Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Is Wrong About the Future of Work
If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.
If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.
The president’s double-talk about tariffs reflects his economically ignorant conviction that exports are good and imports are bad.
While Trump prepares another round of aid payments for farmers, Marco Rubio is pushing for tariffs on Mexican fruits and vegetables that will send prices soaring.
This law is always being invoked in order to threaten political opponents, showing how it violates free speech protections.
Biden, like Trump, understands the potential political appeal of "used to be," the warm nostalgia in the hearts and minds of older voters about what they imagine America was before its supposed decline.
The most likely end result of Trump's literal Buy American policy: lots of American farm goods rotting in federal warehouses
Marx “was a champion of free trade, and no friend of tariff barriers.”
So much for impartial arbitration of intra-party competition.
If the United States had pursued a different strategy from the outset of the Trump administration, it might now be in a position to counter China's hardball tactics.
A New York Times report alleges the president lost more than $1 billion over a decade, but the truth is more complicated.
He'll creak in the direction of the prevailing political winds eventually, for good and mostly ill. It's his greatest weakness, and main selling point.
Does it ever make sense to impeach in the House if conviction in the Senate is unlikely?
Restrictionist allies seethe as Jared Kushner's reform plan fails to reduce overall numbers.
Plus: "Offending religious feelings" in Poland, Trump tax returns, the latest "heartbeat bill," Denver's mushroom measure, and more...
Perhaps the biggest compliment to Trump's foreign policy is his political opponents largely want to make the 2020 election about domestic issues.
Private property rights, public squares, "dangerous" speech, and pre-regulatory suck-ups, all debated on the Reason Podcast.
Is the president the only person left in America who doesn't understand that Americans are paying for his tariffs?
The libertarian legal analyst says Trump, like his White House predecessors, has abused executive power in all sorts of ways.
The Fox News legal analyst says the president is abusing executive power.
Once a protectionist, always a protectionist.
Graham's "evolution" during the Trump years has been more dramatic than most, but his performance on Wednesday was on par with how many other Republicans have handled the explosive details in the Mueller report.
It's not clear if congressional Democrats will comply.
The plan is likely to backfire and cause more illegal border crossings by the people most desperately in need.
With the Mueller report scaring off other GOP challengers, the special prosecutor's former boss calls on the president to resign, raises "millions," and continues to get drubbed in the polls.
The president continues to move closer to Democratic proposals on infrastructure spending.
Here's six reasons why early 2020 polls are likely underestimating Trump's strengths and overestimating his opponents'
A key senator issues the sort of binary, transactional choice that Trump seems to prefer. Will the POTUS listen?
Russia's interference in the 2016 election was wrong. But the reasons why are harder to pin down than you might think. Not all foreign interference in elections is unjustified. Far from it, in fact.
The libertarian-leaning senator also discusses his long, uphill fight to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
He says his plan will prioritize highly skilled immigrants and will "maintain our country's humanitarian values."
The president thinks executions will help stop the flow of "fentanol" into the United States.
That's not how any of this works
Lying is not the best strategy when you’re trying to convince people you are telling the truth.
That's a potentially dangerous combination.
Donald Trump's restrictionist immigration policies are making U.S. universities less exceptional.
Reason editors discuss Russia, Biden, Moulton (?), and that television show with the dragons.
Although it's not all clear that the Trump Tower meeting was criminal, the president knew it would look bad.
Forget about Donald Trump and the Mueller report and think about all the little (and not-so-little) people who get crushed by the feds.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin gives advice for changing hearts on criminal justice reform.
The ruling, written by a Republican-appointed judge, is an important victory for federalism.
The symposium includes contributions by a variety of legal commentators, including fellow VC blogger Keith Whittington and myself.
Mueller won't decide on obstruction charges, but a close read reveals he likely thinks there's something there.
Extreme partisanship and the desire for power will play as big a role in saving Trump's presidency as his aides did by ignoring his orders.
The Mueller report drops and Trump tweets.
The president heedlessly created the appearance that he was trying hard, though ineptly, to hide something.
Was the president saved by the swamp he campaigned against?