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Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include:  The Trump administration’s little-noticed attempt to…

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance was one of the most talked about policy books of 2025. In broad strokes, the book…

From Judge Kelley Hodge (E.D. Pa.) Friday in Duncan v. Lett (see also this February post that discusses a related…

From Doe v. Simons, decided July 29 by Judge Nicholas Ranjan (W.D. Pa.): Plaintiff John Doe has moved to proceed…

8/11/1942: General John DeWitt, Commander of Western Defense Command, issues exclusion order. The Supreme Court held this order was constitutional…

President Donald Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House last October, planning to replace it with a new…

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s admission that “Woke 1 was crazy” and whether…

Last week, the Trump administration teased a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz closed by war. President Donald…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) raised eyebrows this weekend when she merely shrugged off her previous enthusiasm for electorally toxic far-left…

The Columbia Police Department (CPD) wants South Carolinians to know that it has zero tolerance for “hate speech,” and that’s…

“Unlock my fucking anime,” a Texas man told authorities in an expletive-laden rant last month. He now faces criminal charges.…

8/9/1974: President Richard Nixon resigns from office, President Gerald Ford takes oath of office. The post Today in Supreme Court…