The New Book Alyssa Milano Thinks Every Congressman Should Read [Reason Podcast]
Katherine Mangu-Ward interviews Cornell Law's Josh Chafetz about his new book, Congress's Constitution
Katherine Mangu-Ward interviews Cornell Law's Josh Chafetz about his new book, Congress's Constitution
Handing out pamphlets gets treated as a crime.
Gov. Jerry Brown wants to borrow $6 billion to pay for California's underfunded public employee pensions.
Senators drafting massive combination bill with "Kate's Law" and "Back the Blue" mandatory minimum sentences that are expensive, unneeded.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Here's what the law says.
The 2018 federal budget suggests small but necessary reforms.
The bill was requested by the Department of Justice after federal prosecutors bungled a child exploitation case.
Arguably the most questionable of the 14 new Congressional Review Act regulatory repeals may have the unintended consequence of limiting states' ability to drug-test those seeking unemployment benefits.
Which is more important to the president: hurting Muslims or looking tough on terrorism?
It would leave slightly fewer people without insurance coverage than under the original version of the bill, but would trim less from the federal deficit.
Don't use government force, Luke
Like in Colorado, New York, and Vermont, California is learning that a single-payer plan would be prohibitively expensive.
Executive order scaled back in attempt to satisfy courts.
The checks and challenges invited by the president's "serial recklessness" should be welcomed.
There's a reason it's supposed to be hard to remove the president.
Bill would keep states and cities from restraining police cooperation.
It's more complicated than you think and one method involves a constitutional amendment invoked when presidents get colonscopies.
The research over whether the president attempted to block an FBI investigation kicks in.
A new high water mark for regulatory reform, but another bill might eclipse Paul's proposal.
That man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectful, self-involved, maybe even dangerous. So?
His recklessness doesn't necessarily weaken the executive branch. In fact the opposite may be true.
The current occupant of the White House may just be the right guy to deflate excessive expectations for the presidency.
The Times news columns have been openly campaigning against Trump's tax cuts from the moment they were rolled out.
You may see yourselves as artists, but the state of Washington does not see bouquets as a form of expression.
Refugees' full energies are devoted to earning money and absent family members overseas.
Once the trust in checks and balances is eroded, it's difficult to regain.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee need to step up their oversight game
States and industry will seek to roll back BLM's "vast overreach" of regulatory authority in court.
Unlike his predecessor, Trump has not even done us the courtesy of coming up with a laughable excuse.
Nigeria will have a higher population than the U.S. by mid-century, when one in four people on Earth will live in Africa.
Not only can entitlement programs be rolled back, but politicians who do it can even get re-elected.
The president's executive order on religious freedom lacks any sort of substance.
Job losses and price increases are on the horizon.
For reasons practical and political, the waivers included in the AHCA to earn Freedom Caucus support might be mostly useless.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Instead, submit the Paris agreement as a treaty to Senate for a vote
No cities in the state have been targeted by the Justice Department for noncompliance, but never mind.
The problem that has long plagued reformers in the two controlling parties is the failure to put a stop to spending.
New draft of executive action does much less than rumored.
Libertarian-leaners are lonely voices on Capitol Hill opposing the latest bipartisan spending spree
Checks and balances are there for a reason.
Should Congress be allowed to forbid a private voluntary treatment because it's bad and discredited?
They paper over the fact that America enjoys extraordinary latitude when choosing how to interact with the rest of the world.