Civil rights groups, law enforcement officials, and religious leaders say Biden needs to use his pardon power to fulfill his campaign promises, not just help his son.
Mandates, school closures, and overreach defined an administration that doubled down on failed policies.
The Syrian civil war is over, at least for now. But the Biden and Trump administrations both seem keen on shaping the outcome—and U.S. partners are gearing up to invade.
Though he commuted some drug offenders' sentences, Biden never delivered on the rest of his drug reform promises.
Joe Biden ran on some good ideas to reform policing and incarceration, which he mostly failed to deliver.
From the war in Afghanistan to the war on drugs, Reason writers offer performance reviews of Joe Biden's single term as president.
Joe Biden has left the Democratic Party in a very awkward position.
Brendan O’Neill discusses his new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation.
Maybe we can all agree that government officials shouldn’t target political enemies.
The draconian penalties that Hunter Biden escaped affect many people whose fathers cannot save them.
Joe Biden says his son did not deserve prison for violating firearm laws that the president vigorously defends and has made more severe.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about the libertarian position on doctor-assisted suicide.
Biden continues a modern trend of presidents who are stingy with the pardon pen.
Plus: Media figures and politicians react to the news, Donald Trump appoints Kash Patel to head the FBI, and more...
Ukrainians may be too exhausted to benefit from the new rules.
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan used the state to achieve political aims that have nothing to do with keeping markets competitive. J.D. Vance has said she's done "a good job."
The U.S. now ranks second to last in the time it takes to develop a new mine—roughly 29 years. Only Zambia is worse.
With only months left in his term, Biden wants to forgive the loans of nearly eight million borrowers experiencing "hardship."
Ksenia Karelina was prosecuted as part of a larger “treason” crackdown that is unprecedented even by Russia’s illiberal standards.
The president-elect’s record and campaign positions belie Elon Musk’s talk of spending cuts.
Democrats assumed they could campaign as neoconservatives while keeping Middle Eastern votes. They were wrong.
It's no mystery: Harris declined to run away from Biden's disastrous and unpopular policies.
The two-time Libertarian Party presidential nominee shares his thoughts on Chase Oliver and the election.
Plus: Kamala Harris' closing argument, the FTC's harassment of Musk-owned Twitter, and more
Kamala Harris' closing pitch to voters is exactly the same one Joe Biden had been making.
The proposal "could result in higher costs to consumers," the government acknowledges.
While it is not true that "homicides are skyrocketing," recent trends in other kinds of violent crime are murkier.
The Republican senator said it would “take a Democratic president” to commit American troops to defend the Saudi kingdom, according to a new book.
Is this latest attempt at student debt forgiveness a serious policy or a pre-election ploy?
Anti-market progressives dominate the Biden administration. Their policies also help discredit it.
Although the framing is a transparent political ploy, it is reassuring to see that the vice president has not abandoned her opposition to the federal ban.
Israel is getting U.S. troops and Saudi Arabia is getting billions of dollars' worth of American weapons.
Donald Trump's plan for massive tariff increases is particularly dangerous because the White House could likely implement it without any new congressional authorization.
When they entered the White House, the budget deficit was a pandemic-influenced $2.3 trillion, and it was set to fall to $905 billion by 2024. It's now twice what it was supposed to be.
The decision is simultaneously cruel and counterproductive.
American taxpayers underwrite both the Israeli and Lebanese armies. Now they’re shooting at each other.
The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act would provide outreach and training to Homeland Security Investigations staff.
If the former president wins the 2024 race, the circumstances he would inherit are far more challenging, and several of his policy ideas are destructive.
His polling was not "always in range" of beating Donald Trump.
For hundreds of years, a felony has been defined not by the action itself but by how we punish it.
His ideas would leave us poorer and less free.
Violent crime fell by 3 percent last year, the agency estimates. That includes a 12 percent drop in homicides.
Other things less popular with American voters than capitalism: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, J.D. Vance, and socialism.
According to Trump's preferred source, violent victimizations fell slightly in 2023, although the difference was not statistically significant.
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