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How Freedom Lovers Can Reckon with Addicts and Addiction
15 June 2025 @ 11:00 am
A new book looks at addiction through the lens of choice and responsibility.
Ross Douthat on Digital Alienation, Birth Rates, and Demographic Collapse
15 June 2025 @ 10:00 am
"I like Italy. I like South Korea. I enjoy the existence of distinctive human cultures. I would prefer that these cultures and countries not disappear," the New York Times columnist tells Reason.
GOP Senate Version of the Big Beautiful Bill Includes an Ugly Attack on Courts' Ability to Protect Constitutional Rights
14 June 2025 @ 5:59 pm
It requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
More Than 1,800 'No Kings' Protests Aim for Nonviolent Pushback Against Trump Policies
14 June 2025 @ 2:10 pm
The coalition’s national press coordinator says, “We’re all dedicated to championing the cause of nonviolence—not just because it’s moral, but because it’s more effective.”
Have Presidents Grown Too Powerful To Be Removed From Office?
14 June 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Joe Biden showed that the 25th Amendment doesn't work. Donald Trump showed that impeachment is broken too.
Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810
14 June 2025 @ 11:00 am
6/14/1810: Justice Ward Hunt's birthday.
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Some Federal Agencies Are Actually Getting More Efficient
14 June 2025 @ 11:00 am
Downsizing pushed the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to adopt tech solutions that it could have tried years ago.
Trad Wives and Tallow Fries: How the Wellness Wars Flipped Health and Food Politics Upside Down
14 June 2025 @ 10:00 am
Does RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement want to loosen the government's grasp on food and medicine—or use government power to impose blueberries on everyone else?
First Amendment Challenge to Suspension from University of Texas for Pro-Palestinian Protest Can Go Forward
13 June 2025 @ 9:52 pm
From today's opinion by Judge Robert Pitman (W.D. Tex.) in Qaddumi v. Hartzell: Qaddumi challenges his suspension from the University…
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Currently, we find ourselves in the fifth release of unsealed court documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities. US Judge Loretta Preska ordered the unsealing as part of a lawsuit filed by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre, against
The UK Prime Minister is facing the wrath of MPs and the general public as more controversial information about alleged Downing Street parties during the 2020 Covid lockdowns continues to emerge. In the most recent set of shocking revelations, Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie Symonds, are alleged to have been among 30 people who attended a “bring-your-own-booze” drinks gathering on May 20th, 2020, where as many as 100 people were
The UK Government has stated that it will respond in turn if France continues with its trend of threatening the UK with various actions, such as shutting off electricity to the Channel Islands, amid post-Brexit fishing rights disagreements. Amid the escalation of threats from the continent, the Environment Secretary has 
Floral tributes left in Parliament Square following the 2017 Westminster Islamist terror attackA new report, published in the wake of the murder of MP Sir David Amess last week, has criticised the UK’s flagship anti-terror program ‘Prevent’ for its emphasis on “political correctness” and the diversion of resources from the “gravest threat” of Islamic terrorism. 
The UK government is facing increasing pressure from scientists to reimpose social restrictions.The calls come after the country recorded 49,156 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the largest number since mid-July, with the Office for National Statistics last week estimating that one in 60 people in England had the virus. 
The member of parliament for Leicester East may face jail time after being found guilty of harassing her partner’s former girlfriend.Appearing outside Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday following the verdict, Claudia Webbe, 56, said she was “innocent” and “deeply shocked” and would seek an appeal. 
A study by the taxation and public policy research institute, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has found that women earn less than men in their twenties because they choose university degrees that lead to lower-paying jobs. According to the IFS, the first emergence of the gender pay gap occurs immediately after graduation from university, with male graduates earning on average five percent more than female graduates at the age of 25. 
The BBC is expected to end its subscription to the LGBTQ diversity programme run by the self-described lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights charity Stonewall. The move, revealed by VICE, will see the UK’s publicly funded service broadcaster resign from the organisation’s flagship ‘Diversity Champions’ programme which ensures that “all LGBT+ staff are accepted without exception in the workplace.” Beginning in 2001, the initiative allows its recipients “access to
The UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has said that the BBC needs to depart from “tokenism” and “groupthink” in order to best represent the views of the country as a whole. Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference on Monday, Nadine Dorries, who replaced the former culture minister Oliver Dowden in September’s cabinet reshuffle, said that the publicly funded broadcaster was full of “people from a similar background with a certain political bias.” 
Polish MPs have lambasted the Australian government for its “totalitarian” Covid lockdown policies and “human rights” abuses.Gathering outside of the Australian embassy in Warsaw, the group of politicians, which included the former leader of the Liberal KoLiber party, Jakub Kulesza, accused Australia of “unsubscribing herself from the civilised International Community” after “contracting Covid madness.”