Social Security's Real Problem? Not Money, but Time.
When the program becomes insolvent in the 2030s, the inevitable cuts will hit today's workers and retirees.
When the program becomes insolvent in the 2030s, the inevitable cuts will hit today's workers and retirees.
New Defense Distributed chief Paloma Heindorff on making guns, fighting lawsuits, and life after Cody Wilson
A key senator issues the sort of binary, transactional choice that Trump seems to prefer. Will the POTUS listen?
SB 50 is starting to look less like a bold reform, and more like a marginal improvement on a dreadful status quo.
That's not how any of this works
Last year, CalPERS issued 30,969 pensions checks worth $100,000 or more on an annualized basis—up from about 14,600 six-figure payouts in 2012.
Congress should fix its FGM statute—and all the other ones too.
Plus: marijuana in the 2020 election, Harris follows up on voting behind bars, another Palm Beach massage arrest, and more...
The California senator claims she could impose "near-universal background checks" and close the "boyfriend loophole" without new legislation.
That's a potentially dangerous combination.
My latest article on "original-law originalism" with Steve Sachs
So we're probably only 15 years away from Congress deciding that's a big enough crisis to do something about it.
Reason editors discuss Russia, Biden, Moulton (?), and that television show with the dragons.
Plus: Violence in Sri Lanka leads to social media suppression, and the White House wants to make it harder for pretrial diversion participants to get government jobs.
Calling for impeachment is likely a publicity stunt for the Massachusetts senator's flagging presidential campaign.
Nonetheless, a judge will let a sex trafficking complaint against Weinstein proceed.
Forget about Donald Trump and the Mueller report and think about all the little (and not-so-little) people who get crushed by the feds.
And they'll cost more to buy
The symposium includes contributions by a variety of legal commentators, including fellow VC blogger Keith Whittington and myself.
Extreme partisanship and the desire for power will play as big a role in saving Trump's presidency as his aides did by ignoring his orders.
The president heedlessly created the appearance that he was trying hard, though ineptly, to hide something.
Corporate welfare raises its ugly head again.
As a candidate, Trump promised to end pointless Middle Eastern wars. He just vetoed a resolution to do exactly that.
The decision is likely to be unpopular. But it is the right thing to do nonetheless, as the law is unconstitutional. Not every evil must be addressed by a federal law.
The WikiLeaks founder has few if any defenders in Congress.
America will face "serious economic, security, and social challenges" if the national debt keeps growing at this rate.
They say the social media companies display a bias against conservatives.
Does the Trump administration think it can wage war in Iran without congressional approval? Mike Pompeo won't say.
Episode 3 of Free Speech Rules, starring UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
A Southern officeholder gains little from pushing for a right to post-delivery abortion.
Donald Trump's rhetoric is breathtakingly authoritarian, but so far he's done less than his predecessors to expand executive power.
The bill now goes to President Trump's desk.
A bill introduced Thursday with bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress would stop federal law enforcement from targeting states with legal weed.
Plus: Pete Buttigieg says no to "free college," and the problems with Elizabeth Warren's plan to jail business execs
It would fast-track FDA review of applications to free the pill from prescriptions and let people use health savings accounts for non-Rx drugs.
Allison Schrager wants to change the way you take chances.
New York cops and the president arbitrarily turn legal products into contraband.
The feds have allegedly abandoned the program. These four want to make sure it stays dead.
The bank has been operating as a shell of its former cronyist self since 2015. Just put it out of its misery already.
The ban, which took effect this week, usurps congressional authority by rewriting an inconvenient law.
The legislation would exempt sellers who gross less than $10 million in annual sales from owing taxes to other states.
Plus: a Robert Kraft/spa-sting update, Florida sex-buyer registry nixed, D.C. activist alleges entrapment, and more sex-work and sex-policy news.
The laws governing public pensions allow for horrible people to collect government benefits.
The president's lack of self-restraint helped protect him from impeachment.
But that might not stop House Democrats from Net Neutrality-related histrionics.