Michael Lacey, a founder of the New Times tabloid, has been charged in Phoenix in the apparent culmination of a federal human-trafficking investigation, the Arizona Republic reports. Authorities had been probing whether Backpage, the classified advertising website he co-founded, served as a willing participant in...
William Irwin's effort to marry a market ethos to existentialism offers lessons about the necessity of grounding free exchange in a moral code....
Mary Daly is the Justice Department’s point person on an opioid crisis that is killing 15 Americans a day, NPR reports. Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Daly, 40, to the newly created post of opioid coordinator in February. “It’s a lot different than being in...
My suggestion was that “directional” libertarians and classical liberals ally rather than question one another’s authenticity. In response to: Can Libertarianism Be a Governing Philosophy? More Responses No, But Classical Liberalism Can by Nathan W. Schlueter If libertarians are not prepared to accept the consequences of absolute non-aggression, they should...
One year after federal judge James Bredar signed consent decree on police reform between Baltimore officials and the U.S. Justice Department, many are wondering whether the reforms are actually being implemented, the Baltimore Sun reports. The independent monitor overseeing the process has held a few...
At the Associated Press, Jessica Gresko offers a “look at what observers have seen from [Justice Neil] Gorsuch inside and outside the court in the past year,” as the court’s newest justice approaches his first anniversary on the bench. Eliot Mincberg takes stock of Gorsuch’s...
The Supreme Court’s doctrine of expansive federal power is much weaker than the original meaning of limited government....
The suppression of the Green Movement last time around widened the gulf between Iran's elite and its people....
In her career as a journalist, Alisa Roth has written about people in what she calls “forgotten communities”⸺such as immigrants and the poor. But when she began focusing on the mentally ill trapped in the U.S. justice system, after a friend’s brother was locked up,...
On the rare occasion when the public meaning diverges from the legal meaning, the public meaning probably ought to prevail. In response to: The Legal Turn More Responses Original Methods Originalism Is Already the Norm by Ilya Shapiro Unless one thinks that the Constitution doesn’t matter or shouldn’t be enforced,...