Biden Conflates a Broad Category of Rifles With Intolerable 'Weapons of War'
The administration's slippery terminology illustrates the challenge of distinguishing between "good" and "bad" guns.
The administration's slippery terminology illustrates the challenge of distinguishing between "good" and "bad" guns.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
An analysis of such crimes suggests the president’s policy prescriptions are unlikely to have a meaningful impact.
The president implies that anyone who resists his agenda is complicit in the murder of innocents.
After winning its two highest-ever presidential vote percentages in 2016 and 2020, the Libertarian Party was taken over by activists embarrassed by those campaigns. Will they attract more votes?
The president's argument is amazing for its tone-deafness, inconsistent thinking, and sheer economic ignorance.
Attacking big firms just for being big could drive up prices.
Biden wants to forgive $10,000 in federal loan debt per borrower, regardless of whether they need it.
Inflation damages the economy while doing the greatest harm to the most vulnerable.
Biden's three-point plan to tackle inflation is really a one-point plan: Let the Federal Reserve handle this mess.
The administration is encouraging counterproductive "inclusionary zoning" policies that often raise housing prices and reduce supply.
Corporations were just as greedy when prices fell in 2019 and early 2020.
The vast majority do not have disqualifying records, and "universal" requirements are easily evaded.
When politicians break the economy, they hurt us in the short term but also create future opportunities to do harm in the name of undoing the damage they inflicted.
According to new CDC numbers, the death toll rose 15 percent last year after jumping 30 percent in 2020.
This is what public policy looks like when a major political party plays kissy-face with public sector unions.
Protectionist policies stymie trade and make Americans poorer.
Biden gloats over a historically astronomical budget deficit as if he's accomplished something significant. He hasn't.
The administration is proposing to spend $10 billion over ten years incentivizing local and state governments to remove regulatory barriers to new housing construction.
Student debt cancellation would disproportionately benefit college degree holders with higher earnings.
The 75 commutations announced today, while impressive compared to the pitiful records of previous presidents, pale beside a huge backlog of petitions.
Though the program has flaws, it’s an innovative way for private citizens to get directly involved in resettlement efforts for fleeing Ukrainians.
The Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration coauthor stands up to COVID-19 autocrats and disastrous lockdowns by following the science.
No matter how you slice it, no one person or policy is solely to blame for surging inflation.
Despite the recent win against Amazon and Joe Biden's full backing, Big Labor is fading because workers are making progress without unions.
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Wealth isn't held the way many believe it is.
The U.S. has taken in more Ukrainians through other migration pathways, but the low refugee tally shows how ill-prepared the U.S. refugee resettlement program was to help Ukrainians.
Certain politicians would do well to learn that inflation is not caused by corporate "greed."
Left-leaning outlets and tech giants tried to label them disinformation—until they no longer could.
Wealth tax proponents claim only super rich people would be affected. But to raise the revenue Warren, Sanders, and Biden want, they'd have to tax the "working rich"—doctors, lawyers, and other hardworking high earners.
Plus: What is the libertarian stake in the culture war over school curriculums?
The president's $5.8 trillion budget shows he wants more of the same government spending that is already sending prices through the roof.
Joe Manchin keeps saying out loud the part that Joe Biden would rather keep quiet.
A ruling in a dispute over emails sought by the January 6 committee agrees that Trump's actions likely violated two federal laws.
On the campaign trail, Biden rejected wealth taxes as punitive, divisive, and unworkable. Now, as president, he’s embraced the idea.
The president's new budget plan calls on Congress to tax wealthy Americans' unrealized capital gains.
Every fried Russian tank and dead soldier drives home the point that superpowers can no longer dominate simply because they have more troops and weapons.
Once again, Washington is giving us every reason to believe it's selling favors to cronies even if it means everyone else loses.
The eviction moratorium and Title 42 "public health" expulsion cases have many parallels that may have been ignored because of their differing ideological valence. Both strengthen the case for nondeferential judicial review of the exercise of emergency powers.
Officials must ensure that America's lethargic refugee processing and lengthy family-based visa backlogs can effectively handle the people they seek to help.
Authoritarianism grows increasingly popular, with environmentalists among the greatest enthusiasts.
But 37 states allow medical or recreational use, and arrests are falling.
Someone might want to remind them that Democrats have a majority in both congressional chambers.
Today's journalists aren't speaking truth to power by not-so-subtly agitating for direct military involvement in Ukraine.
The president is running from his own hefty contributions to record gas prices and inflation.
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Countries insulating themselves against future sanctions may block trade that lifted billions from misery.
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