The Shooter's Manifesto Was Uncomfortably Normal
Plus: Mamdani’s city-run grocery plan, the Trump administration considers a Spirit Airlines bailout, and Iran peace talks drift without a clear endgame
Plus: Mamdani’s city-run grocery plan, the Trump administration considers a Spirit Airlines bailout, and Iran peace talks drift without a clear endgame
Even Republican critics of the Federal Reserve chairman's performance rejected the notion that he had broken the law by lying about the renovation of the central bank's headquarters.
Calls for more aggressive security measures evoke the post-9/11 security theater that brought us the TSA.
Bothell police set out in search of sex trafficking and ended up shutting down five businesses for code violations.
Small-government conservatives are tripping over themselves to give millions of taxpayer dollars to billionaires.
Plus: White House Correspondents' Association attacker was angry about strikes on Venezuelan boats and Iranian schools, another airline bailout could be coming, and more...
The U.S. economy continues to outstrip the competition but takes a hit from declining immigration.
The narrow geography of the 50-mile Central American isthmus made it an obvious choice for trade routes between the Atlantic and Pacific.
Gunman subdued at security checkpoint.
Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions.
Screens have become less passive, more participatory, and more open to all kinds of moving pictures.
The proposal would eliminate the tipped-wage credit and send labor costs skyrocketing in an industry notorious for its tight margins.
Author Brian Barth explores the makeshift tent cities of Silicon Valley.
The agency issued "national priority vouchers" for the two drugs six days after President Donald Trump promised to facilitate approval of psychedelic therapies.
Some states still allow vengeful spouses to sue a third party for destroying their marriages.
The feds have been demanding that tech companies identify the administration's anonymous online critics. That violates the First Amendment.
To justify punishing a legislator for his speech, a FIRE brief notes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth relies on a Supreme Court precedent that is clearly inapposite.
This one's no thriller.
Actually, shoplifting is bad.
Zephyr Teachout and John Ketcham debate the mayor of the Big Apple.
Plus: California fails to unmask ICE agents, the illogic of medical-only marijuana rescheduling, driverless cars in D.C., and more...
Hungary is Europe's basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.
Sen. Ron Wyden warns that Americans would be “stunned” at how officials have used the law.
The protagonist in Yesteryear wakes up one day in what appears to be a real 1800s homestead.
The show, now in its final season, reminds viewers that people of different races, political parties, and sexual orientations can have mutually enriching interactions.
The bureau reportedly investigated the author of a New York Times story that made FBI Director Kash Patel look bad.
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends his HHS budget, the modest cuts suggest shrinking government isn’t his real priority.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi break down this week’s bizarre turn of events: The SPLC got indicted, and Hasan Piker made more violent comments.
And the government's "solution" is making it worse.
Texas might have the right to post the Ten Commandments in public classrooms, but it shouldn't bother.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's distinction between medical and recreational cannabis is hard to reconcile with the relevant scientific and statutory criteria.
A merger with JetBlue could have saved the company. Instead, taxpayers will now be forced to pick up the bill.
Separation of Church and State
The 5th Circuit upheld a controversial law requiring Texas schools to display the Ten Commandments.
About 1,100 Afghans currently stranded at a military base in Qatar could be relocated to the crisis-addled African country.
The State Department and ICE claimed to have caught Islamic Republic nepo babies “enjoying a lavish lifestyle.” Instead, they tore apart an innocent family.
The burden of Trump's illegal tariffs was spread across the American economy. The refunds likely won't cover all those costs.
Plus: skyway socialism, reconsider the lobster, D.C.'s urban growth, and more...
Plus: Does Trump expect to lose the birthright citizenship case?
Globalization helped make everyone else much richer, too.
The governor is threatening to defund the police because of an ordinance noting that an ICE administrative warrant "does not justify a stop, arrest, or continued detention" by city officers.
"The New Deal made investment in America a risky project," says economist Donald J. Boudreaux, author of The Triumph of Economic Freedom.
With smoking rates already declining, the infantilization of future adults is unlikely to be a big win for public health.
"The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence," said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Deaths in ICE detention have hit a two-decade high, and allegations of medical neglect and poor conditions continue to surge.
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