Property Rights

In the United States, about 11 million households currently keep chickens in their backyards, making these feathery friends the third-most-popular pets, right after dogs and cats. The chicken craze has increased significantly over the past few years, as chicken shortages have cause the price of eggs to skyrocket. The boom began around 2022, but ov ...

Fifty-five years ago, Congress passed and President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law. For a number of infrastructure projects that are built, funded, or approved by the federal government, NEPA requires federal agencies to prepare an environmental impact statement, or EIS. That EIS is essentially a public r ...

In the mid-1800s, slum housing in cities like New York had no air, no light, no water, no electricity, no gas, and no toilets. Thousands of cramped tenement apartments had no outside windows for light and air — only a doorway leading to a common, unlit interior hallway and stairwell. Water was from a well in a courtyard, perilously close to the p ...

Pamela Powell's most cherished childhood memories were made in her late grandparents' Washington, DC home. Pamela describes the home as a "staple in our family" and fondly remembers the countless Christmases where Gaston Sr. and Mattie Powell would gather their children, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, and cousins together to celebrate. The home w ...

Cody Peterson is a third-generation farmer in eastern North Dakota. For decades, his family has been committed to growing food for other families. But recent actions by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service threaten Cody's ability to make a living from farming. The problem comes from the Service's new interpretation of decades-old easements the a ...

Last week, the House Natural Resources Committee included a provision in the budget reconciliation package allowing federal public land sales in Nevada and Utah. Yet the proposed provision has sparked pushback from some members of Congress and environmental activists. It shouldn't: The provision represents a vital step toward restoring Americans' a ...

A federal court in Michigan has ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) violates the Fourth Amendment, blocking a government attempt to collect personal data from millions of small business owners. The decision in Small Business Association of Michigan v. Yellen restores a core constitutional principle: The government can't seize your priva ...

A lot of interesting developments. Thus, much like the Ninth Amendment, the inclusion of certain court orders, opinions, or oral arguments is not meant to deny or disparage the existence of others. There's just only so much space per scoop. Mo' cases, mo' problems The Court said it will hear USPS v. Konan, which was brought by a woman who says th ...

Johnston is a small Rhode Island town where Ralph Santoro's family has long worked. Ralph was not one of the lucky few who inherited generational wealth, but he did inherit his father's priceless, working-class wisdom. His father had immigrated from Italy after marrying his mother—a true first-generation American. Ralph's mother had been brought ...