Politics & Policy

Shutdown Theater, Again

By Kevin D. Williamson 6:30 AM

The promise of this kind of spectacle is about one half of why Donald Trump was elected.

The Risks of Medicare for All

By Doug Badger 6:30 AM

Planting one health-care system requires uprooting another.

Getting to Yes on FIRST STEP

By The Editors 6:30 AM

The bill — improved by Ted Cruz’s amendment — focuses on the aspects of the federal criminal-justice system that that are overly punitive and need reform.

Partisans Prefer Legalism to Morality

By Jonah Goldberg 6:30 AM

We’ve lost anything remotely like a moral consensus in this country because legalism has crowded out morality.

Time to Retire the 2016 Trump Clichés

By J. J. McCullough 6:30 AM

He’s not a one-man show, and he is mostly adhering to tried-and-true GOP priorities.

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Supreme Court Refuses To Hear States’ Case To Defund Planned Parenthood

December 10, 2018

The nation's largest abortion provider makes headlines once again.

More on the Free-Exercise Clause and Religious Exemptions

By John Yoo & James C. Phillips 6:30 AM

The Founders saw free exercise of religion as a natural right, so the breadth and limits of natural rights must be read into the free-exercise clause.

Washington’s Short-Term Thinking Won’t Head Off the Coming Debt Crisis

By Michael Tanner 6:30 AM

Lawmakers and President Trump must look beyond their own immediate political prospects to imagine the country they’ll leave behind.

Stormy Daniels Ordered to Pay Trump $293K in Legal Fees

By Mairead McArdle 10:31 PM

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Stormy Daniels to pay President Trump over $293,000 to cover the bulk of his legal fees against her. U.S. District Judge James Otero ordered the adult film ...

Help Wanted?

By Yuval Levin 5:48 PM

Trump is going about replacing his chief of staff in an absurd, shambolic fashion.