The IRS Sprang a Leak
Plus: Donald Trump's creative accounting, those sneaky vegans, brain drain, and more...
Plus: Donald Trump's creative accounting, those sneaky vegans, brain drain, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
Plus: Dianne Feinstein's replacement doesn't even live in California, New York's biblical floods, and more...
Shutdowns don't meaningfully reduce the size or cost of government, but they also aren't the end of the world.
Plus: Minimum wage laws, space exploration, that time when North Africa was less dysfunctional than California, and more...
After five years without net neutrality rules, the fix for a problem that doesn’t exist is back.
The Senate is an incompetent laughingstock regardless of what its members wear.
Plus: Trump commits fraud, a hacker house cooks steak, progressive movements can't stop failing, and more...
Plus: Nonessential government programs (all of them?), AI firefighting, tech-world hit pieces, and more...
Deena Ghazarian, CEO of consumer electronic company Austere, says the federal government's tariff exclusion process was "arcane, nontransparent, and highly uncertain."
States that allow home chefs to sell perishable foods report no confirmed cases of relevant foodborne illness.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
Plus: DeSantis' awkward pot situation, San Francisco's "overpaid executive" tax, and more…
Plus: A listener asks for the editors’ advice on how to spend his money.
In addition to licensing regimes, there have also been calls for creating a new agency to regulate AI.
When talking heads say “no evidence,” they mean “no smoking-gun proof.”
Legal restrictions on pseudoephedrine have not reduced meth use, but they have driven people with colds or allergies toward substitutes that seem to be completely ineffective.
Plus: The Stations of the Cross isn't a zoning violation, inflation is making people poorer, and Russian mercenaries win hearts and minds with their own branded beer.
A long history of amending resolutions with legal effect.
The investigation could look into "allegations of abuse of power, obstruction, and corruption" related to the president's involvement in his son's foreign business dealings.
Short-term solutions and governing from crisis to crisis isn't working.
Banks routinely snitch on customers and even deny services to people politicians don’t like.
Legislators abuse the emergency label to push through spending that would otherwise violate budget constraints.
The guidelines would ignore decades of academic findings about how firm concentration can have a positive impact on consumers' welfare.
Thankfully, you don't need fancy dining halls or a college degree to have a good life or get a good job.
The lack of oversight and the general absence of a long-term vision is creating inefficiency, waste, and red ink as far as the eye can see.
The Kids Online Safety Act imposes an amorphous "duty of care" that would compromise anonymous speech and restrict access to constitutionally protected content.
Since Congress designed and implemented the last budget process in 1974, only on four occasions have all of the appropriations bills for discretionary spending been passed on time.
The proposal would raise the federal minimum wage by 134 percent.
A White House panel says the FBI's internal control over Section 702 databases are "insufficient to ensure compliance and earn the public's trust."
Washington is doing a poor job of monitoring whether the weapons it sends to Ukraine are ending up in the right hands.
Justice Alito was wrong to suggest Congress has no authority to regulate the Court. But that authority is itself subject to constraint.
The plan's supporters say it won't push costs onto taxpayers.
If you're getting Satoshi's name wrong, you might not know what you're talking about.
Where your final years are active, dignified, and pretty much permanent.
Plus: Moralism is ruining cultural criticism, Biden administration mandates bigger plane bathrooms, and more...
Out with the old corruption and in with fresh scandals.
New legislation would intervene in the credit card market to help businesses like Target and Walmart, who don't like the fees they have to pay to accept credit card payments.
Plus: Ohio drag bill models Tennessee measure declared unconstitutional, setting "Taco Tuesday" free, and more...
Plus: Does Tom Cruise really do all of his own stunts?
The reauthorization of Section 702 is one of the most important issues facing Congress in the second half of this year.
It's a familiar program. And it will result in higher prices, slower growth, and fewer jobs.
Plus: Steep drop in confidence in higher education, what The Bear can teach us about dynamism and bureaucracy, and more...
Over 200,000 dependent visa holders are still waiting for relief.
Government bullying won’t fix censorship caused by government bullying.
The fight over the debt ceiling has foreshadowed how the policy debates of the presidential election cycle are likely to go.
The Court ruled the plan is illegal, and that at least one plaintiff (the state of Missouri) has standing.
At a minimum, the national debt should be smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver.
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