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No, not that Trump.

Congressional Republicans promise to achieve greater frugality in Medicaid without inflicting more hardship. It's not gonna happen.

A South Carolina Supreme Court decision rejects rules based on economic protectionism.

Dissident and offbeat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.

Film favors martyrdom over careful analysis.

For generations, poor, black residents of Canton, Mississippi have lived under siege from a heavy-handed sheriff's department.

The latest budget has new spending but no attempts at serious reform.

Distaste for the president may not translate to distaste for other Republicans, as the special election in Georgia showed.

Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan in a comedy not quite like any other.

Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It’ll make NSA mass data collection impossible.

Chinese UC San Diego students felt the Tibetan spiritual leader "contravened the spirit of respect, tolerance, equality, and earnestness"

After being falsely labeled a sexual predator, a man gets justice. But why is the officer still working?

Paul Ryan is needlessly holding up tax reform by pushing a harmful Border Adjustment Tax.

By pursuing profit honestly, entrepreneurs like Bezos do much more for the world than charities do.

Philando Castile died because he exercised his right to bear arms.

Embargoes don't work. Let capitalism and socialism duke it out.

Sociologist Frank Furedi on how to bring liberalism back to campus.

From pill theft to cozying up to authoritarians, Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador on human rights has a long history of abusing the system.

The long-ruling African National Congress is on its way to losing power, but could go with the "Zimbabwe option."

In 1999, the state of Florida reinstated strict mandatory minimum sentences to crack down on opioid abuse. Thereafter, illegally possessing just 28 oxycodone pills could put a person away for no less than 15 years on a trafficking charge. The effort has been…

Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election could take the blame off Clinton for losing.

Today while I was out running errands in my 5-year-old Honda Accord, I passed a Tesla. If I were a different kind of guy, seeing Elon Musk's latest creation whisk past me as I trundled along in my middleclassmobile might have inspired a sense of personal envy,…

Denver has a bunch of businesses where you can legally buy marijuana but none where you can legally use it. That is supposed to change under a local ballot initiative approved by voters last fall. But a statewide solution to Colorado's cannabis consumption…

One of the biggest and most important challenges facing the estimated 600,000 Americans who will be released from prison this year is the prospect of finding a job. Employment can be the difference between putting their lives together again or ending up back…

Beware the precautionary tales of the left and the right.

States could set their own rules for meat that's processed and sold within their own borders.

Danielle DiMartino Booth worked for nine eventful years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2006 to 2015 under Chairman and CEO Richard Fisher. Even prior to her Fed stint, as a columnist for the Dallas Morning News, Booth had written that "a huge…

Confused adaptation of Stephen King’s novella dissipates the tension.

Five terrible, perpetually recurring arguments, debunked.

The state legislature is failing to heed the will of the voters.