The Safer Supervision Act would create an off-ramp for those with good behavior to petition to have their supervised release sentences terminated early.
Plus: Cryogenic freezing, masking for robberies, Trump surrenders his guns, and more...
Why aren't politicians on both sides more worried than they seem to be?
Don’t unleash censors; restrain them more!
Lawmakers should be freed from "the dead hand of some guy from 1974," says former Congressional Budget Office director.
Judge Carlton Reeves ripped apart the legal doctrine in his latest decision on the matter.
Staff shortages and chronic corruption have plagued the Bureau of Prisons for years, exposing inmates to abuse and whistleblowers to retaliation.
The House Oversight and Education committees are investigating the sources of “malign influence” behind campus protests. They’re using tactics Republicans used to hate.
The legislation is largely a status quo bill that doesn't take up longstanding calls to reform air traffic control, airport funding, and more.
New bipartisan legislation would sunset Section 230 after next year.
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
With 54 out of 60 seats in Congress, President Nayib Bukele’s party holds significant influence over legislative decisions.
Instead of lobbying for age verification and youth social media bans, parents can simply restrict their kids' smartphone use.
The bill would allow the Education Department to effectively force colleges to suppress a wide range of protected speech.
"Today it is highly centralized, where a few people at the top control everything," the former five-term congressman tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
The American Sunlight Project contends that researchers are being silenced by their critics.
Let's just call this what it is: another gimmick for Congress to escape its own budget limits and avoid having a conversation about tradeoffs.
Plus: Masking protesters, how Google Search got so bad, Columbia's anti-apartheid protests of the '80s, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
House Speaker Mike Johnson worked with President Biden to push through a $95 billion foreign military aid package—most of which goes to the American military-industrial complex.
Banning companies for doing business with China is a bad path to start down.
"This bill would basically allow the government to institute a spy draft," warns head of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
We've seen this saga so many times before.
New language could make almost anybody with access to a WiFi router help the government snoop.
The little-known but outrageous practice allowed judges to enhance defendants' sentences using conduct a jury acquitted them of.
An interview with Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski.
Plus: Time to ax NPR's funding, African migrants get mad at New York City, Gavin Newsom gets smart, and more...
It's a test of the unofficial coalition that's effectively ruling the House right now.
Plus: How matzo gets made, TikTok employees reporting to Beijing-based ByteDance, espionage concerns in Germany, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
"I told everybody, 'Do what you want,'" Trump said on Friday night, as he let the deep state win again.
The measure would have required federal agents to get a warrant before searching American communications collected as part of foreign intelligence.
Plus: A fight over Section 702 spying reforms, Iran threatens Israel and the U.S., Trump's proposed tariff is even worse than we thought, and more...
A Section 702 reauthorization moving through Congress could actually weaken privacy protections.
His embrace of federalism is one of those rare instances when political expedience coincides with constitutional principles.
Sens. Dick Durbin and J.D. Vance want to put the Federal Reserve in charge of credit card reward programs.
The former and would-be president is keen to avoid alienating voters who reject both kinds of extremism on the issue.
Joe Biden is the latest of a string of presidents to deny Congress its rightful role in war making.
Plus: Ethan Mollick on AI, Nancy Pelosi's kente cloth, hurricanes may destroy us all, and more...
These handouts will flow to businesses—often big and rich—for projects they would likely have taken on anyway.
Neither presidential candidate is willing to back the reforms necessary to close the gap between revenue and benefits.
Some Democrats want to mimic Europe's policies on phone chargers and more.
Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.
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