Trump Pledged To Support Tesla. His Trade Policies Will Do the Opposite.
Tariffs on steel and aluminum imports inflate the cost of electric vehicles.
Tariffs on steel and aluminum imports inflate the cost of electric vehicles.
Plus: Rate reductions, Apple encryption, the Mahmoud Khalil case, and more...
We rely on Canadian energy and lumber, and Canadians rely on our products. It's the proverbial win-win.
Environmental Protection Agency
“Environmental justice” has no place at a regulatory agency. But the EPA was already a problem.
The historian and podcaster joins us on the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 emergency to relive all the pandemic policy failures.
The cost-cutting initiative's calculation of "estimated savings" is mostly mysterious, and the parts we know about are riddled with errors.
It would make American consumers poorer and hurt American businesses without any promise of benefits.
Rep. Adam Smith (D–Wash.) thinks Democrats should return to their antiwar roots—and be open to negotiating with Russia.
Plus: "Is any criticism of the government a deportable offense?" and more...
The department laid off over 1,300 employees this week.
The move is part of a broader suite of deregulatory actions announced by the EPA Administrator, and is likely the least advisable item on the list.
The government's demands would reduce competition and harm consumer welfare.
Millions of people are barred from owning firearms even though they have no history of violence, and they have essentially no recourse under current law.
The cowardice of Congress will continue fueling the growth of executive power.
"I really haven't had anybody come up to me and say, 'Please, please, put tariffs on me,'" says Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).
Plus: How NYC botched weed legalization, tuberculosis programs paused, "everything's computer!" and more...
Threats to impeach federal judges who rule against the government are a naked attack on their constitutionally crucial function.
Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency, here's what the research says.
The judge found that the agency's "unusual secrecy" and "substantial authority" make it subject to public record laws.
A quick lesson about concentrated benefits and diffused costs
Interestingly enough, the government focused its argument on standing, and did not defend the Executive Order on the merits.
During Trump's first term, California filed numerous lawsuits seeking to halt deregulation.
While overturning sentences through courts can take years, a grant of clemency is instantaneous.
The panel did not believe the Office of Special Counsel could be distinguished from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or Federal Housing Finance Authority.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to discuss the pros and cons of homeownership.
President Donald Trump has begun kicking immigrant “Hamas sympathizers” out of the U.S.
Several months ago, Reason interviewed Mahmoud Khalil at a protest encampment. Now he’s sitting in ICE detention.
Plus: Ceasefire talks, J.D. Vance as the future of the GOP, the government's war on treehouses, and more...
Taxing tips generates practically no revenue, burdens workers, and fuels pointless IRS audits.
The Department of Homeland Security unilaterally tore up a collective bargaining agreement it had signed with unionized TSA screeners in May 2024.
The president is publicly taking a tough line on the Middle East—while privately supporting diplomacy.
The law school's dean rejected the letter, arguing the First Amendment "guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it."
Trump's appointees are wielding federal power in a manner that appears every bit as corrupt as what he complained about on the campaign trail.
What did we learn from yet another escalation in the North American trade war? Not to do it again.
Plus: The Trump administration's American dream revisionism, 50 theses on DOGE, what people get wrong about extreme MAGA, and more...
The president campaigned on a promise to defend the First Amendment, but he's now attacking free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
The Supreme Court will not have to weigh in on removal limitations at the Office of Special Counsel, but it could still have to consider those for the National Labor Relations Board.
Vanity Fair's James Pogue dives into the dissident right, his personal experiences with MAGA, and how Ukraine policy is unfolding.
Trump's nominee for NIH director once stirred major controversy for criticizing lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures. Yesterday, Senate Democrats didn't even raise the issue.
Entitlements are a much bigger expense, but that doesn't mean the waste doesn't matter.
HHS, like all government programs, has plenty of silly and wasteful line items in its budget; there's no need to just make things up.
Plus: Columbia's Hamas apologists, Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, and more...
For now, President Trump has removed Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
An exploration of some of the thorny issues that divided the Court.
Hawks from both major parties lashed out at the confirmation hearing for Trump’s nominee for top military strategist.
The president's assertion is divorced from reality, and so are the "estimated savings" touted by Elon Musk.
If the government wants to encourage cryptocurrency innovation, "buying coins is actually a pretty lousy way of doing that," says one economist.
It's great to have presidents talking about the need for a balanced budget, but Republicans are backing a plan that will increase borrowing.
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