Politics: Right

Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don't suit them and to construct systems that do....

Plus: Biden pushes 8-year path to citizenship, Parler is back, Josh Hawley's book finds new publisher, and more......

Instead of regulation, let's use the tax code...

1/19/1990: Justice Arthur Goldberg dies....

Current law caps the number of employment-based green cards that can be granted each year at 40,000, which doesn't meet demand....

In an amicus brief for leading crime victims' rights organizations, I explain why ex-FBI lawyer Clinesmith's crime of altering an email as part of an effort to renew a warrant to surveil Dr. Carter Page made Page a "victim" under the Crime...

A British employment tribunal has awarded Neil McClements, 50, 7,500 (about $10,200 U.S.) after finding the National Health Service rejected him for a job because of his age and gender. Despite being the most highly ranked candidate, McClements was reject...

Threats of defamation suits have prompted corrective statements on Fox and Newsmax, but My Pillow CEO wants to fight....

I recently came across this, and thought it was worth noting. [1.] Generally speaking, you can use deadly force against unlawful attack if you reasonably believe this is needed to avoid the risk of death, serious bodily injury, rape, or kidnapping. In man...

Whatever lies the press is telling us, they are ones that at least some of us want to hear....

"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Paleozoic time..."...

A comparison of Texas and California suggests that legal edicts matter less than The New York Times thinks....

The mom got the kid back, but not the car....

A belated update on my accomplishments in 2020....

1/18/1873: Bradwell v. Illinois argued....

The s -word doesn't actually play too well with most voters....

Police in Uttar Pradesh, India, have charged four people, including a Korean Christian and three Indian citizens, with blasphemy and violating a law banning people from attempting to convert others. The four say they were merely delivering food aid to the...

American Thinker says its claims about Dominion Voting Systems were "completely false."...

A further rejoinder to Josh Blackman and Seth Tillman....

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the biggest story was all the reporters looking for a story....

[This post is co-authored with Seth Barrett Tillman.] Let's take a step back from the specific context of impeachment. In this post, we'd like to discuss a more foundational question: as a general matter, why do, or why should, different positions...

The Constitution's words, history, and structure suggest the best answer is no. He can't plead, "I beg my pardon."...

Frontiero v. Richardson (1973) and United States v. Virginia (1996) were argued on the same day, twenty-three years apart. Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued the former case, and wrote the majority opinion in the latter case....

Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing....

He's laid out a five-point plan to speed up getting COVID-19 vaccinations to more Americans....

It is often argued that we need to restrict immigration in order to protect democratic institutions. But ethno-nationalist immigration restrictionists are a much bigger threat to those institutions than immigrants....

Biden will reportedly rescind the travel ban, rejoin Paris agreement, extend eviction moratorium, and issue mask mandate for federal property and interstate travel....

Bill Allen was my multiple-times UCLA econ professor, author of The Midnight Economist and co-author of Alchian & Allen's University Economics....

The Department of Justice rushes to prevent mercy before a new administration can take over....

The House and Senate are making unforced errors in laying the groundwork for an impeachment trial...

Meanwhile, a reboot of Walker, Texas Ranger inexplicably exists....

"Let's do the thing, which saves the most lives," says economist Alex Tabarrok: Instead of holding back second doses, use them all right away....

Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They're quickly becoming a permanent policy....

Objections to police reform are often more rooted in partisan knee-jerk reactions than in sensible policymaking....

Using obscure laws to prevent people from helping each other is obscene....

1/16/1919: The 18th Amendment is ratified....

Joe Biden shouldn't repeat FDR's big mistake....

A Connecticut law that made it easier to sue abusive cops is not expected to have a noticeable effect on municipal insurance costs....

The professor, who teaches at University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School, has apparently been placed on administrative leave and barred from campus and faculty communications....

Safe injections, inhospitable barriers, and Derby pie....

Judge Michael Luttig thinks a former president cannot be tried in the Senate. The argument is flawed....

Trump supporters did this, and everyone knows it....

Amazon denies any impropriety in its decision to suspend the Twitter alternative, dismissing the suit as "meritless."...

A politician socially distances from his own executive orders....

Trump has been impeached, but there is still time to put a stronger case before the Senate....

My recently published article on the NCC project outlines several important areas of agreement between conservative, libertarian, and progressive participants....

Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties....

Plus: Happy birthday to Wikipedia, Airbnb's pandemic rebound, and more......

Yes, when it comes to a recall in Washington State, even when the official is just being accused of violating his duties, not committing a crime....

even when the parents had originally agreed not to vaccinate....