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Report: President Trump Asked Top Intelligence Officials to Push Back Against FBI

Unnamed sources tell The Washington Post that Trump approached the director of national security and head of the NSA to publicly denounce FBI's Russia probe.

Eric Boehm | 5.22.2017
Hey Libertarians: Prepare To Be Disappointed in Trump's 10-Year Budget Plan

He'll cut less than we want, exaggerate economic growth, and pretend it all balances out in 2028.

Nick Gillespie | 5.22.2017
Report: Regulation ‘Has Essentially Ground to a Halt’ Under Trump

The Obama administration submitted 118 new rules in the same time it has taken Trump to make just 39

Matt Welch | 5.22.2017
Trump's Saudi Trip Wasn't a Break From Tradition

But it revealed a split between America's actual foreign policy and Americans' self-image.

Ed Krayewski | 5.22.2017
Libertarian Legal Scholars Reject Trump Judicial Nominee's Views on 14th Amendment

Damon Root | 5.22.2017
Net Neutrality Nixed: Why John Oliver Is Wrong

The internet did just fine before bureaucrats started micromanaging it.

Andrew Heaton & Sarah Rose Siskind | 5.19.2017

Who's Telling the Truth in Washington? Anyone?

For politicians lying is an art form.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.22.2017
Texas Transgender Bathroom Panic Law Set to Pass

Compromise waters down worst parts, but it still screws with students.

Scott Shackford | 5.22.2017
Don't Rush to Impeachment

There's a reason it's supposed to be hard to remove the president.

Steve Chapman | 5.22.2017

Trump Administration Announces Its NAFTA Renegotiation Concerns

Many of them echo old labor union and Democratic Party complaints about freer trade.

Brian Doherty | 5.19.2017
Putting Country Above Party Works Both Ways

Impeachment? Treason? The president may be reckless, but so is the left's anti-Trump hysteria.

David Harsanyi | 5.19.2017
Ninth Circuit Should Strike Down Idaho's 'Ag-Gag' Appeal

The court should uphold a lower-court ruling suppressing the unconstitutional (and unconscionable) law.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.20.2017
Russia Investigation Identifies Current White House Official, Trump Bragged About Firing 'Nut Job' James Comey

"That's taken off," Trump told the Russians. "I'm not under investigation."

Robby Soave | 5.19.2017

School Choice Advocates Take Control in Los Angeles

School board election winner wants to see lessons of successful charters replicated within district.

Scott Shackford | 5.19.2017
HBO Ignores Madoff's Victims in Favor of Family Drama

The Wizard of Lies starts too late in the scam and misses much.

Glenn Garvin | 5.19.2017
Movie Review: Alien: Covenant

Ridley Scott wants to hear you scream again.

Kurt Loder | 5.19.2017
How To Impeach the President (Or Not)

It's more complicated than you think and one method involves a constitutional amendment invoked when presidents get colonscopies.

Austin Bragg | 5.18.2017
Are College Campuses Racist Environments? [Reason Podcast]

Lawrence Ross vs. Kmele Foster in a public debate at the Soho Forum

Jim Epstein & Ian Keyser | 5.19.2017
All This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement Syndrome

That man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectful, self-involved, maybe even dangerous. So?

Nick Gillespie | 5.17.2017
San Francisco Officials Continue Attacks on Uber

City tax collector wants to post home addresses of drivers online.

Steven Greenhut | 5.19.2017
How Trump's Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan Could Succeed

Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith on the privatization revolution.

Alexis Garcia & Nick Gillespie | 5.17.2017
Female Student Who Initiated Title IX Witch Hunt Against Laura Kipnis Is Now Suing Her

Author of Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus sued for defamation.

Robby Soave | 5.18.2017
New York’s Single-Payer Health Care Plan Would Be More Expensive Than New York’s Entire State Government

New York collects about $80 billion in revenue annually, but the health care plan passed Tuesday would cost at least $91 billion every year (and probably more).

Eric Boehm | 5.17.2017
The Drug War Escalation Is Cruel and Stupid

Attorney General Jeff Sessions's order to prosecutors to seek maximum sentences is wrongheaded.

John Stossel | 5.17.2017
Senate Committee Wants Comey's Testimony and Memos on Trump (UPDATE: Special Counsel Appointed)

The research over whether the president attempted to block an FBI investigation kicks in.

Scott Shackford | 5.17.2017
Rand Paul 'Surprised' By Sessions' Support for Harsher Sentencing, Won't Stop Fighting for Reform

Paul, Leahy, and Merkley have reintroduced the Justice Safety Valve Act and think "we could get the president to sign it."

Robby Soave | 5.17.2017
Sheriff David Clarke, Who Can't Even Keep People Alive in One Jail, Joining Trump’s Department of Homeland Security

What do you get when four people die in your jail? A job in the Trump administration.

Robby Soave | 5.17.2017
Jeff Sessions Is a Glutton for Punishment

The attorney general wants prosecutors to maximize penalties for drug offenders, regardless of the threat they pose.

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2017
Times Claim: Trump Asked Comey to Drop Flynn Investigation

The impeachment cries will grow louder. The White House denies allegations.

Scott Shackford | 5.16.2017
Old Times There Are Best Forgotten

Why government-funded agencies should display Confederate symbols only at historic sites or museums

Ronald Bailey | 5.16.2017
Rand Paul: Sessions Misled Me on Drug Sentencing

Senator slams the Attorney General’s new directive, and offers new explanation for his confirmation vote.

Matt Welch | 5.16.2017
Are the Wheels Coming Off Our 20th Century Political Institutions? [Reason Podcast]

Nick Gillespie, Ian Keyser & Jim Epstein | 5.15.2017
Freaky Friday Politics: Republicans And Democrats Keep Switching Positions

The two parties are more interested in fighting each other than maintaining a consistent ideology

Andrew Heaton & Sarah Rose Siskind | 5.15.2017
Will the Trump Fiasco Deprogram Presidential Cultists?

The current occupant of the White House may just be the right guy to deflate excessive expectations for the presidency.

J.D. Tuccille | 5.16.2017

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