Young People Are Richer Than Boomers Were
Despite viral claims, a typical 25-year-old Gen Zer has annual household income that's 50 percent above Baby Boomers'.
Despite viral claims, a typical 25-year-old Gen Zer has annual household income that's 50 percent above Baby Boomers'.
The fight over whether to extend "temporary" health insurance subsidies is really a fight over how best to hide the costs created by the Affordable Care Act.
Civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes recounts her role in Murthy v. Missouri, her opposition to pandemic mandates, and why she believes Trump poses an even greater threat to free speech than Biden.
The lesson isn’t that decriminalization can’t work. It’s that Portland-style governance is broken.
A lot of anti-tech—or anti-Gen Z—screeds only work by romanticizing the past while pathologizing the present and projecting damage on strangers.
“I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,” says Leo Garcia Venegas, the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice challenging warrantless ICE raids on construction sites.
Plus: Addressing "the enemy within," the FTC's pointless meddling, Joy Reid finally understands half the country, and more...
Reason's Peter Suderman and Eric Boehm discuss the government shutdown live at 3 p.m. Eastern time today.
It's bad news for upper-income motorists wanting a deal, but good news for taxpayers.
But crying to a federal judge is no way to negotiate.
Federal officers policing Washington, D.C., on Trump's orders appear to be driving crime down, but the plan is neither constitutionally sound nor viable in the long term.
The legal rationales for prosecuting James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Letitia James suggest the president is determined to punish them one way or another.
The Department of Homeland Security will retain 95 percent of its employees if the government shuts down and remain funded in large part by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Take your opportunities for smaller government where you find them.
As ever, be cautious about what you hear from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Plus: New York's expensive new stove regulations, Los Angeles rent controls, and the housing policy implications of a federal shutdown.
One report found that forcing retiring coal plants to remain open could increase annual electricity costs by $3 billion through 2028.
By installing Stephen Miran and eyeing more allies, Trump is positioning the central bank for aggressive rate cuts and a sharp break from its tradition of independence.
How to change the league so that owners, players, and fans are happier
Plus: Jimmy Kimmel Live! plagues my neighborhood, Hegseth's fancy meeting, Eric Adams gone but not forgotten, and more...
Plus: Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote a book.
Plus: the Comey indictment, Trump deploys the National Guard to Portland, Eric Adams exits New York City's mayoral race, and a listener asks about cyclical theories of history
The administration ordered the federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard members for 60 days, citing the same suspect legal authority used to send troops to California earlier this year.
The agency has been expanding its surveillance capabilities without a public explanation.
Trump exempted imported chips from his reciprocal tariffs in April. Now he's threatening them with 100 percent rates.
The fugitive freedom fighter allied with a government known for imprisoning dissidents, curtailing civil liberties, and forging equality in the sense that people are more equally oppressed.
The order lists "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity" as common threads among "domestic terrorists," though all are protected by the First Amendment.
Once created, a digital ID system will prove catnip to politicians who want to track where we go, online and off.
Echoes of Trump's 2020 delusions are reborn in blue.
Plus: Eric Adams drop out, Assata Shakur gets fawned over, James Comey gets roasted, and more...
The administration is pursuing a vendetta, but Comey and the FBI deserve scrutiny and reduced stature.
A previous pilot program found free access slowed down buses in New York City, which already has the slowest buses in the nation.
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.