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The DOGE director wildly exaggerates what can be accomplished by tackling "waste, fraud, and abuse" in government spending without new legislation.
Do lawmakers believe they should be trying to make more Christians?
Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional crisis?
Historian Sean McMeekin dissects how communism has enduring and resurgent appeal in the West despite its history of violence and economic disaster.
Plus: Vance's AI speech, bubble boy playgrounds, Delaware antagonizes founders, and more...
For all the money spent on it, the gunshot detection system has a spotty record at best.
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 right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
Fogel's story closely mirrored that of Brittney Griner's. But he did not receive the same urgency from the Biden administration, even though he was arrested six months prior.
The White House's new executive order halts federal purchases of paper straws and calls for the creation of a national anti–paper straw strategy.
"This really is one of the dumbest things we could be doing."
While Trump can't dissolve the department by executive action, getting rid of it through legislation is still a good idea.
When regulations limit what kind of housing can be built, the result is endless arguments about what people really want.
And it's not about "fairness." Quite the opposite, actually.
The president's planned National Garden of American Heroes might be a nice idea, but it would be extremely costly—and unnecessary.
Plus: OpenAI vs. Musk, Eric Adams corruption charges dropped, and more...
It's a good sign that the president is calling on critics of the federal government's lack of transparency to staff his administration.
Plus: A listener asks the editors if there are reasons to be optimistic about the future of freedom in the United States.
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
"I happen to be a tax-and-spend liberal," says Richard Wexler, "but this bill provides not one iota of additional help."
Generative AI is a powerful tool for creativity and speech. Efforts to censor, regulate, and control it threaten America's tradition of open discourse.
Prosecutors claim the case is about coercion. So why isn’t that the charge they are bringing?
One CEO says the uncertainty created by Trump's chaotic trade policies is "reminiscent of the adjustments we had to make during Covid-19."
The E.U.'s Digital Markets Act is making it easier for iPhone users to watch porn.
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
Plus: Steel and aluminum tariffs, Venezuelan sanctions and deportations, and more...
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.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s record shows a troubling pattern of undermining workplace freedom and expanding federal control over state labor policies.
Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.
Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and The Free Press's Eli Lake debate U.S. foreign policy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank.
Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent.
Nearly 40 percent of Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the U.S. through Ellis Island. However, today's migrants may be shut out and deported, a humanitarian tragedy that would profoundly damage the U.S. economy.
"I know they are guilty," otherwise "they would not be in front of me," said town justice Richard Snyder, who resigned in December.
In the early 1990s, Bill Clinton's administration set out to "reinvent" government. What can the mercurial Tesla CEO learn from their efforts?
Some of California's architectural wonders were consumed by the flames.
Much cutting. Very waste. But the Department of Government Efficiency might not have the legal and budgetary chops to actually reduce spending.
Republicans are betting trillions on the hope that the economy will grow fast enough to cover their deficit spree.
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