AI Companies Are Destroying Books. That's Not Nearly as Scary as It Sounds. Destructively scanning books is making information more accessible to the masses. Reason · Aug 28
The Math on Trump's Haitian Deportation Flights Doesn't Add Up The Trump administration created 330,000 new illegal immigrants by revoking TPS from Haitians. It plans to deport just 10,400 per year. Reason · Aug 28
No, Marijuana Legalization Didn't Fill Emergency Rooms With Stoned Drivers We dissected some of the deeply flawed studies favored by drug warriors. Reason · Aug 28
Democrats Are Undoing California's Pension Reforms. Why Are Republicans Going Along With It? Pension changes passed in 2011 have saved California taxpayers from a fiscal crisis, but public sector unions are now pushing to undo them. Reason · Aug 28
Haidt's Moment Plus: The scourge of scromiting, blaming air traffic control, and more... Reason · Aug 28
Canada Should Ignore Trump's Protectionism and Unilaterally Enact Free Trade U.S. tariffs hurt Americans. Retaliatory tariffs will hurt Canadians. Reason · Aug 28
Brickbat: No-Time Delivery In Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S. Postal Service carrier Jill Ranae Brown has been charged with fourth-degree theft after investigators say she stole… The post Brickbat: No-Time Delivery appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 28
Prosecution for Forging Court Order, Purportedly from Chief Justice Roberts Bloomberg News (Jordan Fischer) seems to have broken the story. Culver is also accused of impersonating an NSA agent, a… The post Prosecution for Forging Court Order, Purportedly from Chief Justice Roberts appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 27
No Anti-Stalking Order Against Rabbi Based on His Actions Opposing Anti-Israel Protest From the long opinion in Rokhvand v. Herzfeld, decided by D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Roy McLeese, joined by Judges… The post No Anti-Stalking Order Against Rabbi Based on His Actions Opposing Anti-Israel Protest appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 27
Idiocracy Predicted Our World, But Not in the Way You Think Mike Judge's cult classic turns 20 and remains prescient about how we live today, especially outside of politics. Reason · Aug 27
Getting Rid of Flock Isn't Enough To Solve America's Surveillance Problem Civil liberties advocates warn that Americans’ privacy and surveillance concerns won’t be solved without strong legal protections. Reason · Aug 27
Gavin Newsom Admits He Might Keep Tariffs? Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss tariffs, tech moral panics, social media harms, video games, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, AI-written journalism, and America’s $40 trillion debt. Reason · Aug 27
Video Games Are Not Making Men Miserable Video games, pornography, and gambling: One of these things just doesn't belong! Reason · Aug 27
Court Rejects Harassment Lawsuit Over Anti-Israel Speech at CUNY, Largely on First Amendment Grounds In Goldstein v. CUNY, a Jewish Israeli professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College—part of the City University of… The post Court Rejects Harassment Lawsuit Over Anti-Israel Speech at CUNY, Largely on First Amendment Grounds appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 27
Reason · Aug 27 A 90-Day Waiver on Beef Tariffs Won't Rescue America's Cattle Industry It will take more than three months to fix the problems plaguing the American beef industry.
Reason · Aug 27 This Federal Case Against Minnesota Protesters Is Worth Watching if You Care About Your Civil Liberties The tentacles of the Trump administration’s domestic spying apparatus are being revealed—and their reach is alarming.
Reason · Aug 27 Ron DeSantis Says Flock Cameras Are 'Out of Control,' But Florida's Already Flooded With Surveillance Florida police departments have been adding drones, facial recognition technology, and license plate readers to their arsenals for years.
Reason · Aug 27 Pro-Palestinian Poster's "Doxing" Claim, Stemming from Her Firing as a Result of Public Criticism, Rejected Some excerpts from Judge Jacqueline Becerra (S.D. Fla.) today in Khorashi v. Beer; the analysis strikes me as correct: This… The post Pro-Palestinian Poster's "Doxing" Claim, Stemming from Her Firing as a Result of Public Criticism, Rejected appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 27 Rubio Uses Terrorism Law To Ban Secure Email Service The State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing "untraceable" email accounts. But that’s enough to outlaw it as a terrorist organization.
Reason · Aug 27 The National Debt Has Crossed $40 Trillion. Both Parties Are Responsible. And both are hiding behind a lie of omission.
Reason · Aug 27 Strong Weed Is No Reason for Prohibition New research on cannabis use could reshape the debate around marijuana legalization and revive old arguments for restricting legal markets.
Reason · Aug 27 Is Alito Making the Same Mistake as Ginsburg by Refusing To Retire? The conservative justice is sticking around on the Supreme Court. Will conservatives come to regret it?
Reason · Aug 27 Official Precedent from a Supreme Court Justice's Opinion: We Jews Are "a Highly Intellectual Race" Just came across this in Justice Stephen Field's opinion as Circuit Justice in Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan (C.C.D. Cal.… The post Official Precedent from a Supreme Court Justice's Opinion: We Jews Are "a Highly Intellectual Race" appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 27 Data Center Savior Plus: AOC reaffirms her socialism, Russia-Ukraine war gets even deadlier, and more...
Reason · Aug 27 Home Possession of AI-Generated Porn Depicting Fake Children Remains Constitutionally Protected, Seventh Circuit Rules From U.S. v. Anderegg, decided Tuesday by Seventh Circuit Judge John Lee, joined by Judges Doris Pryor and Joshua Kolar:… The post Home Possession of AI-Generated Porn Depicting Fake Children Remains Constitutionally Protected, Seventh Circuit Rules appeared first on Reason.com.