Trump, Harris Ads Make Clear They Won't Be Cutting Government
Both candidates are making a final big government, populist pitch to undecided voters.
Both candidates are making a final big government, populist pitch to undecided voters.
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As millions of Christians plan to sit out the election, church leaders face tough choices about how to inspire their congregations without violating the law.
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While it is not true that "homicides are skyrocketing," recent trends in other kinds of violent crime are murkier.
Rick Pildes offers cautionary notes about specualtive fear-mongering about the administration of the 2024 election.
Drew Johnson wants to help define the post-Trump GOP.
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Legal scholar Michael Ramsey points out another way courts could reject Trump's plan to use the act as a tool for peacetime mass deportation.
The former president's authoritarian tendencies are alarming enough without inventing new outrages.
Reason's Billy Binion speaks with political pundit and podcaster Meghan McCain.
These policies may sound good on paper—but they would be disastrous in reality.
Although the framing is a transparent political ploy, it is reassuring to see that the vice president has not abandoned her opposition to the federal ban.
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Similar price hikes would hit smartphones, laptops, tablets, and televisions.
How U.S. presidents habitually use—and abuse—pronouns to deceive.
The plan is illegal. But courts might refuse to strike it down based on the "political questions" doctrine.
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
It's fundamentally different from what Republicans have tried to do, but similar enough to be worrisome.
The former president's increasingly lopsided economic policy proposals have the feel of throwing spaghetti at the wall.
This election is all about pursuing short-term political highs while willfully ignoring long-term problems. What could pair better with that than a cigarette?
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The Libertarian Party National Committee, meanwhile, is seeking to remove the secretary.
Donald Trump's plan for massive tariff increases is particularly dangerous because the White House could likely implement it without any new congressional authorization.
Yes. But there might be one more key opportunity to rein in presidential powers over trade.
At its core, the oft-denigrated decision revolved around whether the government can censor information leading up to an election.
Patrick Ruffini and Ruy Teixiera talk about how the U.S. electorate has changed in the last four years.
The candidate’s protectionism offsets some otherwise positive tax ideas.
Both presidential candidates (and their running mates) seem confused about the constraints imposed by the First Amendment.
And it would wreck the economy.
Ryan Walters' strict stipulations make it clear he’s steering Oklahoma schools to purchase Donald Trump’s Bibles at a hefty cost.
That just isn't happening in the United States, no matter what Donald Trump keeps claiming.
A bitter election calls for a cocktail—and a lesson in the lunacy of price controls.
I will be on a panel with Prof. Neil Siegel (Duke) and Prof. Derek Muller (Notre Dame) in a webinar sponsored by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Documentarian Ford Fischer discusses his experience covering the "Stop the Steal" movement, January 6, and what it all means for the future of journalism and democracy.
Each party's candidate is jockeying to be more aggressive on fentanyl, whose use has proliferated as a direct result of government aggression.
The new law should help licensed retailers compete with the black market while mitigating the odor that offends Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
It's easy to snark and mock Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for spreading awful, racist lies. The Democratic ticket should aim to do more.
Conservatives blame Proposition 47 (2014) for higher rates of shoplifting in the state, but the real story is more complicated.
Policy nihilism is consuming the 2024 election.
The narrower version put forward by her campaign is still bad, but much less so than the much broader one floated earlier.
Weak after-the-fact "collaboration" in no way substantiates or justifies cruel allegations against Haitians in Springfield.
An ex-Secret Service agent explains what he thinks left Donald Trump vulnerable to two close-call assassination attempts within two months.
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.