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How Oregon’s Drug Experiment Backfired
In 2020, Oregon became the first state in America to decriminalize all drugs. Was it a catastrophic mistake? Has this famously progressive city been mugged by reality? Reason visited Portland and talked to drug users, politicians, and police to find out what actually happened and uncovered a very different story. As we shadowed Officer Eli Arnold, […]
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Repeated Sex Assault Accusations Can Lead to Washington “Antiharassment Protection Order” even Without Court Finding They’re False
From Bobick v. Fernandes, decided yesterday by the Washington Court of Appeals Judge Janet Chung, joined by Judges Michael Diaz and Lori Smith; I’d love to hear what others think about this: In December 2023, Bobick petitioned for an antiharassment protection order protecting him from Fernandes. Bobick alleged that Fernandes, whom Bobick did not know […]
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X Open Hub at Forex Expo Dubai 2025
Meet the multi-asset liquidity experts at Booth 264 and unlock institutional liquidity solutions OR X Open Hub Live at Dubai Forex Expo 2025 Connect with a top-tier, regulated liquidity partner at Booth 264 to explore multi-asset options for your brokerage OR Discover X Open Hub at Dubai Forex Expo 2025 Meet the experts at Booth […]
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7 Financial Shock Shields: The Expert’s Guide to Mastering Political Risk with Interest Rate Derivatives
The modern financial landscape presents institutional investors and corporate treasurers with risks that often transcend traditional macroeconomic indicators. Political uncertainty—encompassing rapid shifts in regulatory frameworks, threats to monetary authority independence, and sovereign debt instability—has emerged as the paramount catalyst driving trading activity in derivatives markets, frequently eclipsing conventional economic fundamentals. This political turmoil translates directly […]
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5 Takeaways From Trump and Hegseth’s Address to Military Leaders
This article was originally published by The Epoch Times: 5 Takeaways From Trump and Hegseth’s Address to Military Leaders QUANTICO, Va.—About 730 U.S. military generals, admirals, and senior enlisted troops attended a historic gathering at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Sept. 30 to hear President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth […]
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Shutdown Livestream: This Won’t Fix Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Reason‘s Peter Suderman and Eric Boehm discuss the government shutdown live at 3 p.m. Eastern time today. Join the livestream here. The government has shut down—but don’t get too excited. Taxes are still being taken from your paycheck, drugs are still illegal, and the Commerce Department (for some reason) still exists. So what does the […]
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Trump: Government Shutdown Could Do ‘A Lot of Good’
Welcome to the club: President Donald Trump says “a lot of good” might come from the government shutdown. “We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want and they’d be Democrat things,” Trump told the press on Tuesday. “They just don’t learn. So we have no choice. I have to do […]
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New in Civitas: Trump Is Refighting The “War” That Congress and the Burger Court “Waged” Against President Nixon
Civitas has published my new essay, titled Trump Is Refighting The “War” That Congress and the Burger Court “Waged” Against President Nixon. This essay brings together several threads about Trump, the Roberts Court, the Burger Court, and the fallout from Watergate. Here is a snippet: The epochs of constitutional law in the twentieth century are […]
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ICE Arrested a U.S. Citizen—Twice—During Alabama Construction Site Raids. Now He’s Suing.
An Alabama construction worker is challenging the Trump administration’s warrantless construction site raids after he says he was arrested and detained by federal immigration agents—twice—despite being a U.S. citizen with a valid ID in his pocket. In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed today in the Southern District of Alabama, Leo Garcia Venegas is seeking […]
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10 Proven Tricks to Instantly Crush Overdraft Fees in 2025
The landscape of consumer banking is fraught with hidden hazards, none more common or costly than the persistent threat of overdraft fees. These penalties, often triggered by minor timing errors or a momentary lapse in balance tracking, represent an unnecessary financial drain for millions. Avoiding these “junk fees” is not merely about better budgeting; it […]
