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Texas’ After-Dark Campus Speech Ban Goes Before the Fifth Circuit
Can Texas turn off free speech on its public college campuses at 10p.m.? Three federal appeals judges in New Orleans started answering that question…
Trump Promises $5,000 Checks if Republicans Keep Congress. Can the Math Work?
President Donald Trump says every adult American citizen could receive a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” if Republicans keep control of Congress. The proposal would cost…
Killeen Reconsiders Data Center Rules as City Weighs Short-Term Rental Changes
Council backed away from requiring a conditional-use permit for every future data center while officials continue addressing a short-term rental program with an 8%…
Abbott Halts Texas Data Center Permits Pending Statewide Audit
The governor ordered Texas environmental regulators to stop approving data center permits until state officials finish reviewing the industry’s demands on the electric grid,…
Can the President Ban the Press From the White House?
The First Amendment does not give journalists an unrestricted right to enter the White House. But once government creates press facilities, decades of precedent…
Why Government Is STILL the Problem
Thirty-three years after Milton Friedman made the case, it is time to run the experiment again. In 1993, Milton Friedman published an essay with…
The People Warning Us About AI Also Want to Write the Rules
AI executives may sincerely fear catastrophic risk. They also lead companies that could benefit enormously from regulations smaller competitors cannot afford. Both things can…
I Can Hear You
Twenty-five years after September 11, America remembers the day we were attacked. We should also remember the brief moment afterward when we remembered that…
We Have to Be Better Than This
When Does Disagreement Become Intimidation? After another contentious Temple City Council meeting, violent language and deeply personal messages aimed at local officials offer a…
“What We’re Doing Matters”
After months of protests, accusations and a failed recall effort, Temple Mayor Tim Davis delivered an unusually personal defense of the city’s data-center strategy…