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Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Treasury Department | Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Newscom

Taxes

This Tax Week, Remember That the Federal Income Tax Is Relatively New

There are many pervasive myths about the U.S. tax code. Here are a few.

Veronique de Rugy | 4.18.2024 3:03 AM

Visitors look at a Polestar electric car at an event in Los Angeles | Zeng Hui / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom

Taxes

Gas Tax Revenues Decline as Cars Get More Efficient. How Will Government Pay for Roads?

Lawmakers should consider a user-fee system designed to charge drivers by the mile.

Veronique de Rugy | 12.7.2023 5:10 PM

BidenIke | Illustration: Lex Villena; Gage Skidmore

State of the Union

What Biden Can Learn from Eisenhower's 1957 State of the Union

The world's conscience had been shocked by Russia's recent invasion of a sovereign European state. Ike responded with sober, long-game containment in Europe...and more reckless escalation in the Middle East.

Matt Welch | 3.1.2022 4:18 PM

Screen Shot 2021-11-02 at 5.12.21 PM | Stossel TV

Military

Congress Spends More on Defense Than the Next 10 Countries Combined

We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.

John Stossel | 11.3.2021 12:30 AM

reason-borderpatrol | LUCY NICHOLSON/REUTERS/Newscom

Deportation

Trump Does Not Need Alligators in Moats for a Draconian Anti-Immigration Crackdown—He's Already Outdoing Ike's Harsh 'Operation Wetback'

Trump admires one of the darkest chapters in America's deportation history.

Shikha Dalmia | 10.4.2019 10:00 AM

minislavenderscare | Full Exposure Films via New York Public Library

Documentary

The Lavender Scare

In 1953, President Eisenhower ordered a purge of gay federal employees, who were deemed security risks. A new documentary delves deeper into this executive order.

Scott Shackford | 9.6.2019 6:30 AM

Large image on homepages | Fantasy Records

Impeachment

Impeach Eisenhower!

Friday A/V Club: A beatnik, a president, and a radio station that the FCC wouldn't license

Jesse Walker | 7.7.2017 12:29 PM

Large image on homepages | public domain

Donald Trump

How Trump Affects the Presidential Rankings

Eisenhower and Jackson now perceived differently. What's going on?

Steve Chapman | 2.23.2017 12:01 AM

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower's Timeless Virtues

If only more presidents aspired to do less.

Steve Chapman | 10.12.2015 12:01 AM

Culture

Eisenhower Memorial Plan Panned by Family

Relatives call it too cold. Want to scrap it and start over.

Reason Staff | 3.20.2013 2:23 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Biographer Jim Newton on Why We Still Like Ike

Tim Cavanaugh and Tracy Oppenheimer | 10.11.2011 1:23 PM

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