No Forced Childbirth for Undocumented Immigrant Teen in Federal Custody
This was a simple choice: Compel the girl to give birth or let her get an abortion. The fact that she is undocumented doesn't change that reality.
This was a simple choice: Compel the girl to give birth or let her get an abortion. The fact that she is undocumented doesn't change that reality.
Debating Trump, Deplorables, and the future of libertarianism this weekend.
Temperamentally more than ideologically, the Jeff Flakes of the world do not fit into a politics increasingly marked by collectivist reaction.
Trump is crass and abrasive and toxic? So are the policies he adopted for a base that establishment conservatives cultivated.
Will snooping reauthorizations just get quietly dumped into a spending bill?
The controversy over Trump's condolence call should be a debate about promiscuous military intervention.
"There may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party."
Social media fact-checks, secondary scrutiny for 11 countries, and the lowest annual cap in modern U.S. history.
This week's show covers the John Kelly phone flap, former presidents against Trump, and why Republicans are only pretending to be worried about the budget.
Q&A with economist Gabriel Calzada Alvarez on trade barriers, higher education, and bringing free markets to the region.
Trying to minimize those divisions isn't very democratic.
The government set the stage for a post-hurricane catastrophe.
Tribalism today, tribalism tomorrow, tribalism forever!
The idea is sadly gaining steam.
Russian panic is the excuse to try to control online speech.
From Iran to Obamacare to DACA, the president is acting on what Republicans have long promised, in a way that rightly devolves power to the legislative branch.
Do the pain relief benefits of prescription opioids outweigh their addiction risks?
Rand Paul squares off against John McCain yet again on military spending, in a fight that could derail both the budget and tax reform.
Ajit Pai notes that his agency has no authority to consider journalistic content in making license decisions.
Congress shouldn't hand it.
The ailing senator is right that "half-baked, spurious nationalism" is wrong. But so is his brand of hawkish intervention.
CNN reports that the Alaskan Pebble Mine will destroy the wilderness. Stossel exposed this as a lie two years ago.
The president wants to appear to be doing something about the Iran deal.
Our norms are being eroded by "both sides" of the partisan battle.
Columbia's Philip Hamburger says this "monarchical" system of government grew in power just as blacks and women saw an expansion of their voting rights.
No, the president actually doesn't have the right to say whatever he wants.
Yes, the president is erratic and incompetent. But prominent GOPers like John McCain have been saying crazy things about North Korea and elsewhere for a quarter century
"Setting aside the fact that the FCC doesn't license cable channels," Ajit Pai said last month, "these demands are fundamentally at odds with our legal and cultural traditions."
The web host can redact user info unless the Justice Department provides evidence of criminal activity.
Is it just more bluster from the White House? Let's hope so.
But the war over coal regulation moves on to a new front
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on why government-mandated birth control and the NRA both suck.
DHS ends waiver of protectionist shipping law that drives up costs.
Corker is a longtime defender of American intervention and war in the Middle East, and now wants to supply billions in weapons to the Saudis and Ukraine.
Department of Health and Human Services officials claim the rule will not change coverage for "99.9 percent of women."
What Donald Trump and his posse of economic nationalists get wrong.
Trump, tariffs and the art of the deal
The president is a gift that keeps giving, distracting, and giving more. Wish it would stop.
Don't ruin it with protectionist trade policies.
The former deficit hawk gets budget-busting religion now that he holds real power.
Don't combine an authoritarian president with a disarmed populace.
Significant regulations "are down an astonishing 58 percent compared to Obama," reports the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.
The president offered condolences, federal law enforcement assistance.