Policy, Government & Analysis
Monday, June 9, 2025 For the second year in a row, gun control advocates have lost a unanimous decision at the U.S. Supreme Court. This time the issue was whether Mexico, aided by anti-gun activists s...
Why is libertarianism a political nonstarter? Libertarianism has traditionally been lumped in with conservatism, based on their (perceived) mutual opposition to taxes and government spending. As a res...
UCL’s Energy Institute has created an mesmerizing time lapse of global shipping, plotting every single commercial cargo ship’s position, speed, and route around the globe for one year. You can play ar...
Monday, July 7, 2025 It has been a while since we’ve looked at weapon news from across the pond, but with Americans everywhere having just celebrated the Glorious Fourth and our independence from Brit...
Colorado is joining a list of states attempting to overturn the way Americans have selected their presidents for over two centuries. The Colorado legislature recently passed a bill to join an intersta...
Monday, September 19, 2022 On September 9, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved a Merchant Category Code (MCC) for firearm retailers. The ISO is a Geneva-based non-governm...
It would be nice to think that high school students can get into a good university based on their abilities or talents, but a proposed change to the SAT shows how the concept of meritocracy has been t...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 This afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 1222 by a vote of 11-1, and it will now advance to the House floor for a vote on Tuesday, February 18th. HB...
Canada, following precedent set by the European Union , is poised to join a growing list of places where single-use plastic items have been banned. Though the government hasn’t specified which items w...
Monday, December 22, 2025 Dr. John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has released its latest annual report on the state of concealed carry in the United States. Concealed Carry Permit Hol...
Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman is an editor for The Daily Signal The Futility of Those Bans on Plastic Bags and Straws The SAT’s “Adversity Score” Will Reinforce Collective Identity and Undermine Ind...
In the shallow world of modernity, we throw around a word like “democracy” as a stand-in for “things that I like.” Many in popular culture and elite institutions promote democracy as a cure for all th...
Sunday, September 8, 2019 On September 3, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution , “declaring that the National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization a...
“All the common areas of Atlantic Station including the streets, sidewalks, parks, and alleys are private property.” Thus reads one line buried in the Rules of Conduct for Atlantic Station, Atlanta, G...
Friday, June 17, 2022 Lake County Councilman Charlie Brown (D-Gary) and Councilwoman Christine Cid (D-East Chicago) announced their support for a proposal to ban sales of “AR-15” firearms at gun shows...
The most crucial lessons that one learns in life are often the most rapid and crushing. They are not long-winded anecdotes drawn out over time but quick blows to the gut which impart the immediate wis...
Friday, May 11, 2018 You likely recall we mentioned a new anti-gun organization recently formed , which was billed as the brainchild of actress Alyssa Milano. You may also recall that we reported her ...
With the Equal Rights Amendment making its way back into the news in the month of February, the legal community has been abuzz with the possibility of a 28th Amendment finally getting tacked on to the...
Friday, August 29, 2014 Banking regulations being misused to choke off the exercise of Second Amendment rights? Surely such a thing couldn’t happen here in the United States of America. Yet that appea...
Rory Margraf Rory is a writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His work has been featured with the Freedom Today Network, Speak Freely, Being Libertarian, and Think Liberty. He is the author of I Know...