James Just and John Cameron tackle a week of government overreach and institutional breakdown. California’s new age verification law threatens open-source software and digital privacy, while a voter ID initiative gains momentum for the November ballot. From The Fields revisits Trump’s tariffs and their lingering economic damage.
We spotlight two cases of police misconduct: one man wrongly jailed over a faulty drug test, and New York taxpayers footing a $117 million bill for NYPD abuses. Meanwhile, the European regulatory model gains traction in elite circles, and a landmark UK blasphemy ruling reignites free speech debates.
A sharp libertarian lens on tech, justice, and the cost of centralized power.