Trump, Ryan, and Walker Want to Seize Wisconsin Homes to Build a Foxconn Plant
State and local officials are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant.
State and local officials are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant.
He celebrates his weak deal with North Korea while tearing up the Iran deal only because Obama signed it
Another week, another bumbling trade declaration from the president.
June 12 was not a good day for free-market constitutionalism in the modern GOP.
Twitter's Jack Dorsey apologized for eating at Chick-fil-A. What does that have to do with Donald Trump? Plenty.
Commutations for people serving absurdly long sentences would be a great new way to torture the attorney general.
The Trump-ening of the Republican Party continues apace. Sanford had criticized Trump for, among other things, saying the constitution had an Article XII.
It's a damned shame that he doesn't seem to really believe in it.
The deescalation we're seeing now is infinitely preferable to the needless escalation we witnessed last summer.
Such binary thinking has gotten the United States into trouble in the past. It should be rejected now.
Congresswoman says asylum seekers are denied 'basic human rights,' abused by Border Patrol.
Trump may not fly back to Washington with a denuclearization deal in hand, but the summit could still succeed if it breaks the diplomatic ice and reduces the probability of a horrific military calamity.
Noted attorney George Conway dismantles the constitutional arguments against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation
Slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada is not a matter of national security, the president admits.
American national security is in the hands of fools and incompetents.
They have every right to refuse to do so, much as Obama had a right to refuse to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. But some of the arguments Trump is making are extremely dubious.
The president gave a hedged endorsement of a bill to exempt state-level legal weed from federal prohibition.
Former Senate Intel Committee staffer charged with lying about relationships with reporters covering Carter Page investigation.
The president has discovered the power of the pardon. Could that make this a moment for criminal justice reform?
If it passes, this will be a major victory for both marijuana legalization and federalism.
The outgoing senator wants to require congressional approval for "national security" tariffs, while the low-polling president taunts Flake about his low poll numbers.
The cautious prudence the U.S. desperately needed after a decade and a half of shoot-from-the-hip interventionism has been relegated to a talking point.
The GOP betrays its principles for the sake of political expediency.
Leave it to Kim Kardashian West to secure freedom for a prisoner of the drug war (seriously, she's good at it).
The First Amendment constrains speech regulation by the government, not by private parties.
We should be increasing legal immigration and making it easier than ever to work here.
Kanye's Ye proves America still cares about him. But does it mean Trumpism is a pop sensation?
The White House-NFL anthem wars just got dumber, by design.
Via trade and immigration restrictions, the president is completing the GOP's conversion to the party of economic micro-management.
Conduct that does not meet the legal criteria for an obstruction charge could still be serious enough to justify impeachment.
After oral arguments last year, Stephanie Slade correctly observed that "justices might have found a sort of get-out-of-jail-free card." Also on the Reason Podcast: Bill Clinton, Roseanne, Samantha Bee, Kim Kardashian, and maybe the worst celebrity of the week, Larry Kudlow.
Trump's trade policies are supported by a majority of GOP voters, who used to oppose this sort of corporate welfare under Obama. Partisanship rules all.
Imports improve the economy and benefit the country.
Trump orders "immediate steps" to save money-losing coal and nuclear power plants.
Barbara Underwood is outraged by the president's use of his clemency power, and she wants state legislators to do something about it.
Conservatives want to hold the left to the Roseanne standard.
Salena Zito talks about the coaltion that is reshaping American politics.
It's mostly a sign of progress, especially when paired with policy reforms that are helping African Americans.
The trade war that seemed improbable for weeks is now slipping closer to inevitable. The first major deadline comes at midnight.
A reminder of the most illuminating and depressing reality of our time.
The reality superstar will meet with Trump to push for clemency today for a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for a drug offense.
Tariffs and import restrictions are the equivalent of putting sanctions on your own country.
But did you know that Obama's ICE arrested students at bus stops? Our immigration policy is a bipartisan nightmare.
Don't believe the administration's claim that this will hurt China.
The president and his detractors both bungle scare stories in the outrage-politics contest that passes for our immigration policy debate.
If you tax something, you get less of it, and Trump's tariffs are a tax on making things-including cans, kegs, and the beer that goes into them.
Let's argue about the president's policies instead of his "grammar & style."