in Congress is talking about a bailout for theaters

COVID-19 DIDN'T BREAK THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. IT WAS ALREADY BROKEN.

FAMILIES ARE LEAVING TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS IN RECORD NUMBERS FOR PODS, HOMESCHOOLING, CHARTERS, AND MORE.

HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE BEING CANCELED

Kindly Inquisitors author Jonathan Rauch on the never-ending battle to defend free speech

PANDEMIC RULES ARE ONLY FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE

THE DEFINING MOMENT in the “rules for thee but not for me” ethos of the ruling class during the COVID-19 pandemic may have come when Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist behind Britain’s lockdown policy, met with his married girlfriend in defiance of the restrictions he promoted.

HOW FREDERICK DOUGLASS DESTROYED JOHN C.CALHOUN WITH THE POWER OF JOHN LOCKE

ARMED WITH THE CONSTITUTION, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE FAR- REACHING GUARANTEES OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY THAT THEY CONTAINED, DOUGLASS TOOK THE FIGHT DIRECTLY TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS.

The Atlanta Sex Toy Magnate Who Can't Stop Picking Fights

MICHAEL MORRISON USED TO BE A BOXER. NOW HE BRAWLS WITH ZONING BOARDS AND TAX COLLECTORS.

PETER NAVARRO'S NO-GOOD ECONOMIC NATIONALISM

PETER NAVARRO IS a loser. Literally.

The Guillotine Mystique

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION HAS LONG INSPIRED PROGRESSIVE RADICALS READY FOR CHANGE AT ANY COST.

Abolish Qualified Immunity

This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.

The Case Against Biden | Joe Biden's Politics of Panic

THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT HAS A LONG HISTORY OF RECKLESS RESPONSES TO THE MENACES DU JOUR.

THE GAMES MUST GO ON

COVID-19 UPENDED THE NBA, THE NFL, THE NHL, AND MLB. HOW THE PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUES RESPONDED OFFERS A GLIMPSE INTO OUR FUTURE.

WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD CIVILIZATION

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED over the last few decades. For the first time in human history, a single global civilization emerged.

WHY CAN'T THEY BOTH LOSE?

THEY SAY IF you don’t vote you can’t complain.They’re wrong.

The Case Against Trump | Donald Trump Is an Enemy of Freedom

WHEN IT COMES TO LIMITING THE SIZE AND SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT AND PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES, AMERICA’S 45TH PRESIDENT HAS BEEN ACTIVELY MALIGN.

SHROOMS ARE ON THE D.C. BALLOT

RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON, D.C., will have a chance to vote for the decriminalization of certain psychedelic drugs this November. The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they’re optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending.

MEAT BILLS ARE ON THE MENU IN CONGRESS

AMERICA’S MEAT SUPPLY has been hammered by COVID-19 outbreaks at many of the nation’s largest meat processing plants, and consumer meat prices have spiked as a result.

Political Ignorance Is Bliss

COULD PAYING LESS ATTENTION TO POLITICS BE BETTER FOR YOU, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS, AND SOCIETY?

PLEASE STAND BY

BE PATIENT: WE MIGHT NOT KNOW WHO WON THE ELECTION RIGHT AWAY