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Can Biden Come Back Against Trump?
Brookings Senior Fellow William Galston assess Biden’s chances of reversing current trends and defeating Donald Trump.
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DACA and ACA Come Full Circle
Flash back to September 2009. President Obama was advocating for his health care reform during a joint session of Congress. He sought to assure the American people that the Affordable Care Act would not provide coverage for illegal immigrants. Obama: There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, […]
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More from the Seventh Circuit on Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful Discipline Lawsuits
From Judge Frank Easterbrook’s opinion Friday in Doe v. Loyola Univ. Chicago, joined by Judges Ilana Rovner and Amy St. Eve, following up on an opinion from a week before in Doe v. Indiana Univ.: Loyola University Chicago expelled John Doe after concluding that he had engaged in sexual activity with Jane Roe, a fellow […]
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Pseudonymity Tentatively Allowed in “Wet Farts” Wrongful Discipline Lawsuit Against Columbia
Generally speaking, plaintiffs who want to use the civil justice system must sue in their own names, even when that might damage their reputations and professional prospects. Someone suing an ex-employer, for instance, may worry that future employers might not want to hire a known litigious employee; or he may expect that the employer will […]
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Don’t Co-Parent With Congress
Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 I’m always puzzled when I hear other parents say they’re worried about the effects social media might be having on their children. My confusion only grows when I see that the federal government is considering a ban on kids using social media. Are teens acquiring their own mobile devices and paying the bills? […]
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Does Uncle Sam Consider Your Backyard Restricted Airspace?
Who owns the airspace over your backyard? In theory, everyone. The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 declared that “a citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace.” That is, everywhere above the trees and buildings. But it’s up to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to set the rules […]
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‘Gestapo Administration’
Trump’s creative comparisons: At a donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, former President Donald Trump—who is facing 88 criminal charges from four separate indictments—delivered a 75-minute broadside that compared the Biden administration to Nazis. “These people are running a Gestapo administration,” said Trump. “And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way […]
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Literary Subfields, Ecocriticism, and the Eclipse of the Humanities
The Spring 2024 issue of Liberties features an essay, “Curricular Trauma” by Len Gutkin, on the decline in the humanities, with a particular focus on the study of literature. The cause of this decline is “overdetermined”; “anyone who claims te crisis is univariate is propagandizing.” There are external pressures that have constrained the humanities, to […]
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Even If You Support Police, Don’t Ban People From Recording Them
Police, questioned over tactics and culturally besieged not too long ago, find themselves with renewed cachet amidst concerns over crime and campus chaos. That means leverage to win themselves leeway in how they go about their jobs—pushing, for instance, laws that restrict the public’s right to record cops making arrests, with Florida the latest jurisdiction […]
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Today in Supreme Court History: May 6, 1776
5/6/1776: Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason is published. Thomas Jefferson relied on this document when drafting the Declaration of Independence. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 6, 1776 appeared first on Reason.com.
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