Trump Criticizes Straw Bans, While His Campaign Sells Trump-Themed Straws for $15
The once noble symbol of resistance to government tyranny is now being used to help get Donald Trump re-elected.
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Anti-Vaping Researchers Claim E-Cigarettes Cause Heart Attacks Before Smokers Try Them
A study suggesting that e-cigarettes double the risk of a heart attack ignored crucial information on timing.
San Francisco Judge Overturns Illegal Warrant Used to Monitor Journalist's Phone
Superior Court Judge Rochelle East says the warrant violated California law.
Pelosi Rejects Plan to Cut Spending by Less Than 0.3 Percent
The federal government will spend $57 trillion over the next 10 years and run an $11 trillion deficit. But cutting spending by $150 billion is too much to ask?
Progressives and Libertarians Team Up to Deregulate Airports
Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Thomas Massie have introduced a bill that would cut federal airport spending while giving airports more freedom to raise their money.
24-Year-Old Booked on Drug Possession Charges Found Dead in Texas Jail
The inmate's death is the most recent in a string of fatalities at the Bexar County Jail.
Bernie Sanders Gets a Lesson in What a $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean
But the campaign workers complaining about their union-negotiated salaries are being hypocritical too.
Why Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Won't Work
Elizabeth Warren says her "ultra-millionaire tax" will raise $2.75 trillion. History says otherwise.
HBO's Terse Share Confuses as Much as It Illuminates
An original movie about sexual trauma doesn't take the easy route.
Thousands Freed from Federal Prison by FIRST STEP Act Reforms
Many benefit from an increase in "good time" credits and from retroactive reductions in crack cocaine mandatory minimum sentences.
The New York Times Says Heat Waves Are Getting Worse. The National Climate Assessment Disagrees.
At least in the lower 48 states.
Trump's Message: If You Hate Me, You Hate America, and You Should Leave the Country
Lindsey Graham, who once called Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot," seems to agree.
House Passes $15 Minimum Wage Bill
Plus: Portland mulls an anti-mask law, solar companies hoard panels before tax credits expire, and 2020 candidates have some plans.
As Politics Get Shaken Up, a Peace Coalition Emerges
It's refreshing to see many conservatives abandon their kneejerk support for militarism, and nice to watch Joe Biden be held accountable for his support for the Iraq blunder.
Republicans Are the Party of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
If Mark Sanford wants to run a presidential campaign on restraining federal spending, he's in the wrong party.
Rush Limbaugh Abandons Fiscal Conservatism
The pundit heavily criticized President Obama for excessive spending. Now he says it doesn't matter.
Joy Behar Has No Idea What the ACLU Does or That Hate Speech Is Protected Under the First Amendment
Donald Trump is far from the only person who doesn't understand the Bill of Rights.
San Francisco Has Ditched Its Dumb 'IPO Tax' (For Now)
The tax was actually on much more than initial public offerings of stocks, and likely would have driven the next generation of startups to locate somewhere else.
Russian Researcher Plans To Gene-Edit Embryos To Cure Deafness
Is that kind of gene-editing unethical?
Judge Rules Florida Can Require a License To Give Out Diet Tips
No diploma, no making money telling people how to eat better.
The Washington Post 's Simplistic Assumption That More Opioid Prescriptions Mean More Drug Overdoses Is Demonstrably Wrong
The causes of opioid-related deaths are more complicated than "too many pain pills."
Berkeley, California Will 'Degenderize' Its Municipal Code, Getting Rid of Words Like 'Manhole' and 'Ombudsman'
The progressive bastion is trying to make its laws more inclusive, semantically at least.
Facebook's Libra Yields Before Congress. Bitcoin Can Never Be Controlled.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez will never get to interrogate Satoshi Nakamoto.
Corey Atchison Freed After Serving 28 Years for a Murder He Didn't Commit
His case reminds us that the misuse of government power is still the biggest threat to liberty.
Child Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Down Under Trump
For the second year in a row, federal prosecutions for sex trafficking of children have dropped.
Trump's Asylum Ban Violates Standing American Law
It is unlikely to withstand legal scrutiny
Dennis Prager, Who Boasts 1 Billion Video Views a Year, Decries YouTube 'Censorship'
The pundit made the claim at a Senate hearing on allegations of tech censorship against conservatives.
The New Conservative Nationalism Is About Subverting Individual Liberty
If big government is the price of "good outcomes," the American right is increasingly willing to pay it.
Rand Paul Was Right to Delay Vote on Funding Bill for 9/11 First Responders
The Kentucky senator wants the Senate to consider offsetting spending cuts before approving limitless, automatic spending for the rest of the century.
Unemployment, Underemployment, and the Comprehensive Jobless Rate
When it comes to the health of the labor market, we don’t know the full story.
Peter Thiel Explains the New 'National Conservatism'
In short, it's using the power of the state to punish his enemies and make the world the way he wants it to be.
New York Passed Sweeping, Progressive Rental Regulations. Now It's Getting Sued.
Landlords are suing to overturn state rental regulations that limit how much they can charge tenants and who they can rent to.
American Manufacturing Is Growing, but Trump's Tariffs Aren't the Reason Why
A new report shows that American imports from Asia continue to grow, although the tariffs might be responsible for shifting some manufacturing from China to Vietnam and elsewhere.
Rhode Island Is the Latest State To Abolish Onerous Hair-Braiding Licensing
Previously, hair braiders were required to spend 1,500 hours taking cosmetology classes.
Rand Paul Wants To Be Trump's Man in Iran. That Would Be Good News for Peace.
Serving as an alternative voice to the likes of Lindsey Graham and John Bolton could keep the U.S. out of unnecessary wars.
Renegade University's Thaddeus Russell Wants To Blow Your Mind
This historian and online-education entrepreneur says runaway slaves, ladies of the evening, bootleggers, and other dropouts and discontents made America free.
John Paul Stevens Was a 'Liberal Champion,' Except When He Wasn't
The late Supreme Court justice was an inconsistent defender of civil liberties.
How Justice John Paul Stevens Shaped—and Misshaped—American Law
The retired Supreme Court justice has died at 99.
Bernie Sanders Thinks Medicare for All Could Cost $40 Trillion
The cost of single-payer would dwarf the price of Obamacare.
Was Chris Pratt Criticized for a 'White Supremacist' T-shirt? Not Really
A handful of dumb tweets do not a story make.
Amash: Republicans Defending Trump Are 'Hurting Themselves and They're Hurting the Country'
A new book gives insight into Amash's breakup with the Republican Party, which was well underway before Amash said Trump should face impeachment proceedings.
Washington Supreme Court Says Obesity Is a Disability
"It is illegal for employers in Washington to refuse to hire qualified potential employees because the employer perceives them to be obese."
Democrat Rep. Al Green Moves To Impeach Trump for his Attacks on 'The Squad'
Plus: Planned Parenthood's CEO is terminated, the Trump administration drains the swap, and Chelsea Manning is hit with more fines.
British Members of Parliament Do All Their Sneaky Plotting on WhatsApp
But they would prefer to be able to snoop on civilians who use the encrypted chat app.
