After Hunter's Pardon, Joe Biden Should Support De-Weaponizing Government Power
Maybe we can all agree that government officials shouldn’t target political enemies.
Maybe we can all agree that government officials shouldn’t target political enemies.
Trump doesn't care much about free market principles or the limits of government power. But he should pay attention to this signal from the stock market.
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Ukrainians may be too exhausted to benefit from the new rules.
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan used the state to achieve political aims that have nothing to do with keeping markets competitive. J.D. Vance has said she's done "a good job."
The Republican senator wants to bring Biden and Trump together to commit American lives to Saudi Arabia in order to "change the region and change the world."
With only months left in his term, Biden wants to forgive the loans of nearly eight million borrowers experiencing "hardship."
Even with burgeoning private sector support, nuclear can’t thrive without regulatory reform.
The Treasury Department tried to stop an overseas conference that included politicians under sanctions. Now they’re backing down.
Under Khan's leadership, the Federal Trade Commission has been bad for business and bad for consumers.
The bipartisan embrace of industrial policy represents one of the most dangerous economic illusions of our time.
Democrats assumed they could campaign as neoconservatives while keeping Middle Eastern votes. They were wrong.
Elections are decided by how people feel, and lots of Americans still feel pretty grumpy about how much it costs to go to the grocery store these days.
Both candidates have promised a litany of special favors to handpicked constituencies. If you don't fit into the right categories, you'll pay the price.
The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
The proposal "could result in higher costs to consumers," the government acknowledges.
The Republican senator said it would “take a Democratic president” to commit American troops to defend the Saudi kingdom, according to a new book.
Is this latest attempt at student debt forgiveness a serious policy or a pre-election ploy?
Both Democrats and Republicans who opposed war with Iran in 2020 are looking the other way while Biden unilaterally sends Americans into one.
Anti-market progressives dominate the Biden administration. Their policies also help discredit it.
Katherine Tai said tariffs were "leverage" against China, but now she admits that China hasn't made "any changes to its fundamental systemic structural policies."
Israel is getting U.S. troops and Saudi Arabia is getting billions of dollars' worth of American weapons.
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When they entered the White House, the budget deficit was a pandemic-influenced $2.3 trillion, and it was set to fall to $905 billion by 2024. It's now twice what it was supposed to be.
That just isn't happening in the United States, no matter what Donald Trump keeps claiming.
American taxpayers underwrite both the Israeli and Lebanese armies. Now they’re shooting at each other.
Many conservatives saw the Abraham Accords as a way to get U.S. forces out of the Middle East. Now the architect of the agreement is pushing for a regime change campaign in Lebanon—and maybe Iran.
The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act would provide outreach and training to Homeland Security Investigations staff.
If the former president wins the 2024 race, the circumstances he would inherit are far more challenging, and several of his policy ideas are destructive.
The financial aid form's rollout was disastrous, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
In demonizing the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump have forgotten what makes an economy work.
American cellphone service providers don’t carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational.
If the Republican Party's presidential candidate can't articulate a supply-side alternative to costly Democratic proposals, then government will get bigger.
Donald Trump believes that endless sanctions on Russia and Iran have serious downsides. So do Kamala Harris’ advisers.
A coalition of Republican-led states allege that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has directed loan servicers to start forgiving student debt as soon as this week.
Will the liars and hacks who covered up Biden's cognitive decline face any consequences?
The Meta CEO says his platforms will not blindly obey the bureaucrats again.
Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.
Both Israeli hostage families and Palestinian Americans want the war to end with a prisoner exchange. But that isn’t moving Democratic policy.
Democrats' official 2024 platform praises President Joe Biden's marijuana pardons but fails to call for decriminalization.
Plus: An appeals court sides with property owners seeking compensation for the CDC's eviction ban, a Michigan court backs the would-be builders of a "green cemetery," and Kamala Harris' spotty supply-side credentials.
The Democratic Party wants to outhawk Republicans, denouncing Trump for deescalating with North Korea and Iran.
A new poll challenges the protectionist narrative currently dominating both sides of the political aisle.
The president is reversing a ban on selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia and advancing taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel.
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