Is Chaos the Natural State of Congress?
The federal budgeting process was broken long before Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's recent spat.
The federal budgeting process was broken long before Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's recent spat.
David Friedman's anarchism doesn't have the answer for everything. That's the point.
Politicians are throwing laws at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Some things won't change no matter who wins the 2016 election.
Climate change skeptics have rights to free speech and privacy, too.
Don't be fooled by the false prophet of anti-interventionism.
Republican control of both houses poisons the atmosphere in D.C.
A little empathy could go a long way
The leading candidates to replace Barack Obama think America is going to hell.
Inside the emotion-fueled politics of Planned Parenthood and school shootings
I disapprove of what you eat, but I'll defend to the death your right to eat it.
Can "conservatarians" save the GOP from itself?
There is nothing 'open-minded' about using government to punish disfavored views.
Why are Edward Snowden's supporters so eager to give government more control over the Internet?
How the press turned a local issue into the first controversy of the 2016 presidential campaign.
We value individual human lives more every day. That's (mostly) good news.
Rethinking policing after the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown
An honest conversation about foreign policy requires us to confront the brutality and imagery of violence.
American politicians are systemically destroying the right to confidential banking.
Metaphors for the Obama presidency have gone from heroic to homicidal.
Paul has had a busy summer trying to roll back mandatory minimum sentencing, bar federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients, and restrain civil forfeiture laws.
As unlikely as it sounds, anti-interventionists may miss the 44th president when he's gone.
Two decades of promiscuous intervention softened the ground for Putin's expansionism.
The long, ugly journey from the Free Speech Movement to professors assaulting protesters
From e-cigarettes to sex classifieds, the once-transgressive left tries to criminalize fun.
Success softened drug warriors' arguments. Now failure has exposed them.
With great foreign intervention comes flawed moral reasoning.
The disastrous ObamaCare rollout unmasks liberalism's paternalistic dishonesty.
Obama's Syria blunder demonstrates the folly of playing international sheriff.
How reason and freedom have changed since our humble founding in a turbulent year
As his potency dwindles, the president should ease up on pot prohibition
Lessons from the late prime minister's decisive victory in the war of economic ideas.
Rand Paul's historic filibuster may have changed American politics.
The late economist James Buchanan predicted our current budgetary impasse. Is there a way out?
The Obama administration's shoddy response to the consulate attack in Libya