University President Defies Trend, Defends Intellectual Diversity
In an open letter to faculty, George Mason University president resists descent into grievance culture. By Alice B Lloyd • Weekly Standard In the May 9th…
Does the United States Need Nuclear Weapons?
by Peter Huessy Does the United States need nuclear weapons? What role do they play? And if they are valuable, how much should we spend supporting such a nuclear deterrent?…
Supreme Court rules in redistricting case: Illegal immigrants can be counted
By Stephen Dinan • The Washington Times A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that illegal immigrants and other noncitizens can be counted when states draw their…
‘Climate Hustle’ debuts as skeptics take on global-warming ‘consensus’
By Valerie Richardson • The Washington Times Even before the skeptical documentary “Climate Hustle” hits U.S. theaters Monday, it already has unsettled the climate change debate.…
Supreme Court Got It Wrong: Noncitizens Shouldn’t Be Counted
by Hans von Spakovsky • The Daily Signal In a loss for voters, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against two residents of Texas who had…
FCC Kept ‘Obamaphone’ Fraud Under Wraps Until After It Expanded Program
Commissioners were instructed not to reveal $5 million fine until day after controversial Lifeline expansion vote by Lachlan Markay • Washington Free Beacon Federal regulators were…
Florida Governor Signs Bill Requiring Actual Criminal Charges Before Seizing Property
Important reform to reduce asset forfeiture abuse by Scott Shackford • Reason.com Some great news in asset forfeiture reform is coming out of Florida. S.B. 1044,…
Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds • USAToday Federal law makes it a felony “for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person…
Dem AGs mounting Big Tobacco-style probe of oil companies, industry fights back
By Jennifer G. Hickey • Fox News Democratic officials’ campaign against fossil fuel companies is entering a new phase as state attorneys general launch investigations that…
Lost emails from Clinton server discovered
by Julian Hattem • The Hill Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server dating back to the first days of her…
The ABC’s of Nuclear Deterrence: Lessons for the Second Nuclear Age
by Peter Huessy and Franklin Miller For the past 25 years, arms control has been a key driving force behind how many Americans view our relationship with Russia. In that…
Federal judge calls IRS untrustworthy in tea party case
By Stephen Dinan • The Washington Times A federal judge said the IRS isn’t to be trusted as he and his colleagues tried Thursday to figure…
Millennials like socialism — until they get jobs
by Emily Ekins • Washington Post Millennials are the only age group in America in which a majority views socialism favorably. A national Reason-Rupe survey found that 53…
The State of the World: An American Perspective
by Dr. Istvan Molnar & Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the post-World War II international order was based on a web of…