It is being widely reported that Michael Cohen says that he paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket. Orin Kerr looks carefully at Cohen’s statement, though, and notices that he doesn’t actually say that. He says he used his “own personal...

David Brooks recently wrote that liberals were sacrificing important goals—such as winning elections—in order to keep abortion free from legal restriction even late in pregnancy. Cheryl Axelrod responds in Slate: Late-term abortion is worth...

Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes write in The Atlantic that President Trump is a menace to the republic because of “his attempt to erode the independence of the justice system” and his “encouragement of a foreign adversary’s interference in U.S....

In his State of the Union address, President Trump was much better at describing his past accomplishments than his future agenda. He took credit for a strong economy—more than truly merited, but that’s something all presidents with a good economy...

Kristin Shapiro and Andrew Biggs have an innovative proposal, which they discuss in the WSJ: What if the government could affordably provide paid parental leave to every worker in the U.S.? Our proposal is simple: Offer new parents the...

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Donald Trump's relationship with the media isn't getting any better, but it's tough to decide who is in the wrong ...

Jerry Taylor, president of the Niskanen Center, emailed a comment on my recent article on Trump’s policy record so far: Good piece, and I generally agree. For all of Trump’s alt-right talk, he’s governing as a hyper-conservative in the Ted...

Gorsuch confirmed, ISIS defeated, taxes cut: The Trump administration has compiled a solid record of accomplishment in its first year, one that compares well with the records of many of its predecessors. Two of the biggest accomplishments came...

It doesn't sound like entitlement reform is particularly likely to happen ...