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More than two years ago, after writing my last of nearly 200 columns over six years for the Washington Post, I decided to take... Read More

Blue states lose taxpayers, import head count, and bank on future voters. Trump’s deportations threaten the structure, so Democrats... Read More

Party leaders must decide whether to press their moral advantage or default to performative bipartisanship. Read More

Jefferson: ‘Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and... Read More

New York released nearly 7,000 criminal illegal aliens due to sanctuary policies, impacting public safety. Read More

One of the city’s protest organizations stoked a raging fire. Read More

Fake constitutionalism undermines constitutional government by spreading misconceptions about what our Constitution means. Read More

Census projections add new urgency to the party’s quest to build a competitive coalition. Read More

Just how badly did Republicans do in two Texas special elections last weekend? Read More

Texas Democrats picked up a House seat, narrowing the already slim Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. A contentious... Read More

Until Saturday night, Texas Senate District 9 had been represented by a Republican for over 30 years. In 2022, Kelly Hancock won the seat by... Read More

Lawsuits ruling in favor of “detransitioners” is a good sign, but there’s work to be done.  Read More

After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15... Read More

Two new reports portend a potentially bleak future for an American democracy that counts on its engaged citizenry to do everything from... Read More

Senate conservatives led by Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) are working to sink the Senate-passed... Read More

From Bad Bunny to Billie Eilish, a number of artists made a statement against Trump's immigration crackdown. Read More

Love and kindness are good principles for grammar-school recess, but mean nothing when it comes to maintaining real-world law and order. 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

I'm not willing to sacrifice my state to the ravages of the political scissor. Read More

[French Finance Minister Jacques] Necker, you remember, asked the people to come and help him against the aristocracy. The people came fast... Read More

ICE’s terrifying actions in Minneapolis have brought the country to an inflection point like no other since January 6, 2021. Read More

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent controversies over enhanced images of Alex Pretti and his shooting in Minnesota. As seen... Read More

Trump can’t legally force “sanctuary” cities to help ICE. So he flooded Minneapolis with federal agents. Here’s what comes next. Read More

The unrest surrounding immigration enforcement in Minnesota is a flashpoint for a much deeper struggle over U.S. sovereignty.  Read More

When Don Lemon and a group of agitators stormed a church in Minneapolis, they so terrorized those inside that a woman broke her arm trying to... Read More

Bridget Phetasy on ICE, Minneapolis and the performative compassion of woke Westerners. Read More

Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston is going viral for saying that every human on earth has the "legal right" to come to the United States. Read More

Megan Bos and the consequences of a government that refused to enforce the law. Read More

The president's party is losing confidence in him. That should empower his opponents. Read More

Sen. Chuck Schumer feels bullish. The Democrats, he said this month, “have a strong and clear path to winning the... Read More

The unlikely partnership of Washington and the Church to help shape culture. Read More

A defense of free market capitalism as the most pro-family economic system. Read More

The Freedom to Move Act could end up influencing everything from road funding to congestion pricing. Read More

It is truly remarkable how easy it is to fool the smartest people. And especially when you tell them they are helping to save the world. So... Read More

The White House meeting could help the industries, which have been fighting head-to-head over the bill, reach a compromise, and underscores... Read More

Guardrails for Modernizing Dollar Settlement Without Recreating Shadow BankingA Survey of Federal Regulatory Comments from the Center for... Read More

AI startups are raising billions of dollars to develop "brains" for robots that could work everywhere from oil rigs to construction sites. 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