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OPINION: In a prison writing workshop, I found refuge and a road to understanding the “untold stories” inside us
I remember the first time I walked into a prison writing workshop. The shadowed room contained little more than a dozen mismatched plastic chairs and a few warped tables. Before I signed up, I had…
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Activists push for Pakistan to recognise and support people with albinism
Pakistan keeps no data on people with albinism, leaving needs unmet in schools, healthcare, and jobs.
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Libertarianism and Democracy Revisited - A Rejoinder to Matt Zwolinski
On October 4, I published a post on "Libertarianism and Democracy," critiquing political philosopher Matt Zwolinski's earlier Liberalism.Org article on the same topic. Earlier today, I posted Matt's…
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Who Should Defend Democracy?
On October 4, I published a post on "Libertarianism and Democracy," critiquing political philosopher Matt Zwolinski's earlier Liberalism.Org article on the same topic. Matt has written a response to…
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$65K Settlements with EEOC Over Failure to Accommodate Muslim and Christian Employees' Religious Days Off
From a press release last month, just posted on Westlaw:
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"If You Throw a Skunk into the Jury Box, You Can't Instruct the Jury Not to Smell It"
Some colorful lawyer wisdom (see, e.g., Dunn v. U.S. (5th Cir. 1962)); I found versions of this in newspapers going back to 1931, though it may have been a familiar phrase even then.
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Ohio Court Strikes Down a Scholarship Program That Supports More Than 100,000 Families
School choice in Ohio has taken a big hit. On Thursday, a panel of the state's 10th District Court of Appeals unanimously ruled the state's Educational Choice Scholarship, or EdChoice, program…
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Presumptive D.C. Mayor Janeese Lewis George Demands Halt to Waymo Legalization To Protect Drivers' Jobs
Janeese Lewis George, a D.C. councilmember and the city's presumptive next mayor, has come out against pending legislation that would allow autonomous ride-share vehicles onto city streets, citing…
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Landowners in Texas' Big Bend Region Fight Trump Administration's Attempts To Seize Land for Border Wall
The Trump administration's attempts to fast-track construction of the president's long-promised border wall through Texas' remote Big Bend region have ground to a halt amid fierce opposition…
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Op-Ed: Olympia must help schools live within their means
Last year, during difficult contract talks, Mead had to make a fair offer to staff without making promises our schools could not afford. That meant weighing costs, holding our ground, and saying no…
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How an extremist network articulated a hoax linking Brazil’s President Lula to child abuse on X
Monitoring of 1,819 posts showed far-right users tried to manipulate Grok, X’s AI tool
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Brickbat: Penalty for Posting
Four police officers woke and arrested Will Fraser, a 15-year-old Reform U.K. activist, at his Walsall home. More than two months later, police still have not clearly explained the exact reason for…
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Hong Kong police launch AI-powered national security platform for school pupils
‘May the seeds of national security take root and sprout in the hearts of the pupils…’
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Second Amendment Roundup: "Sensitive Places" Issue Coming to a Head?
Dr. Angus McClellan has just posted 151 pages of "Additional Research on Comprehensive Security and Sensitive Places" showing that at the Founding armed security was tied to each of Bruen's three…
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Why Some Americans Living Abroad Would Rather Renounce Their Citizenship Than File Taxes
For many Americans overseas, the scariest day this month is not Halloween, but October 15—the final extended deadline for filing income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Ilhan Omar vs. DHS, Russia vs. Ukraine, Shane Gillis vs. Women
This week, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the federal government's raid of Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., residence and question the temporary pause of U.S. intelligence support to…
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To Avoid Criticizing Trump's Tariffs and War, Vivek Ramaswamy Takes on Data Centers
When Vivek Ramaswamy ran for president in 2024, he liked to describe himself as a "national libertarian" whose worldview included skepticism of new Middle Eastern wars and support for free trade…
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Peru’s Indigenous people in Cutivireni and Oviri take the front line against Amazon wildfires
Indigenous guardians play a critical role in protecting the land, their homes, and their livelihoods
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Op-Ed: The Missouri proxy audit: Why the Fitzpatrick report got it right
A pension system can outsource almost anything. It can hire managers, pay for expensive advice, and delegate the administrative work of voting the shares it owns. But it cannot delegate its…
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Trump Keeps Coming Up With Legally Dubious Tariff Justifications
When a president starts with a predetermined policy and then goes looking for a statutory pretext to justify it, he is building on shaky ground. President Donald Trump illustrated that point once…
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How Should Flock Cameras Be Regulated Under the Fourth Amendment?
I gave a lecture at Stanford Law School last week on a Fourth Amendment topic that has drawn recent attention: How Should Flock Cameras Be Regulated Under the Fourth Amendment? The video has now…
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Brickbat: Listening In
Dylan Hembrough, editor in chief of the student newspaper at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, contacted the school's communications office to protest a policy requiring a communications…
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TEACHER VOICE: How I rethought disciplinary school in Texas
I did not wait for my start date.