The Department of Education Is in Limbo. Let's Kill It.
Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
A New Deal–era program nearly eradicated the sacred Navajo-Churro sheep—and still reverberates through the Navajo Nation today.
Officials at the border have the power to paw through sensitive data on your phone.
We’ve made government so powerful that people will fight rather than surrender control to the enemy.
But that's not what the law says.
Social Security’s board of trustees expects the program to be insolvent in eight years.
A Biden-era rule mandates two-person freight crews. But the government admits it lacks evidence that is necessary—and is instead relying on "common sense."
House Republicans' budget would spend billions of dollars on the F-35's successor before the current model is even up to par.
Now is the perfect time for the FCC to change its precedent to comply with the First Amendment.
America’s founders were deeply suspicious of a standing army.
Downsizing pushed the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to adopt tech solutions that it could have tried years ago.
Does RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement want to loosen the government's grasp on food and medicine—or use government power to impose blueberries on everyone else?
Most Americans, it turns out, do not think it is a good use of taxpayer money, according to a recent poll.
Most of what the department does would likely stick around, for better or for worse.
The budget legislation is full of other expensive provisions that will add trillions to our sky-high national debt.
Trump fired Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya in March. Yesterday he gave up his claim to the job, but he's still challenging the White House's right to dismiss him.
Karoline Leavitt's threat against ABC News is an attack on free speech.
If you think the government will only use these tools to track illegal immigrants, think again.
Plus: An attack on pro-Israel protesters in Colorado, a conservative wins Poland's presidential elections, and more...
It's a reversal from his first term, when Trump himself ordered the creation of a database tracking excessive use of force.
If the Trump administration fails to implement real reform, Main Street taxpayers could once again be conscripted into subsidizing lucrative Wall Street deals.
Plus: Nanny surveillance, Apple stock price responds to tariff threats, Boeing settlement, and more...
Father of the Constitution James Madison made a distinction between alien enemies and alien friends.
Trump’s firing of a federal agency head may soon spell doom for a New Deal era precedent that limited presidential power.
To make us safer, the feds required standardized ID and one-stop shopping for identity thieves.
A lot of conservatives are falling prey to the same snowflakery they criticize.
The Department of Education doesn’t handle teaching, set curricula, or pay teacher salaries.
A new analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the national debt will equal nearly 130 percent of GDP by 2034.
The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court there were "policy tradeoffs that an officer makes" in determining if he should "take one more extra precaution" to make sure he's at the right house.
Environmental Protection Agency
The federal agency has a history of overreaching its authority and threatening liberty.
Impoundment, line-item vetoes, and the tricky problem of cutting spending through the executive branch
The budget proposal calls for gutting federal energy funding and environmental justice initiatives.
The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."
A training slideshow reveals how deluded American leaders continue to be about the Iraq War, more than two decades later.
Plus: "Calm corners" in the subway system, mysterious 18-hour power outage, and more...
Earlier this month, 4,700 foreign students were at risk of detainment after ICE inexplicably terminated their visa records.
When compared to the most likely alternatives, DOGE has cut as much government as one could hope for.
To remain independent, institutions of higher education should end their reliance on taxpayer money.
Support for suppressing "violent content" has also dropped.
The feds are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across spy agencies. What could go wrong?
A law meant to simplify government forms now blocks commonsense improvements, wastes taxpayer money, and slows life-saving services.
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that claim, upholding the right to due process in deportation cases.
That's what could happen if undocumented immigrants decide not to file their taxes, according to an estimate by The Budget Lab at Yale.
Plus: A listener asks whether or not Thomas Jefferson was right.
The Associated Press’s legal victory highlights the limited power presidents and the press have over the creative destruction and spontaneous order of our language.
It’s not the reform we need, but it’s welcome relief from ravenous and unpopular tax collectors.
Lottery ticket buyers are disproportionately poor, and the odds are very bad. But governments want the money.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist says the Iron Triangle of Politics must be defeated to cut down the government for good.
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