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The Comey indictment and free speech

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In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s. Thankfully, in the 1960s, the Warren Court began a remarkable and thus far unimpeded march toward compelling the government to tolerate open, wide, caustic and even threatening speech. When crafting the First Amendment with its iconic speech clause -- "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of ...

Data center freak-out

Editorials and columns

Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers. AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. The usual suspects are freaking out. "We must stop it!" says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Slow it down!" demands Sen. Bernie Sanders. Data centers do use lots of power, and water to cool them down because their computers generate heat. One center can use as much power and water as a small town. "Uses resources like a madman!" says one protester in my new video. Last year, ...

Ending gerrymandering

Editorials and columns

In the debate over redistricting, one truth is too often buried beneath legal jargon and partisan maneuvering: Gerrymandering is, at its core, about voter dilution. It is the quiet engineering of political outcomes, line by line, until communities that should speak with strength are instead reduced to whispers. For decades, one of the most consequential tactics has been "cracking," splitting cohesive communities, often made up of Black voters, across multiple districts so they become a minority everywhere and a majority nowhere. The impact is profound. A population large enough to ...

Brandon Gill showed the way on abortion

Editorials and columns

As the importance of the pro-life movement continues to fade within the mainstream conservative platform, many pro-life advocates have been left asking: What do we do next? When the subject of abortion has been downgraded -- or even removed -- in the world of conservative policy, how can we drag the fight against modern humanity's greatest moral crime back to the forefront of what it means to be a conservative? Well, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, has an idea: Politely force pro-abortion activists to admit what they actually believe. During a hearing on the Freedom of Access to Clinic ...

Why aren’t you location sharing?

Editorials and columns

A frustrating part of surviving the social landscape of Gen Z is that there are silent, digital cues to affirm one's loyalty to another. These cues are often not explicitly stated. To understand these cues one must first betray the social paradigm, suggesting to the tribe that you are either ...