Venezuelan nationals interviewed by Reason say they don’t feel safe returning to the country while Maduro’s regime is still in power. “It’s like taking the hood off, but the engine is still running.”
The crucial question is whether the agent reasonably believed the driver he killed posed a threat, even if she was not actually trying to run him over.
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It is a “gesture” to keep the peace, according to Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly.
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.
Instead of trying to tell people how much to drink, the new dietary guidelines take a better, more nuanced approach: "consume less alcohol for better health."
The plan is both light on specifics and full of contradictions.
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"Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
That embarrassing mistake highlights the slipperiness of Trump's attempts to justify legally dubious policies by invoking the specter of "foreign terrorist organizations."
Video shows ICE officers were trying to pull the woman out of her car when she started to drive away, leading an officer to fire three shots through her window.
Polar War demonstrates how difficult it is for armies to operate in the high north—and just how far America is behind Europe in Arctic warfare.
The president is making real progress on deregulation, but he needs to get Congress involved.
If an indictment is enough to justify military action, why bother seeking congressional approval?
Presidents should try to nudge the world toward more trade and less war whenever possible. Trump is doing the opposite.
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His explanation for why the Trump administration attacked Venezuela without congressional authorization does not stand up to scrutiny.
You don't need a detailed theory to explain the departing congresswoman's journey.
Nicolás Maduro’s removal should be welcomed by anyone who values liberty. Yet data show Americans—led by the youngest adults—are turning noninterventionist.
Here as elsewhere, lethargy in the legislature is no way to counter execss energy in the executive.
When asked who would be in charge, Trump said: “We’re designating those people.”
The strikes against Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro might be popular or defensible. They were not legal.
Uniformed and armed men and women can be seen all over the city wielding leaf blowers, hoses, and brooms as they do municipal chores.
Even as the president blows up drug boats, the government routinely declines to pursue charges against smugglers nabbed by the Coast Guard.
Is the party heading deeper into the right wing fever swamps?
The president asserted broad powers to deport people, impose tariffs, and deploy the National Guard based on his own unilateral determinations.
From COVID-19 lockdowns to Biden's inflation and Trump's tariffs, bad things have happened when economics are sidelined in policymaking.
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It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
Creeping authoritarianism in the European Union gets pushback from an administration that has its own rocky relationship with free speech.
The U.S. military is fighting or preparing to fight in more countries than it was when the self-proclaimed "peace president" took office.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said "videotaping" agents was violence—but Border Patrol brought a film crew to Chicago-area raids.
The Trump administration's chest-pounding approach is costing lives and eroding freedoms.
The justices suggested the president is misinterpreting "the regular forces," a key phrase in the statute on which he is relying.
The Trump administration’s trade war has made home-baked and store-bought treats more expensive.
In addition to its symbolic significance, rescheduling the drug will facilitate research and provide tax relief to state-licensed cannabis suppliers.
Oh, so now the Trump administration is worried about the complexity of its tariff polices?
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A new study further undermines revisionist claims about birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, noting a dog that did not bark.
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
Immigrants start businesses at a higher rate than native-born Americans, benefitting not only themselves but also their American workers and customers.
"Once a president establishes for himself that he has a shiny toy, good luck getting that toy ever wrested away from whoever the president is," the CNN anchor tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi are back to break down another unhinged week in the news.
The executive order does not accomplish much in practical terms, but it jibes with the president's conflation of drug trafficking with violent aggression.
The Trump administration has not made a convincing case for why it is buying stakes in these companies—and why these companies in particular, rather than others.
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A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is the Trump administration's latest excuse for demonizing immigrants and refugees.
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