Jacob

Jacob Sullum

Articles

Mar 15, 2023

Louisville Police Abuses Show Civil Liberties Are Meaningless Without Accountability

Mar 08, 2023

Biden's Attack on 'Ghost Guns' Fits a Pattern of Lawless Firearm Regulation

Feb 22, 2023

Lou Dobbs Is the Main Obstacle to Fox's Defamation Defense

Feb 15, 2023

The Perils of Trying to Curtail Hazily Defined 'Disinformation

Feb 08, 2023

A Scientific Review Shows the CDC Grossly Exaggerated the Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates

Feb 01, 2023

Russian Propaganda Has Succeeded in Persuading Credulous Americans It Poses a Grave Threat to Democracy

Jan 25, 2023

The IRS Serves Its 'Customers' by Terrifying Them

Jan 18, 2023

The Hazards of Holding YouTube Liable for Promoting Terrorism

Jan 11, 2023

The 3rd Circuit Considers Whether Nonviolent Crimes Justify the Loss of Second Amendment Rights

Jan 04, 2023

Democrats May Regret Compromising Taxpayer Privacy to Get Trump

Dec 28, 2022

Why Take Responsibility When You Can Blame Somebody Else?

Dec 21, 2022

Congress Misses Another Chance to Correct Blatantly Unjust Crack Penalties

Dec 14, 2022

Elon Musk Should Take a Clear Stand Against Censorship by Proxy

Dec 07, 2022

Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Law Forces Artists to Echo the State's Message

Nov 30, 2022

'Real' Journalists Recognize That Prosecuting Julian Assange Poses a Grave Threat to Freedom of the Press

Nov 23, 2022

California's COVID-19 'Misinformation' Law Chills Constitutionally Protected Speech

Nov 16, 2022

California's Vaping Flavor Ban Could Be Lethal

Nov 09, 2022

A Judge Accepts the Biden Administration's Dubious Argument for Banning Gun Possession by Marijuana Users

Nov 02, 2022

Out-of-State and Self-Managed Abortions Pose Daunting Challenges for Anti-Abortion Legislators

Oct 26, 2022

Biden Mistakenly Imagines That Congress Approved His Student Debt Cancellation Scheme

Oct 19, 2022

New Jersey Joins New York in Defying the SCOTUS Decision Upholding the Right to Bear Arms

Oct 12, 2022

Biden's Support for Pot Prohibition Belies His Recognition of the Harm It Causes

Oct 05, 2022

Mocking the Police Is Not a Crime

Sep 21, 2022

The Government Can't Fix Social Media Moderation and Should Not Try

Sep 14, 2022

Biden's Sneaky Censors

Aug 31, 2022

The Student Loan Debate Shows How the ACLU Has Lost Its Way

Aug 10, 2022

Judicial Rubber-Stamping of Warrants Can Be Deadly

Aug 03, 2022

Democrats Don't Care Whether Banning 'Assault Weapons' Is Constitutional

Jul 27, 2022

Chuck Schumer Learned Nothing From the Failure of Pot Legalization in California

Jul 20, 2022

A New Gun Law Reflects the Worst Instincts of Both Parties

Jul 13, 2022

Politicians Defy the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Right To Bear Arms

Jul 06, 2022

The FDA Perversely Seeks to Make Both Cigarettes and Harm-Reducing Alternatives Less Appealing

Jun 29, 2022

Maximalists Threaten a Federalist Compromise on Abortion

Jun 22, 2022

SCOTUS Again Upholds Double Prosecution and Punishment for the Same Crime

Jun 15, 2022

'Red Flag' Laws Require a Tricky Balance

Jun 08, 2022

Would These Four Gun Controls Prevent Mass Shootings?

Jun 01, 2022

Politicians Should Resist the Urge to 'Do Anything' in Response to School Shootings

May 25, 2022

Commonly Touted Policies Are Ill-suited to Stopping Mass Shooters

May 18, 2022

New York's Governor Wants to 'Silence' Constitutionally Protected Speech

May 11, 2022

Public Opinion About Abortion Is Complex and Sometimes Confused

May 04, 2022

The Biden Administration Sees Free Speech as a Public Menace

Apr 27, 2022

Anthony Fauci Thinks Scientific Expertise Trumps the Rule of Law

Apr 20, 2022

Even If the CDC's Mask Mandate Made Sense, That Would Not Make It Legal

Apr 13, 2022

A Federal Jury Delivers a Rebuke of FBI Entrapment

Apr 06, 2022

When Will Democrats Get Serious About Repealing Pot Prohibition?

Mar 30, 2022

Handgun Carry Permits Transform a Right into a Privilege

Mar 23, 2022

Josh Hawley's Attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson Illustrates the Emotionalism She Criticized