Congress Does Not Come Back With a Warrant
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
The leading possibilities are all problematic in one way or another.
Reproductive freedom initiatives are advancing toward November ballots, putting the matter of abortion access in voters' hands.
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Matt Yglesias and Bryan Caplan offer contrasting theories. But neither fully works.
Olson explains why the idea of widespread noncitizen voting is a myth.
"There's all these illiberals on the left, there's all these illiberals on the right, and yet liberalism endures," says the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
Neighborhood character, three-judge district court panels, and a moldy office.
The team's owner, John Fisher, may have overestimated Las Vegas residents' enthusiasm for a new baseball team.
Wealthier Americans pay a record share of federal taxes, but voters (and President Joe Biden) believe they're freeloading.
Plus: Joe Biden pushes through new background checks for gun purchases, O.J. Simpson dies, NA beer takes D.C., and more...
Fight back through better information and discourse, not by empowering the government.
The case hinged on statutory interpretation, not the merits of the state's 1864 ban.
Vance's latest gambit is pretty nonsensical, intellectually embarrassing, and obviously self-serving. But that doesn't mean that it's not dangerous too.
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Survey data shows relatively infrequent voters are significantly more likely to support the Trump-era GOP than those who vote more often. Will this change traditional left and right-wing attitudes towards mandatory voting and other policies intended to increase turnout?
Plus: Defunding NPR, defending Lionel Shriver, and more...
Too many people think democracy works only if they get to dominate their opponents.
A similar law in California had disastrous consequences.
His embrace of federalism is one of those rare instances when political expedience coincides with constitutional principles.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
Sen. Tim Scott introduced a bill Monday to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's action by invoking the Congressional Review Act.
Plus: Trump's abortion principles, celebrating Larry David, a bizarre Chechnyan music crackdown, and more...
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.
The former and would-be president is keen to avoid alienating voters who reject both kinds of extremism on the issue.
The new plan is much less ambitious than the president's 2022 blanket forgiveness effort, mostly relying on an expansion of previous smaller-scale debt cancelation schemes.
As remote work becomes the new normal, Mississippi's insistence on an archaic 50-mile radius for real estate supervision faces scrutiny.
Plus: The Vatican talks gender theory, Chinese nationals react to pirated 3 Body Problem episodes, and more...
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
A new movement promoting scientific, technological, and economic solutions to humanity's problems emerges.
Columnist Joe Nocera debates Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
The amended bill applies only to schools, polling places, and certain government buildings.
Student loan forgiveness, critical infrastructure, and inexcusable incompetence.
The Turkish government tried to hand over a mayorship to someone who only got 27 percent of the vote. Residents just weren’t having it.
The 35-year-old Texan formerly known as Dustin Ebey voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and says the national debt is America's biggest problem.