Biden's Vaccine Mandate Is the Latest Sign of the Presidency Becoming a Monarchy
The presidency has always been inclined to unilateral power—and many Americans like it that way.
The presidency has always been inclined to unilateral power—and many Americans like it that way.
OSHA has rarely used this option, which avoids the usual rule-making process, and most challenges to such edicts have been successful.
It's time to stop "states of exception" that justify government overreach into more and more of our lives.
Emergency OSHA rules are frequently struck down by courts.
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COVID-19 and 9/11 both created opportunities to restrict our liberties in the name of keeping us safe.
History is repeating itself in ways that we, and our kids, will live to regret.
Biden's sudden embrace of a federal vaccine requirement seems inconsistent with his acknowledgment that he cannot mandate every COVID-19 precaution he'd like people to follow.
"That's not the role of the federal government." What happened?
One government failure cascades into another.
The president will direct OSHA to require either vaccination or frequent testing
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
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Shameful scenes like those in Kabul don’t have to happen if we avoid military interventions.
In an interview, the Michigan Republican explains what he learned in Kabul, why Tucker Carlson is wrong about Afghan refugees, and how the 20-year occupation was an "abject failure."
"You don’t get to lose a war and expect the result to look like you won it," says the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
Thwarted politicians rant, pout, and are outraged by anybody who pushes back.
The health program won't be able to pay all of its bills starting in 2026, according to a new Trustees report.
The agency returns to a research area where it has caused much controversy in the past.
"You have no choice in the matter."
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Stopping the import of Russian ammo is just pretending to do something noble.
A federal judge concluded that Powell and eight other pro-Trump lawyers who challenged Michigan's election results made frivolous arguments and treated evidence recklessly.
The secretary of education argues that federal law makes the CDC's COVID-19 guidelines for schools mandatory.
The studies cited by the CDC do not show that preventing COVID-19 outbreaks requires forcing students to cover their faces.
To spend a lot of money, or to spend a lot more money? That is the question.
The foreign policy author and podcast host discusses Joe Biden's withdrawal and how to fix U.S. foreign policy.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
The Enough Already: Time To End the War on Terror author on fixing foreign policy in the Joe Biden era.
Big tech platforms should encourage debate, not forbid it.
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?
You can both support withdrawal and recognize its failed execution.
Environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr. says many media interpretations of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are "irresponsible."
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What Afghan civilians need now is resettlement, not remilitarization.
"I will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past," Biden said Monday.
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Many things once done as a matter of right are now privileges to be dispensed or withheld by those in power.
Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell can still beat Dominion Voting Systems in court by showing that their accusations were true.
A vaccine mandate for international visitors cuts Africa off for no good reason.
Fleeing isn't enough to keep dissenters safe from tyranny.
One of America's most isolated communities has struggled to weather the pandemic.
"The Cuban people are not asking for military intervention."
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The administration issued the order even while conceding that it lacked the authority to do so.
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