Trump's New Travel Ban: Mean and Senseless
It will do nothing to Make America Safe Again
Donald Trump
Katherine Mangu-Ward: Using Race to Drum up Criminal Justice Outrage Is A-OK
Reason editor in chief steps into The Fifth Column.
Trump Nominates Libertarian-Minded Texas Justice Don Willett to U.S. Appellate Court
Willett picked to fill vacancy on U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
Trump Waives Jones Act for Puerto Rico for 10 Days. That's Good, but It's Not Enough.
Congress needs to vote to stop protecting shipping cartel from market competition.
Jones Act Protectionism Is Why Tax Reform Is Probably Doomed to Fail (UPDATE: It's Waived!)
If you can't change a single lousy law in the face of humanitarian crisis, how are you going to take on the tax code's thousands of special-interest blocs?
In Stunning Reversal, Trump Gives Up on Private Sector Infrastructure Investments
Libertarians have increasingly little to like about his presidency.
Puzder on Minimum Wage, Automation, and Withdrawing as Trump's Labor Secretary Nominee
The former fast food restaurant CEO says a $15 wage floor steals opportunities from entry-level workers.
Trump's Latest Travel Ban Is Just As Legal but Not Much Smarter
The president did not need Venezuela and North Korea to make his order constitutional.
Federal Relief to Puerto Rico Won't Include Waiving Law That Drives up Import Costs
Administration says it will not reduce effects of the anti-free-trade Jones Act.
9 Lessons from the Trump/NFL Anthem Wars
Let's start by allowing unwitting taxpayers to quit financing a lucrative entertainment industry.
Trump's New Travel Ban Is More Incoherent and Just as Useless As the Old
Throwing North Korea and Venezuela on the list doesn't make it less discriminatory or America more safe
Judge Napolitano on Whether the Trump/NFL Feud Is a First Amendment and/or Free Speech Issue
The real 'Free Speech Week' kicks off on tonight's Kennedy, featuring Robby Soave, Matt Welch, Kat Timpf, Charles C.W. Cooke, and the Judge
Screw Donald Trump—Go Ahead, Sit During the Anthem: Podcast
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Eric Boehm, and Andrew Heaton discuss the president's NFL feud, Graham-Cassidy, and tax reform.
Why We Need To Shrink the National Debt, And Fast!
Too much debt slows economic growth and reduces living standards.
There's Nothing Funny About Trump's Troubling Policing Edicts
The president is sending a message that law enforcement has more latitude now to bend and break the rules.
Donald Trump Should Stop Telling NFL To Fire Players for Anthem Protests
Public workplace (and schoolhouse) protests are as American as apple pie.
The Hillary Clinton School of Literary Criticism
The former first lady, senator, and secretary of state interprets the classics.
We Read Hillary's Book So You Don't Have To
Clinton takes complete ownership for how her actions are all your fault.
Trump's Selective Sovereignty Is Par for the Course in U.S. Foreign Policy
The president's "principled realism" promises more restraint than he has delivered so far.
Show Business Patter Aside, Trump's a Fairly Conventional Militarist
How Trump's UN speech fits into his foreign policy.
No, Donald Trump, America's Trade Deal With South Korea Isn't Costing U.S. Jobs
Pulling out of the deal would hurt American workers in factories, farms, and tech centers. It would also drive up costs for consumers.
Congress Does Not Want Its War Power
A Senate vote shows that even Trump critics are happy to let the president use the military as he pleases.
Thanks, Obama, for That Unaccountable System of Deadly Drone Strikes!
Now that it's in Trump's hands, even the illusion of responsibility is fading.
Trump Let a Kid Mow the White House Lawn. Idiot Asks: What About Child Labor Laws?
We have come to see childhood only through the lens of danger.
Dave Weigel on the Democrats' Bernienomics, Trump's DACA Switcheroo, and Hillary's Surprising Book
The Fifth Column interviews the ex-Reasoner about this week's political controversies
Justin Amash on Government Spending: 'It's Looking as Bad as Any Time I've Seen Since I've Been in Congress'
President Trump and his congressional collaborators get set for a free-spending fall, warns the libertarian congressman
The Real Boobs Are People Who Think ESPN Must Fire Jemele Hill
Sorry Donald Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Clay Travis: the First Amendment isn't an issue here.
Rand Paul: 'I Think President Trump's Instincts Are Still Leaning Against Major Involvement in Foreign War With Great Land Forces'
Kentucky senator talks about his vote on intervention-authorizations, says John McCain "has never met a war he wasn't interested in getting the U.S. involved in," and worries about "these generals whispering in" Trump's "ears every day."
Environmental Protection Agency
How Obama's EPA Nearly Bankrupted John Duarte's Farm
A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use.
Better Relations with Russia Should be Welcomed, Not Feared
It's OK to seek better relations with foreign countries.
Congress to Trump: Reform Surveillance Authorities or Lose Them
FBI, Intel want broad snooping powers to stay intact. That may not be an option.
If Democracy Is Doomed, Don't Blame the Russians
Fishy Facebook ads do not undermine the integrity of the electoral process.
'The New Center' Is Full of the Same Old Worship of a Powerful Federal Government
This is not the antidote to Trump. This is not an "alternative" to anything.
South of the Border: Mexican Populist Presidential Candidate Runs Against Trump While Copying His Campaign
Andrés Manuel López Obrador is running a populist campaign aimed at those left behind by globalization and angry at the country's elites. And he might win.
The Times Thinks Deregulation Is Meddling If It Helps Religious People or Gun Owners
The paper says loosening rules "runs counter to the Trump administration's less-is-more credo about government meddling."
Nicholas Sarwark on the Future of the Libertarian Party
Trump is 'the best recruiting tool for the Libertarian Party we've ever had.'
At Least Have the Basic Courage and Decency to Call an 'Amnesty' an 'Amnesty'
Evasive language isn't helping solve our dysfunctional immigration system.
Putin Warns: Don't Push North Korea Into 'Dead End'
He's right. But he shouldn't leave diplomatic efforts to the U.S.
Trump, Pelosi, and Schumer Are Besties: The Case Against Bad Bipartisanship
The president and congressional Democrats just worked together on a bad debt ceiling and budget deal.
Once Dovish-Sounding Trump Getting Very Bad Foreign Policy Advice
The president increasingly sounds like his national security advisor, H.R. McMaster. And that isn't good.
Libertarian Comedian Dave Smith on the Alt-Right, Christopher Cantwell, and How the Left 'Went Off the Rails'
Bernie Sanders vs. Ron Paul is "the difference between a propagandist and a truth teller."
DACA Immigrants Shouldn't Be Punished for Obama's Hubris
Obama was wrong to act alone, but these peaceful, educated, assimilated immigrants should be an easy sell.
Justice Department Takes Baker's Side in Gay Wedding Cake Case Before Supreme Court
Trump administration argues the First Amendment protects right to decline.
