The decision is legally dubious. But it also highlights the arbitrariness of rules that exclude victims of horrible injustices just as severe as those luck enough to qualify.
He should stop gutting America's refugee program.
How will Trump and new national security adviser John Bolton respond to a reported chemical attack in a war-ravaged country?
Social media fact-checks, secondary scrutiny for 11 countries, and the lowest annual cap in modern U.S. history.
The famed artist has a new public art project going up in New York City, which coincides with his debut feature film, Human Flow.
It will do nothing to Make America Safe Again
A GOP bill would set up impossible obstacles for fleeing foreigners
Global refugee population from 2012-2016 spikes from 10.5 million to 17.2 million; Trump so far admitting fewer than 3,500 per month
Refugees' full energies are devoted to earning money and absent family members overseas.
It covers its legal tracks but is still an exercise in Muslim bashing
What will the president do to address the 9th Circuit's due process concerns?
Reports of mass New Year's Eve sexual-assaults by refugees in Frankfurt, Germany, are "completely baseless."
America offers ISIS a useful propaganda recruitment tool.
The appeals court thinks many people affected by the executive order have plausible due process claims.
In an appeals court hearing, the government struggles to provide evidence that the executive order addresses "a real risk."
The travel ban is unfair and illogical, but that does not make it illegal.
The most libertarian member of Congress explains why he opposes Trump's executive order while agreeing with the president that refugee screening needs significant improvement
A 2011 "terrorist plot" in Kentucky is oft used to warn against Muslim refugees. But the only terrorists in this case were manufactured by the FBI.
Kevin Williamson guests for a discussion of executive orders, Muslim threats, whataboutism, and whether Reason is "woke."
Her son, a U.S. citizen, had worked with U.S. Special Forces as a contractor and interpreter during the Iraq War.
The president fulfills his xenophobic campaign promises.
New polls shows 49 percent support, versus just 41 percent against...
Matt Welch talks with Borzou Daragahi and Pejman Yousefzadeh on SiriusXM Insight's The Dean Obeidallah Show 12-1 ET
More than 40 GOP legislators complain that the new restrictions are hasty, vague, unfair, and overly broad.
As worldwide refugee populations peak, the American president slashes numerical targets toward historic lows. Meanwhile, conservative apologists call his stance 'moderate.'
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates wrote to DOJ lawyers that the department had to "always seek justice and stand for what is right."
Donald Trump's poorly designed and xenophobic executive order is attempting to improve on a perfect record. Republicans need to push back.
We're entering a world "much less friendly to our overall belief system and values."
The dissonance between the countries the Trump EO primarily affects and countries associated with 9/11 is embedded in U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. Embassy in Baghdad warns President Trump against betraying Iraqi allies in the fight against the Islamic State.
The president tramples innocent people in his rush to fulfill an ill-advised campaign promise.
Chaos ensuing from Trump's executive order led to protests at JFK Airport in New York and at LAX, where Reason TV was on the scene to talk with demonstrators.
Executive action targeted travelers from seven Muslim-dominated countries.
Move could affect up to a half-million legal U.S. residents
Eliminating 'Wet Foot/Dry Foot' has been a longtime goal of immigration reformers and restrictionists alike, though Cuban-Americans remain split.
"Safe zones" are just "no-fly zones" by another name.
They want to stop even private charity by private citizens
Lazy metonym that provides convenient framing.
"Serious" major party candidates screw up foreign policy questions almost every election cycle.
Asylum-seekers performed first aid on man who recently wrote "integration is genocide."
Prince Hans-Adam II says open borders, low taxes, free trade, and small government should define "the state in the third millennium."
