It’s the 10th energy project financed by the Trump administration’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing, which has over $289 billion in loan authority.
The New York Times has the story.
The president says Paxton doesn’t dress, talk, or look the part. But the Texas Senate candidate has built a career on a different kind of showmanship.
Texas voters are souring on their state's growth machine and the long-ruling GOP that's claimed credit for it.
Plus: the costs of France's welfare state, María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela, and Republicans brace for the midterms.
The Trump administration says the state should not certify the election if the incumbent loses too narrowly.
Plus: Brazilian presidential elections, passing by Cuba, Taiwanese families who hate Arizona's schools, and more...
The Second Amendment is not confined to 1780s technology.
Libertarian Senate candidate Ted Brown discusses Ken Paxton's corruption scandals, James Talarico's economic policies, and why Texas isn't as free as Republicans claim.
Republicans are looking doomed in Michigan, Ohio, and Texas...but there's always Pennsylvania.
Plus: Gun laws in Oregon, Mamdani's free-daycare expansion, vibrators and selfishness, and more...
The progressive Democrat, whose party may take control of the Senate, is sounding alarms over consolidation in the hot sauce business.
Republican incumbent Mike Lawler and Democratic challenger Cait Conley are trying to tie each other to the AI industry and data centers.
Plus: Hochul's race, shooting in Oregon, Taiwanese export controls for chips, and more...
Should it be illegal to run for office against someone with your same name?
Plus: OpenAI arrest, Pope Leo's cancer, Guilfoyle forced out, and more...
Plus: Objecting to the execution livestream, Ilhan Omar's house gets searched, Bulgarian attack, and more...
From Maine to Michigan, voters are fed up with tariffs and trade wars.
Plus: AI weirdness, Amazon algorithm data, bond markets, and more...
Former President Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail for Abdul El-Sayed as Michigan emerges as one of the country’s biggest political battlegrounds.
Dan Osborn discusses breaking with both parties, opposing the Iran war, and how he plans to win over Trump voters.
Plus: Anthropic's Claude constitution, Letitia James to handle Cornell rape case, and more...
Plus: Flydubai details, botched execution, Warsh criticism, and more...
Plus: rising debt and mortgage rates, whether AI will make government obsolete, and how to pitch Reason to your friends
With midterm voting underway, the distinction between public service announcements and campaign ads blurs.
Plus: Decline in gubernatorial debates, thin-skinned commies, and more...
The disgraced former congressman is imploring voters not to abandon Republicans over gas prices and war with Iran.
Plus: Playboy's Gen Z sex survey, toy sales spike among childless adults, lesbian mask feuds, communism, and more...
Plus: Detroit and the midterms, Amazon bans certain AI agents, and more...
Plus: Warsh's relationship with Trump; Democrats' midterm prospects; pregnancy is apparently a spectrum; and more...
At the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, looking for answers meant an unexpected escort, a Palestine-Mexico protest flag, and a front-row seat to the spectacle.
Inside the first event of its kind, where the end of the world is coming, but the sequins are fabulous.
Plus: Data center backlash, Anthropic job-loss predictions, and more...
The Justice Department’s election integrity tour has turned up nothing, while ignoring the threats to elections that voters actually fear.
Gasoline is up nearly 30 percent, and diesel prices are at a record high since the war began.
Democrats passed over the opportunity to be the sane party in favor of bad people and worse ideas.
"There's no deals that can be made for a cabinet position when you're sacrificing our set of principles in our platform," says Evan McMahon.
Rep. Jimmy Panetta says Democrats have "learned the hard way" that handing over so much tariff authority to the executive branch is a bad idea.
Plus: a partial shutdown over ICE funding, Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed, and Moltbook’s AI society
Democrats had already retained their majority, but by keeping Warnock's seat, they gained even more power in the upper chamber to hinder Republican opposition.
And most of them quietly slunk away afterwards.
What's happening right now in Cochise County, Arizona, should make the passage of the Electoral Count Reform Act even more urgent.
A hobbled Congress isn’t a solution to our woes, but it’s a lot better than lawmakers set loose.
It's still the economy, stupid.
The first female speaker of the House leaves behind a legacy of big government liberalism.
Voters rejected other Republicans who have cozied up to the former president, including Senate candidate Blake Masters and secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem.
New from Reason: a look into what Javier Milei has accomplished and what it will take to make the most of Argentina’s window for real change. Out now for subscribers.
