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Daniel Raisbeck In November 1881, Juan José Dardo Rocha, governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, passed a decree that forbade the use of a widely used torture device called…

Sophia Bagley and Ryan Bourne This year kicks off with minimum wage hikes across 21 states. Economists have long documented that while minimum wage increases often boost wages for those…

David Inserra Meta just made a big announcement that it will be making a series of significant changes to its content moderation regime in service of greater expression on Meta’s…

Mike Fox As the world rang in the new year, a terrorist attack shook New Orleans to its core, taking the lives of fourteen innocent people and wounding at least…

Adam N. Michel and Joshua Loucks President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on lowering the US corporate income tax rate to 15 percent. He made the same request in 2017 when Republicans…

Matthew Cavedon Charged with the misdemeanor of unlawfully operating a vehicle on federal lands, social media influencer and outdoorsman David Lesh requested a jury trial. The government successfully opposed that…

Peter Van Doren The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week decided that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacked the legal authority to issue so-called ” net neutrality”…

Thomas A. Berry In April 2024, President Biden signed an unprecedented law that required TikTok to either “divest” from its parent company ByteDance by January 19, 2025, or cease operations…

Jeffrey A. Singer Axios reports that the Biden Administration is planning an 11th-hour move to order cigarette manufacturers to reduce the nicotine content in the tobacco cigarettes they market to…

Brent Skorup The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been covertly and overtly regulating media content and media distributors since the agency was created in 1934. Namely, broadcast licenses and media…