Want To Lower the Political Temperature? Make the Presidency Less Important
Congress needs to reassert its powers and bring the imperial presidency back down to earth.
Congress needs to reassert its powers and bring the imperial presidency back down to earth.
Much of the detail remains to be worked out, but lawmakers and corporations are already preparing.
The bipartisan embrace of industrial policy represents one of the most dangerous economic illusions of our time.
With control of the House still undecided, a Democratic majority could serve as the strongest check on Trump's worst impulses.
Increasingly like-minded communities make incumbent lawmakers safer than ever.
Drew Johnson wants to help define the post-Trump GOP.
As it stands, the program effectively redistributes money from younger and poorer people to richer people.
While congressmen hold performative hearings to win political points, they delegate policymaking to the administrative.
Tim Walz is wrong to insist that it would "keep our dignity about how we treat other people."
The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act would provide outreach and training to Homeland Security Investigations staff.
Despite promises to pass orderly budgets, the House GOP is poised to approve yet another stopgap spending measure.
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The idea, proposed by former President Donald Trump, could curb waste and step in where our delinquent legislators are asleep on the job.
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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D–N.Y.) claims that airlines are engaging in discrimination and enabling price gouging by canceling flights to the Middle East without government permission.
Seven congressional Democrats called on the FEC to stop deepfakes. But is there really much to worry about?
Sen. Rand Paul makes the case against the Kids Online Safety Act.
Lawmakers must be willing to reform so-called "mandatory spending," Pence's nonprofit argues in a new document.
While the former congressman cares a lot about war powers, he has often flip-flopped on actually enforcing Congress’ red lines.
The Supreme Court created, then gutted, a right to sue federal agents for civil rights violations.
Government agencies are expensive, incompetent, and overreaching. The Secret Service is no exception.
It's good to hear a candidate actually talk about our spending problem. But his campaign promises would exacerbate it.
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Only Sens. Paul and Wyden are expected to vote "no" on Tuesday. Power to stop KOSA now resides with the House.
As lawmakers investigate what went wrong at the Pennsylvania Trump rally, they should resist calls to give the agency more money.
The candidate supports gun rights, wants to privatize government programs, and would radically reduce the number of federal employees.
The Kids Online Safety Act would have cataclysmic effects on free speech and privacy online.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause.
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Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
A federal judge rejected the government’s excuses for banning home production of liquor.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause
Although former President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda would make some positive changes, it's simply not enough.
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"Documented Dreamers" continue to have to leave the country even though this is the only home many have ever known.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
Thanks to the lengthy approval process and special interests surrounding environmental review, it takes far longer to build anything in the United States than in other developed countries.
Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That's why it's worth doing.
The agency's inscrutable approach to harm-reducing nicotine products sacrifices consumer choice and public health on the altar of youth protection.
Upcoming legislation would repeal parts of the 1873 law that could be used to target abortion, but the Comstock Act's reach is much more broad than that.
The Biden administration says its new guidance will make pandemic research safer. Critics say it suffers the same flaws as past, failed gain-of-function regulations.
Chevron deference, a doctrine created by the Court in 1984, gives federal agencies wide latitude in interpreting the meaning of various laws. But the justices may overturn that.
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The Selective Service should be abolished, not made more efficient and equitable.
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