Philippine President Says Trump Supports His Murderous Antidrug Campaign
The president-elect "understood the way we are handling it," says Rodrigo Duterte.
The president-elect "understood the way we are handling it," says Rodrigo Duterte.
The billionaire bully chafes at the restrictions imposed by the First Amendment.
And the potential for Trump to abuse the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is huuge.
The cure for bad speech is more speech. The cure for bad jokes is … maybe better jokes?
Trump ran as a change candidate. Now he's taking personnel recommendations from Sen. Schumer, who has been serving in Congress since 1981.
What could President Trump really do to punish American companies for moving abroad? Well, Congress might try to replace global corporate taxation with a 20% VAT-style levy on everything sold inside the U.S.
Not quite an unprecedented break in protocol.
Most presidents distrust the news media. Trump wants to undermine it as an institution.
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The author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels on global warming, fracking, Ayn Rand, and the president-elect.
Incorrect conventional wisdom never dies.
The GOP drops the pretense of being a free-market party.
The publisher of the "Mohammed cartoons" and editor of Reason.com talk about threats to expression in politics, culture, and social media.
President-Elect Trump hasn't really done anything out of the ordinary-not yet.
Will need special permission from Congress because he only retired from the armed forces in 2013.
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Obama's legacy of expanding executive branch power now includes "limitless targeting" anywhere in the world.
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President-elect Donald Trump reignites a long-settled argument.
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The president-elect was a crony capitalist businessman. Now he's set to become a crony capitalist politician.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says yes, predictably.
From Bernie to Hillary, from Trump to the chumps in Congress, we used the spectacle of politics to argue about the substance of policy.
Government spending and crony capitalism are out of control, and few people bother to go to Washington to ask for spending cuts.
Massie hasn't met with anyone from the Trump transition team.
"The very worst thing reform advocates can do is take their ball and go home."
Trump's choice of education secretary will prompt a fight over who has control.
The union may have loved Trump's law-and-order rhetoric, but they don't want to lose funding over cities' refusal to comply with immigration crackdown.
Backwards-looking attitudes about race, religion, and sex have been a hallmark of the Republican coalition for decades, and are hardly grounds for Hitler Youth comparisons.
There are reasons to worry about the 11th Circuit judge on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist.
Ultimately, legislation to repeal and replace the health care law will have to be driven by Congress.
The justice Trump admires twice voted to overturn criminal penalties for flag burning, which Clinton later tried to reinstate.
Or maybe spend a year in jail.
The president-elect claims he would have won the popular vote if Clinton had not benefited from widespread fraud.
Following Fidel Castro's death, Republicans want to revert to a policy that failed for half a century.
The GOP nominee can't stop praising the Russian leader's authoritarianism.
Obvious cronyism vs. the 10th Amendment
Allison wants to repeal all Dodd-Frank regulations, which didn't fix the problem of banks being "too big to fail."
Independent candidate says Republican Party 'can no longer be considered the home for conservatives,' despite all voting evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, did his ballot exclusion tip Florida away from Hillary Clinton?
The likely next ambassador to the United Nations might be a rising GOP star, but she hasn't been very vocal on international affairs.