Federal transportation officials said that because New York's congestion tolls were really about raising money for mass transit, they didn't qualify for an exemption from the federal tolling ban.
America’s tax system is already highly progressive. A simpler, flatter structure would be fairer, raise more revenue, and fuel economic growth.
"The only way you get less waste is to give them less money to spend," says the libertarian-adjacent senator from Kentucky.
New Mexico State Police Sgt. Toby LaFave, "the face of DWI enforcement," has been implicated in a corruption scandal that goes back decades and involves "many officers."
While the U.S. publicly insisted on an “open door” policy, Zelenskyy says he was privately told that Ukraine couldn’t join NATO.
Elon Musk claims to have uncovered massive fraud within Social Security, but those data are already well known and not a major problem.
"Hindu mystics" with "swarthy faces and dreamy-looking eyes" once had Uncle Sam in a tizzy.
Wall Street legend Jim O’Shaughnessy discusses how to live well and innovate boldly during the age of Trump, Musk, and AI.
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Scrubbing credit reports won’t erase debt—it will just make borrowing harder for low-income Americans.
Plus: When FOIA stops working, how the pandemic shifted young people to the right, and more...
Snakes. Magic. Orgasmic meditation. And a dubious federal case against the leaders of a supposed sex cult.
Law enforcement acts better when officers know the public is watching.
His position is grounded in concerns about the separation of powers that presidents of both major parties have raised for many years.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to guess if the real reason Donald Trump is so passionate about tariffs is because he sees them as a deal-making tool rather than a purely economic instrument.
Citing Reddit posts and podcast interviews, pseudonymous government employees are arguing that DOGE violated federal privacy regulations when setting up a government-wide email system.
Taxpayers will continue to be hurt twice by misconduct until individual police officers are held accountable.
The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.
We do not need to copy Europe’s bad tax ideas.
The reported order from Britain's Home Office is further proof that governments pose a greater privacy risk than corporations.
From insurance to affordable housing mandates, California's regulatory noose tightens over wildfire rebuilding efforts.
Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did anything wrong.
Plus: Talks with Russia, Zizian death cult leader arrested, and more...
All 194 countries in the World Health Organization imposed COVID travel restrictions. The authors of When the World Closed Its Doors argue it was a failure.
A driver who was acquitted of drunk driving joins a class action lawsuit provoked by a bribery scheme that went undetected for decades.
Margaret Brennan should immediately Google the Weimar Fallacy.
A new study claims addiction is on the rise because internet searches for gambling terms are increasing.
The U.S. is no longer willing to subsidize prosperous countries that won’t defend themselves.
Remember the bee apocalypse? The U.S. reversed that trend. What other trends can we reverse?
To understand the federal government's case against Google Search, you need to understand the different visions over monopoly and government power.
A nationwide tax credit could expand education freedom overnight—but could also open the door to new forms of federal overreach.
Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated.
Misinformation concept creep is getting out of hand.
The Munich Security Conference was supposed to be a foreign policy forum. Instead, the vice president lectured Europeans about democracy.
The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers it set out to protect.
Conway, New Hampshire, is trying to make a local bakery take down a mural of colorful baked goods. The bakery says that violates its First Amendment rights.
Nearly a dozen lawsuits allege that DOGE's access to government payment and personnel systems violates a litany of federal privacy and record-handling laws.
As part of a broader policy shift, the government plans to "start from scratch" regarding the permits.
In Captain America: Brave New World, a power-hungry president makes reckless choices and withholds vital information—but even he looks competent compared to Biden and Trump.
Massachusetts outlawed flavored tobacco. Now, just as criminal justice groups warned, a vape shop owner is serving time.
In the latest guilty plea, a local defense attorney says he had been bribing cops to make DWI cases disappear "since at least the late 1990s."
Despite severe risks and without a crime committed, a Minnesota judge authorized doctors to forcibly administer electroconvulsive therapy—while barring key witnesses from the hearing.
Plus: Possible quid pro quo between the DOJ and Eric Adams, DEI in the federal government, and more...
Subsidizing American farmers is not a valid justification for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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