How Did Immigration Politics Get So Toxic?
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use the past to make sense of the present.
The idea, proposed by former President Donald Trump, could curb waste and step in where our delinquent legislators are asleep on the job.
The best way to promote liberty is by reducing the government power, not by harnessing it on behalf of supposedly conservative or populist nostrums.
As Israeli-Lebanese violence heats up, the Biden administration is quietly promising to get the United States involved.
The economist and podcaster discusses his new memoir Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative.
"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.
How Vietnam, Watergate, and stagflation supercharged the libertarian movement.
The government needs to cut back on spending—and on the promises to special interests that fuel the spending.
Despite the popular narrative, Millennials have dramatically more wealth than Gen Xers had at the same age, and incomes continue to grow with each new generation.
Reagan's former budget director says Donald Trump killed prosperity—and the GOP's core beliefs in capitalism and freedom.
They should be heard, not shouted down.
As we step into 2024, it's crucial to adopt a more informed perspective on these dubious claims.
Lawmakers should consider a user-fee system designed to charge drivers by the mile.
We're often told European countries are better off thanks to big-government policies. So why is the U.S. beating France in many important ways?
“I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally,” Reagan said in 1984.
"Our party does face a time for choosing," said the former vice president last night.
"He said, you strike, you're fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that we can use that once again, absolutely."
In 10 years, the programs' funds will be insolvent. Over the next 30 years, they will run a $116 trillion shortfall.
Some people would benefit. Others would lose money or be rendered unemployable.
If the midterms favor Republicans, their top priority needs to be the fight against inflation—whether or not they feel like they created the problem.
The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
Inflation is a problem for politicians. Unfortunately for them, it's not a problem they know how to solve.
As American politicians turn against economic openness, history suggests the consequences could be dire.
The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.
The Hungarian prime minister also makes the historically illiterate claim that Christians can't be racist.
In the American right, populism has always been lurking in the shadows.
Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but "neoliberalism" is an especially tangled case.
Forty years from now, it'll be much, much, much higher.
Biden tonight, like LBJ in 1964, Ford in 1975, Reagan in 1981, and Obama in 2009, is ready to make some terraforming asks to a pliant Congress.
While we're at it, was it really a revolution?
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
From Clinton's cockiness to Reagan's contrition to Nixon's defiance, three different models for Donald Trump
Rep Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive followers think taxing the rich at 70% will bring in lots of tax money. It won't.
Trump, Failed Political Regimes, and the Illiberal Politics of the Future
There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America.
After being trolled by Fox News, the Halloween actress ends up echoing Reagan when it comes to waiting periods and assault-weapon bans.
Take a look at what The New York Times and others were saying about The Gipper in 1982 before you judge The Trumpster in 2018.
One of the best, most-political and most-personal TV shows ever just ended. What did it all mean?
In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
Supported by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, opposed by Shirley Chisholm and Jerry Brown—the department has a long history of scrambling political alliances.
The author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels on global warming, fracking, Ayn Rand, and the president-elect.
JFK and the Reagan Revolution argues that America can return to prosperity by looking to the Kennedy-Reagan model of income tax cuts and a strong, stable dollar.
Attempted murder? 35 years in a hospital. Nonviolent drug charges? Life in prison.
Robert Altman's spoof of political conventions