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Inside Venezuela’s El Helicoide prison: How dissident Jesús Armas endured torture and outlasted Maduro
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (1446+ words) The night the socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was captured, thousands of political prisoners across the country shouted in celebration: "Down with the dictatorship!" For Jesús Armas, an activist locked inside the infamous prison known as El Helicoide, it seemed…...
First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules
7+ hour, 3+ min ago (21+ words) Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:......
Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations Violate the First Amendment
13+ hour, 41+ min ago (345+ words) The decision goes further than other similar recent rulings. Ilya Somin | 8.29.2026 5:34 PM Here is an excerpt from yesterday's ruling: I agree with Judge Wise's reasoning on these points. He also rightly strikes down the relevant laws based on their unconstitutional…...
Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967
1+ day, 5+ min ago (275+ words) Josh Blackman | 8.29.2026 7:00 AM An application for a stay of execution & cert petition was denied to Loran Cole today in 2024. As usual, no explanation is given. The other justices did not go along. So, Cole's lawyers tried another Hail Mary, flagging…...
Lawmakers want to stop kids from nicknaming their Pokémon
1+ day, 18+ min ago (299+ words) It may sound Farfetch'd, but lawmakers are advancing a bill that would stop minors from nicknaming their Pokémon online—in violation of the First Amendment. Last month, the House of Representatives passed the KIDS Act, a wide-ranging package of youth…...
9/11 turbocharged America's worst foreign policy impulses
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (549+ words) Like many others in the Washington, D.C., or New York metro areas, my experience of 9/11 was horrifying and yet unremarkable at the same time. My mother finally made it to school and took me home. It would take several more hours…...
The Fourth Amendment and Laws Requiring Video Recording Inside Stores
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (41+ words) A new Ninth Circuit ruling raises a number of hard issues....
Judge says Trump's clampdown on Anthropic violates the First Amendment
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (24+ words) A judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was an unlawful, “arbitrary,” and “capricious” decision made to punish Anthropic....
Elon Musk's X loses First Amendment challenge to New York's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act"
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (251+ words) After losing a legal battle in New York, Elon Musk's X Corp. must now disclose its content moderation policies to New York's attorney general. In June of 2025, X Corp. sued New York Attorney General Letitia James, arguing that provisions of…...
Inside Meta's $17.1 billion settlement for child-endangerment claims
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (234+ words) Was Jonathan Haidt right all along? Readers of this newsletter—and writers at Reason—are surely divided on this one. On Wednesday of this week, news broke that Meta had reached a humongous $17.1 billion settlement with 47 states and the District…...