Matt Gaetz's Personality Irked His GOP Colleagues. There Are Better Reasons To Oppose His Nomination.
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
Even before the pandemic spending increase, the budget deficit was approaching $1 trillion. The GOP has the chance to embrace fiscal sanity this time if they can find the political will.
If Musk is truly serious about fiscal discipline, he'll advise the president-elect to eschew many of the policies he promised on the campaign trail.
Voters say they want to "stop the madness." Expect the madness to continue.
The Trump campaign is all in on RFK Jr.'s debunked anti-vax crusade.
Even the poorest citizens of free countries fare better than the middle classes in economically repressive nations.
From 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis moments keep reshaping the political landscape.
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.
Plus: Massachusetts NIMBYs get their day in court, Pittsburgh one-step forward, two-steps back approach to zoning reform, and a surprisingly housing-heavy VP debate.
On Call, Anthony Fauci's new memoir, can't disguise the damage caused by his COVID-19 policies.
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.
Reason's Nick Gillespie asked former President Donald Trump about how he plans to bring down the national debt.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
The Meta CEO says his platforms will not blindly obey the bureaucrats again.
Democrats campaigning both on their pandemic record and minding your own damn business: Pick one.
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 2-1 decision overrules a trial court decision that went the other way, and could set an important property rights precedent.
Minnesota used federal taxpayer dollars to cover state workers' parking costs, fund the Minnesota Zoo, and teach minority-owned businesses how to apply for government contracts.
The Minnesota governor actually defended the state's disastrous nursing home policies.
Walz's track record as governor includes pushing for higher taxes, legalizing marijuana, and asking neighbors to spy on one another during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When those on parole or probation are included, one out of every 47 adults is under “some form of correctional supervision.”
It's good to hear a candidate actually talk about our spending problem. But his campaign promises would exacerbate it.
According to a new report, the average eighth-grader needs over nine months of extra school time to catch up with pre-COVID achievement levels.
Author Matt Ridley debates virologist Stephen Goldstein on the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
Even the mask mandators are done with once-ubiquitous pandemic precautions.
The Parent Revolution author on lockdowns, teachers unions, and voter rage.
Opening night of the Republican National Convention programmed a central issue with a Trumpian twist: "Make America Wealthy Again."
Even if EcoHealth's "basic research" in Wuhan didn't cause the pandemic, it certainly failed in its mission to stop it.
Most officer retirements happened in 2021, and there is no evidence showing cities with more intense protests saw a greater number of officer exits.
The U.S. has successfully navigated past debt challenges, notably in the 1990s. Policymakers can fix this if they find the will to do so.
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
"The past is there to teach us what can happen," the Hardcore History podcaster tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
In between insanities, the erratic Republican was considerably more right about COVID-19 policy in September 2020 than the smug Democrat or the scoldy journalist.
The candidate who grasps the gravity of this situation and proposes concrete steps to address it will demonstrate the leadership our nation now desperately needs. The stakes couldn't be higher.
The verdict in Murthy v. Missouri is a big, flashing green light that jawboning may resume.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
"It’s not like public health is infallible," the Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration author tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
Just the latest development in the continuing saga of COVID stimulus fraud.
The Biden administration says its new guidance will make pandemic research safer. Critics say it suffers the same flaws as past, failed gain-of-function regulations.
A covert U.S. military social media campaign was an exercise in profound hypocrisy.
Sen. Rand Paul explains why FOIA litigation shouldn’t have been necessary to find this out.
Washington keeps getting caught pushing the kind of disinformation it claims to oppose.
The president has tried to shift blame for inflation, interest rate hikes, and an overall decimation of consumers' purchasing power.
Government school advocates say competition "takes money away" from government schools. That is a lie.
Bhattacharya explains the stakes of Murthy v. Missouri, the politicization of medical research, and his RFK Jr. endorsement.
At yesterday's congressional hearing, the former NIAID director played word games and shifted blame in an effort to dismiss credible claims that his agency funded work that caused the pandemic.