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5/10/1886: Yick Wo v. Hopkins decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 10, 1886 appeared first on Reason.com.

Ted Turner, who just graduated from this earthly academy at age 87, was a bon vivant, Playgirl's man of the year, and a public embarrassment. He made billion-dollar deals when, you know, a billion was a really big number. He sailed the seas as a champion of the yachting crowd, winning the 1977 America's Cup aboard the Courageous. He married a beautiful actress, made her do the politically incorrect Tomahawk chops to cheer his Atlanta Braves, and cycled through the ideological spectrum from Randi

George Retes woke up on July 10, 2025, hoping the day would change his life for the better. Retes, an Army veteran, worked as a security contractor for a legal cannabis farm in Ventura County, California. After seven months on the graveyard shift, working from midnight to 8 a.m., Retes was eager to move to a daytime schedule and spend more waking hours with his family. "I do everything for my kids," says the 25-year-old father. "That's what it's all for." When he finally got the new schedule, he

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From Thursday's decision by Judge Nina Wang (D. Colo.) in Coomer v. Lindell: This is a defamation case brought by Plaintiff Eric Coomer ("Plaintiff" or "Dr. Coomer") over accusations that he used his position at Dominion Voting Systems to interfere with the results of the 2020 presidential election. The case went to trial, and the jury delivered a partial verdict for Plaintiff. The verdict included a punitive damages award against Frankspeech. [A.] The First Order to Show Cause and Sanctions Ord

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/d2h6a3ly6ooodw.cloudfront.net/reasontv_audio_8279642.mp3 1x 1.1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 3x :15 :15 Download The Best of Reason: In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment The Dissident Right is furious after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch told Reason and several other outlets that America

5/9/1974: Resolution to impeach President Nixon introduced in the House of Representatives. On 7/24/1974, the Supreme Court would decide U.S. v. Nixon. President Richard NixonThe post Today in Supreme Court History: May 9, 1974 appeared first on Reason.com.

It's hard not to love a diner. Spacious red booths, coffee served in white ceramic mugs, and breakfast available at any hour have made these institutions a quintessentially American experience. Although these establishments dot the country, perhaps no state is more associated with the iconic diner than New Jersey, which declares itself the "diner capital of the world." But New Jersey's diners are apparently in trouble. As many as 100 have shuttered in the past decade, according to Amanda Stone,

As uncertainty surrounds Venezuela's political future, the ripples of change are being felt not just in Caracas but in the unusually complex economy of a decades-old browser-based game. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of Venezuelans have logged on to Old School RuneScape (OSRS) not simply to play but to work. As hyperinflation hollowed out salaries and traditional jobs disappeared, Venezuelan players mined and collected valuable in-game resources and achieved coveted level 99 status in i

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The past few days have been fun. On Thursday, I attended a double investiture at the Supreme Court of Texas for the two newest members. Justice James P. Sullivan was sworn in by (Retired) Judge Tom Griffith. Judge Griffith gave a fascinating discussion on the value of the oath. We should all focus on the meaning of "help" in "So help me God." We are wiser for his insights. Justice Kyle Hawkins was sworn in by Justice Samuel A. Alito. The Justice relayed a funny story from Kyle's term. Justice A

On Thursday, almost half of the United Kingdom was given the opportunity to vote in local elections. Usually, little attention is paid to local elections, whose winners are largely responsible for planning applications and trash collection. But British politics is far from usual at the moment. Voters across England went to the polls to elect over 5,000 councillors in 136 local authorities. At the same time, six directly elected mayors will be chosen, as well as the Scottish and Welsh devolved pa

Carmen Navas spent a year going from prison to prison looking for her son Víctor Hugo Quero Navas, who was arrested last year by Venezuela's military intelligence. She filed petitions and sought proof that he was still alive, but prison officials stonewalled her. This week, the regime led by Venezuelan dictator Delcy Rodríguez finally admitted that Víctor died 10 months ago. He was 51. Víctor was a karate teacher and street vendor who sold jeans and nutritional supplements and supported his moth

NA In a recent Washington Post op ed, Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth makes the case for legalizing kidney sales. Roth is a world-leading expert on taboo markets and related topics. Here is an excerpt: It's time to carefully but urgently rethink payments to kidney donors. There are approximately 130,000 new cases of kidney failure annually in the United States. It is disproportionately a disease of the poor, and is four times as likely to affect Black people as White people. Kid

A secretive memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was recently issued to local law enforcement partners, barring them from answering questions about their role in immigration enforcement. This new directive raises concerns over the increased entanglement between federal and local law enforcement and the transparency of public records during President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration crackdown.  Anonymous federal sources told The Florida Trib that a memo was emailed between April

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi cover a wide range of topics, opening with a critique of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes' claims about billionaires and wage theft. Then they dig into a philosophical debate over what it means to be American—heritage vs. creedal identity—then turn to a discrimination lawsuit against The New York Times. On the lighter side, the duo reacts to a new trailer for an Odyssey film adaptation and ranks Christopher Nolan's movies. They also weigh in on a bizarre

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. This week on the Short Circuit podcast: Live from Michigan Law, it's our Administrative Law-apalooza. With Professors Chris Walker & Nicholas Bagley and top admin law lawyer Zach Larsen. In 2006, the City of Baltimore agreed to use eminent domain to acquire a huge chunk of land and turn it over to a private developer. But then, in a turn of events that will surprise

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth maintains that he has the authority to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D–Ariz.), a retired U.S. Navy captain, for speech he unilaterally deems "prejudicial to good order and discipline" in the military. That claim, which is at the center of Kelly's First Amendment lawsuit against Hegseth, ran into stiff resistance at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit during oral arguments on Thursday. Hegseth is asking the appeals court to overturn a preliminary injunction tha

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] Partisanship has plagued American society since before Independence. John Adams notably claimed that at the time of the Revolution, "one full third were averse to the Revolution," one-third in favor, and a final third swinging between the other two.[i] Yet the idealism that inspired the main voices for Independence led them to plant their flag

California spent nearly half a billion dollars on an emergency response system that confused dispatchers and reportedly delayed medical care. Now, lawmakers are pushing for renewed scrutiny of the program after local journalists exposed the system's life-endangering failures.  The debacle began in 2019, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to overhaul the state's "antiquated" emergency calling system. The state wanted to replace the analog system with Next Generation 911, a modernized system