Five dissenters: Yesterday, five Republicans went against their own party, opposing a spending package full of Pentagon appropriations that was supposed to make its way to the House floor. One of the dissenters, Rep. Ralph Norman (R–S.C.), said “he was opposing all GOP spending initiatives until he received a commitment from [House Speaker Kevin] McCarthy […]
Congress is back in session, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has captured policymakers’ attention. A wide range of committees have hosted hearings on AI generally as well as how it applies to more specific fields, including medicine and disaster response. As a result, a growing number of bills are starting to proliferate. Among the most concerning […]
The Montreal Biodôme’s scarlet macaw named Bouton “will be deported to the Toronto Zoo next Friday after she only spoke English during a government inspection,” The Beaverton reported in July 2013. The outlet quoted a government official as saying that the bird “asked for crackers, not craquelins,” violating Quebec’s laws requiring French in the workplace. […]
The monthslong debate over raising the debt limit is barely in the rearview mirror, and already it’s time for another round of brinksmanship over the federal government’s fiscal future. This time the stakes are a possible government shutdown at the end of the current fiscal year on September 30. That will happen unless Congress and […]
COVID-19 cases are up. Hospitalizations climbed 24 percent last week. But the media make everything seem scarier than it is. The headline “Up 24 Percent!” comes after dramatic lows. Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, “The pandemic is over.” Yet the shallow media keep pounding away: “It […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman consider libertarian responses to natural disasters in the wake of the recent wildfires in Hawaii and examine the outsider candidacy of Javier Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist, in his bid for the Argentinian presidency. 0:26: Maui wildfires 23:13: Javier Milei […]
Amid a summer surge in youth unemployment, China’s government made headlines last week by announcing that it would simply no longer publish official data on how many young workers can’t find jobs. But not all of the country’s economic woes can be so easily hidden. China’s economic model—which has leaned strongly into industrial policy and […]