The Government Fears This Privacy Tool
The Department of Justice indicted the creators of Samourai Wallet, an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously.
The Department of Justice indicted the creators of Samourai Wallet, an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously.
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Private unions have every right to exist, but that doesn't mean they're actually beneficial on net.
President Biden is holding up a shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel, after months of resisting any conditions on U.S. aid to Israel.
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Biden has not delivered on his promise to decriminalize marijuana.
Due to persistent glitches in the financial aid form, Gov. Jim Justice issued an executive order lifting the FAFSA requirement for several state grants.
And for good reason: Even at 3.5 percent, inflation is running higher than it did in almost every year for three decades before 2021.
No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode of transportation that is actually quite energy efficient.
If businesses don't serve customers well, they go out of business. Government, on the other hand, is a monopoly.
Let's just call this what it is: another gimmick for Congress to escape its own budget limits and avoid having a conversation about tradeoffs.
Net neutrality rules have been instituted and repealed multiple times in the past 15 years, and yet internet use has thrived in each scenario.
There are no good sides in today's Supreme Court case concerning the EMTALA and abortion.
The needless complexity of affordable housing programs are hurting people they're supposed to help.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson worked with President Biden to push through a $95 billion foreign military aid package—most of which goes to the American military-industrial complex.
The new rules allow students to be found guilty of assaulting a classmate without ever seeing the full evidence against them.
If higher tariffs were the solution to anything, wouldn't there be evidence of that by now?
The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act would prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from purchasing data that they would otherwise need a warrant to obtain.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
U.S. need for Australia’s cooperation in the Pacific may win the journalist’s release.
Washington quietly funded Israeli-Iranian proxy wars for years. Now American men and women are directly involved.
Wealthier Americans pay a record share of federal taxes, but voters (and President Joe Biden) believe they're freeloading.
President Biden said that we will “do all we can to protect Israel’s security” after Israel killed an Iranian general.
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Despite their informal nature, those norms have historically constrained U.S. fiscal policy. But they're eroding.
Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in March and the annual inflation rate ticked up to 3.5 percent, the highest rate seen since September.
Sen. Tim Scott introduced a bill Monday to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's action by invoking the Congressional Review Act.
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The new plan is much less ambitious than the president's 2022 blanket forgiveness effort, mostly relying on an expansion of previous smaller-scale debt cancelation schemes.
Joe Biden is the latest of a string of presidents to deny Congress its rightful role in war making.
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Instead, the White House is pushing for similar job-killing regulations on the national level.
Breaking down Rubio's factually flawed and logically incoherent call for more government involvement in the economy.
These handouts will flow to businesses—often big and rich—for projects they would likely have taken on anyway.
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The U.S. is dispensing munitions to Ukraine and Israel faster than they can be replaced.
Requiring two-person crews on freight trains wouldn't have prevented the East Palestine disaster. It's simply a giveaway to Biden's labor union allies.
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Government officials seek to shape the economy to the liking of politicians.
The U.S. is dispensing munitions to Ukraine and Israel faster than they can be replaced.
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The question of how best to measure inflation has no single and straightforward answer, but most people know that the president's economic claims aren't true.
The best time to repeal the Foreign Dredge Act was before the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. The next best time to repeal it is right now.
They should keep in mind that Jen Psaki exists.