In Captain America: Brave New World, a power-hungry president makes reckless choices and withholds vital information—but even he looks competent compared to Biden and Trump.
Massachusetts outlawed flavored tobacco. Now, just as criminal justice groups warned, a vape shop owner is serving time.
A new study suggests California's ill-fated board diversity requirements did not enhance firm value.
The wildfires will be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Hopefully they will also teach policymakers some lessons.
Maybe DOGE will succeed where the U.S. Digital Service (mostly) failed.
Even if the Department of Government Efficiency eliminates all improper payments and fraud, we'll still be facing a debt explosion—which requires structural reform.
The bill would also create mandatory minimum jail sentences for fleeing the police.
To settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, you must swear silence.
Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional crisis?
The pretend department’s downgraded mission reflects the gap between Trump’s promise of "smaller government" and the reality of what can be achieved without new legislation.
The administration may be moving in that direction. If does so and gets away with it, the consequences are likely to be dire.
It's a good sign that the president is calling on critics of the federal government's lack of transparency to staff his administration.
We could decentralize education, improve outcomes, and help reduce the size of the federal Leviathan.
The bill would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs—and impede therapeutic research.
Suggestions that the Executive Branch Ignore Federal Court Rulings May Look Different Today than When They Were Proposed.
Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent.
"I know they are guilty," otherwise "they would not be in front of me," said town justice Richard Snyder, who resigned in December.
Much cutting. Very waste. But the Department of Government Efficiency might not have the legal and budgetary chops to actually reduce spending.
A bill that purports to lower borrowing costs will instead drive many people to more expensive lenders.
Stanford economist John Cochrane discusses DOGE, tariffs, and what it will take to prevent a debt crisis.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
Donald Trump's complaints were always meritless, but CBS' capitulation sets a dangerous precedent for the future of the news media.
Eliminating the deficit requires cutting the biggest spending—defense, Medicare, Social Security. So far, Trump says he won't touch those.
Plus: Federal buyouts, puberty blockers at the Supreme Court, and more...
Video of the incident shows Micah Washington screaming as a Reform, Alabama, police officer deploys a Taser directly into his back.
The agency is ineffective, duplicative, and expensive.
The European Union doesn’t need a five-year plan—it needs free markets.
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
Elon Musk sues seven more companies for pulling advertising from his platform.
Recent Supreme Court precedent suggests such challenges might prevail, though success is not guaranteed.
Almost exactly one year after Congress swore off self-inflicted fiscal crises, we're back to the same tired theatrics.
A majority of the en banc court instead seeks to explain away the panel's conclusion as dicta. Will the Supreme Court agree?
The company is worried that the president's complaints about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris could block a pending merger.
Reviving the Monroe Doctrine and 19th century Republican adventurism is not a shortcut to peace.
Billions of dollars in government revenue is a no-brainer.
In four years, Biden issued regulations costing an estimated $1.8 trillion, by far the highest total in American history.
The potential risks from a major wildfire have been well known for years, but there was little appetite to solve those problems before disaster struck.
Extending the deadline gives TikTok a temporary lifeline, but the real issue—government overreach in tech and speech regulation—still needs a congressional fix.
Demographer Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute joins Just Asking Questions to discuss the likely effects of the president's executive orders on immigration.
Trump signed two executive orders expanding federal funding of school choice while banning "radical indoctrination" in federally funded schools.
This will, for the moment, avert what could have been a major legal battle over the spending power.
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