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The chaos in Minneapolis shows what happens when nobody is willing to turn down the temperature. Read More

The Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and an administrative arrest and removal process that provides greater constitutional protection than... Read More

NPR was eagerly touting their new NPR/PBS Marist Poll to underline the effectiveness of their advocacy: 65 percent of Americans, up from 54... Read More

Which Democrats may immediately fumble away. Read More

Democrats’ recent hysteria over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act has unsurprisingly manifested in claims that... Read More

There’s a bigger story behind the Minnesota fraud scandal. Read More

Over the past year, Minnesota has become a national symbol in political rhetoric about government waste and fraud. Republican lawmakers and... Read More

Marxism has become a catch-all accusation, but the real problem is not rhetorical excess—it is analytical failure. While Marx was a... Read More

Robert Nisbet saw their struggle coming—and showed how to help. Read More

My last two posts have been about the new Federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, just out (December 31) from the Federal Justice... Read More

Fox Varian’s successful lawsuit against the doctors who removed her breasts needs to be a turning point. Read More

The SAVE America Act, up for a vote next week in the House, has been a rare rallying point for a divided GOP. Read More

Trump is again talking about controlling and stealing elections. History suggests Democrats should worry—but not panic. Read More

Without reform, the price pressures will only intensify. Read More

After years of confusion and regulatory hostility to crypto assets, Washington is finally waking up to what President Trump understood on the... Read More

Billionaires are hastening the decline of institutional media — and independent writing won't fix it. Read More

Over the past decade, The Washington Post has been one of the leading culprits in the collapse of public trust in journalism. Read More

Interview by Jerry Rogers with Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Services. Arthur discusses the role of ICE within the government... Read More

Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and RCP White House reporter Phil Wegmann discuss the president stealing the show at the annual World Economic... Read More

Plus: Iran’s struggle for freedom and the police lies about Maccabi Tel Aviv. Read More

Threats of new tariffs on NATO allies, masked federal agents stir unrest in Minnesota, and more in this episode of The Reason Roundtable. Read More

Energy affordability has become a top concern for  .... Read More

Voting by the non-citizen mayor of Coldwater, Kan., highlights a problem created by Congress. Read More

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) appliance efficiency standards program has been in place for decades, subjecting nearly every major... Read More

Download I am Brian Blase, founder and president of Paragon Health Institute. From 2017 through 2019, I served as a Special Assistant to the... Read More

Introduction In August, AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies representing the industry’s top players, announced... Read More

Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvin’s knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a week’s worth of rallies... Read More

In a statement issued last week, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman once again called for an end to Governor Sisolak’s indefinite... Read More

While New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the closing of certain grocery stores over COVID-19 concerns, she spent $16,248 in... Read More

Officials from Petaluma, California have decided their city has enough places to fill up gas-powered cars. Last week, the local city council... Read More

Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races. Now energized left-wing politicos... Read More

California's proposal to tax billionaires seems at first menacing, but could have drastic negative consequences for the future of the state. Read More

It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elite. Read More

I know that it makes me a terrible person that I don't care about the plight of the Washington Post’s employees that the paper's owner,... Read More

Many years ago, some friends of mine and I were in a heated discussion with a fellow who insisted, quite earnestly, that we didn’t need... Read More

Recent migration numbers emphasize how population gains, economic growth, and political power are shifting toward Republican strongholds. Read More

Don Lemon was arrested last week and charged with conspiracy against religious freedom. On January 18, an anti-ICE mob disrupted the Sunday... Read More

Singer Billie Eilish blasted ICE with the tired Stolen Land argument. That might have soared six years ago, but this time proved different. Read More

This crisis in Minneapolis reveals a deep moral rot at the heart of Trump’s movement. Read More

The Right has seen firsthand how the Left has weaponized empathy in the service of its disastrous policy proposals. Read More

The rise of “punitive femininity” means that punishing someone for holding different views becomes a moral good. Read More

New international polling from Gallup shows that Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system. Read More

The White House and Senate Democrats reached a deal Thursday to separate the fight over ICE funding from the threat of a broader... Read More

The deeper significance of California's billionaire tax is in how it redefines what it means to own property in the United States. Read More

For many decades now a federal policy called the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has raised gas prices and transferred billions of dollars from... Read More

Conservatives have long stood for a simple but powerful idea: prosperity is achieved through freedom, competition, and growth. That principle... Read More

We like the Trump Accounts because they are designed to create a nation of owners and it democratize stock ownership allowing today’s... Read More

Family farmers are among the great guardians of the sovereignty of the United States. By putting American grown and... Read More

Only in America, with the army of lawyers looking for opportunities to make money, could an industry crop up to promote litigation. There is... Read More

Changes in supply and demand—plus the toll of a million deaths—have disrupted the fentanyl market, writes Sally Satel about the dramatic... Read More

What’s the best thing to do if you’re in a life-threatening emergency? Read More

On the contrary, notwithstanding various ongoing problems in the real economy, the US is a gathering economic success story. Read More

All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological... Read More