Iran Will Exceed Nuclear Stockpile Limit in Response to U.S. Sanctions
Plus: Oberlin College must pay $33 million for aiding student activists' defamatory campaign against a local bakery.
Plus: Oberlin College must pay $33 million for aiding student activists' defamatory campaign against a local bakery.
A defense of the conservative sensibility in an era of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
The embattled press secretary will return to Arkansas, according to President Donald Trump.
A majority of Democratic voters now favor free trade. Some of the party's presidential candidates are starting to notice.
Nancy Pelosi's overwrought take on Donald Trump's receptiveness to "oppo research" is hard to take seriously.
Each tariff the president imposes is a tax on Americans.
The United States is currently operating under 32 different national emergencies. This proposal would require Congress approve those declarations within 72 hours, and again after 90 days.
The president's bizarre and counterproductive obsession with tariffs could spell economic catastrophe.
First survey since the libertarian’s impeachment comments shows big lead for pro-Trump challenger
Us vs. Them author Ian Bremmer says that worldwide populism is a response from people who are being left behind economically.
A letter signed by a wide range of scholars with different political and jurisprudential views urges Congress to sue to end illegal US involvement in the Yemen conflict.
And it reveals the major blind spot in Trump's view of how international trade works.
"My intent was to provide them with some basic humanitarian aid."
Jamelle Bouie's counterintuitive recommendation would effectively eliminate constitutional limits on elected officials, including Trump and every demagogue who follows him.
The Senate majority leader says he will not allow a vote on it, despite widespread support for the measure.
The president still has time to avoid the economic damage, but who knows how much political damage he's already done?
So far, the answer is "maybe."
Even if Trump's tariffs go away, the debilitating economic effects are likely to linger for years.
If the tariffs ramp-up all the way to 25 percent, as Trump has threatened, they would be the biggest tax increase since 1968.
Sometimes Dershowitz gives really bad advice
The President's effort to coerce Mexico into blocking the emigration of its own people undermines the distinction between keeping people out and locking them in. It thereby makes US immigration policy analogous to the Berlin Wall.
Americans have long provided migrants with food and water. Why are we now treating that like a crime?
We’ve got so many giveaways, we’re practically giving them away!
Politically. Economically. Diplomatically. Legally. Trump's tariff threat against Mexico is a stunningly stupid maneuver no matter how you look at it.
Plus: unlicensed diet tips in court, California takes aim at independent contractors, and more...
Actions speak louder than words. Trump 's labeling of the media as "the enemy of the people" is bad, but he's not breaking into reporters' homes to find leakers. That's what the San Francisco Police Department did.
And that whole Voting Rights Act justification? Kinda the opposite, actually.
The symposium includes contributions by 16 legal commentators, including VC bloggers Keith Whittington and myself.
The most absurd attack against the Michigan congressman involves ignoring his entire history in office.
Plus: humanitarians face felonies for helping migrants, Huawei scientists banned from reviewing prestigious journal, and more...
As the special counsel steps down, he wants to make sure we understand why he won't accuse President Donald Trump of obstruction.
In another long Twitter thread, the libertarian-ish Michigan Republican says AG Barr "helped further the president’s false narrative about the investigation."
Plus: Brexit triumphs in European Parliament elections and Princeton students want an Office of Intersectional Violence Investigations.
The first court decision on Trump's plan to reallocate federal funds to "build the wall" goes against the administration.
This might seem like nothing more than a snooze-worthy debate over semantics or economic theory or government P.R. strategies. But it matters a lot.
Whether or not you agree with Amash, his demeanor this week stands in stark contrast to how most of Trump's defenders—and the president himself—have reacted to Amash's statements.
Plus: Snowflakes in House Freedom Caucus continue to melt down over Amash comments, Michael Avenatti charged for stealing from Stormy Daniels, and more...
Still, it's better than the administration's previous proposals to cut legal immigration in half.
While the libertarian congressman sheds supporters over impeachment controversy, a trip through the last 30 months shows a history of conflict.
The bill allows dual prosecutions of people in the president's orbit who receive pardons or commutations.
The grounds for removing a president extend beyond statutory violations that could be proven in a criminal trial.
What's the point of a "limited government" bloc that doesn't limit government?
Plus: Democratic candidates still in shock about Daenerys Targaryen
A federal judge rejects the President's attempt to block a Congressional subpoena of his financial records.
The latest bad idea from Bernie Sanders is depressingly popular, sayeth the podcast crew.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.