Trump Doubles Down With Pick of J.D. Vance as Running Mate
The Ohio senator has a troubling history of engaging in illiberal rhetoric.
The Ohio senator has a troubling history of engaging in illiberal rhetoric.
Biden's bullseye comment was no more dangerous than Sarah Palin's crosshairs.
"I don’t care to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state," the onetime presidential hopeful said this week.
Sens. J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio—unlike Gov. Doug Burgum—have proven that they will move the GOP away from free market economics.
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Vance thinks that jobs lost because of incompetent central planning don't matter—but that jobs lost to immigrants do.
Donald Trump's acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller advocated the plan this week, which Trump later called a "ridiculous idea."
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Let there be no confusion: The Libertarian Party overwhelmingly rejects Trump.
The close Trump ally tried to argue that more aggressive U.S. policy in the Middle East would help the U.S. get out of the Middle East.
Vance's latest gambit is pretty nonsensical, intellectually embarrassing, and obviously self-serving. But that doesn't mean that it's not dangerous too.
Sens. Dick Durbin and J.D. Vance want to put the Federal Reserve in charge of credit card reward programs.
Even if successful, the strategy demonstrates how little interest politicians have in standing for something, rather than against something else.
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Both companies consented to the deal. Why should they have to get permission from the president to do business?
It could also outlaw any sort of sexualized image, play, or performance, pornographic or not.
Companies based outside the United States employ 7.9 million Americans. Foreign investment isn't something to be feared or blocked, but welcomed.
Another round of federal intervention to prevent its sale makes no sense.
The senator used to know why the U.S. Steel/Nippon deal is nothing to fear.
Some private universities receive more from the government than they net in tuition payments.
A plan to have the state take control of Maine's two private electric utility firms has divided the political left.
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Not unless you want to get stranded in the heat trying to find a charging station.
The plaintiffs in VanDerStok think that BATF's 2022 regulations defining certain gun-making kits as legally the same as guns overreached its constitutional authority.
New legislation would intervene in the credit card market to help businesses like Target and Walmart, who don't like the fees they have to pay to accept credit card payments.
Home prices were unaffected by a ban on buy-to-rent housing in the Netherlands, but more affordable rental housing disappeared.
The legislation—which was introduced in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio—pushes pet projects and would worsen the status quo.
In 2019, the Trump administration blocked a costly and ineffective mandate for two-man railroad crews long sought by unions. Now, the former president wholeheartedly supports it.
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J.D. Vance and Co. are trying to give themselves permission to wield public power unconstitutionally.
The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.
A bipartisan bill backed by J.D. Vance and Sherrod Brown would include a two-member crew mandate that unions have long sought—and that wouldn't have prevented the Ohio disaster.
What we did for Ukrainians, we could do for other migrants too.
While a conservative skepticism toward military aggression would be welcome, Republican standard-bearers are all too happy to sign off on war powers in other ways.
"I think our people hate the right people," the Senate candidate said last week. He's in infamous company.
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The semantics battle obscures reasonable objections to antiracist diversity seminars.
Facebook can't kill, jail, or tax you. It can only stop you from posting on Facebook.
Conservatives would no doubt use government differently than liberals, but libertarians have good reason to doubt that the results will be better.
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J.D. Vance's memoir was an inherently political story. The film tries to ignore its context.