Coming Soon to the Supreme Court: Are Tariffs Taxes?
The correct answer is: Yes, even when they are also regulations. Whether the Court agrees could determine the future of presidential power.
The correct answer is: Yes, even when they are also regulations. Whether the Court agrees could determine the future of presidential power.
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The military establishment’s efforts to quash leaks could encourage them instead.
The Argentine president needed a U.S. bailout, and his political adversaries are gaining ground.
The Court of Appeals unanimously refused to stay a trial court ruling against Trump, signaling the judges believe his use of the Guard is illegal.
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
The Marine Corps is trying to close a no-bid contract with Cellebrite, a company that helps police get into locked phones. The specs weren’t supposed to be public.
Mainstream and conservative news outlets were correct to reject it.
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“We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,” the Georgia congresswoman said.
It turns out that free trade is essential for the military too.
A guest post by Joshua Braver and John Dehn.
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The Pentagon spends a lot of taxpayer money on propaganda worldwide. Some of it is coordinated with Middle Eastern dictators, The Washington Post revealed.
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If the courts try to enforce legal limits on the president's military deployments, he can resort to an alarmingly broad statute that gives him more discretion.
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Federal troops are also ill-suited to handle local policing issues.
The war in Gaza was already over in January. Trump let it reopen and expand. A ceasefire is good—but it should have happened much earlier.
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If the Trump administration wants to use military power, it should seek authorization from Congress, says Sen. Rand Paul.
The policy would slow innovation, reduce competitiveness, and leave American workers unprepared for the future.
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U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut concluded that the president's description of "War ravaged Portland" was "simply untethered to the facts."
This is the second lawsuit in a week challenging the Trump administration's National Guard deployments absent a qualifying emergency.
Whether or not one accepts the report's characterization of Israel's actions, the report itself is an interesting read on the economics of war.
“I still believe in America. I do not feel betrayed. I feel hopeful because of how many Americans stood up for me when I was arrested.”
Over $300 billion in Russian state assets are frozen in the West. It's long past time they were used to help Ukraine resist Vladimir Putin's war of aggression..
The president thinks he can transform murder into self-defense by executive fiat.
A fascinating but uneven actor's showcase for Dwayne Johnson.
Pfizer wins big in Trump’s new drug discount gimmick.
Federal officers policing Washington, D.C., on Trump's orders appear to be driving crime down, but the plan is neither constitutionally sound nor viable in the long term.
Trump exempted imported chips from his reciprocal tariffs in April. Now he's threatening them with 100 percent rates.
Once created, a digital ID system will prove catnip to politicians who want to track where we go, online and off.
Trump’s trade war is hitting wineries, distillers, and distributors with product shortages and soaring costs—leaving customers to pick up the tab.
There’s an opportunity to abandon bad policies that raise consumer costs and move toward free trade.
Filmmaker Dan Krauss explains how U.S. leaders misled the public about Afghanistan, why the media failed to push back, and how money and power kept America’s longest war alive long after it was lost.
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Mike Waltz is no longer national security adviser, but his plans for Bagram Air Base seem to have stuck in the president's head.
Reason is sharing an exclusive clip from Bodyguard of Lies, an upcoming documentary about the failed war in Afghanistan.
Most U.S. drug traffickers are Americans, but the president is ordering extrajudicial maritime killings while ignoring the domestic demand that drives the market.
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Trump struggles to articulate any foreign policy view with much coherence, and has a fragile ego that makes world conflicts all about him.
Fewer than 35 years after escaping the yoke of Soviet-style central planning, Poland has become a legitimate global powerhouse.
House Republicans passed a resolution that prevents Congress from ending the national emergency Trump is using to impose tariffs until March 31.