Diary entries show the former public health official acknowledged that U.S.-supported researchers were conducting gain-of-function research in Wuhan that could have caused the pandemic.
"Documented Dreamers" arrived in America lawfully as children. A hole in the law leaves them vulnerable to expulsion.
Whatever happens in Kentucky's GOP primary, the populist right no longer even pretends to care about spending or government overreach.
CIA officer James Erdman told the Senate's Homeland Security Committee that his employer suppressed its own assessments that COVID likely came from a lab.
Republicans can’t decide whether the war is too early to stop, too late to stop, or nonexistent in the first place.
The president and his new DHS secretary are enraged by jurists and legislators who refuse to toe the party line.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss political fallout from the Iran war, Tulsi Gabbard's pivot, and Rand Paul calling out Markwayne Mullin.
"He can't bring himself to say we shouldn't settle political questions with violence," said Paul.
Plus: Mullin vs. Paul, the metaverse lives, the Pentagon wants $200 for the war in Iran, and more...
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The Oklahoma senator, nominated to replace Kristi Noem, is blasé about the use of deadly force.
The End the Vaccine Carveout Act would expose vaccine makers to lawsuits that once drove companies out of the industry.
A war powers resolution has been stuck in Congress—and Democrats are reportedly happy to let Trump walk into a quagmire.
Like the Iraq War, the planned war with Iran is built on false premises. Unlike the Iraq War, there hasn’t even been a real public debate.
After Google refused to take down a video of him, the Kentucky senator suggested upending the legal framework undergirding the internet for three decades.
Empowering patients is good. Let’s give them a lot more choice and independence.
"They ought to take it to court," the Kentucky senator said.
In an interview with Reason, CNN's Scott Jennings recounts the conversation he had with the tech entrepreneur about his distaste for exorbitant government spending.
These wasteful boondoggles add up. So do the programs that many Americans insist are important but refuse to reform.
Plus: Debating marijuana at Turning Point USA, Massie and Khanna threaten Bondi with contempt over Epstein files, and Minnesota’s welfare fraud case.
The Senate failed to pass a three-year extension on tax credits for the Affordable Care Act. But the only thing keeping it at all "affordable" was a flood of taxpayer money to conceal its true expense.
Paul says Hegseth misled Congress about deadly strikes on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
The Trump administration's pivot toward socialism did not come without warning.
A spending bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown aims to close a loophole that gave birth to $28 billion industry.
Blowing up boats won’t stop drugs—but it could sink Trump.
Sen. Rand Paul explains why he wants the Epstein files released, lays out his case against Trump’s tariffs and military strikes in Venezuela, and argues that he and Rep. Thomas Massie are the last voices in Congress still committed to libertarian ideals.
The appropriations bill, which the House is considering, would wipe out an industry that offers alternatives to cannabis consumers in states that still prohibit recreational marijuana use.
The president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.
Politicians across the aisle love free speech—until they're in power.
Novelist Lionel Shriver explains why Americans overinterpret tragedies, compares today’s partisan divisions to the conflicts she witnessed in Northern Ireland, and argues that political manias are driving the country toward destructive extremes.
Rand Paul concurs that the threats preceding the comedian's suspension were "absolutely inappropriate" because the agency has "no business weighing in on this."
Rand Paul, who called for "a crackdown on people" who celebrated the assassination, was less careful in distinguishing between private and government action.
Killing suspected drug traffickers is both unjust and illegal. And it could be the start of an effort to turn the already awful War on Drugs into something more like a real war, thereby making it even worse.
The bill, which could pass the Senate on Wednesday, would trim 13 cents from every $100 of federal spending.
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
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The Antisemitism Awareness Act threatens the First Amendment by empowering federal bureaucrats to police political and religious expression.
The Kentucky senator is also not a big fan of military parades, populist economics, or shredding due process.
The budget legislation is full of other expensive provisions that will add trillions to our sky-high national debt.
Paul said he refuses to support "maintaining Biden spending levels," and Musk said the Trump-backed tax bill is "a disgusting abomination."
For both practical and constitutional reasons, this is the obvious way out of the chaos Trump's tariffs have created.
Musk's opinion about the bill matters, since he is one of the few people in conservative politics who can get away with defying Trump.
Sen. Rand Paul's attempt to end the non-existent economic emergency failed to pass the Senate on Wednesday night.
When compared to the most likely alternatives, DOGE has cut as much government as one could hope for.
"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
The Kentucky senator joins Just Asking Questions to explain why he's fighting against the president's unilateral tariffs.
Bills introduced Tuesday in the House and Senate would terminate the emergency declaration Trump issued last week.
The bill faces an uncertain future, but it is a faint glimmer of hope for those hoping to limit executive power over trade.
Iran isn’t building a nuclear weapon, the Trump administration says. But this hasn’t stopped the march toward war.
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