Biden and Trump Want a Presidential Debate Safe Space
Two debates, no RFK Jr.—not an improvement.
Two debates, no RFK Jr.—not an improvement.
Will the real president of the United States during the years 2020 through 2022 please stand up?
Bad for consumers, bad for American industry, bad for his administration's own environmental goals, and bad for an increasingly irrational executive branch.
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Likening drug users to people who are "mentally ill and dangerous," the ruling says barring them from owning firearms is not unconstitutional on its face.
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Private unions have every right to exist, but that doesn't mean they're actually beneficial on net.
President Biden is holding up a shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel, after months of resisting any conditions on U.S. aid to Israel.
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Social Security is expected to hit insolvency in 2035, while the portion of Medicare that pays for hospital visits and other medical care will be insolvent by 2036.
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Biden has not delivered on his promise to decriminalize marijuana.
And for good reason: Even at 3.5 percent, inflation is running higher than it did in almost every year for three decades before 2021.
No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode of transportation that is actually quite energy efficient.
Moving marijuana to Schedule III, as the DEA plans to do, leaves federal pot prohibition essentially untouched.
If businesses don't serve customers well, they go out of business. Government, on the other hand, is a monopoly.
Let's just call this what it is: another gimmick for Congress to escape its own budget limits and avoid having a conversation about tradeoffs.
House Speaker Mike Johnson worked with President Biden to push through a $95 billion foreign military aid package—most of which goes to the American military-industrial complex.
From Alice Roosevelt to Hunter Biden, we've never been sure how to reconcile American democracy with American dynasties.
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If higher tariffs were the solution to anything, wouldn't there be evidence of that by now?
The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act would prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from purchasing data that they would otherwise need a warrant to obtain.
U.S. need for Australia’s cooperation in the Pacific may win the journalist’s release.
Washington quietly funded Israeli-Iranian proxy wars for years. Now American men and women are directly involved.
"There's all these illiberals on the left, there's all these illiberals on the right, and yet liberalism endures," says the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
President Biden said that we will “do all we can to protect Israel’s security” after Israel killed an Iranian general.
Despite their informal nature, those norms have historically constrained U.S. fiscal policy. But they're eroding.
The case hinged on statutory interpretation, not the merits of the state's 1864 ban.
Too many people think democracy works only if they get to dominate their opponents.
A similar law in California had disastrous consequences.
His embrace of federalism is one of those rare instances when political expedience coincides with constitutional principles.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
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The former and would-be president is keen to avoid alienating voters who reject both kinds of extremism on the issue.
The new plan is much less ambitious than the president's 2022 blanket forgiveness effort, mostly relying on an expansion of previous smaller-scale debt cancelation schemes.
Joe Biden is the latest of a string of presidents to deny Congress its rightful role in war making.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
The 35-year-old Texan formerly known as Dustin Ebey voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and says the national debt is America's biggest problem.
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Surprisingly strong support for "none of the above" in the 2024 primaries shows voters aren't thrilled with their options.
These handouts will flow to businesses—often big and rich—for projects they would likely have taken on anyway.
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Free trade brings us more stuff at lower prices.
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