Brits Battle Bureaucrats
Friday A/V Club: Two anti-authoritarian movies from postwar Britain
Mastodon might not be the future of decentralized social media, but it can’t hurt to check it out as Twitter implodes.
A new biography tells the story of the economist’s early life and career.
Voters gave a cold shoulder to candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, and Los Angeles County voters gave the heave-ho to Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
While we often spend Thanksgiving remembering a different set of Puritan settlers, the religious, freedom-loving Roger Williams is an apt hero for the more liberty-minded.
Regulators are beginning to smile on the sci-fi project of creating real meat products without the typical death and environmental destruction.
Found families may ultimately lead to new ones.
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
Biden should exercise his pardon power to help some of the people whose lives his criminal justice policies destroyed.
The state's ban applies unless the property owner posts a sign allowing firearms or otherwise gives "express consent."
State governments already want relief from the "Buy American" mandates included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Thousands of tech workers are being laid off. That’s putting H-1B visa holders on tight timelines to find new work.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
Even if Trump loses this primary race, there’s every reason to think his party will retain its present will to power.
The legendary art director talks about the aesthetics of rebellion and his strange journey from Screw magazine to The New York Times.
Plus: A questionable consensus on autism treatment, Fauci to be deposed in social media case, and more...
EU officials threaten to make their restrictive content rules a global standard.
Private property was the solution to their failed experiment. But people keep repeating the Pilgrims' mistakes.
The state is threatening to punish doctors whose advice deviates from the "scientific consensus."
Nashville is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements while simultaneously capping how much parking developers are now allowed to build.
Four of the 12 unions representing workers on America's freight rail lines have voted to reject a new contract.
The ACLU of Oregon is calling on other state governors to follow suit.
While the pause comes as a relief to those opposed to the death penalty, Ivey's full-throated defense of the practice makes it clear that she seeks only a temporary pause in executions, not an end to the policy.
Plus: Jack Daniels sues Bad Spaniel, Oregon issues marijuana pardons, and more...
Local governments are considering rules that could force "psilocybin service centers" to locate near highways and go through expensive, discretionary permitting processes.
Alvin Bragg has finally moved to stop prosecuting Tracy McCarter for murder.
Poor countries expecting a climate change reparations bonanza will likely be disappointed.
Plus: The editors consider what type of fresh attacks the marijuana legalization movement is likely to encounter.
Nearly 20 months after the state legalized recreational use, no licensed pot shops have opened, but the black market is booming.
If it comes down to a party-line vote, Republicans don't have enough seats in the state Senate to remove Krasner from office.
The link between Bostock v. Clayton County and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina
It's still the economy, stupid.
By consenting to Qatar's illiberal policies for residents and guests alike, FIFA has further besmirched its already tainted reputation.
The court says a 51-year "life" sentence for a 2015 murder violated the Eighth Amendment.
The mainstream coverage of SBF and FTX is more than a little blasé.
Plus: A flawed study on marijuana risks, the collapsing publishing-house merger, and more...
The Atlas of Surveillance lets us monitor the agencies that snoop on the public.
Alcohol-related ballot measures were in play in several states last week. The results were lukewarm.
For the second time in three months, the state struggles and fails to execute a death row inmate.
The bill would amp up surveillance while doing little to actually protect anyone.
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates Yale's Sten Vermund on COVID-19 lockdowns, focused protection, and the Great Barrington Declaration.
The good news is that does not mean "instant Armageddon" by 2030.