Eli Lake: Trump, Russiagate, and the End of FBI Credibility
The Durham report is a "black eye" for the FBI, leading Democrats, and the media, says Lake.
The Durham report is a "black eye" for the FBI, leading Democrats, and the media, says Lake.
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The U.S. tax system is extremely progressive, even compared to European countries—whose governments rely on taxing the middle class.
Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern with Eli Lake to discuss what the Durham report tells us about the FBI, the media and U.S. politics.
Presidential contender Tim Scott, who announced recently, says he will use "the world's greatest military to fight these terrorists" south of the border. He's not alone.
Sometimes he calls for freedom, and sometimes he preaches something darker.
The FBI's sloppy, secret search warrants should be a concern for all Americans.
The former president reminds us that claiming unbridled executive power is a bipartisan tendency.
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The Supreme Court has accepted certiorari in Carnahan v. Maloney to consider whether members of Congress can sue to force disclosure of information from the General Services Administration.
The former president says he did not solicit election fraud; he merely tried to correct a "rigged" election. And he says he did not illegally retain government records, because they were his property.
He's not wrong about that.
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Title 42 expulsions caused great harm for very little benefit. Biden plans to replace them with a combination of policies, some good and some very bad.
It is not hard to see why the jury concluded that the incident she described probably happened.
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The GOP nominee can forge a humbler path on foreign policy—or turn back to failed neoconservatism.
From Russiagate to COVID discourse, elites in government and the media are trying to control and centralize free speech and open inquiry.
A jury convicted members of the Proud Boys without evidence of an explicit plot, let alone one that most of the rioters were trying to execute.
We can't grow our way out of its ruinous economic impact. The only way forward is to cut spending.
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A decade ago, online startups seemed poised to vanquish legacy media. That didn't happen.
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The Capitalist Punishment author explains his America First 2.0 agenda, how to fix America's identity crisis, and why he no longer calls himself a libertarian.
"Criticism of the president is core political speech protected by the First Amendment," says the students' attorney.
If a national consensus on abortion ever emerges, it won’t be forged in the White House.
The George Washington University historian argues that the group's paranoid mindset and obsessions are front and center in the modern GOP.
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The HBO movie muddies important distinctions.
Critics argue that excessively strict pleading standards prevent plaintiffs with meritorious defamation claims from obtaining the evidence they need to support them.
The plan is unlikely to work, and the government already has a sordid recent history of funneling people into tent cities anyway.
We owe this achievement to a combination of Covid vaccines and Biden Administration policy changes. But much more can be done.
"The truth matters," says Dominion Voting Systems, and "lies have consequences."
Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.
The case against the former president is both morally dubious and legally shaky.
Headlines about the 34 alleged felonies seem to have obscured newly revealed information about the weakness of the charges.
Trump very much deserves to be prosecuted and punished. But the New York case is far more dubious than the other charges likely to be brought against him.
Philip Esformes' case is a story about what happens when the government violates some of its most basic promises.
The continuing ambiguity reflects the legal challenges that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faces in transforming one hush payment into 34 felonies.
Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump has put the once-obscure position of district attorney into the national spotlight.
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The New York charges look weak, and Americans think they’re politically motivated.
Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime.
Trump is charged with 34 criminal counts connected to the payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
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