By demanding that the Justice Department punish the former FBI director for wronging him, the president provided evidence to support a claim of selective or vindictive prosecution.
At first, Cairo looks as if someone pressed pause on the city mid-construction.
Trump’s trade war is hitting wineries, distillers, and distributors with product shortages and soaring costs—leaving customers to pick up the tab.
"She was a behind-the-scenes character who was propping up [Timothy] Leary," says the author of The Acid Queen.
Five plaintiffs are arguing that several mass immigration arrests in the nation’s capital were made without probable cause.
The FBI director's portrayal of the case exemplifies the emptiness of his promise that there would be "no retributive actions" against the president's enemies.
When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict, what exactly are they conserving?
Trump railed against migrant crime abroad but skipped U.S. stats—because immigrants here are locked up far less often than native-born Americans.
There is ample evidence to suspect prosecutors are just doing President Trump's dirty work rather than following the facts of the case.
The bailout would simply redistribute wealth from American businesses and consumers to farmers. Here's a better idea: end the tariffs.
The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Amazon in its yearslong lawsuit against the company for "dark patterns" in Prime sign up and cancellation.
By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating Americans’ rights.
A fascinating, frustrating film that plays to the sympathies of liberal Hollywood. It's sure to win a lot of awards.
Plus: James Comey indicted, some New York schools stripped of funding, NATO being tested, and more...
Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.
There’s an opportunity to abandon bad policies that raise consumer costs and move toward free trade.
Liz Pelly's Mood Machine book bemoans the music giant but overlooks how useful it is for listeners.
Decades after closing state psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. still struggles to “find a middle ground—an institutional arrangement that recognizes both the dignity of the mentally ill and the public’s right to be safe.”
Democrats are vowing to break up media companies that kowtowed to Trump if they take back power.
The decision, which hinges on an exception to the Gun-Free School Zones Act, does not say whether that law is consistent with the Second Amendment.
From the Fairness Doctrine to Nixon’s “raised eyebrow,” government licensing power has long chilled broadcast speech—proving the First Amendment should apply fully to the airwaves.
The Hendry County Sheriff accused Captains for Clean Water of "fuel[ing] hostility and provok[ng] violent rhetoric," but a free speech advocacy group says they were well within the First Amendment.
Peter Thiel warns of a pending one-world totalitarian government—while himself pushing to supercharge the surveillance state.
Plus: Robert Munsch chooses Canadian healthcare, Argentina in trouble, ignoring Greta, and more...
The Supreme Court will soon review the president’s authority to fire “independent” agency heads.
The OECD just published its projections for American growth, and they're grim.
Plus: ICE helps arrest sex workers, the SIM farm "security threat," Waymo car crashes caused by human error, and more...
Filmmaker Dan Krauss explains how U.S. leaders misled the public about Afghanistan, why the media failed to push back, and how money and power kept America’s longest war alive long after it was lost.
In her new book, 107 Days, the former vice president reminds us that she is ever the prosecutor.
Forcing the sale of a social media company for political reasons was always going to be a power grab for the White House—whether its occupant was Democratic or Republican.
Plus: Spyware intercepted, gender desistance findings, trad discourse on those pesky working women, and more...
Nobody should be governed by people who despise them.
History suggests that Republicans will regret letting the FCC police TV programming.
Lawsuits against Oregon and Maine test how far the federal government can go in demanding access to voter information.
Speeches by the president, Stephen Miller, and Tucker Carlson will accelerate dislike of the president’s agenda.
In 2025, momentum behind state-level supply-side housing reforms accelerated almost everywhere.
Congress placed the term in the law but chose not to define it, leaving that task for future regulators.
Plus: Fewer people are betting, and did ABC pick Jimmy Kimmel over the NFL?
Flawed research methods are misleading patients and might embolden prohibitionists. Marijuana has promise in treating certain sorts of discomfort, but some conditions still require powerful narcotics.
Plus: Charlie Kirk's funeral's aesthetics, Kamala Harris' election postmortem, and more...
The president’s attempt to evade the major questions doctrine deserves to be rejected.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand explained exactly how the public interest standard would lead to censorship.
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