Trump Urges Governors To 'Dominate' Protestors With More Aggressive Tactics
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton is asking the military to commit war crimes against American citizens. Trump approves!
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton is asking the military to commit war crimes against American citizens. Trump approves!
President Donald Trump announced a significant escalation of his administration's conflict with the Chinese government—a conflict that is increasingly looking less like a trade war and more like a cold war.
The right's response to the coronavirus lockdowns brings out a longstanding American paradox.
Thank god for the First Amendment and the feuds among powerful politicians and platforms that will keep free speech alive.
Plus: unrest in Minneapolis, Twitter labels Trump tweet, and more...
Weak reforms to the government’s power to secretly snoop on Americans wasn’t enough for the president. What happens next?
Plus: the weird new battle lines on warrantless surveillance, more CDC incompetence, Minneapolis on fire, and more…
National security journalist Barton Gellman talks about "the surveillance-industrial state," the possibility of a Biden presidency or a second Trump term, and his gripping new book.
Barton Gellman's new book is a riveting account of exposing NSA excesses to the light of the day.
A former Bush Administration Justice Department official responds to Judge Michael Luttig's critique of Judge Sullivan.
Competent responses to the crisis have come from people and organizations voluntarily helping each other and themselves.
Will they keep it in mind even if Joe Biden becomes president?
On crime, drugs, immigration, and foreign policy, his 44-year policy record is a cautionary tale of bipartisanship in response to perceived crises.
And why does he think he has the power to do that?
The longtime activist believes in open immigration, free trade, ending the drug war, and bringing all troops back home immediately.
Congress created inspectors general to be watchdogs, but it's too weak-willed to protect those watchdogs from retaliation.
The longtime activist is the front-runner for the L.P. presidential nomination and has a special message to young people.
Two economists calculate that U.S. farms lost $14 billion because of retaliatory tariffs, while South American countries boosted their exports by $13 billion to fill the gap.
The president is always in her prayers.
People insisted the wiretapping of Carter Page was perfectly normal. That turned out to be wrong.
Plus: Washington, D.C., extends its lockdown and U.S. COVID-19 cases might finally be declining.
His mixed immigration record might be good for a Republican, but it's not exactly impressive for a Libertarian.
The Supreme Court weighs the congressional subpoena power in Trump v. Mazars.
Is COVID-19 bringing the mythology of America as a nation of immigrants to an end? Q&A with The New York Times' Jia Lynn Yang
There is a difference between reporting facts that make the president uncomfortable and manufacturing facts to fit a preconceived view of him.
Why the Supreme Court can rule in favor of Congress in the Trump financial records cases without thereby giving Congress any unlimited power.
There was a potentially pivotal exchange in today's Supreme Court oral argument over the House subpoenas seeking the President's financial records.
Plus: Most people started practicing social distancing well before the government forced them, Elon Musk plans to defy lockdown orders, and more...
There are a lot of reasons to critique the attorney general. Find one that doesn’t require misleading your audience.
"I think you'll find that I'm the normal guy, the regular guy," Amash told HBO's Real Time host. "These other two guys are the buffoons."
No amount of psychoanalyzing can disguise the grim choice facing voters this fall.
An abuse of power that doesn't violate federal fraud statutes can still be an impeachable offense - and still violate other criminal law.
Feds now say the national security advisor's lie wasn’t “material” and they cannot prove it.
The USA Freedom Act expired in March. Some senators are pushing for better privacy protections before the renewal vote.
After failing to frame Robert Mueller, Elizabeth Warren, and others for sexual misconduct, the infamous Trumpster hoaxers tried to go after Fauci. But the woman they hired to play the victim had second thoughts.
The president is pushing the same protectionist policies he has always favored.
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and double standards, as discussed on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
If you’re invoking an obscure law designed for the purpose of punishing political adversaries, don’t be surprised when it backfires.
The latest in a long series of setbacks to the adminstration's efforts to pressure sanctuary jurisdictions by attaching conditions to federal grants.
The Libertarian presidential hopeful makes his case for your vote.
No, the United States is still not able to test all those that it should.
The Michigan congressman on why Donald Trump is too erratic, Joe Biden is too old, and his vision of a freer country.
The Libertarian congressman and presidential hopeful says both Biden and Trump "are disqualified if they've engaged in some kind of assault, especially a sexual assault."
Those claiming that the pandemic means Trump's restrictions are here to stay, regardless of the November elections, are being too pessimistic.
Agents regularly attempt to catch suspects in lies to threaten them with prosecution, even when they can’t prove underlying crimes.
The Michigan congressman's run for the White House will change the Libertarian Party and national politics.
Plus: Justin Amash seeking L.P. nomination, pandemic hasn't halted FDA war on vaping, and more
Also included is an "alternative facts" narrative of federal government testing screw-ups since January.
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