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"Immigration is America's superpower. Being one of the world's freest and most prosperous places means talented people from all over the world want to live and work here," writes @ericboehm87.bsky.social. reason.com/2024/06/10/i...
Immigration fueled America's stunning cricket upset over Pakistanreason.com There's an obvious lesson here.
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Latest: Federal prosecutors invited an incarcerated woman to give a victim impact statement at a sentencing hearing of a prison guard. She later filed a compassionate release motion based on abuse by the same guard, but now prosecutors say she's not credible or eligible reason.com/2024/06/10/a...
Advocates say the Justice Department is failing to provide relief to women who were abused in prisonreason.com The Justice Department announced last year that it would grant compassionate relief to federal inmates who've been sexually assaulted by staff.
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San Diego revised its code to prevent groups of four or more people from engaging in commercial recreational activities in public spaces without a permit. Yet park rangers are also busting groups who meet with no cost of admission, writes @billybinion.bsky.social: reason.com/2024/05/20/s...
San Diego is cracking down on groups for exercising outside without a permitreason.com A revision to the municipal code made it illegal for groups bigger than four to convene in public spaces for commercial recreational activities without a government stamp of approval.
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Pardoning Daniel Perry—who murdered a man after fantasizing for months about doing just that—makes a complete mockery of the right to self-defense. I wrote about why: reason.com/2024/05/17/d...
Daniel Perry's pardon makes a mockery of the right to self-defensereason.com Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took a tactic from the progressive prosecutors he claims to fight against.
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Latest: I wrote about Roger Fortson, and the incoherence between America's 2nd Amendment culture and a police force that is allowed to use deadly force when startled by the sight of a gun reason.com/2024/05/20/t...
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For years, the U.S. government has bought information on private citizens from commercial data brokers. Now, for the first time ever, American spymasters are admitting that this data is sensitive—but they're leaving it up to the spy agencies on how to use it. reason.com/2024/05/15/h...
Here's how the CIA plans to use your ad tracking datareason.com The intelligence community is admitting that info from data brokers is sensitive but isn’t accepting hard limits on how to use it.
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Amazing news: We’re seeing a steep drop in murders that could put the US below pre-COVID levels. Panic & bloodshed sell, so this trend has mostly flown under the radar. I wrote about why it's worth cautiously celebrating: reason.com/2024/05/06/m...
Murder rates are plummeting. What should we make of it?reason.com In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
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"We didn't arrest and imprison our way out of drug addiction. And we're not going to arrest and imprison our way out of sexual abuse and exploitation, or out of young people in desperate circumstances turning to sex work to get by," writes @enbrown.bsky.social.
Alabama's new sex trafficking law could mean life in prison for trafficking victims.reason.com The new law will likely lead to extreme over-punishment, and even to life in prison for victims of trafficking.
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This story is bananas. Florida charges people $50 a day for their stay in prison. The state wants this woman to pay $127,000 because she was sentenced to 7 years—even though she only served 10 months. A perfect example of how the gov’t sets people up to fail upon release. reason.com/2024/04/24/s...
She only served 10 months behind bars. Florida still slapped her with a $127,000 bill.reason.com Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
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I wrote about the DEA's fearmongering over Adderall, and my own ADHD. I realized recently that I've gone through my whole life *not talking* about this huge source of frustration and shame, and I decided I'm done with that: reason.com/2024/04/23/i...
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"No matter how much it huffs and puffs, most of the GOP has no serious interest in defunding public broadcasting." reason.com/2024/04/19/a...
Another day, another doomed plan to defund NPRreason.com We've seen this saga so many times before.
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Come for the study challenging conventional wisdom about social media and teens … stay for the ridiculous picture of me as a teenager (No, I don’t know why the senior photo people wanted me to look like an alleyway flasher) reason.com/2024/04/08/s...
Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teensreason.com Teens who use social media heavily also spend the most in-person time with friends.
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Kansas cops seized Dewonna Goodridge's truck after a cop claimed to find marijuana crumbs in the center console, but "no items of evidence were collected." She wasn't charged with a crime but she had to fight for over eight months to get her truck back: reason.pub/3xpwiOx
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In 2020, Reason's @cjciaramella.bsky.social requested drafts and alternate designs for the Space Force logo. Four years later, the feds responded with this. All is not lost, though. Some tidbits slipped by the censors in the 122 pages of communications they disclosed: reason.pub/4ajtsIZ
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"The real scandal is that Newsom was apparently willing to push for this special exemption that benefits his personal friend while throwing other California businesses (and consumers) under the bus," writes @ericboehm87.bsky.social. reason.com/2024/02/28/w...
Why is Panera exempted from California's new minimum wage law?reason.com Probably because Greg Flynn, who operates 24 of the bakery cafes in California, is a longtime friend of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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"State lawmakers are getting creative in their attempts to control what young people read. Across the U.S., we're seeing legislation aimed at school materials and public libraries," writes @enbrown.bsky.social. reason.com/2024/02/26/s...
States try to strip sex from literature in libraries, schoolsreason.com These aren't outright bans. But they still can chill free speech and academic freedom.
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"Even if the ruling doesn't end IVF in Alabama, it could pave the way for changes that make fertility treatments more difficult, time-consuming, expensive, and impractical," writes @enbrown.bsky.social. reason.com/2024/02/21/f...
Frozen Embryos Are Now Children Under Alabama Lawreason.com State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
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Latest: 6 years ago a police raid ruined an Alabama couple's life. They lost their house and were living in a utility shed, all for a misdemeanor pot charge that was later dropped A jury awarded them $1 million after their civil trial revealed the cops never had a warrant reason.com/2024/02/09/a...
Federal judge: So you searched this house without a warrant ... Cop: Yes, but I did it in good faith! Judge: Faith in what? An imaginary search warrant? (Story coming shortly)
An Alabama couple's lives were upended by an unconstitutional police raid. A jury awarded them $1 million.reason.com Greg and Teresa Almond lost their house and livelihood over a misdemeanor drug crime. Sheriff's deputies never got a warrant to search their house.