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Is the small-government Democrat beefing up state power?

Plus: A listener asks whether or not Thomas Jefferson was right.

And while U.S. officials admit the deportation was a mistake, they say they're not obliged to bring him back—despite the Supreme Court's ruling.

Richard Nixon infamously drafted an "enemies list" of people he wanted to go after. At least Trump conducts his corruption out in the open.

The stock market may look irrational, but it's repricing risk faster than ever. Sometimes, that's a feature, not a bug.

It was filed today in the Court of International Trade.

That's the highest total outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now Congress wants to borrow even more.

In Colombia, a court claims the answer is yes. Could that happen here?

Spoiler: it's bad.

Plus: Rat buffet, critiquing the abundance agenda, arson at the Pennsylvania governor's mansion, and more...

A plea for more accurate descriptions of non-combustible nicotine products.

From an April 1 Justice Department press release: Today, a Federal Judge accepted a guilty plea to destruction of records… The post "Necessary to Maintain Peak Lethality" appeared first on Reason.com.

4/14/1873: The Slaughter-House Cases argued.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 14, 1873 appeared first on Reason.com.

Predictions vary as to the ultimate cost, but there’s no doubt that tariffs create economic pain.

"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.

The California Assembly Transportation Committee has approved A.B. 435, which would require all children younger than 10 years old and… The post Brickbat: Needing a Boost appeared first on Reason.com.

The post Monday Open Thread appeared first on Reason.com.

It's a good step. But the schools should also file their own lawsuit challenging this awful policy.

They argue the tariffs violate the constitutional separation of powers and their tribal treaty rights.

4/13/1896: Plessy v. Ferguson argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 13, 1896 appeared first on Reason.com.

How John McClaughry and Karl Hess fought to decentralize power—one from inside the system, one ever further from it

4/12/1945: President Harry Truman's inauguration. He would make four appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Vinson, and Justices Burton,… The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 12, 1945 appeared first on Reason.com.

The Associated Press’s legal victory highlights the limited power presidents and the press have over the creative destruction and spontaneous order of our language.

We don't just crave being on a team; we also crave a rival. We want to be in a club, and we want a nemesis to motivate us.

An immigration judge's decision reinforces the constitutional argument against the law that the secretary of state is invoking.

The woman has since recanted her allegations.

White House press passes, Wikipedia edits, and same-sex weddings.

Maybe judges should hold off on ordering the executive branch to show cause until the Supreme Court finishes its review.

The pro-censorship post was quite the Freudian slip from the Trump administration.

Not all of the action on the shadow docket involves President Trump.