Trump Signs Executive Order Reversing Family Separation Policy
The administration says it will continue its "zero tolerance" approach to illegal immigration.
The administration says it will continue its "zero tolerance" approach to illegal immigration.
People who supported Trump's policy justified it by falsely claiming that today's critics never cared about Obama's detention facilities.
Mike Pompeo celebrates World Refugee Day by bragging about America's "leadership" on the issue, but the numbers tell a different story
Trump can't escape responsibility for the predictably cruel consequences of his "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
The Congressional Budget Office believes the plans can lead to 400,000 currently uninsured getting medical coverage.
Nazi analogies do not strengthen the case against forcibly separating illegal border crossers from their children.
Kris Kobach suffers legal, factual, and professional humiliation at the hands of a federal judge, though his conspiratorial cause still lives on at the White House.
Take a look at what The New York Times and others were saying about The Gipper in 1982 before you judge The Trumpster in 2018.
Reason editors discuss what anti-immigration fantasy looks like when translated into policy, and how education diversity goals lead to discrimination.
Solipsism is his only guiding principle.
The president's policy of separating families at the border is wrong, but he's enabled by a lack of legislative action dating back decades.
Plus: More evidence emerges that Harvard University discriminates against Asians.
The man who derided Mitt Romney for being extreme is now to the right of the Know Nothings.
Prices for steel, washing machines, and lumber spiked after Trump imposed tariffs on them. This time it will be different, right?
Bail revoked for breaking one of the fundamental rules: Don't meddle with the court case.
The president reverts to his original, highly implausible excuse for dismissing the FBI director.
A parade of nearly comical ethics scandals is overwhelming his record as a deregulator.
Cory Gardner used confirmation holds to force a potential breakthrough on marijuana federalism. There's a lesson there.
The DOJ's inspector general concludes that James Comey acted wrongly but not politically and that an FBI agent said "we'll stop" Trump from winning but didn't act on it.
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?
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