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Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth discuss the implications of the U.S. indicting 94-year-old Cuban dictator emeritus Raúl Castro, Jeff Bezos explaining how to become a billionaire to AOC, and President Trump offering a partial endorsement to Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor. They also mark tonight’s final episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS, and the legacy of former Rep. Barney Frank.Ronald Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine, reflects on the legacy of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” the climate change documentary he rated “two stars” 20 years ago.Listen live…
When Missouri legalized recreational marijuana in 2022, it put laws on the books to prevent monopolization of its weed market. Now, one cannabis provider is allegedly skirting these regulations to take over the state’s market and establish a monopoly, according to two recent lawsuits filed within weeks of each other. The first suit was filed in April by Local Cannabis and VIBE, two Missouri cannabis wholesalers, accusing Arkansas-based marijuana company Good Day Farm of using its employees and 48 different LLCs to circumvent Missouri’s marijuana licensing cap. The second case, filed in May by Damon Frost Jr., a Missouri resident…
Ray Dalio joins the privacy debate, saying Bitcoin’s full transparency makes it less likely to be adopted by central banks. What to know: Ray Dalio joins the privacy debate, saying Bitcoin’s full transparency makes it less likely to be adopted by central banks. He added that bitcoin’s correlation with tech stocks and relatively small market size put it at a disadvantage compared with gold as a reserve hedge. Bitcoin’s transparency was once considered one of its greatest strengths. Now, Ray Dalio says, it may be the very reason central banks won’t adopt it as a reserve asset, even though corporations…
During my recent trip to Italy, I did a talk on “The Legal Battle Against Trump’s Tariffs” at the Bruno Leoni Institute in Milan. BLI is a leading Italian libertarian/classical liberal think tank. I covered the legal issues in the case, currently ongoing litigation over Trump’s new Section 122 tariffs, and also some broader implications for emergency powers, the rule of law, executive power, and other issues – including some points specifically relevant to European. The video of the event is available below. The first 3-4 minutes (in which Italian political scientist Alberto Mingardi, Director General of the Bruno Leoni…
An already controversial settlement of President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over leaked tax files would permanently halt existing tax audits of Trump and several associates. The Justice Department announced the move May 19, a day after releasing details of a $1.776 billion fund to pay for claims of federal government “weaponization.” Critics have called it a “slush fund” for Trump supporters, such as those convicted of, and later pardoned for, crimes during the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol. The fund was designed to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit by Trump and his sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump…
From today’s Ninth Circuit 2-1 panel decision in Doe v. Ventura Unified School Dist., by Judge Richard Paez and Consuelo Callahan: [1.] To proceed pseudonymously, a “plaintiff must show both (1) a fear of severe harm, and (2) that the fear of severe harm is reasonable.” These are the “two most important factors,” id., because a plaintiff must establish “a need for the cloak of anonymity.” The district court’s determination that Doe failed to show she reasonably feared severe harm was not an abuse of discretion. Doe’s interactions with public officials do not establish that the media or community members…
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro on Wednesday for his 1996 order to shoot down two planes from Brothers to the Rescue, a Cuban-American organization involved in dropping anti-communist pamphlets over Havana. Why reopen a 3-decade-old murder case now? The Trump administration has made no secret of the fact that it wants to overthrow the Cuban government—and is willing to go to war to do so. While President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issue thinly veiled threats to Cuba, administration officials have been anonymously telling the press that yes, they mean military…
A photo of a sunglasses-clad President Barack Obama casually chatting up then-Cuban President Raúl Castro at a 2016 baseball game resurfaced on social media after the U.S. indicted Castro on May 20. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the indictment of the 94-year-old Castro for the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes just north of Cuba’s airspace that killed four people, including three U.S. citizens, from the Cuban exile humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue. Castro was defense minister at the time of the shootdown, and the indictment said he “authorized the use of deadly force.” The current Cuban government…
In the 2024–2025 school year, 60.2 percent of grades awarded at Harvard were A’s, according to the school’s Office of Undergraduate Education. For context, only a quarter of undergraduates received A’s two decades ago, reported The Harvard Crimson. Harvard students are undoubtedly bright, but should professors be giving them that many A’s? According to Harvard’s new grade inflation policy, no. On Wednesday, the school’s faculty voted 458–201 to put a 20 percent cap on A grades starting in the 2027–2028 school year, reports the Crimson. The plan, the outlet reports, would also allow for professors to give four additional A’s…