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Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, and the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, joins host T.J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to explore migration between cities, states, countries, and even within the private sector to escape gov

Opening our doors would ease the suffering caused by Vladimir Putin’s invasion and strengthen our position against him.

An immigration freedom amendment would restore the vision of the Founders.

187 Million Immigrants Have Moved to Freer Countries SHARE A great benefit of immigration is that it allows people to escape all kinds of tyranny. As George Mason University’s Ilya Somin has written in his excellent Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, “Empowering more people to vote with their feet can save millions from lives of poverty and oppression, and expand opportunities for meaningful political freedom for many more.” Indeed, immigration has already...

Listen • 5:53 Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is arguing that his speech on Jan. 6, before the Capitol insurrection, is protected by the First Amendment. George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin says concerns about whether Trump’s speech would be protected if he were a private citizen is irrelevant. He argues U.S. presidents can be impeached and removed for certain speech, even if it is not criminal. Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Somin, wh...

Here are 20 of the year’s most eagerly awaited new titles, ranging from famous names to prestige-award winners to highly anticipated first-timers.

‘Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes Rebecca Wragg Sykes argues that we’ve spent too much time studying the way Neanderthals interacted with Homo Sapiens and too little studying the way Neanderthals interacted with each other. So she tells us how they lived, treating them not as one of evolution’s failures but as our close behavioral cousins. “The fate of the Neanderthals has monopolised enormous amounts of attention,” she writes,...

MONEYWEB LIVESTREAM Happy reading. 00:01  Image: Bloomberg In the tough times of 2020, I’ve found myself drawn to nonfiction that made me look at the familiar in a different way. I’ve collected my favorite 15 books of the year here (technically, two were published in 2019, but I didn’t get around to reading them until this year). The first 14 are in random order, followed by my pick for the best nonfiction book of the year. Bonnie Tsui, “Why We Swim.” So many o...

The best nonfiction books of 2020 A professor of law at Yale University chooses 10 of his favorites, which range over topics such as Neanderthals, Simulmatics and John Maynard Keynes By Stephen Carter / Bloomberg In the tough times of 2020, I’ve found myself drawn to nonfiction that made me look at the familiar in a different way. I’ve collected my favorite 10 books of the year here. The first 9 are in random order, followed by my pick for the best nonfiction book of the year. Why We Swim...