On Ethics, Trump Is No Obama
The incoming president's business entanglements are going to be a problem.
The incoming president's business entanglements are going to be a problem.
The president has now shortened more sentences than any of his predecessors.
Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and Katherine Mangu-Ward talk about Obama's farewell, Russian "meddling," and The Donald's Inauguration.
James Clapper and John Brennan lied, others behaved horribly in "scandal-free" administration.
In 2009, Barack Obama acknowledged that the Nobel Peace Prize honor was aspirational. In 2017, it still is.
Soho Forum event in Manhattan will be hosted by Gene Epstein, with stand-up from Dave Smith
Eliminating 'Wet Foot/Dry Foot' has been a longtime goal of immigration reformers and restrictionists alike, though Cuban-Americans remain split.
Obama's power grabs are now Trump's precedents.
Gene Epstein of Barron's explains why economic freedom is the best way to improve living standards and why trade barriers are Donald Trump's "worst idea."
Obama sounded the same haughty notes on his way out as he did on the way in.
How Barack Obama amassed power, how Donald Trump is likely to use it, and how we can take it back once and for all.
It's been a parade of aimless interventions and broken promises
From repealing Obamacare to dissecting Buzzfeed, the three-headed podcast is back
Given the administration's treatment of whistleblowers, this would be a big deal.
Washington believed that self-government was the protector of liberty and prosperity. Obama believes that, too-minus the "self" part.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss and debate.
Still, it is always good to have some idea of what tradeoffs proposed policies would impose.
Where were Democrats when Obama was going power-mad? Egging him on, mostly.
Obama is in full legacy-preservation mode in article for Harvard Law Review.
Justice Department data says just 2.2 percent of U.S. women experience even mild stalking behavior each year.
Both the number of bombs and the number of countries being bombed was higher in 2016 than in 2015.
The case for limited government is more compelling than ever.
Administration argues email hacks eroded faith and undermined confidence in government, but doesn't explain how providing voters with more info accomplished that.
How to dodge responsibility, whether you're a candidate or a cop.
Obama's latest executive move, banning offshore drilling in large areas of the Atlantic and Arctic waters, folds neatly into six years of executive control.
Q&A with Cato's Gene Healy on the 44th president's most lasting legacy.
In an NPR interview, the president explained the difference between being polite and being politically correct.
Cheryl Howard received life in prison for crack cocaine. On Monday, her daughter found out she is coming home.
The president warns president-elect against following in his path.
Bemoaning shift on Russia by Republicans, but not his own or that of fellow-travelers.
The constitutional conflict between states and the federal government over undocumented immigrants.
A speech on respecting rule of law and transparency from an administration that did neither.
Matt Welch discusses these issues plus fake news and Thanksgiving poisonings on FBN's Kennedy tonight at 9 pm ET
Obama's legacy of expanding executive branch power now includes "limitless targeting" anywhere in the world.
Predictions of Chinese peak coal consumption appear to have been premature
Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, that's who. Does this make Obama look like a chump for nixing Keystone XL?
The president plans to do something about it "as a private citizen."
Fears that a Trump administration will not be as merciful.
Bipartisan sentencing reforms and falling crime rates have played a much bigger role than commutations or DOJ policy.