Report: Regulation 'Has Essentially Ground to a Halt' Under Trump
The Obama administration submitted 118 new rules in the same time it has taken Trump to make just 39
The Obama administration submitted 118 new rules in the same time it has taken Trump to make just 39
What happens when rhetoric is good but totally divorced from reality, whether the topic is the budget or war?
For politicians lying is an art form.
There's a reason it's supposed to be hard to remove the president.
The president's speech articulates non-interventionist principles despite fiery rhetoric.
But there's going to be some trouble getting to the fine part.
Many of them echo old labor union and Democratic Party complaints about freer trade.
"That's taken off," Trump told the Russians. "I'm not under investigation."
Seditionists quarrel over rumormongering, leaks, abuse of power, deportations, and NATO.
New presidential election integrity advisory commission might actually help despite the delusions on which it is based.
Impeachment? Treason? The president may be reckless, but so is the left's anti-Trump hysteria.
It's more complicated than you think and one method involves a constitutional amendment invoked when presidents get colonscopies.
Where is divided government when you need it?
The research over whether the president attempted to block an FBI investigation kicks in.
That man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectful, self-involved, maybe even dangerous. So?
Department of Homeland Security
What do you get when four people die in your jail? A job in the Trump administration.
Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith on the privatization revolution.
Maybe the president doesn't know enough to break the law.
Presidential budgets have all the legal force of a letter to Santa-they're essentially the White House asking Congress for a pony.
The impeachment cries will grow louder. The White House denies allegations.
His recklessness doesn't necessarily weaken the executive branch. In fact the opposite may be true.
There is no longer any reason to trust anything the president or his surrogates say.
Wary libertarian enthusiasm greets Donald Trump's ambitious regulatory reform agenda
The current occupant of the White House may just be the right guy to deflate excessive expectations for the presidency.
"I get great intel, I have people brief me on great intel every day," Trump said, before sharing too much of it.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss Comey, Trump, Sessions, and the Rock.
In the era of Donald Trump, basic media literacy has never been more necessary.
Republican senators say they want the probably nonexistent recordings of the president's conversations with James Comey.
North Korea poses a greater threat to other major powers like China and Russia than it does to the U.S.
Cloaking government control in the language of benevolence.
And the news media are going along with it.
Reason editor at large joins Killer Mike and Jon Favreau in conversation about Comey, Russia, health care and more
The president abandons a cover story that made liars of his spokesmen.
Once the trust in checks and balances is eroded, it's difficult to regain.
Reminder: Go see Kmele Foster debate collegiate racism in New York on May 16
The libertarian legislator says Trump's letter to Comey was "bizarre."
The U.S. could be on the path to French-style economic sclerosis.
Libertarians and conservatives agree on Trump's judicial picks so far. But how long will the harmony last?
The president's ham-handed efforts to stifle interest in Russia's election meddling have only drawn more attention to it.
By firing the FBI director who was in charge of the Russia investigation, Trump fed the flames licking at his administration.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee need to step up their oversight game
And why they're worried about what might come next
"I think a lot of the uproar is concocted," the libertarian senator tells CNN.
It's time to bring back meaningful Congressional oversight of the executive branch.
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