Biden's Coronavirus Relief Plan Will Probably Cost a Lot More Than $1.9 Trillion
The pandemic relief bill isn't just a one-time splurge. It's the start of a new era of federal spending.
The pandemic relief bill isn't just a one-time splurge. It's the start of a new era of federal spending.
Some provisions provide direct aid. Others, not so much.
Joe Biden's spending bill is a Democratic Party wish list masquerading as a public health measure.
I argue that the recent air strike was legal, but overall US military intervention in Syria still lacks required congressional authorization. Biden may be trying to change that; but history gives reason for skepticism.
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Somehow, policy makers slid from "never waste a crisis" to "everything is a crisis," a development that is particularly irksome during an actual crisis.
This initiative might help restore congressional control over war authorization. But there is reason for skepticism that it will pan out.
Greg Abbott's fear is hard to take seriously, but it jibes with hoary stereotypes about immigrants.
Just keep an eye on the small print. The wars might officially end while still allowing inappropriate military meddling.
The health law made insurance more expensive, so Democrats are pushing to make subsidies bigger.
The rest of us are out of luck.
The national eviction moratorium and Arizona’s business restrictions were based on dubious assertions of authority.
The strike was probably legal (as were similar small-scale strikes by Trump). But there are serious constitutional problems with the overall US military presence in Syria.
The Reason Roundtable takes on the FDA, Andrew Cuomo, and more.
The state's ban on "large-capacity magazines" is easy to justify, as long as you assume its benefits and ignore its costs.
We have to stop governing by emergency.
This action brings to an end a period when the US was more closed off to legal immigration than at any other time in the nation's history.
The DIY firearms movement specifically evolved to put personal armaments beyond the reach of the government.
The previous administration had made some reasonable changes, but also introduced questions based on factual errors and questionable normative assumptions smuggled in under the guise of factual knowledge.
What to expect from Joe Biden’s pick for attorney general.
He campaigned against Trump’s restrictionism, but has implemented mostly symbolic initiatives so far.
Never let a good manufactured crisis go to waste
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The Atlantic writer says that illiberalism and the urge to shut down debate need to be confronted across the political spectrum.
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The policies he favors would arbitrarily limit Second Amendment rights and threaten the industry that makes it possible to exercise them.
Also: What we learned from impeachment.
Presidents aren't saints. They aren't monarchs. They aren't celebrities. And they aren't your friends.
An overreliance on identity politics may drive these voters away from the Democratic Party.
Most states managed to avoid much-predicted fiscal crises during the pandemic. Congress wants to shower them with more federal aid anyway.
This is what you get when you mix "science" with "stakeholders."
While the administration symbolically ended Trump's "zero tolerance" approach, it has not put an end to family separations outright.
Administration wants to spend $200 billion hiring new teachers for closed schools that are bleeding students. What could go wrong?
A higher federal minimum would reduce employment and increase the deficit, according to a new nonpartisan government analysis.
Parsing technology trends, policy proposals, and clean tax cuts
Reimplementing 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imported from the United Arab Emirates for vacuous national security reasons only entrenches executive authority over trade.
"I don't think it is going to survive," Biden said on Sunday, though he promised to push for a higher minimum wage as a stand-alone bill in the future.
Biden should repeal Trump's food taxes immediately.
This is probably not what Lyndon B. Johnson had in mind.
What should come next for the U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship
Sheila Jackson Lee's sweeping licensing and registration scheme suggests what Democrats would do if they didn't have to worry about the Second Amendment.
The United States will accept 125,000 refugees in the fiscal year that begins on October 1, up from the current record low level of 15,000 set by the Trump administration.
Biden's recovery plan is a poorly targeted effort that would make the economy worse off in the long run.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It goes far beyond merely reversing awful Trump policies, but does still have some drawbacks.
We have an agreement to pull out by May. We should honor it regardless of the state of the country.
If the refusal of lawmakers to enact a president's policies is justification for unilateral executive action, then a slide toward elective monarchy is inevitable.