GOP Congressman Bucks Party on Dems' House Rule Changes
Rep. Tom Reed says he was threatened with "consequences" as a result.
Rep. Tom Reed says he was threatened with "consequences" as a result.
The Senate majority leader delivers hollow partisan victories and little else.
It's time for regulatory reform, free trade, and the end of crony capitalism.
It all comes down to one man.
Fortunately, fireworks regulations have been getting more liberal with each passing year.
She's the highest-profile candidate to jump in.
America's highest paid public employee might win another college football national title, but he's also a good argument for pension reform.
Bob Tillman has spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing.
America's most powerful legislative body can't do its main job. And things are only going to get worse.
The relationship between the people who inhabit those spaces and their distant and often distrusted imperial government.
Yes, it's only temporary. But if it stops Trump from blowing money on a stupid border wall, cheer it on.
No but really, the shutdown is probably going to happen.
A national strategy for arresting sex buyers and letting local cops wiretap sex workers are among the approved changes.
"The most significant efforts the federal government will take to date to reduce federal prison populations after decades and decades of doing the opposite."
Skyrocketing debt and pension obligations make for a tough labor environment.
A case to watch for both criminal justice reformers and for critics of executive overreach.
Get ready for permanent low growth, a stifled entrepreneurial spirit, and high unemployment.
Peter Suderman, Len Gilroy, and C. Boyden Gray diagnose the country's many fiscal woes, and offer some solutions, at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
After weeks of work from advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the Senate voted to pass the FIRST STEP Act.
The administration usurps Congress by redefining machine guns.
"We have a legal and moral obligation to provide and deliver on the promises that have been made," says Gov. Matt Bevin, who called the session Monday.
It sounds like Trump is folding, which is probably for the best.
A heavily abused program breaks the limits of what the IRS allows, leaving taxpayers even further on the hook.
The best we can hope for is that Trump gives in.
His 16-year-old blog posts are completely irrelevant to his testimony on the minimum wage.
Thanks to an anti-Trump wave that crashed across California in the midterm elections, Democrats will now have legislative supermajorities.
The last-minute changes show how hard it is to make the criminal justice system more proportionate and discriminating.
A Republican representative lost his seat in the new instant runoff system, so he sued.
"The road to democracy is not irreversible-not in Moscow, not in America, not anywhere."
Plus: A congressman would "love" to regulate speech, and there's good news for hemp but not for much else in the new Farm Bill.
The House Freedom Caucus calls it "a sprawling, cronyist agriculture bill."
Rahm Emanuel wants pot legalization and a casino so the city can grab more taxes for its pension debts.
Plus: Google hearing once again reveals legislative ignorance on tech and IRS auditors target more low-income taxpayers.
Drama over a possible government shutdown came to a head today. But Amash is sure of "one thing": The eventual deal won't be good for the country.
"Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company."
After weeks of pressure from the White House and fellow Republicans, Mitch McConnell says he will schedule a vote for the FIRST STEP Act.
Constitutional theory meets criminal defense meets Civil War history.
Now that a Democrat will be governor, Wisconsin GOP is suddenly uncomfortable with letting governors direct economic development schemes.
The FIRST STEP Act might get shoved into an end-of-year spending bill.
The L.P.'s biggest 2018 winner wants to tackle California's public sector pension crisis head-on
Strong originalist arguments exist for overruling the dual sovereign doctrine in a case being argued before the Supreme Court today.
Plus: France postpones planned fuel-tax hike after Yellow Vest protests.
The U.S. rose four places in the International Tax Competitiveness Index, and this just the latest bit of good news.
Ryan presided over three years of growing deficits and laid the groundwork for worse to come.
A presidential derangement syndrome for all seasons