Civil Liberties
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The West’s Free Speech Consensus Is Fracturing
European crackdowns on citizen speech is provoking Washington to respond. Will free expression become a transatlantic fault line?
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Is Qualified Immunity Beginning to Crack?
Police officers often violate constitutional rights without facing personal civil liability. A Louisiana traffic stop case signals that protection may be narrowing.
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Flock Cameras vs. Freedom: Welcome to the Warrantless Panopticon
Flock cameras promise easier policing by destroying the Fourth Amendment — creating a permanent, searchable, warrantless database of everywhere Americans go.
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AI Enters the Courtroom: How Chatbots Are Reshaping Litigation
AI enables Americans to navigate the legal system without attorneys, operationalizing the right to self-representation and expanding access to justice on an unprecedented scale. Can courts cope?
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Why Libertarianism Keeps Splintering
Uneasy “fusion” coalitions periodically unite competing visions of liberty and political order. But a coalition of individualists was never likely to stay tidy.
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April Fools for America First? Higher Prices and New War
The President returned to office on promises to lower costs at home and restore our reputation abroad. Americans got the opposite.
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Free Speech in the Digital Age: From Natural Right to Digital Credential
By regulating online speech and expanding digital ID systems, governments are turning the natural right to free expression into a licensed activity.
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Anthropic vs. The Pentagon: AI Ethics Collide With Government Power
Can the Pentagon blacklist an American business for refusing to build killbots? The federal government demands tight controls for you, but wants unrestricted power for itself.
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California’s Age-Verification Law Is a Civil Liberties Test
The law classifies user identities at the operating system level. Once embedded, that regulatory architecture of control is easy to expand and difficult to roll back.
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The Old World’s Last Export
As Britain and Europe falter economically, their response is not domestic reform but extending regulatory reach abroad.
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The West’s Free Speech Consensus Is Fracturing
European crackdowns on citizen speech is provoking Washington to respond. Will free expression become a transatlantic fault line?
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Is Qualified Immunity Beginning to Crack?
Police officers often violate constitutional rights without facing personal civil liability. A Louisiana traffic stop case signals that protection may be narrowing.
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Flock Cameras vs. Freedom: Welcome to the Warrantless Panopticon
Flock cameras promise easier policing by destroying the Fourth Amendment — creating a permanent, searchable, warrantless database of everywhere Americans go.
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AI Enters the Courtroom: How Chatbots Are Reshaping Litigation
AI enables Americans to navigate the legal system without attorneys, operationalizing the right to self-representation and expanding access to justice on an unprecedented scale. Can courts cope?
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Why Libertarianism Keeps Splintering
Uneasy “fusion” coalitions periodically unite competing visions of liberty and political order. But a coalition of individualists was never likely to stay tidy.
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April Fools for America First? Higher Prices and New War
The President returned to office on promises to lower costs at home and restore our reputation abroad. Americans got the opposite.
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Free Speech in the Digital Age: From Natural Right to Digital Credential
By regulating online speech and expanding digital ID systems, governments are turning the natural right to free expression into a licensed activity.
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Anthropic vs. The Pentagon: AI Ethics Collide With Government Power
Can the Pentagon blacklist an American business for refusing to build killbots? The federal government demands tight controls for you, but wants unrestricted power for itself.
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California’s Age-Verification Law Is a Civil Liberties Test
The law classifies user identities at the operating system level. Once embedded, that regulatory architecture of control is easy to expand and difficult to roll back.
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The Old World’s Last Export
As Britain and Europe falter economically, their response is not domestic reform but extending regulatory reach abroad.