Trump Donates $100,000 to the Department of Transportation. How Much Infrastructure Will That Buy?
The president's gift underscores how little consumers of road and rail pay for the infrastructure they use.
The president's gift underscores how little consumers of road and rail pay for the infrastructure they use.
The era of big government is far from over.
Whatever else the Trump Administration is (or is not) doing, it continues to announce excellent judicial nominees for federal appellate courts - while showing it's capable of working with Democratic Senators.
One bright spot in Donald Trump's very bad, very insane budget plan is his willingness to cut taxpayer-funded culture.
Members of both parties will fight tooth and nail to preserve their transportation pork.
The plan would see $200 billion in new federal spending, but it would also open up opportunities for private infrastructure investment.
An autopsy for the brief limited-government era of conservatism that ended on Friday
Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina says it's media and political elites who live in ideological bubbles, not regular Americans.
The interference seems inconsistent with the president's support for cannabis as a medicine.
At some point, maybe we should just take Trump's antics as a given
"Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation."
Trump's awful rhetoric is a menace to liberty - even when it does not lead to any immediate action.
Porter's record of domestic abuse elicited scant notice or concern from his superiors.
Here are the moments when Republicans, including professed deficit hawks, snuffed out the 2009-2014 flicker of budgetary sanity
Trump says he's inclined to do so, but letter expresses concerns about "sensitive passages."
He is trying to get foreign techies to self deport or not come at all.
When the feds interview a subject or target, their goal is not fact-finding or "clearing a few things up." Their goal is the hunt.
But Trump's infrastructure plan will give it to them anyway.
Our institutions are strong enough to restrain a president, but they're also strong enough to empower him.
The cartoonist-turned-political-prognisticator talks about "master persuaders" and winning arguments in a "world where facts don't matter."
The Nunes memo says the FBI deceived the court. Grassley's memo suggests the FBI was tricked itself.
Trump wants to outdo the Bastille Day festivities in Paris.
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
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Partisan politics is awful.
The feds can't pass a budget or do much very well, yet a record level of Americans want it more involved in our lives. That's not as crazy as it seems.
Doubling down on a drug war that has failed for 40 years.
He has launched a two-front assault on high-skilled foreign talent
"You have the other side, even on positive news, really positive news… they were like death, and un-American."
Why should we have to rely on Dem and GOP spin? Americans have every right to know what happened.
Markets respond to politics, but presidents shouldn't claim control.
Reason editors debate The Memo, situational libertarianism, Super Bowl highlights, and the political road back to fiscal sanity.
More Republican skepticism of law enforcement agencies is a welcome development.
The Senate confirmed a record number of federal appellate court nominees in 2017.
Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto has a new novel out and an optimistic message about Donald Trump's presidency.
The Nunes memo deserved to be released, and so does the forthcoming Schiff one. But come on, D.C., get serious about abuse of FISA and other powers!
Abraham Lincoln couldn't have dreamed that 21st-century Americans would still be paying for pensions created under him.
Democrats and journalists routinely accuse the Trump administration of being "compromised" by a Russian government that's "attacking our Constitution"
Democrat Adam Schiff might be right that GOP operatives want to derail the Russia probe. But the FBI and Justice Department lost credibility a long time ago.
Now that it's out, nobody's minds seem to have changed.
The drug regulator's clinical trials process for approving drugs needs a complete overhaul.
Nunes report claims Democratic Party-origins of Steele dossier concealed from court.
Trump has reviewed a document alleging FBI misconduct. It might be released Friday.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach would prefer to upend the Constitution's directive to apportion House seats based on total population, not voter rolls. So barring that, the author of Mitt Romney's "self-deportation" policy wants Census-takers to ask about citizenship.
Change Is Good: A Story of the Heroic Era of the Internet chronicles tech culture circa 1998.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the president's role in writing an ass-covering statement that was misleading but not illegal.