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Happy Saturday! This week, Will Saletan looks at Republicans cheering on Trump’s ban of White House reporters, Adrian Carrasquillo reports on an ICE shooting in Austin, Brendan Hartnett watches six hours of Trump TV so you don’t have to, and Cathy Young examines the white nationalist language showing up at the State Department. Plus, a remarkable night in Dayton, where more than 1,000 of you joined us to stand with Springfield.ShareJoin nowJoin now🚨OVERTIME🚨DAYTON, OH

Like many large progressive cities, Chicago receives its fair share of criticism for overbearing regulations and sclerotic government. It clocks in at number five on the list of large American cities where it is hardest to obtain a business permit. It has some of the highest commercial property tax and sales tax rates of any large city. And as with any overregulated locale, the burden of all this regulatory excess inevitably falls most heavily on the smallest businesses. In Chicago, mobile food

9/26/1986: Chief Justice Warren Burger retires. Chief Justice Warren BurgerThe post Today in Supreme Court History: September 26, 1986 appeared first on Reason Magazine.

Straussians have a point. But so do their detractors.

Ohio used to be the biggest swing state in the country. It's turned pretty red, (Trump won it by 11 points in 2024) but it's very hotly contested this year, and there's one big overarching local issue driving it. Signal Ohio state government and politics reporter Andrew Tobias joins Sarah to break down the major players.Show links:Signal OhioSarah's Focus Group Newsletter on Vivek RamaswamySarah's Thank You to the Bulwark Community (Comment here for her AMA next Friday)Send questions for the sho

President Donald Trump was excited about a new military operation. "Earlier this morning," he announced on the afternoon of September 2, 2025, "U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility." That attack should "serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America," he said. "BEWARE! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!!!!!!" Those 11 excla

Unions protect teachers, not kids.

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After being blocked in his attempt to keep CNN out of the White House altogether (including the main press briefing room), President Trump has excluded CNN from traveling with him on Air Force One. This, though, he is quite likely allowed to do. As you likely recall, last year Trump kicked AP out of the Oval Office press pool, because the AP had refused (in my view correctly refused) to call the Gulf of Mexico "the Gulf of America." A D.C. Circuit panel majority, to oversimplify slightly, conclu

In the past, it was your social circle. Now, it’s more likely an algorithm.

From this nexus of creation, you could go anywhere. Or you could stay put.

I was fortunate and (no pun intended) blessed to attend the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on Thursday, along with my colleagues at the invaluable CatholicVote. As I sat in the press box in the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri, I was deeply moved watching the priests process into the stadium. The orchestral music was full of solemn pomp and an almost martial majesty, ushering an estimated 1,000 priests down the center aisle. They lined up in rows of five or six, and t

The arithmetic of money is incorruptible: when it comes to international settlement systems, the pricing of commodities and energy, and access to the credit system, the U.S. dollar still reigns unchallenged. Eighty-nine percent of all foreign exchange transactions are conducted in greenbacks — central banks, commercial banks, and other capital pools hold roughly 57 percent of global currency reserves in U.S. dollars. Global banking cannot function without the dollar standard and its settlement s

In the wake of brilliant reporting in the Wall Street Journal on how the United Nations orchestrates an industry of lies against Israel, and massive protests outside of the United Nations, including multiple Democratic House primary winners, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu gave a Churchillian speech at the United Nations General Assembly. He defended the U.S.-Israeli relationship, showed how Israel has emerged from absorbing the greatest attack on the Jewish people since the H

I am wary of performative goodness. A few days ago, I wrote in The American Spectator about a speech UN Secretary-General António Guterres had just delivered. Calling him an idiot didn’t quite satisfy me, even though it is a reasonably accurate description of the man. So today, I would like to move beyond the individual (Guterres) and elevate him to a category; that is, to address everyone like him, those who belong to what I often call the postmodern Left: the faction that brought us “wok

Gavin Newsom is doing nothing to hide the fact that he is 100 percent running for president in 2028. Earlier this month, Newsom made a trip down to South Carolina in what was quite obviously a campaign event in the Democrats’ first-in-the-nation primary state. In an interview with the Associated Press while campaigning in South Carolina, Newsom said he could very well announce his presidential bid before the end of 2026. When the Associated Press asked him whether a presidential announcement cou

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink.” So said Dean Martin, a man known for drinking. (The quote is also attributed to Dean’s paisano, Frank Sinatra.) Dino loved his vino. He not only knew how to drink but how to act like a drunk. He played an outstanding drunk sheriff in the 1959 film Rio Bravo, co-starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan. Lam-w.comter, in December 1975, it was unclear whether Dean was acting during his epic performance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (seated between C

Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.

'Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise,' the high court ruled.

The sun is setting shortly and I'm on the go, so my comments about the Missouri order will be brief. First, the Court only addressed standing in a footnote. I am still not convinced any of the parties had standing but at least 5 members of the Court disagreed, including the Court's leading proceduralist. Second, the per curiam noted that Justice Kavanaugh's prior orders had no noted dissents. I am still not convinced all three of these orders were unanimous. It may be that Justices Thomas and Al