Scott Shackford

Oklahoma had initially planned to execute more than half its death row inmates in two years. That plan has been reconsidered.

Expect a lot of harsh positioning on immigration and China.

Apparently, parents’ rights don’t extend to letting their kids listen to naughty Christmas lyrics.

In Alabama, police camera footage has been ruled exempt from public records laws, a huge blow against transparency.

It was never about protecting small children. Florida has expanded LGBT censorship across all grades of public school.

Predictably, the machine-learning robot starts killing.

The Brookside Police Department’s shakedown of travelers became a national news story and prompted federal lawsuits.

The law seeks to “childproof” the internet by either demanding age verification checks of users or by locking away content.

The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless collection of domestic data.

Florida reminds us that even in a strong school choice system, there’s still a risk of politicians pushing their ideas into the classroom.