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Don't Credit Drug Warriors for Reducing Overdoses

DURING THEIR PRESIDENTIAL campaigns, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both promised to fight substance abuse by disrupting the drug supply.

Taxpocalypse

WHEN THE NEW session of Congress opens on January 3, the clock will already be ticking toward the most important set of fiscal decisions lawmakers will make this decade.

More Creative Corruption

IN SEPTEMBER 2024, federal officials indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams on charges including wire fraud and bribery.

Glucose Monitors Are Finally Available Over the Counter

THE U.S. FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the first continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for over-the-counter sale-a major win for health freedom and common sense.

Nuclear Power Saves Lives

THE PANIC FOLLOWING the catastrophic meltdown of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union in April 1986 resulted in nearly 400 fewer new nuclear power plants being built than had been projected.

Why Kamala Harris Lost

FEW REALISTIC POLITICAL observers expected a blowout for Kamala Harris.

Trump's $2 Trillion?

\"AT LEAST $2 trillion\" was Elon Musk's casual preelection response when asked how much a new Donald Trump administration could cut from the federal government.

Abolish the NSA and CIA

ENDING THESE UNACCOUNTABLE AGENCIES WOULD SAFEGUARD CIVIL LIBERTIES AND IMPROVE INTELLIGENCE GATHERING.

Abolish ICC

THE AGENCY DISRUPTS COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES, FOR NO GOOD.

We Still Live in the Physical World

The digital world has not effaced our humanity, no matter what social critics like Christine Rosen say.

Blaming Bill Buckley

IT'S THE CLEANEST, neatnest [sic] operating piece of social machinery I've ever seen. It makes me envious.\" When Rexford Tugwell, an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, wrote these words in 1934, he was not referring to the New Deal programs in his purview.

The Backpage Trial Finally Ends-With a Suicide and a Sentencing

UNFAIR ALLEGATIONS OF SEX TRAFFICKING CHILLED FREE SPEECH ONLINE AND RUINED LIVES.

Abolish the National Park Service

PRIVATIZATION CAN MAKE AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS MORE ACCESSIBLE AND BETTER MAINTAINED.

Abolish the Fed

IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE AMERICA WITHOUT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, BUT A CENTRAL BANK IS NOT ESSENTIAL TO A FUNCTIONING ECONOMY.

Abolish the FCC

LET THE INVISIBLE HAND REGULATE THE INVISIBLE RESOURCE.

Abolish the Department of Transportation

IT DOESN'T EVEN BUILD THE ROADS. IT JUST INCREASES COSTS.

Abolish Borders

LINES DRAWN BY GOVERNMENTS DON’T HAVE MORAL MAGIC.

Abolish the Army

IMMEDIATE ATTACKS ON OUR SOVEREIGNTY WOULD COME NOT FROM LAND BUT FROM THE SEA.

Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries

IN SEPTEMBER, A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive-one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software-in a copyright case with significant implications for publishers, libraries, and readers.

Pearl Clutchers in Hot Spring County

IS THE FILM Night of the Living Dead too racy for daytime television? What about double entendres about \"spotted dick\" pudding? Or a travel documentary about Paris featuring burlesque dancers and a museum with nude paintings? These were just some of the federal obscenity complaints that made Hot Spring County, Arkansas, the most prudish place in America.

Q & A: Jane Coaston

JANE COASTON IS a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times who describes herself as having “libertarian tendencies.”

Censorship on Campus

LAST YEAR, STUDENT-LED protests over the Israel-Hamas war broke out at dozens of college campuses. With the new school year well underway, student demonstrations have begun again in earnest.

There's More to the 'Motherhood Penalty'

IS MOTHERHOOD BAD for women's careers? Conventional wisdom says \"yes,\" but a new study suggests \"maybe not.\"

Citizen Journalism Under Threat

CIVIL LIBERTIES

Modern Crafters Rediscover an Old Sweater

YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE been picking up fiber arts such as knitting in recent years, spurred by social media trends and pandemic-era boredom. Knitting forums now feature young crafters not just rediscovering traditional patterns but reinventing them for modern times.

A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research

YOU HAVE PROBABLY never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), much less worried about its possible abuse. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban this synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical used in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated a previous DEA attempt to ban DOI in 2022, is determined to stop the agency's interference with science again.

What Is the 'Working Class'?

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS alike want to be seen as champions of the working class-understandably so, since that cohort of Americans is understood as essential to winning several presidential swing states.

Gimme Shelter - The U.S. confronts a growing homelessness problem. Does Miami have the answer?

The U.S. confronts a growing homelessness problem. Does Miami have the answer?

AI Is Coming for Hollywood's Jobs

But so is everyone else.

AI Can Do Paperwork Doctors Hate

With help from AI, doctors can focus on patients.