Author: NFA JayShawn

Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is one of the loneliest U.S. military assignments in the world. Built on Arctic permafrost, the base hosts 200 troops in Greenland’s far north. Its closest neighbor is 75 miles away, a small town called Qaanaaq, population 646. Not that it matters, since the only ways […]

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Given the experiment with the Midweek Midday Open Thread, I thought I’d space things about by moving the Thursday Open Thread to Friday, at least for this week and the next several. The post Thursday Open Thread Will Be Moved to Friday Open Thread appeared first on Reason.com.

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When President Joe Biden vacates the White House later this month, talk will turn to his legacy: What did he accomplish in office? Which among his achievements will outlast him? Even though Biden came into office with ambitious promises, his scorecard looks unimpressive. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act apportioned more than $1 trillion […]

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From Pick v. Raffensperger, decided Nov. 22 by Judge Eleanor Ross (N.D. Ga.), but only posted several days ago on Westlaw (an appeal is pending): On November 3, 2020—election day—State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, served as a site for ballot counting. The ballot counting activity at State Farm Arena was recorded in an over […]

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An excerpt from yesterday’s en banc decision, written by Judge Morgan Christen, in Project Veritas v. Schmidt (reversing the July 2023 panel decision); the full opinions are over 20,000 words long, so this just gives a flavor of the analysis: Oregon’s conversational privacy statute prohibits unannounced audio-only recordings of oral communications between two or more […]

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A lawsuit recently filed by Utah, Texas, and Last Energy (a microreactor company) is challenging a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rule requiring all nuclear power-producing entities—including those that do not generate enough electricity to turn on a lightbulb—to obtain an operating license from the commission before turning on. If successful, the lawsuit could diminish the federal […]

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Who can blame New Yorkers for refusing to intervene to prevent crime when they live in a city where such heroes are treated as criminals?

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Higher education needs a systemic solution to its problems of access, affordability, and quality. We have a plan.

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Lawyers and activists are filing lawsuits and seeking to unconstitutionally turn courts into climate policymakers.

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