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'Private Tyranny' Is Less Private Than You Think
Kimberly Naranjo makes for a sympathetic protagonist. In childhood, she suffered abuse at home. In early adulthood, she struggled with addiction. But with the help of a kindly aunt, she got help, went...
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Review: Wonder Boy Chronicles the Life and Death of Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh became a near-billionaire after the online shoe sales company he chaired, Zappos, sold to Amazon in 2009. His vision of a nonhierarchical, decentralized company based on "holocracy" and...
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Africa's Planned Cities Need Unplanning
Victoria Island, Nigeria—"Sorry, you can't enter. Next time, call our sales office in advance." That was the greeting my three-man detail and I got after enduring the multihour traffic slog from...
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Federal Prison Guards Confessed to Rape and Got Away With It
Ron Berman agonizes over how to tell this story, where even to start, because the short version doesn't capture the full travesty and the long version is overwhelming. But here's the crux of it: A...
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Subsidies Won't Stop Stagnation
President Joe Biden is making a "big bet on place-based industrial policy," writes Brookings Institution senior fellow Mark Muro. Muro and his colleagues argue that the initiative aims to address the...
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SCOTUS' Ruling in Gay Wedding Website Case Was a Defeat for Compelled Speech
The government may not compel someone to "create speech she does not believe," the Supreme Court ruled in June. In a 6–3 opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Court sided with a graphic...
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The Sticky Spaghetti School of Constitutional Law
"The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it's not likely to pass constitutional muster" is not a sentence you want to hear from a president launching an economywide initiative that will...
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How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court
The end of affirmative action in university admissions has been prophesied since 2003, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Grutter v. Bollinger. In the majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day...
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Review: The Big Break Documents Trump's Washington
In The Big Break, Ben Terris delivers a book-length undressing of D.C. strivers of the Trump era. The Washington Post reporter enters the social lives and salons of characters such as Leah...
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How Hippies Saved the Fourth Amendment
In the middle of one late-August night in 1970, radicals bombed the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus. The blast killed a scientist who was in his...
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The Pirate Preservationists
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Mandating Civics in Schools Won't Fix American Democracy
On the campaign trail in May, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy provocatively proposed raising the voting age to 25 for Americans who have not had any kind of civic experience, such as...
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What's in Your Bug-Out Bag?
Enjoy the fruits of capitalism with The Goods, a regular series highlighting products that can make life a little bit better. Whether you call the result a bug-out bag, a go bag, a 72-hour bag, or...
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Archives: October 2023
10 years ago October 2013 "When government is lying to you about the constitutional rights it routinely violates, it's time to change your habits of mind. No more blank checks. No more 'trust, but...
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Photo: Texas' Border Buoys
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has installed a 1,000-foot string of 4-foot-high bright orange buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, which is a common—and frequently deadly—crossing...
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Quebec's Language Restrictions Limit Freedom of Expression
The Montreal Biodôme's scarlet macaw named Bouton "will be deported to the Toronto Zoo next Friday after she only spoke English during a government inspection," The Beaverton reported in July 2013....
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Rick Perry on Psychedelics: 'These Are Medicines That Were Taken Away for...
Republican Rick Perry served as governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and then did a stint as secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019. He describes himself as a small-government conservative. He's not in...
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Review: Alphabet Boys Explores Federal Cops' Manufactured Crimes
"Are federal agents and their informants catching bad guys, or creating them?" That's the question at the heart of Alphabet Boys, a new Western Sound/iHeartMedia podcast hosted by investigative...
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Review: In The Bear, a Restaurateur Battles Government Bureaucracy
In season two of Hulu's The Bear, the eponymous restaurant staff take on the manual labor of converting their divey-yet-delicious Italian beef sandwich shop into a Michelin restaurant. As if that task...
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Free Market Book Misstates the History of Free Market Thought
Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll, Basic Books, 336 pages, $32 Free Market tries to trace the history of free market thought from Cicero to Milton Friedman, with discussions of St....
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