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View More NewsOttawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs warned officers to “change your behaviour or quit” after a series of sexual misconduct cases within the police service. In a leaked internal video, Stubbs said some officers had used police databases to look up women they saw in public so they could contact them, while others sent inappropriate messages to crime victims or made sexual comments to female coworkers. He said these actions betray the public’s trust and damage the reputation of the entire police force. The post Brickbat: Knock It Off appeared first on Reason.com. Read the full article here
Car accidents kill 100 Americans every day. But now an amazing solution is available: self-driving cars. Robotaxis like Google-owned Waymo, for example. Passengers who try them like them. Wherever robotaxis are allowed, ridership increases fast. Two years ago, there were 50,000 trips per week—today 500,000. “The car did a better job than if somebody was driving!” says a passenger in my new video. Waymo claims its cars are 10 times safer than human-driven ones. I wouldn’t believe that if insurance companies, with their own money at stake, didn’t agree. Reinsurance News reports Waymos had an “88 percent reduction in property…
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A review of The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals by various authors; 208 pages; Simon & Schuster (May 2026)As the semiquincentennial of the American founding neared, a number of excellent books on the watershed events of 1776 were loosed upon the world. Titles like Michael Auslin’s National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America, Sarah M.S. Pearsall’s Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution, and H.W. Brands’s American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington filled bookstores while their authors toured the podcast circuit. But one book in this recent glut stood out…
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