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President Trump’s opponents are betting heavily that the political fallout from the thoroughly well-organized anti-ICE demonstrations... Read More

“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun,” King Solomon... Read More

A new survey finding points to the dangers of digital outrage culture. Read More

A new video purportedly shows Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days before he was fatally shot by U.S.... Read More

Federal prosecutors threatened to quit en masse. Read More

If Alex Pretti was an “observer,” in the euphemism preferred by anti-ICE politicians and activists, he was observing how much unhinged... Read More

Imagine my shock when I saw you wrote an op-ed in The Atlantic. Before I even read a line, I knew what the point of the article would be... Read More

A brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's.... Read More

Al Gore’s global warming movie has aged poorly. 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

Failing to mention the Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day reflects a deep moral sickness. Read More

Bruce Springsteen’s anti-ICE anthem "Streets of Minneapolis” dropped on YouTube after the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. I'll take... Read More

By Matt Rooney Bruce Springsteen is a shameless misery merchant, Save Jerseyans. Consider his catalogue, and you don't even need to analyze... Read More

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

For much of history, nations that possessed a technological advantage were often more successful economically and geopolitically. Looking... Read More

"I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the great Fed Chairmen." Read More

The former New York Times columnist is a one-man cottage industry of lazy cultural stereotyping. 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

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to... Read More

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) and the other members of the House Freedom Caucus’s Board of Directors sent a letter to... Read More

The current obstruction and violence against federal agents trying to expel illegal aliens—committed by far-left... Read More

The right never cared that federal agents killed Alex Pretti in broad daylight. Read More

Alex Pretti, the perpetrator who was shot by ICE agents while resisting arrest after disrupting a law enforcement operation, has been... Read More

The obstruction and violence against federal agents trying to expel illegal aliens is unacceptable. What can ICE do different in 2026? Read More

Immigration was a solidly winning issue for Republicans. Trump’s deportation campaign is changing that. Read More

Democrats are playing on Americans’ generous sympathies to justify breaking the law and allowing dangerous criminals to run rampant.... Read More

By now you've probably already seen this video, right? Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) assaulted during town hall meeting: "Here's the reality that... Read More

The Model T brought mobility within reach of ordinary workers. Despite huge improvements, affordability has eroded as real costs climb. Read More

As for Tesla, we excluded it from our analysis because its profits are padded by sales of regulatory credits to other automakers. Read More

"We want masks off, body cameras on," Senator Chuck Schumer said, one of three demands Democrats have to avoid a shutdown this weekend. Read More

Their mission, should they choose to accept it. Read More

For far too long, terrorist groups such as ISIS, ISWAP and Boko Haram have carried out violent crimes against innocent Nigerian civilians.... 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