After a Year Stuck in Jail, Reality Winner to Accept Plea Deal for Leaking NSA Report on Russian Election Meddling
Our terrible federal espionage laws won't let her argue the leak served the public's interest.
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Trump Is Using the Border Crisis to Stoke Human Trafficking Hysteria
Misleading claims about people smuggling serve only to justify the government's already bloated surveillance and law enforcement powers.
Beginning of the End of Trump's Zero Border (In)Tolerance?
He seems to be backing away from criminally prosecuting all unauthorized border crosses
Trump's Hostage-Taking Strategy on Border Enforcement Backfired
The great negotiator acts like a mafia boss
Trump Pisses off GOP Lawmakers With Petty Mark Sanford Jokes
The incident says a lot of things about the president's character, none of them good.
A Little-Noticed Legal Ruling That Is Bad News for Trump
Can the president of the United States be sued for damages in a civil proceeding?
The Needless Cruelty of Trump's Border Policy
Trump's approach has been a model of brutality, inflicting unspeakable horror on children and parents.
Trump Signs Executive Order Reversing Family Separation Policy
The administration says it will continue its "zero tolerance" approach to illegal immigration.
The Factual and Rhetorical Silliness of Family Separation Whataboutism
People who supported Trump's policy justified it by falsely claiming that today's critics never cared about Obama's detention facilities.
Worldwide Refugee Population Hits All-Time High, U.S. Intake Reaches All-Time Low
Mike Pompeo celebrates World Refugee Day by bragging about America's "leadership" on the issue, but the numbers tell a different story
If You Cross the Border, We'll Kidnap Your Child
Trump can't escape responsibility for the predictably cruel consequences of his "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
Rand Paul–Endorsed 'Association Health Plans' Go Into Effect
The Congressional Budget Office believes the plans can lead to 400,000 currently uninsured getting medical coverage.
Yes, Trump's Immigration Policy Is Just Like the Holocaust, Except for the Genocide
Nazi analogies do not strengthen the case against forcibly separating illegal border crossers from their children.
Judge Spikes Kansas Voter ID Law, Orders Trump's 'Voter-Fraud' Czar to Take Remedial Legal Classes
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.
Echoes of Reagan in Trump's Clashes With Allies
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.
Maybe Snatching Toddlers From Their Asylum-Seeking Parents Is Who We Are: Podcast
Reason editors discuss what anti-immigration fantasy looks like when translated into policy, and how education diversity goals lead to discrimination.
Trump's Foreign Policy: There Is No Good or Bad, Right or Wrong. There Is Only Trump.
Solipsism is his only guiding principle.
Donald Trump Is Terrible on Immigration, But Congress Is the True Monster
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.
Trump's Policy of Separating Immigrant Families Makes for a Contentious Father's Day: Reason Roundup
Plus: More evidence emerges that Harvard University discriminates against Asians.
Trump's Dreamer Fix Will Drag the Country Back to 1924
The man who derided Mitt Romney for being extreme is now to the right of the Know Nothings.
As Evidence of Higher Prices Mounts, Trump Announces Yet More New Tariffs
Prices for steel, washing machines, and lumber spiked after Trump imposed tariffs on them. This time it will be different, right?
Manafort Sent to Jail over Accusations of Witness-Tampering
Bail revoked for breaking one of the fundamental rules: Don't meddle with the court case.
Trump Says Comey 'Totally Protected Hillary' but Was Fired for Actions That Hurt Her
The president reverts to his original, highly implausible excuse for dismissing the FBI director.
Will EPA Head Scott Pruitt Be Shown the Door?
A parade of nearly comical ethics scandals is overwhelming his record as a deregulator.
How Anti-Trump Republicans Can Change the President's Behavior
Cory Gardner used confirmation holds to force a potential breakthrough on marijuana federalism. There's a lesson there.
I.G. Report Won't Settle Any Arguments About Hillary Clinton's Emails
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.
Trump, Ryan, and Walker Want to Seize Wisconsin Homes to Build a Foxconn Plant
State and local officials are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant.
The Trump Foreign Policy Doctrine? 'I'm Trump, Bitch'
He celebrates his weak deal with North Korea while tearing up the Iran deal only because Obama signed it
Trump's Economic Ignorance on Tariffs
Another week, another bumbling trade declaration from the president.
Hey, Libertarians, Maybe Republicans Just Aren't That Into You
June 12 was not a good day for free-market constitutionalism in the modern GOP.
'Eat Mor Krow' and Other Signs of a Dangerously Politicized America
Twitter's Jack Dorsey apologized for eating at Chick-fil-A. What does that have to do with Donald Trump? Plenty.
Trump Should Hurt Sessions by Helping Drug Offenders
Commutations for people serving absurdly long sentences would be a great new way to torture the attorney general.
Mark Sanford Is a Libertarian Republican Who Took on Trump. He Just Lost His Primary.
The Trump-ening of the Republican Party continues apace. Sanford had criticized Trump for, among other things, saying the constitution had an Article XII.
Trump's Totally Free Trade Idea Is Really Smart
It's a damned shame that he doesn't seem to really believe in it.
The Most Important Fact About the Singapore Summit
The deescalation we're seeing now is infinitely preferable to the needless escalation we witnessed last summer.
Lindsey Graham Says Only Possible Outcomes From Trump-Kim Talks Are 'Peace or War.' He's Wrong.
Such binary thinking has gotten the United States into trouble in the past. It should be rejected now.
'This Is a New Low…To Separate Mothers from Their Children': Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Congresswoman says asylum seekers are denied 'basic human rights,' abused by Border Patrol.
Trump Will—and Should—Declare the North Korea Summit a Success
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.
The Case Against the Case Against the Mueller Investigation
Noted attorney George Conway dismantles the constitutional arguments against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation
Trump May Have Sabotaged His Tariff Plans With Anti-Canada Tweets
Slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada is not a matter of national security, the president admits.
Giuliani and Trump Blunder Toward the North Korea Summit
American national security is in the hands of fools and incompetents.
Thoughts on the Trump Administration's Decision Not to Defend Obamacare [updated with acknowledgement that I misinterpreted one of the administration's arguments]
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.
Trump Endorses Marijuana Federalism Bill
The president gave a hedged endorsement of a bill to exempt state-level legal weed from federal prohibition.
Trump Continues Obama's Pursuit of Leakers by Snooping on Media Contacts
Former Senate Intel Committee staffer charged with lying about relationships with reporters covering Carter Page investigation.
Trump to Kneeling NFL Players: Tell Me Who I Should Pardon
The president has discovered the power of the pardon. Could that make this a moment for criminal justice reform?
Cory Gardner and Elizabeth Warren Introduce Bill Largely Abolishing Federal Ban on Marijuana in States that have Legalized it Under their Own Laws
If it passes, this will be a major victory for both marijuana legalization and federalism.
