Customs and Border Protection Doesn't Deny Using Facial Recognition To Target Foreign OnlyFans Models The immigration system has a confusing and opaque approach to foreigners who have done sex work. Reason · Sep 19
Cancer Vaccines, Anti-Aging Treatments, and 5 Other Exciting Biomedical Advances Getting older makes you more prone to all kinds of maladies. So why not become younger? Reason · Sep 19
Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violates Second Amendment So held Elite Precision Customs L.L.C. v. BATFE, decided today by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Kurt Engelhardt;… The post Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violates Second Amendment appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 18
Plaintiff's Tourette's Syndrome Doesn't Justify Pseudonymity From today's decision by Judge Rebecca Brady Jennings (W.D. Ky.) in Doe v. Blanche: "Plaintiff has not advanced any facts… The post Plaintiff's Tourette's Syndrome Doesn't Justify Pseudonymity appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 18
Montana's Anti-Deepfakes Law Just Hit a First Amendment Roadblock A federal judge found that the state's restrictions on AI-generated political speech likely violate the First Amendment. Reason · Sep 18
Can President Trump Ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House? President Trump posted today: Is that constitutional? According to the D.C. Circuit (the federal appellate court with jurisdiction over D.C.),… The post Can President Trump Ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House? appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 18
Is Effective Altruism Really a Doom Cult? On the Freed Up podcast, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss effective altruism, Sydney Sweeney, and the UT Austin student body. Reason · Sep 18
The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates Flock has been promoting a recent study of its cameras' impacts on car theft. But the paper didn't demonstrate a causal effect. Reason · Sep 18
Lindsay Clancy's Holdout Juror Did What Jurors Are Supposed To Do Just as a holdout may be a bulwark against wrongful conviction, a unanimous verdict is difficult to obtain by design. Reason · Sep 18
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Cellphones searches, home searches, and strip searches. Reason · Sep 18
Court Upholds Suspicionless Cellphone Searches at the Border A federal appeals court says it's legal for federal agents to scroll through your phone and take pictures of its contents without a warrant or suspicion of criminal activity. Reason · Sep 18
In the Name of Tax Fairness, Politicians Propose Special Tax Penalties on Data Centers State and federal policymakers are attempting to exclude data centers from run-of-the-mill tax exemptions. Reason · Sep 18
Congress Doesn't Agree on Much. Except That Your Car Needs AM Radio. The push to mandate AM radios has brought Ted Cruz together with Bernie Sanders. Reason · Sep 18
AI and Ghostwriting James Taranto is the editorial features editor of the Wall Street Journal. I have published many pieces with James over… The post AI and Ghostwriting appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 18
Reason · Sep 18 Trump's 4-Week War With Iran Approaches Month 7 The latest expansion of the war into Yemen is compounding the damage to oil supplies.
Reason · Sep 18 Trump Re-Ups His Threat To Raze the Kennedy Center Unless He Can Slap His Name on It After a federal judge rejected his attempts at self-glorification, Trump said the building will "end up being ripped down" if he does not get the "recognition" he wants.
Reason · Sep 18 The Trump Administration Paid Federal Workers $9.5 Billion To Skip Work How's that for efficiency?
Reason · Sep 18 Resident Evil Is a Deeply Unhinged Send-Up of Video Games Zach Cregger's horror–video game adaptation is a pulpy comic delight.
Reason · Sep 18 "AI Slop" Decried by Florida Appellate Court: "Counsel's Lengthy and Unfocused Filings Contain Gibberish" From Wednesday's decision by Florida Court of Appeal Justice Gross in Lisandrillo v. Palozzi, joined by Justice Robert Gross, joined… The post "AI Slop" Decried by Florida Appellate Court: "Counsel's Lengthy and Unfocused Filings Contain Gibberish" appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Sep 18 Montana Is Trying To Break the FDA's Monopoly on Experimental Treatments Montana’s expanded right-to-try program has cleared its first therapy: a sound-and-antihistamine regimen to reverse hearing loss.
Reason · Sep 18 New Article: Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections: Bringing Clarity To The Necessary and Proper Clause "This decision, which may be the “sleeper” case of the term, should come to be viewed as a landmark separation of powers decision on par with Lopez, Morrison, Printz, and NFIB."
Reason · Sep 18 UC Ban on "Intentional or Repeated Use of a Name or Pronoun Inconsistent with the Individual's Gender Identity" … likely violates First Amendment, federal judge holds (and issues a preliminary injunction).
Reason · Sep 18 Hate Speech and the Marketplace of Ideas in Postwar America After the Second World War, the nation grappled with tensions between protecting free speech and eliminating hate speech.
Reason · Sep 18 Despite Nativist Outcry, Texas Shows the Melting Pot Works Incredibly Well The Lone Star State is a success because all sorts of people are moving there for a shot at the American dream.
Reason · Sep 18 MAGA Loyalty in Iowa Plus: Warsh's relationship with Trump; Democrats' midterm prospects; pregnancy is apparently a spectrum; and more...