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Happy Second of July! The fireworks would be today if John Adams had his way. It was on July 2, 1776, that the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain...

It should send chills down the spine of everyone who values the freedom of speech and the freedom of association when two of the most powerful politicians in the country accuse a private company of interfering in an election and insisting that Twitter’s CEO appear before a hearing and hand over documents related to how Twitter conducts its business.

The Biden campaign is proposing free tuition at four‐year public colleges for anyone in families earning less than $125,000 a year, and free community college for all. The basic justification seems intuitive: education is good, more education must be better. But “intuition” and “reality” are not always the same...

Perhaps one day historians will say the movement to end America’s longest war—the cruel and futile war on drugs—began with the decriminalization of all drugs in the state of Oregon.

If Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, she has the potential not simply to be another originalist voice, or a vote for conservative outcomes, but to be an intellectual leader on the Supreme Court.

The Biden campaign is proposing free tuition at four‐year public colleges for anyone in families earning less than $125,000 a year, and free community college for all. The basic justification seems intuitive: education is good, more education must be better. But “intuition” and “reality” are not always the same...

It should send chills down the spine of everyone who values the freedom of speech and the freedom of association when two of the most powerful politicians in the country accuse a private company of interfering in an election and insisting that Twitter’s CEO appear before a hearing and hand over documents related to how Twitter conducts its business.

When people talk about defunding the police, they are suggesting that not every domestic disturbance, traffic mishap or truant youth needs to be confronted by someone resembling RoboCop.

Thanks to qualified immunity, law enforcement officials are now routinely excused from bad behavior—even actions that cause harm or death to innocent victims, and even when they knowingly violate a person’s rights. #AbolishQI

The Drug War killed Breonna Taylor. Former Detective Brett Hankinson, Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, and Detective Myles Cosgrove may have pulled the trigger, but they carried out this raid because of our misguided, ineffective, and racist drug laws. Since President Nixon first declared a “War on Drugs” in 1971, Black Americans have been arrested, jailed, and killed for frequently minor or nonviolent drug offenses.