Texas Cop Chases Prostitution Suspect, Causes Car Accident, Gets Immunity
Houston police officer Ricardo Corral is not legally liable for crashing his police cruiser into another vehicle, the Texas ...
Decrying First Amendment Threat, FIRE Will Defend Pollster Whom Trump Sued for 'Consumer Fraud'
After Donald Trump sued pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register under Iowa's Consumer Fraud Act last month, Robert ...
American Public Has High Hopes for New Trump Administration
Having soured on lame-duck President Joe Biden, Americans are anticipating the inauguration of his successor—and ...
Zuck Finds His Spine
A late mea culpa: "After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy," Meta founder ...
Why We Are Still Arguing About the Health Effects of Moderate Drinking
Even moderate drinking could give you cancer, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned last week. But according to a ...
Brickbat: Window Pain
The Taliban has banned windows in residential buildings to prevent people from seeing women inside. The ban specifically ...
Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers
A new era is dawning at Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that third-party fact-checking organizations would no longer have the power to ...
5th Circuit Reaffirms That Prosecuting a Marijuana User for Illegal Gun Possession Was Unconstitutional
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit this week reaffirmed its conclusion that the federal government violated the ...
More on Birthright Citizenship and Undocumented Immigrants
The incoming Trump administration plans to deprive children of undocumented immigrants of birthright citizenship. As I ...
With U.S. Steel Decision, Biden Turned His Back on Opposing Monopolies
Blocking Nippon Steel from acquiring U.S. Steel lays the groundwork for a major consolidation of American steelmaking that ...
Why Building a Lot of 'Affordable' Housing Is Bad News for Affordability
Cities become affordable when lots of new housing is built, not when a larger percentage of a small amount of new housing is ...
"FIRE to Defend Veteran Pollster J. Ann Selzer in Trump Lawsuit over Outlier Election Poll"
Just saw this announcement from FIRE; very glad to hear it. I copy below my explanation from Dec. 18 for why I think Trump's claim is unsound. Complaint ...