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NEW YORK

Criminal Justice

HE WAS SENTENCED TO A DECADE IN PRISON FOR HAVING UNLICENSED WEAPONS

Dexter Taylor is now a "violent felon," even though his hobby was victimless.

Billy Binion | 5.15.2024 5:01 PM

Donald Trump

THE 'HEART' OF ALVIN BRAGG'S CASE AGAINST TRUMP IS MISDIRECTION

Contrary to what prosecutors say, the former president is not charged with
"conspiracy" or "election fraud."

Jacob Sullum | 5.15.2024 12:01 AM

Donald Trump

THE DETAILS OF STORMY DANIELS' STORY ABOUT SEX WITH TRUMP ARE LEGALLY IRRELEVANT

Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business
records even if Daniels made the whole thing up.

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2024 4:10 PM

Reason

REASON IS A FINALIST FOR 14 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS

Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball,
government theft, homelessness, and more.

Billy Binion | 5.9.2024 5:09 PM

Donald Trump

STORMY DANIELS' 'CREDIBILITY ISSUES' REFLECT A BROADER PROBLEM WITH KEY
WITNESSES AGAINST TRUMP

New York prosecutors are relying on testimony from several people who do not
seem trustworthy.

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2024 4:05 PM

Israel

CHAOS IN RAFAH

Plus: Airbnb ban has predictable consequences, AI nudify app, the death of
swagger, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 5.7.2024 9:30 AM

Plastic Pollution

BRICKBAT: IT'S NOT EASY BEING CHEESY



Charles Oliver | 5.7.2024 4:00 AM

Donald Trump

THE NEW YORK CASE AGAINST TRUMP RELIES ON A 'TWISTY' LEGAL THEORY THAT REEKS OF
DESPERATION

To convert a hush money payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are invoking an
obscure state election law that experts say has never been used before.

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2024 4:10 PM

Criminal Justice

THIS ELDERLY MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER SHOOTING A BURGLAR IN SELF-DEFENSE—FOR
CARRYING THE GUN WITHOUT A LICENSE

Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not
be the last.

Billy Binion | 5.1.2024 4:37 PM

Israel

WHERE DO LIBERTARIANS STAND ON THE CAMPUS WARS?

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the magical thinking behind the economic
ideas of Modern Monetary Theory.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 4.29.2024
5:15 PM

Criminal Justice

THE COURT WAS RIGHT TO OVERTURN HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S RAPE CONVICTION

The ruling has nothing to do with #MeToo. It is about ensuring a fair trial—a
principle that applies no matter how unsympathetic the defendant.

Billy Binion | 4.26.2024 3:28 PM

Corporate Welfare

THESE NEW YORK AGENCIES BENEFIT FROM GIVING AWAY TAXPAYER MONEY

A report from Good Jobs First found that 80 percent of state development agency
revenue comes from fees: The more tax money they give out, the more they get to
keep.

Joe Lancaster | 4.26.2024 1:45 PM

Housing Policy

COSTLY COMPLEXITY

The needless complexity of affordable housing programs are hurting people
they're supposed to help.

Christian Britschgi | 4.23.2024 12:10 PM

Donald Trump

ALVIN BRAGG'S 'ELECTION INTERFERENCE' NARRATIVE IS NONSENSICAL

Since Donald Trump's alleged falsification of business records happened after he
was elected president, he clearly was not trying to ensure that outcome.

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2024 3:15 PM

Housing Policy

THE SUPREME COURT RULES IMPACT FEES CAN VIOLATE YOUR PROPERTY RIGHTS TOO

Plus: Zoning reform in Minnesota stalls, a New York housing "deal" does little
for housing supply, and Colorado ends occupancy limits.

Christian Britschgi | 4.16.2024 10:45 AM

Donald Trump

ALVIN BRAGG SAYS TRUMP TRIED TO CONCEAL 'ANOTHER CRIME.' WHAT CRIME?

The leading possibilities are all problematic in one way or another.

Jacob Sullum | 4.15.2024 1:30 PM

Housing Policy

A NEW YORK HOUSING GRAND BARGAIN?

Plus: Problems for Saudi Arabia's The Line, Hawaii considers a short-term rental
crackdown, and when affordable housing mandates get you less affordable housing.

Christian Britschgi | 4.9.2024 11:10 AM

Drugs

NEW YORK'S POT LEGALIZATION 'DISASTER' WAS ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE

The state’s policies and practices seemed designed to strangle the legal
cannabis supply.

Jacob Sullum | 4.3.2024 12:01 AM

Property Rights

ARE 'SQUATTERS' RIGHTS' OUT OF CONTROL?

Too many property owners are having trouble asserting their rights, but not
everything is "squatter's rights."

Christian Britschgi | 3.29.2024 10:40 AM

Marijuana

NEW YORK REGULATORS SHUT DOWN A MARIJUANA PROCESSOR AFTER SHE CRITICIZED THE
STATE'S LAX ENFORCEMENT

New York's botched recreational marijuana rollout just keeps looking worse.

C.J. Ciaramella | 3.28.2024 4:26 PM

Squatters

SQUATTERS INVADED HIS MOM'S HOUSE—SO HE FOUGHT BACK

Thanks to "squatters' rights" laws, evicting a squatter can be so expensive and
cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes.

John Stossel | 3.27.2024 11:55 AM

Zoning

ZONING VERSUS THE GOOD SAMARITAN. AGAIN.

Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more,
greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.

Christian Britschgi | 3.26.2024 10:40 AM

Marijuana

POLITICAL STUPIDITY AND BUREAUCRATIC BUNGLING CREATED NEW YORK'S POT
LEGALIZATION 'DISASTER'

Three years after the state legalized recreational marijuana, unauthorized weed
shops outnumber licensed dispensaries by 23 to 1.

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2024 4:05 PM

Just Asking Questions

PETER MOSKOS: WHAT DOES GOOD POLICING LOOK LIKE?

Peter Moskos, criminal justice professor and former Baltimore police officer,
discusses ways to reform policing and turn failing cities around on the latest
Just Asking Questions podcast.

Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller | 3.21.2024 12:45 PM

Supreme Court

SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS CLAIM THAT NEW YORK REGULATORS VIOLATED NRA'S FIRST
AMENDMENT RIGHTS

State officials “jawboned” financial firms into cutting ties with the gun-rights
group.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.20.2024 7:00 AM

Donald Trump

TRUMP FILES DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST ABC FOR SAYING HE WAS FOUND LIABLE FOR
RAPE INSTEAD OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

The defamation lawsuit is the latest in Trump's campaign of lawfare against
media outlets, but all of those suits have failed so far.

C.J. Ciaramella | 3.19.2024 2:59 PM

Movies

PROBLEMISTA IS A MAGICAL REALIST FABLE ABOUT THE ABSURDITY OF AMERICA'S
IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

A story about a young man who just wants to legally work, if only the system
would let him.

Peter Suderman | 3.15.2024 9:49 AM

Civil Liberties

EMPIRE STATE POLICE STATE

Plus: Microaggression discourse, AI espionage, housing policy wins, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 3.7.2024 9:31 AM

Democracy

LAND OF THE NEGATIVE

Plus: Migrant resettlement, Tom Cotton op-ed scandal, oppressors-in-training,
and more...

Liz Wolfe | 2.27.2024 9:30 AM

Donald Trump

A FORM OF NAVALNY

Plus: Teen boys go after tampons, Ken Paxton goes after migrant charities, and
more...

Liz Wolfe | 2.21.2024 9:30 AM

Donald Trump

TWO NEW YORK CASES LEND CREDIBILITY TO TRUMP'S COMPLAINT OF PARTISAN PERSECUTION

Neither Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg nor New York Attorney General Letitia James
can explain exactly who was victimized by the dishonesty they cite.

Jacob Sullum | 2.21.2024 12:01 AM

Russia

GOODBYE, NAVALNY

Plus: A listener asks if the editors have criteria for what constitutes a good
law.

Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Zach Weissmueller, and Eric Boehm |
2.20.2024 5:03 PM

Supreme Court

AFTER SUPREME COURT DENIES CASES, CLARENCE THOMAS OFFERS HOPE TO RENT CONTROL
CRITICS

Thomas agreed with the Court's decision to not take up two challenges to New
York's rent stabilization law but said the constitutionality of rent control "is
an important and pressing question."

Christian Britschgi | 2.20.2024 1:40 PM

Donald Trump

HOW A NEW YORK JUDGE ARRIVED AT A STAGGERING 'DISGORGEMENT' ORDER AGAINST TRUMP

The law that Attorney General Letitia James used to sue the former president
does not require proof that anyone was injured by his financial dishonesty.

Jacob Sullum | 2.19.2024 3:55 PM

Donald Trump

TRUMP ORDERED TO PAY $364 MILLION FOR INFLATING HIS ASSETS IN CIVIL FRAUD TRIAL

Despite brazenly lying on financial documents and inventing valuations seemingly
out of thin air, Trump's lender did not testify that it would have valued his
loans any differently.

Joe Lancaster | 2.16.2024 4:43 PM

Donald Trump

ALVIN BRAGG IS TRYING TO PUNISH TRUMP FOR SOMETHING THAT IS NOT A CRIME

The essence of the case, the Manhattan D.A. says, is that Trump "corrupt[ed] a
presidential election" by concealing embarrassing information.

Jacob Sullum | 2.16.2024 2:05 PM

Donald Trump

SAVE THE DATE

Plus: Scammers, smear campaigns, climate suicide, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 2.16.2024 9:30 AM

Film Subsidies

AUDIT FINDS NEW YORK'S $700 MILLION FILM TAX CREDITS MAKE LITTLE DIFFERENCE

The credit "is at best a break-even proposition and more likely a net cost" for
the state.

Joe Lancaster | 2.15.2024 4:05 PM

Police

BUFFALO COPS DENIED QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FOR ARRESTING MAN WHO CALLED OFFICER AN
'ASSHOLE'

R. Anthony Rupp III was cited and detained after he called a police officer an
"asshole" after the cop nearly drove into two pedestrians. 

Emma Camp | 2.13.2024 12:13 PM

Housing Policy

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Plus: rent control behind financial problems at NYCB, public housing's
corruption problem, and New York City's near-zero vacancy rate.

Christian Britschgi | 2.13.2024 10:15 AM

Free Speech

NO, BLOCKING TRAFFIC IS NOT PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT

The freedom to protest is essential to the American project. It also does not
give you carte blanche to violate other laws.

Billy Binion | 1.26.2024 3:39 PM

Crony Capitalism

THE GOVERNMENT IS BETTER AT PICKING LOSERS THAN WINNERS

It's taxpayers who lose when politicians give gifts, grants, and loans to
private companies.

Joe Lancaster | 1.25.2024 6:00 AM

Criminal Justice

'SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE TODAY': DID DANIEL PENNY ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE?

"I have encountered many things," one witness told the grand jury, "but nothing
that put fear into me like that."

Billy Binion | 1.19.2024 4:12 PM

Entrepreneurship

NEW YORK WANTS TO HELP MORE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS BECOME ENTREPRENEURS

The plan will help provide “university-sponsored visas that allow them to
continue performing and commercializing research without leaving the state.”

Fiona Harrigan | 1.19.2024 1:10 PM

Election 2024

BAD APPLES

Plus: Libertarian populism, library wars, Latin American soft power, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 1.19.2024 9:30 AM

Middle East

ISRAELI SPY BASE

Plus: Workplace wellness programs, obnoxious awards shows, "love gov" update,
and more...

Liz Wolfe | 1.17.2024 9:30 AM

Zoning

ZONING BOARD ORDERS LONGTIME TENANTS' HOMES DISMANTLED

Plus: the Supreme Court weighs housing fees and homelessness, YIMBYs bet on
smaller, more focused reforms, and a new paper finds legalizing more housing
does in fact bring costs down.

Christian Britschgi | 1.16.2024 10:30 AM

Pets

BRICKBAT: HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW?



Charles Oliver | 1.10.2024 4:00 AM

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