Policy
Marijuana Charges Fall Dramatically in Colorado After (and Before) Legalization
Cops seem to have sharply reduced pot charges in response to shifting public opinion.
'We Have a Lot of Demand From Families Trying to Get Away From Common Core'
The controversial standards represent an opportunity for private schools and homeschoolers
Ted Cruz Is Right About Taxes
The Internal Revenue Code's headache-inducing complexity is a scandal.
SCOTUS Seems Inclined to Reject Censorship of Confederate Flag License Plate
If specialty plates are government speech, Texas officially loves golf and hates abortion.
NYPD's New Gunshot Detectors Record More Than Just Gunshots
ShotSpotter has successfully reduced police response time to crimes, but has little oversight in New York City.
IRS Reveals Your Tax Data to Visitors, Unauthorized Workers, and Former Employees
Filing your return is like playing the identity theft lottery!
Is That a Nuke in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
New book, The Future of Violence, is terrified about 'technologies of mass empowerment'
Abortion Funding Battle Doomed Human-Trafficking Bill and Loretta Lynch Vote To Be Continued in April
But gridlock may be the best we can hope for with the "Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act."
The Conservatarian Manifesto: Should Libertarians and Conservatives Unite?
Q&A with National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke.
Obamacare Is Really Expensive for Small Businesses. Surprise!
Lousy news for growing the economy, creating jobs, and overall increasing prosperity
The President Stops Laughing About Pot
Obama's shifting marijuana views reflect changes in public opinion.
Liberal Policies vs. Affordable Housing
The chronic shortage of inexpensive housing is really a blaring signal for government to get out of the way.
Should Pregnant Addicts Go to Jail?
Criminalizing dependency is counterproductive and unconstitutional.
Does Camille Paglia Have Any Hope for Our Modern Society?
The Cultural Critic Discusses Sexuality, Race, Gender, Feminism, and Hillary Clinton
It's Time to Rethink America's Relationship With Israel
Maybe Israeli politicians will act more responsibly if they don't have the American people to fall back on.
Socially Engineering Food Choices Doesn't Work
To say that Los Angeles merely failed would be putting it mildly.
New York Creates Massive Cigarette Black Market, Wants Virginia to Fix It
Because lowering taxes to reduce the incentive for smuggling is out of the question
Here's What's Wrong With the Nation's "Investigation" of New York's Evil Charter School Plot and the Greedy Hedge Fund Moguls Who Fund It
A useful compendium of all the head-scratching arguments commonly voiced by school choice opponents.
Anti-Pot Activist on Support for Legalization: 'What Goes Up Must Come Down'
Kevin Sabet implausibly takes solace from a drop in public approval between 1977 and 1985.
Arguments for Military Sequestration for Conservatives
Arguments strong enough for a conservative, but made for everyone.
Connecticut Residents Work 6 Weeks Longer Than Louisianans to Pay Taxes
But hey, you can't beat commuting on Interstate 95, right?
Obama's Poll-Following Marijuana Metamorphosis
The president's shifting pot positions reflect changes in public opinion.
The Democrats Have a New Warren/De Blasio, and He's Awful (UPDATED)
Rahm Emanuel challenger Chuy Garcia is setting progressive hearts aflutter, largely because his economic ideas are terrible
Obama's 'Signature Achievement' Will Be Bypassing the Constitution
Obama is on his way to circumventing checks and balances with more regularity than any president in history.
Giving Kids 'Help' At the End of a Gun
Defenders of the status quo push back against a Colorado proposal to decriminalize truancy.
Ben Carson: Put the Baltics in NATO! Beware the Sunni-Shia Alliance!
Three madcap foreign policy claims by the GOP's resident super-outsider
A Win for School Choice: Charters Are Coming to Alabama
The State Will Be the 44th to Allow Charters
Matt Welch: 'Every single GOP strategist under the age of 40' Might Be Unacceptably Libertarian
What the Liz Mair firing tells us about Scott Walker, GOP politics, and libertarianism
Rand Paul Talks SAE Controversy, Drug War with MTV News: 'Still Vestiges' of Racism
"There is a problem in the criminal justice system."
FCC Chairman Denies Receiving "Secret Instructions from the White House" About Internet Rules
Tom Wheeler didn't need secret orders to do the administration's bidding on net neutrality.
What Does Netanyahu's Re-election Mean for the Future of Israel?
Bibi wins big after promising no two-state solution and exploiting far-right fear of Israeli Arabs voting in "droves."
Dieudonné's Punishment Shows France Is More Tolerant Than Myanmar
The comedian gets a suspended sentence for condoning terrorism.
AirBnb Fights Crummy Laws and Crummy Attitudes
Why can't our politics and culture handle expedited exchanges of services and goods for money?
