The president-elect was a crony capitalist businessman. Now he's set to become a crony capitalist politician.
Nestled deep in the Investigatory Powers Bill is the authority to mandate encryption "back doors."
The Southern Poverty Law Center says yes, predictably.
The anti-tobacco crusade says it wants to reduce smoking, but it's also interested in increasing revenue, a competing interest.
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Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, that's who. Does this make Obama look like a chump for nixing Keystone XL?
New law aims to reduce bovine flatulance, but will the cows obey?
Climate model projections of wheat yields are just stupid
The 'California Rule' is a staple of public sector retirement systems, but could this be its undoing? Many states and cities should hope so.
Banned in 1985, the "empathogen" could be legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst as soon as 2021.
From Bernie to Hillary, from Trump to the chumps in Congress, we used the spectacle of politics to argue about the substance of policy.
The president plans to do something about it "as a private citizen."
Government spending and crony capitalism are out of control, and few people bother to go to Washington to ask for spending cuts.
Even in states that have legalized marijuana, using it means sacrificing your right to armed self-defense.
CPSC order that effectively bans small toy magnet balls overturned by 10th Circuit Court of Appeals over data that the Court finds out of date and overly uncertain.
Massie hasn't met with anyone from the Trump transition team.
Yesterday's terrifying non-shooting at Ohio State exemplifies how the media is anti-gun and anti-freedom.
"The very worst thing reform advocates can do is take their ball and go home."
Trump's choice of education secretary will prompt a fight over who has control.
The cops are accused of driving the boys around the city at high speeds and dropping them off on a random corner and ordering them to walk home.
Ulbricht's team now know of wiped correspondence with what seems to be another corrupt investigator, casting further doubt on the integrity of the digital evidence trail against the convicted Silk Road founder.
Paris climate agreement will reduce global warming by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100
The union may have loved Trump's law-and-order rhetoric, but they don't want to lose funding over cities' refusal to comply with immigration crackdown.
Cryptocurrency vs. tariffs, monetary controls, and red tape.
Cryptocurrency vs. tariffs, monetary controls, and red tape.
PM Modi's demonetization is a scheme to rob private enterprise, just like his socialist predecessors did.
Ceola Waddell Jr.'s "landmark" has been carted away by the city's Department of Sanitation.
Sheketha Holman was tased while in her wheelchair after video recording officers arresting her daughter. She claims she was tased again while handcuffed.
Backwards-looking attitudes about race, religion, and sex have been a hallmark of the Republican coalition for decades, and are hardly grounds for Hitler Youth comparisons.
And also because we "promote drug paraphernalia"
Fears that a Trump administration will not be as merciful.
There are reasons to worry about the 11th Circuit judge on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist.
Ultimately, legislation to repeal and replace the health care law will have to be driven by Congress.
The justice Trump admires twice voted to overturn criminal penalties for flag burning, which Clinton later tried to reinstate.
Or maybe spend a year in jail.
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