This video from @RBReich is a great example of how to misuse economic data to support a preconceived narrative—in this case, a fairy-tale account of evil CEOs stealing wealth from their employees.
WATCH: The Reason Roundtable discusses America's declining sense of patriotism and whether it's possible to distrust the government while still loving the country.
"Scrap it and start all over": In a rare display of candor, two major players after 9/11—one under Bush and one under Obama—reflected on how the war on terror's legal powers have gone too far.
'Donald Trump and his family are executing corruption at a scale never...contemplated in the American experiment.'
'Trump's exercises in shameless self-promotion...are unprecedented attempts to generate income based on his official position.' Via @reason@MattWelch@jacobsullum
Blue laws and government-enlisted celebrity fertility influencers: These are some of the ways the Institute for Family Studies proposes increasing the birth rate.
Neil Gorsuch proposes an alternative to the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test, which has proven to be an unreliable safeguard against government snooping, especially as modified by the third-party doctrine.
Authorities are calling it a way "to make it easier for people to discover trusted news sources on social media." But behind that noble-sounding rationale, it's just another attempt to control what people can read and watch online.
Trump's outrageous IRS "settlement" is part of a pattern. Since the beginning of his first term, the president has repeatedly used his office for personal gain.
Worse than…Marc Rich, Teapot Dome, Hunter Biden and Watergate?! Looking back through the biggest scandals in American history through the lens of Trump 2.0.
