Ready for a Federal 'Blue Lives Matter' Law?
Trump releases executive orders calling for more federal action on crime-fighting, police protections.
Trump releases executive orders calling for more federal action on crime-fighting, police protections.
'Shut up,' the president explained.
Trump SCOTUS nominee rejects Trump's attack on the courts.
A vigorous advocate of presidential prerogatives says Trump's promises regarding NAFTA, tariffs, and a border wall exceed his authority.
A viral tale of Alaska Airlines staff saving a sex-trafficked teen turns out to be propaganda for federal immigration enforcement.
The president agrees there should be no restraint on a form of legalized theft he clearly does not understand.
Trump should choose privatization over nationalization.
The federal judge who halted President Trump's travel ban overreached.
Twitter fights aren't a replacement for well-formulated policies.
No one questions that the president is empowered to protect the country, but some measures are clearly counterproductive. This is one of them.
Watch Fox News at 3 a.m. for some unkind words about Elizabeth Warren, the new attorney general, and people with cracked iPhones
Sen. Rand Paul votes aye with rest of GOP.
Carbon tax and dividend plan would eliminate all EPA carbon regulations, all clean energy subsidies, and all energy efficiency standards.
Gestures and good will count in a climate of fear and ridicule.
Gov. Bentley's "State of the State Address" is a telling mashup of Idiocracy, Cool Hand Luke, and All the King's Men.
In an appeals court hearing, the government struggles to provide evidence that the executive order addresses "a real risk."
Bernie Sanders tells a business owner he doesn't know about the hairdressing business, but he doesn't know about business at all.
Is Donald Trump a crony capitalist? Or is he something worse?
Is it time to dust off the word fascist to describe Donald Trump?
Unlike the president, Neil Gorsuch understands the role of an independent judiciary.
The New York Times' breathlessly covers nominees for the Department of Labor and the FCC, and a potential nominee for the FDA.
Regulation by presidential whim versus the rule of law
They want to end the 2011 sequestration that caps defense spending.
Even with the murder rate ticking upwards over the past two years, we are still at a level that's less than half of the peak murder rate over the past 45 years.
European parliamentary leaders want rebuke of nomination they believe Trump will make for ambassador to the EU
Is Trump's executive order banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries subject to judicial review?
Konni Burton is leading a coalition to reform civil-asset forfeiture abuses. So naturally the president is against her.
The nominee for secretary of education may be an imperfect vessel but what she represents can't be filibustered forever.
Trump's unusual fusionism puts anti-WTO libertarians on the spot.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss news, politics, and culture.
Scaring people to discourage support for due process constitutional protections
News from the defense secretary's alliance-mending trip to Asia
Texas and California represent polar opposites on federal cooperation.
Even if pollsters have whiffed on a bunch of recent elections
The travel ban is unfair and illogical, but that does not make it illegal.
Trump's awfulness doesn't make US foreign policy less imperfect.
An issue the Supreme Court candidate should address.
Donald Trump is fearful of the world, and that's a big problem for America.
Trump attacks "so-called judge" who issued nationwide temporary restraining order against travel ban.
M. Night Shyamalan has made millions off his sometimes-good, sometimes-bad movies, and millions more from taxpayers in Pennsylvania.
It's Trump vs. Scalia when cities offer sanctuary to immigrants.
Canada can reject you based not just on how sick you are but how much the illness will cost the state.
Trump admin complains Iran not responding appropriately to "very favorable" nuclear deal.
Frederick Douglass was an ardent defender of free speech, a principle dismissed by Berkeley protesters and rioters and their apologists.
The Trump administration is working hard to make America great again, by bringing jobs and opportunity back to the USA through dissent based stimulus.
The most libertarian member of Congress explains why he opposes Trump's executive order while agreeing with the president that refugee screening needs significant improvement
The union opposed Mark Morgan's efforts to increase transparency, accountability, and clearer guidelines on use of force by Border Patrol agents.