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Man Won Excessive-Force Lawsuit Without a Lawyer—But Holding Abusive Police Accountable Shouldn’t Be This Hard
Price Controls on Financial Services Do Not Help Consumers
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Man Won Excessive-Force Lawsuit Without a Lawyer—But Holding Abusive Police Accountable Shouldn’t Be This Hard
Price Controls on Financial Services Do Not Help Consumers
Immigrants Still Use Much Less Welfare Than Native-Born Americans
Purge Casts Doubt on China’s Military Preparedness
License to Kill? The Legal Black Hole of Federal Misconduct
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Matthew Cavedon Christmas came early for Mesa man Cole Spencer after he won a $150,000 settlement for police brutality without being represented by a...
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Solveig Singleton Commentators continue to perpetuate the incorrect idea that the past Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s efforts to cap fees and charges for financial...
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Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo House Representative Glenn Grothman (R‑WI) just reintroduced the Safeguarding Benefits for Americans Act to block non-citizens from receiving welfare...
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While libertarians like to think of political libertarianism as a peculiarly western concept, it turns out that classical Daoist thinkers wrote about state power...
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Ultimately, eliminating tariffs is a submission to a fundamental truth: the wealth of a nation does not come from stifling global trade.
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Evan Sankey Following days of rumors, China’s government announced on January 24 that General Zhang Youxia, the most senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) commander...
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Mike Fox Nearly three weeks ago, I wrote about how the January 7 killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent followed a familiar...
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Walter Olson This is a story from Minneapolis, via law professor Steve Vladeck, but it’s not closely tied to the ICE roundups of recent...
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Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon A new analysis from the Washington Post’s editorial board confirms that the math behind the Trump administration’s promises for...
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Jeffrey A. Singer The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its 2026 childhood immunization schedule today. The 2026 recommendations are the same as those...
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Inflation, long dormant in Japan, has taken hold. As a result, investors have been frantically sending bond yields up to levels once unthinkable.
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Many progressives believe that certain kind of speech, or what they call “hate speech,” should be subject to criminal penalties, including imprisonment. Murray Rothbard...
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Romina Boccia, Michael F. Cannon, and Adam N. Michel Republicans won in 2024 in part by vowing to lower the cost of living through restraining...
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Colleen Hroncich In her recent State of the State address, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs painted the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program as an...
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Matthew Cavedon Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Barrett v. United States. While the decision, written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was virtually unanimous (apart...
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Walter Olson Number 19 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Here’s the deal, says the US Department of Justice to...