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“AT LEAST $2 trillion” was Elon Musk’s casual preelection response when asked how much a new Donald Trump administration could cut from the federal government. As a goal for the new administration, $2 trillion in cuts is both perfectly reasonable and

FEW REALISTIC POLITICAL observers expected a blowout for Kamala Harris. But Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election was far from guaranteed, either. For most of Harris’ relatively brief candidacy, she and Trump appeared to be locked

THE PANIC FOLLOWING the catastrophic meltdown of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union in April 1986 resulted in nearly 400 fewer new nuclear power plants being built than had been projected. Fewer clean nuclear power plants led to

IN SEPTEMBER 2024, federal officials indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams on charges including wire fraud and bribery. The indictment alleges that Adams accepted lavish gifts and campaign contributions from the government of Turkey, in exchange fo

WHEN THE NEW session of Congress opens on January 3, the clock will already be ticking toward the most important set of fiscal decisions lawmakers will make this decade. Decisions made through the end of 2025 will determine the fate of literally tril

DURING THEIR PRESIDENTIAL campaigns, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both promised to fight substance abuse by disrupting the drug supply. Recent trends in drug-related deaths underline the folly of that approach. According to preliminary data from th

SOMEWHERE IN SAN Francisco’s Mission District, they say a solar-powered phone is concealed in a box atop a pole. The phone is running Shazam—an app that identifies songs—with a microphone trained on the street below. If you visit walzr.com, you can s

IF YOU HAVE a mortgage on your home, the odds are that it’s backed by one of two congressionally chartered, government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Those agencies buy up mortgages, bundle them into securities, and then se

IT’S WELL-KNOWN THAT the government heavily censors documents before declassifying them—something humorously captured by The Onion in 2005 with the headline, “CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years.” But from a glass-half-ful

IT’S OFFICIAL: AMERICA’S 46th president is headed out the door. After a single term marked by ambitious plans but modest follow-through, Joe Biden is wrapping up his time in office and somewhat reluctantly shuffling off into the sunset. Despite lofty

WHEN JOE BIDEN was sworn in as president in January 2021, he had good reason to be optimistic about the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being widely criticized for—and arguably losing his first reelection because of—the perceived insuffi

WHILE HE WAS interviewing for the job, President Joe Biden demonstrated an acute awareness of how tariffs work. It’s worrisome that he seems to have forgotten that—or, worse, chosen to ignore it—since he’s been president. In June 2019, Biden correctl

AMANDA KNOX’S STORY is one of the most infamous and controversial criminal cases in recent memory. In 2007, while studying abroad in Italy, she was accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in what the lead prosecutor claimed was a bizarre

BY ANY REASONABLE criteria, Ave Maria should not exist. An hour inland from Naples and Fort Myers, the closest major cities, the Florida town sits alone amid a harsh landscape of fallow ranches and industrial citrus farms. Nearly the entire developme

THE WENDY’S BACONATOR is a beast of a burger. Introduced in 2007 as part of a back-to-basics rebranding of the perpetual fast-food underdog, the Baconator consists of a half-pound of beef, multiple slices of gooey American cheese, and six pieces of b

ON SEPTEMBER 25, more than two months after entering the presidential race, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris finally sat down for her first one-on-one interview with a national television reporter. It wasn’t just any reporter. Stephanie Ruhle, host o

ARGUMENTS FOR LIBERTARIANISM typically take two forms. Some libertarians base their creed on natural rights—the idea that each individual has an inborn right to self-ownership, or freedom from aggression, or whatever—and proceed to argue that only a

Just days after false allegations about Haitian immigrants eating cats in Ohio unexpectedly dominated the headlines in the presidential election, a new exhibit opened at the National Gallery of Art. The bright posters that appeared on D.C. bus stops

Francis Ford Coppola spent an estimated $120 million (most of it borrowed against his successful wine business) to make Megalopolis, a dream project of personal artistic expression. Coppola’s was an extravagant gesture reminiscent of Howard Roark, th

“I wonder how many more tens and hundreds of thousands will die needlessly before I can again freely visit the country of my birth. Socialism kills in Venezuela, like everywhere else it has been implemented. It kills regardless of local flavoring or

Sandy Snakenberg, a San Diego street performer whose act involves blowing bubbles, was performing in a park when two park rangers cited him for “littering in bubble form.” Video shows one of the rangers telling Snakenberg that he will cite him again