A Practical Wish List for Joe Biden
Some doable libertarian ideas for the new president
Some doable libertarian ideas for the new president
Now is the time to act.
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Pandering to maritime unions means higher costs and harsher lives for coastal minority populations.
The controversy over Trump’s pardons and commutations highlights longstanding problems with clemency.
American companies would need relief from Democrats’ COVID relief efforts.
Biden reportedly will also reinstate restriction on transfers of surplus military gear to police.
Montclair cancellation of K-12 reopening is yet another reminder that unions are putting students last.
The new president availed himself of Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion pandemic "relief" package would unite Americans in forcibly shared economic pain.
The new president issued a 100-day moratorium on deportations.
Partisans who abandon constitutional principles because they prove inconvenient are in for a rude surprise when the other team wins.
President Biden should also provide refuge for democracy lovers who want to escape authoritarian Chinese rule.
The president’s bill will create massive disincentives to work and leave future generations with massive levels of government intrusion and debt.
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Biden's willingness to extend a nationwide eviction moratorium, while declining to mandate masks nationwide, demonstrates a worrying inconsistency in his views on presidential powers.
Biden correctly recognizes he doesn't have the authority to impose a general national mask mandate. The same reasoning shows the nationwide eviction ban is also illegal.
The cult of the imperial U.S. presidency has come to feel like a national religion.
On his first day as president, Biden will end both of Trump's travel ban policies. It's a big step in the right direction, though more remains to be done.
Obama was also no immigration hero.
The president acknowledges that there are limits to executive power, even during a public health emergency.
Trump did more than any recent president to pare back regulatory red tape, but the incoming Biden administration is eager to add more.
Government grows in response to a crisis.
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He's laid out a five-point plan to speed up getting COVID-19 vaccinations to more Americans.
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.
On the brighter side, Biden wants 100 million vaccinations in 100 days and will push for immediate school reopenings.
No, says Techdirt's Mike Masnick, but it is cause for expanding Section 230 and building a more decentralized internet.
Techdirt's founder wants to give end users, not politicians and tech giants, more control over what we can say and see online.
Several House Republicans joined their colleagues across the aisle in the ultimate condemnation of Trump's role on Jan. 6.
New gun owners are unlikely to embrace disarmament schemes from a government they distrust.
Trump said the "Save America March" would be peaceful, but his apocalyptic rhetoric had predictable consequences.
The Biden administration has just delivered its first disappointment to criminal justice reform advocates.
The vice president can no longer avoid acknowledging Joe Biden's victory.
The incoming president can bring some much-needed professional diversity to the federal bench.
The president seems completely sincere, and he surrounds himself with advisers who reinforce his self-flattering fantasy.
To alleviate "deep distrust of our democratic processes," the Texas senator is leading a doomed challenge to Joe Biden's electoral votes.
Lin Wood's bizarre charges give you a sense of the advisers Trump is consulting as he continues to insist that he won the presidential election.
After a slight drop in 2018, fatalities involving opioids jumped last year, setting a new record that is apt to be broken this year.
Maybe voters were repelled by the very traits he has been vividly displaying since the election.
Louis Gohmert asserts a previously overlooked power to decide which electoral votes will be counted.
The Trump-friendly paper says the president should stop "cheering for an undemocratic coup" and focus on the GOP's political interests.
Pandemics are like margin calls, exposing in a moment the pre-existing weakness of various positions and institutions.
Trump thinks the judiciary cannot be trusted to reveal the massive fraud that he says denied him a second term.