How has the fight for freedom changed from January 2017 to December, whether vis-a-vis Trump, Congress, or music? Well for one thing, Star Wars-spoiler norms have gone out the window in the Suderman household....
A federal district court in New York concludes none of the plaintiffs could demonstrate standing in CREW v. Trump
Kosher meatpacking magnate Sholom Rubashkin's prosecution and sentence had long generated cross-partisan outrage.
Lawmakers should be prepared to shutdown the government to escape it
Several Republicans broke ranks to kill the nomination of Rep. Scott Garrett to head the Export-Import Bank.
The tax bill does not deliver the simplification that the president promised.
President Trump seems to think so.
Rhetoric on international relations rarely matches actual U.S. actions.
Recent focus on a few failed trial court nominations obscures impressive record of stellar nominees for appellate courts.
"We are allowing our local police to access surplus military equipment, something the previous administration for some reason refused to do," Trump says. Wrong!
The concern about radicalization by Muslims in the U.S. is a red herring intended to make Americans distrust foreigners and immigration in general.
Are presidential lies pushing us toward a low-trust society?
"It's basically reassembling deck chairs on a really messy and horribly complex system": Q&A with Chris Edwards, CATO's Director of Tax Policy
The president wants the Alabama loser to concede. But using Trump's own (fake) voter-fraud math, he shouldn't.
Sloppy work creates self-inflicted wounds.
Robert Mueller's handling of his investigation is not above criticism, but many critiques miss the mark.
Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
The North American Butterfly Association says Border Patrol agents have harassed employees and damaged property at the National Butterfly Center.
As partisan skepticism degenerates into media illiteracy, in-house media criticism devolves into pompous wagon-circling.
Eugene Volokh runs the most important legal blog in the country. Here's his take on gay wedding cakes, free speech, and President Trump's judicial appointments.
His policy decisions have so far belied his understanding of the public's foreign policy frustration.
A full infrastructure plan is due to be released this January, and will make use of $800 billion in private investment.
Also on the Reason Podcast: Is abortion a good reason to vote for Roy Moore? Did Al Franken get a raw deal? Can the feds smother bitcoin?
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
Why the Trump administration lost in federal court.
In 2017, the left eats its own and the right shows its true colors.
The FBI's handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.
Fiscal hawks, from their perch in the wilderness, predict we may again see 13-digit deficits as soon as next year
Trump's endorsement and the RNC's renewed support coincide with a crescendo of self-contradiction.
The feds still own the land.
The New York Times drives John Stossel crazy. He wants to rip it up, because so many stories have a left-wing bias.
But legal challenges to the ban are still ongoing.
A legal fight involving the alt-right, Trump voters, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful law firms, and the website 4chan is brewing.
This federal law is about punishing the speech of political enemies, not protecting sensitive international negotiations.
Andrew Heaton and Sarah Rose Siskind are the creators of Reason TV's Mostly Weekly, a libertarian answer to The Daily Show and Last Week with John Oliver.
The Senate would lose an authoritarian who wants to crack down on immigrants and fight the drug war. But he's also a hawk in favor of foreign interventions.
Congress should tell him to take a hike.
Expect more raids and more arrests.
Even Trump can't take that away from it
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Liberals and progressives might soon find themselves agreeing with libertarian critiques of the CFPB's unaccountable structure and powerful director.
The International Trade Commission recommends the president impose hefty tariffs on washing machines.
The president says he may campaign for the Republican Senate candidate, notwithstanding credible allegations of sexual assault.
The president's executive order is unconstitutional under the 10th Amendment and the separation of powers.
Contrary to his reputation (and Twitter feed), the president has been selectively trimming executive power.
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