The House Ethics Committee's findings, combined with Gaetz's lack of relevant experience, again raise the question of why Donald Trump picked him for attorney general.
Bonus: They're unpopular too, according to a new poll.
The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.
Despite campaigning against Donald Trump's tariff hikes, Biden left many of them in place.
The Bulwark's Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell debate Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on choosing a side in politics.
Are New Jerseyans mistaking normal airplanes for mysterious drones?
Plus: House Speaker Elon Musk, the value of the debt ceiling, and D.C.'s shut down specials.
Republicans should not give any more money to the Global Engagement Center.
The president-elect's lawsuit against The Des Moines Register is a patently frivolous and constitutionally dubious attempt to intimidate the press.
Plus: A failed return to regular order, COVID-era spending scandals, and yet another city tries to shut down a local church's homeless shelter.
The Biden administration continued many of the same immigration enforcement measures he lambasted Trump for using.
Capping state and local tax deductions sparked a tax migration that rewarded pro-growth states. Raising the cap now would stall reform where it’s needed most.
The president-elect makes valid points in highlighting potential abuses of prosecutorial power.
Even among Republicans and conservatives, support for the policy comes with caveats.
The host of This Week repeatedly and inaccurately asserted that Trump had been "found liable for rape."
Meador’s nomination is a win for antitrust activism and a blow to economic freedom.
Glenn Greenwald and Elizabeth Price Foley debate Trump v. United States and its implications for presidential powers.
The wave of drone sightings is sparking sci-fi speculation mixed with war fever.
When bureaucrats mislead you, expose them.
If stopping drugs from entering the country is as straightforward as the president-elect implies, why didn't he do it during his first term?
Errol Morris and Jacob Soboroff discuss their new documentary about the family separation policy implemented during Trump’s first term.
Since the president-elect refuses to admit that levies on imports are taxes paid by Americans, he sees no downside to raising them.
The president-elect's pick for FBI director says he rejects some of the right-wing sect's bizarre beliefs but agrees with "a lot of what the movement says."
The Syrian civil war is over, at least for now. But the Biden and Trump administrations both seem keen on shaping the outcome—and U.S. partners are gearing up to invade.
Trump's pick to run the FBI has a long list of enemies he plans to "come after," with the legal details to be determined later.
It looks like we can expect the antitrust assaults to continue.
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Grover Cleveland fought high tariffs as a “communism of pelf.” Trump embraces them as an economic cornerstone.
"We're gonna come after the people in the media," the Trump stalwart warns. "Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out."
Crypto podcaster, writer, and infrastructure investor Nic Carter discusses the role digital assets played in Trump's election, the persecution of Polymarket, and the "enormous spiritual chasm between the right and the left."
Most people don't realize it, but if you're a U.S. citizen, the IRS wants to know about all the money you earn, no matter where in the world you earn it.
Navarro is a crank and a sycophant, so naturally he's going to be one of Donald Trump's top advisors.
A rate cap could leave millions scrambling for alternatives in an increasingly cashless economy.
Trump's picks for FBI director and Middle East adviser buck his trend of appointing superhawks.
Brendan O’Neill discusses his new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation.
Also: New $100,000 challenge grant just dropped!
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.
Ambitious budget cuts will meet political reality in Trump’s second administration.
Joe Biden says his son did not deserve prison for violating firearm laws that the president vigorously defends and has made more severe.
Biden continues a modern trend of presidents who are stingy with the pardon pen.
Plus: Media figures and politicians react to the news, Donald Trump appoints Kash Patel to head the FBI, and more...
Trump is talking about cutting government spending, but that's mostly in Congress' hands.
The policies pushed by some MAGA Republicans sound a lot like the ideas of socialist Democrats.
The attorney general nominee's record as a drug warrior epitomizes the predictably perverse consequences of prohibition.
The incoming administration's plans to use withhholding of federal funds to pressure sanctuary cities are reminiscent of ones that werre invalidated by courts during Trump's first administration.
And higher gas prices will make it more expensive to move goods around the country.
The president-elect's first term turned lobbying into a growth industry, and he looks poised to do it again.
Former CIA analyst Martin Gurri discusses Donald Trump’s political arc, the rise of populism, and the incoming chaos and transformation we cannot foresee.
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