"Once a president establishes for himself that he has a shiny toy, good luck getting that toy ever wrested away from whoever the president is," the CNN anchor tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
The executive order does not accomplish much in practical terms, but it jibes with the president's conflation of drug trafficking with violent aggression.
The Trump administration has not made a convincing case for why it is buying stakes in these companies—and why these companies in particular, rather than others.
Plus: Polymarket bets on when killers will be apprehended, how locking up phones saves high school, and more...
A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is the Trump administration's latest excuse for demonizing immigrants and refugees.
The public wants violent criminals deported, not workers and their families.
The long-awaited move will facilitate medical research and provide tax relief to the cannabis industry, but it falls far short of legalization.
From immigration crackdowns to trade policy, the Trump administration is increasingly centralizing power in Washington, D.C.
The administration doesn't want to win these cases. It wants to intimidate Americans who oppose its immigration policies.
Low-skilled immigrants would expand the supply of housing more than they increase demand, if local governments would just allow new construction.
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Trump announced neither stimulus checks nor war in Venezuela.
These metrics are bad proxies for prosperity, but they reveal just how flawed the president's arguments have been.
The defense secretary claims the video, which shows a second strike that killed two floundering survivors, would compromise "sources and methods."
The proposed bills aim to revive and codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.
Plus: Child care affordability, Venezuela blockade, Israel's plans, and more...
It's also not the whole story. Federal spending isn't falling and the private sector job market is stagnant.
The main practical benefits would be tax relief for the cannabis industry and fewer barriers to medical research.
The tariffs have generated less than $300 billion in new tax revenue, and other claimed investments don't come close to the president's tally.
The weekend’s ISIS attack came as the Trump administration is trying to expand the U.S. presence in Syria.
Most ICE arrestees are nonviolent or have no criminal convictions at all.
Only time will tell if the president's order achieves its stated purpose of checking state laws that threaten to stymie innovation.
The back-to-back setbacks are a striking sign that the mortgage fraud charges against New York's attorney general are legally shaky.
Plus: Universal childcare, Canada's abortion industry, the new media personality cults, and more...
Which is what progressive fans of antitrust want, no?
But the real goal is to speed up removals, despite ongoing due process violations.
The move is bad for free speech and bad for American businesses that depend on tourism.
The version of the NDAA passed by the House is larger than the administration’s budget request.
Plus: Cocaine and mustard gas, U.S. seizes oil tanker, billionaires in the White House, and more...
The Federal Open Market Committee lowered the federal funds rate for the third meeting in a row despite elevated inflation.
The Justice Department's litigation positions are at odds with its avowed intent to protect Second Amendment rights.
American farmers exported more than 26 million metric tons of soybeans to China annually during Biden's term. Trump's deal with China would cover less than half that amount.
Rev. Stephen Josoma of St. Susanna Parish defended the message against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.
Plus: Social media surveillance from the CBP, SpaceX IPO, assisted dying in the Netherlands, and more...
Calling suspected cocaine smugglers "combatants" does not justify summarily executing them.
So far, by the president's reckoning, he has prevented 650,000 U.S. drug deaths—eight times the number recorded last year.
Department of Homeland Security
The party in power changes. The pressure to silence critics doesn’t.
It's not surprising that the NRA and other Second Amendment advocates spoke out against a trans firearm ban floated by the Trump administration.
But don't expect the White House to think too hard about it.
Paramount Skydance is banking on the Ellison family's relationship with Trump following Netflix outbidding the company to acquire Warner Bros.
The footage shows what happened to the survivors of the September 2 attack that inaugurated the president's deadly campaign against suspected drug boats.
Plus: Hep B vaccines, national parks nonsense, Trump involvement in Netflix deal, and more...
A former leader of Al Qaeda has convinced Washington that he’s a liberal reformer. Now comes the hard part of following through.
For Trump, tariffs are a solution to every problem, and his trade war is more about the vibes than the economics.
Countries like Canada and Germany are lining up to welcome companies and workers priced out by the H1-B price hike.
In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand foresaw how government officials would seek to silence people they don't like.
If antitrust regulators allow the deal to go through, consumers stand to benefit from a less expensive Netflix–HBO Max bundle.
The justices grant certiorari before judgment in one of the two cases challenging the Trump Administration's attempt to narrow birthright citizenship via executive order.
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