Executive Power
What If Government Officials Broke the Laws We Hired Them to Enforce?
What if they prosecuted others for breaking the same laws they broke?
Obama's Flight from Responsibility
The president needs to take responsibility for the actions of his own administration.
Obama's Cloak of Invisibility
How secrecy frustrates challenges to counterterrorism tactics
Obama Debates the War on Terror With Himself
The president criticizes his own abuses of executive power.
Advice and Consent Is Not Optional
The bipartisan abuse of recess appointments flouts the Constitution's checks and balances.
Federal Court Slams Obama's Use of Recess Appointment Power
The president's bad week just got worse.
Beware the IRS
The long, disturbing history of using the Internal Revenue Service to target political opponents.
Shedding Popularity, France's Hollande Considers Rule by Decree
Because that will win over the doubters
No More Tax Dollars for Presidential Libraries
Let America's former presidents burnish their legacies on their own dimes.
Obama's Cloak of Invisibility
How secrecy frustrates challenges to counterterrorism tactics
Administration's Secret Surveillance Legal Guidance Sought
The opinion is secret, too
Zimbabwe Voters Decide on Presidential Power
Well ... Strictly speaking, the people counting the votes will decide
In Absence of Food Taster, President Declines Lunch
The republic has officially jumped the shark
3 Problems Rand Paul Faces with His Post-Filibuster Fame
Republicans, Democrats, and the rest of the world
Domestic Drones Are Coming Your Way
Unmanned aerial vehicles are capable of far more than just state-sanctioned killing and police surveillance.
Sen. Paul Declares Victory Following Holder Response
No, White House won't drone "noncombatant" citizens on American soil
Covered at Reason 24/7: Sen. Rand Paul Filibuster Successfully Delays CIA Vote
Come back tomorrow, Sen. Reid
DOJ Says President Can Use Lethal Military Force on Citizens Inside Country
But only in "an extraordinary circumstance."
Sen. Graham Lists Drone Death Toll at 4,700
No indication how many of them are innocent of any wrong-doing
Rand Paul: Support for Drone Program "Very Scary"
Doesn't bode well for the idea of limited government authority, not to mention civil liberties