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Claim That "100% Real Chocolate" Can't Include "Soy Lecithin and Natural Flavors" "Is Half-Baked, and Is 100% Dismissed"
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (773+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4.2.2026 12:49 PM From Foster v. Nestle USA, Inc., decided Tuesday by Judge Steven Seeger (N.D. Ill.): Stephanie Foster has a sweet tooth, and she wanted to sink her teeth into a mouthful of chocolate. By the sound of things, Foster is a…...
Brickbat: Cop and Robber
12+ hour, 24+ min ago (50+ words) NEXT: Artemis II Launches a New Era of Lunar Exploration Charles Oliver | 4.2.2026 4:00 AM Natalie Dowzicky | 4.1.2026 6:45 PM Reem Ibrahim | 4.1.2026 5:07 PM Joe Lancaster | 4.1.2026 3:50 PM John Stossel | 4.1.2026 2:40 PM...
Social media is not tobacco
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (816+ words) Social media addiction? One of the refrains you hear from social media critics is that it's effectively a kind of digital tobacco'unsafe, addictive, and intentionally marketed to children, despite executives knowing the harms. In broad strokes, that was the idea…...
Brickbats: April 2026
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (118+ words) Lawton Chiles Middle School in Oviedo, Florida, briefly went on lockdown after an AI-powered weapon detection system flagged what it believed was a man carrying a gun. Human reviewers confirmed the potential threat and alerted the police, sending officers rushing…...
Brickbat: Mail Money
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (52+ words) NEXT: Max Martin on the Enhanced Games, Regulation, and Human Potential Charles Oliver | 3.30.2026 4:00 AM Jason Russell | From the April 2026 issue C. Jarrett Dieterle | 3.28.2026 7:00 AM Stephanie Slade | From the April 2026 issue Jack Nicastro | 3.27.2026 4:44 PM...
Max Martin on the Enhanced Games, regulation, and human potential
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (338+ words) The performance-enhancing substances aren't just for the athletes, though. Enhanced wants to enhance you too. The company says a telehealth service is expected to be a larger share of its business than the sporting event itself'the company will sell tailored…...
Chicago progressives voted to freeze minimum wage hikes for restaurant workers. Why won't the mayor listen?
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (411+ words) While nixing the tipped wage may sound like a win on paper for waiters, the results are disconcerting. Restaurants in cities that have adopted the measure have naturally seen sudden explosions in labor costs'inevitably prompting staff cuts and price hikes…...
Elon Musk should let Nikita Bier fix revenue sharing on X
1+ week, 54+ min ago (540+ words) Nikita Bier is head of product at X. He has always struck me as a reasonable person looking for ways to improve the user experience on the platform without resorting to the sort of heavy-handed moderation efforts that plagued the site…...
Dysfunction, Communists in Cuba, and Pointless Streetcars
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (289+ words) Freed Up is a break from the joyless churn of doomscrolling'a lighthearted libertarian podcast from Reason for people who still like to laugh. Each week, co-hosts Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi riff on whatever made them laugh, cringe, or roll…...
Politicians want to ban gambling ads to stop youth addiction. What do the data say about teens and betting?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (274+ words) Are young boys everywhere on the verge of being pulled down into the abyss of online gambling?" If you've been reading the news lately, you might be tempted to think so. Young men are all addicted to sports betting, and…...