Whether or not you agree with Amash, his demeanor this week stands in stark contrast to how most of Trump's defenders—and the president himself—have reacted to Amash's statements.
Plus: Snowflakes in House Freedom Caucus continue to melt down over Amash comments, Michael Avenatti charged for stealing from Stormy Daniels, and more...
Still, it's better than the administration's previous proposals to cut legal immigration in half.
While the libertarian congressman sheds supporters over impeachment controversy, a trip through the last 30 months shows a history of conflict.
The bill allows dual prosecutions of people in the president's orbit who receive pardons or commutations.
The grounds for removing a president extend beyond statutory violations that could be proven in a criminal trial.
What's the point of a "limited government" bloc that doesn't limit government?
Plus: Democratic candidates still in shock about Daenerys Targaryen
A federal judge rejects the President's attempt to block a Congressional subpoena of his financial records.
The latest bad idea from Bernie Sanders is depressingly popular, sayeth the podcast crew.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.
The president should scroll through his old tweets, rather than listening to John Bolton.
Plus: Game of Thrones ends, Trump's trade war with China regrettably does not.
The president goes personal in his reply to a libertarian Republican congressman accusing him of obstruction of justice.
"When loyalty to a political party or to an individual trumps loyalty to the Constitution, the Rule of Law—the foundation of liberty—crumbles."
As messy as things are, they could get uglier still.
Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.
Trump isn't putting any tariffs on imported cars right now, but the White House has released a report that effectively allows the president to do that any time he chooses.
The US role in the ongoing war in Yemen violates the War Powers Act. Reasserting Congressional power here is vital to the more general purpose of ensuring legislative control over the initiation of war.
But even that's a bridge too far for immigration restrictionists.
Social media platforms and governments are "voluntarily" teaming up to ban "violent extremist content." What could go wrong?
In his new memoir, the retired justice seeks to justify his awful eminent domain ruling.
Trade has made Americans better off, and Democrats should use every opportunity to make that argument in the face of Trump's trade war.
Trump's strategy was never going to be a winning one.
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.
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