A new White House budget memo frames shutdown furlough pay withholdings as fiscal restraint, but the budgetary impact is minimal—the greater effect may be expanding executive control over the federal bureaucracy.

For the fiscal year that ended on September 30, the federal government spent more than $7 trillion and ran a $1.8 trillion deficit.

SWAT raids, cats' paws, and Christian vegetarianism.

The case is the second in two weeks, with little legal merit, filed by a neophyte prosecutor against a Trump opponent

Civil servants are normally temporarily furloughed during shutdowns. The White House insists the current funding lapse empowers them to permanently fire workers.

If the courts try to enforce legal limits on the president's military deployments, he can resort to an alarmingly broad statute that gives him more discretion.

Law enforcement launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley's home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more. The government gave her nothing.

The arrest comes less than a day after a federal judge ordered federal law enforcement to stop impeding reporters and protesters.

Lawmakers made an exception for smaller restaurant chains, implicitly acknowledging that the law would come with costs.

After restaurant delivery drivers quit in droves and costs soared, the city is expanding minimum wage rules to grocery couriers.

10/11/1972: Roe v. Wade argued.

Thoughts on the New York Times' Selective Survey of District Court Judges

And once again, you know who is to blame.

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"They're the ones running most of the government.," Tennessee wrestler-turned-mayor Glenn Jacobs tells Reason.

A new biography explores the life and ideas of the man who founded the first primitive religion of the future.

10/12/1977: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke argued.

The lack of intellectual pluralism undermines the truth-seeking function of the university.

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Marty Quinn, alderman of Chicago's 13th Ward, firmly opposes the construction of "granny flats"—small accessory dwelling units often built in...