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1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention () played a direct role in policing permissible speech on social media throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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"The city's sign ordinance is unconstitutional, and we as a community have every right to express our ideas—even through a simple yard sign."
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Facebook moderators routinely asked government health officials to vet claims relating to COVID-19 pandemic mitigation efforts such as masks and vaccines, according to emails obtained by Reason. #ICYMI
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Americans ask too much of teachers, tells and : "We've got to reconceive the job of teacher to be doable by men and women of ordinary sentience because that's who we have and that's all we're ever gonna have."
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Does bystander intervention training for police actually work?
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"I think the Democratic Party has severely underestimated how many people like me there are," says 1986 USA Gymnastics national champion .
Read more: reason.pub/3JqJiap
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Crises often empower governments to increase their reach, and they rarely return to old bounds after the emergency passes.
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Why does it seem like there's suddenly sesame in everything? You can thank the FDA and unintended consequences: youtu.be/rkhrf5MNYRk
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Oklahoma had initially planned to execute more than half its death row inmates in two years. That plan has been reconsidered.
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Timothy and Megan Florek put up a yard sign criticizing a local rezoning effort. When their city tried to force them to take it down, the couple sued in federal court.
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The death of Tyre Nichols reinforces the case for training that encourages police officers to intervene when their colleagues use excessive force.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis loves to promote his state as a land of economic freedom and opportunity. That’s at odds with a new crackdown on businesses that don't use the federal E-Verify system.
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On this week’s Roundtable w/ & — I fill in for as moderator so segment titles are BACK!
Debt limit drama, tanks to Ukraine, and the ongoing horror of police violence — listen:
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Local governments collected $9 billion in fines and fees in 2020, analysis by 's shows. On a per capita basis, governments in New York, Illinois, Texas, and Georgia collected more than $35 per resident in fines and fees.
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Wow: An organization with ties to the U.S. national security apparatus falsely portrayed a bunch of mostly right-leaning, Trump-supporting Twitter content as nefarious and Russian in origin. And the mainstream media eagerly peddled this narrative.
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Why are schools in real life more like the ones in Carrie and Mean Girls than the ones in Harry Potter and X-Men? What might fix that? And what are 3 schools in movies we all wished we had attended? New from me at
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When it comes to perceived problems, the government beat out inflation, immigration, the economy, racism, and a number of other issues #ReasonRoundup
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M.S. 51, where both & graduated their kids, has long been District 15's most-desired school. In the last year pre-Diversity Plan, it sent 122 kids to specialized high schools. Three years later, that's down to 52.
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Teachers spend too much time "going on Google and Pinterest and looking for lessons" and not enough on the things that actually yield better outcomes, tells & .
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"In the year 2020, 94 percent of the world's population saw a fall in its freedom compared to the year before."
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Hulu’s new 1619 Project docuseries attempts to rehabilitate an enslaver as a leading and even celebrated agent of emancipation.
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Argentina's inflation rate is up from 50 percent in January 2022.
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Probation is supposed to help people get their lives back on track while staying accountable and keeping the public safe, but in many states offenders are set up to fail in systems that can't or won't give them the opportunity to succeed.
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The cancellation of Pantera's show raises some serious concerns about government censorship.
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In 1950, there were more than 16 workers for every beneficiary. In 2035, that ratio will be only 2.3 workers per retiree.
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"Utah is the second state this year to go all-in on empowering families with education freedom and it's only January," said . "Red states are now engaging in friendly competition to fund students, not systems."
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It's hard to look at a situation like this and think that anything could make a difference. Many popular reform ideas—hire more black cops, make police wear body cameras, give them better gun training, ban the use of chokeholds—aren't applicable.
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"I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."
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"This one reminded me in a real sickening way of the Rodney King beating video from 1991." on the killing of Tyre Nichols from today's Roundtable podcast
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The death of Tyre Nichols reinforces the case for training that encourages police officers to intervene when their colleagues use excessive force.
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A new investigation finds that nearly two-thirds of Louisiana sheriffs' offices failed to seek permission to destroy public records in the last decade.
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What might stop the next #TyreNichols from being killed? 's lays out reforms that might actually work.
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Federal data security and digital defenses aren't exactly thrilling topics, but they also aren't partisan issues.
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Continuing the trend from 2022, Big Tech has begun 2023 by downsizing.
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The real misinformation/disinformation came from inside the establishment.
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"In 2019, according to the FBI's numbers, rifles of any sort, only a subset of which would qualify as "assault weapons," were used in less than 3 percent of gun homicides where the type of firearm was identified."
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"I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker." reason.com/2023/01/30/dun via
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Nursing homes operating as for-profit enterprises generally implemented less severe lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic than their nonprofit and government-run counterparts.
Doing so may have saved lives.
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