Walter Olson What follows is a statement I wrote on June 27 following the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA, the universal injunctions/birthright citizenship case: Do courts have the…
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A Disappointing Supreme Court Decision Weakens Online First Amendment Protections
Thomas A. Berry Today, in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional a Texas law mandating that websites impose age verification if those websites feature one-third or…
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David Inserra Brazil’s Supreme Court finalized its decision to fundamentally undermine Brazil’s liability protections for platforms hosting online speech. The ruling continues a series of decisions by Brazilian courts to…
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Neal McCluskey Parents have a right to opt their children out of readings in public schools that violate parents’ religious beliefs. So argued the Supreme Court today in a case…
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Colleen Hroncich “If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.” ~Thomas Mulligan It’s unlikely former professional golfer Morris Brown…
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Charles Silver One of the odder changes the Senate made to the House of Representatives’ version of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” was Sen. Thom Tillis’s (R‑NC) insertion of…
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Krit Chanwong and Dominik Lett For years, states have used creative financing schemes to game the Medicaid system, effectively laundering billions in federal dollars with little transparency or accountability. Even…
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Maybe Most People Do Not Want Teacher-Led Public School Prayer—But They Do Want Chaplains
Neal McCluskey In the last couple of days, we have seen not one but two survey reports addressing how American adults feel about teacher-led prayer in public schools. I’m not…
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Neal McCluskey I study values in education, and this surprised me: A new Pew survey has found that a majority of Americans—52 percent—favor teacher-led prayer in public schools that specifically mentions Jesus.…
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David Inserra A recent Guardian article argued that “rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe” and favorably cited climate experts who called for the “criminalization” of such…