Secretary of Defense Gates criticizes European governments for failing to provide adequately for their own defense. But it’s little wonder that they don’t manage these things themselves when the United States has for so long offered a security guarantee. There’s a major flaw in carbon-​​​​trading schemes, Jeremy Warner argues: no wealth is actually being created […]

Jonah Goldberg points out the obvious flaw in the left’s critique of the filibuster: “Of course the filibuster is undemocratic. This is not some bombshell revelation. And yet in indictment after indictment of the filibuster — and the Senate generally — you hear people level the ‘undemocratic’ charge as if it should be dispositive. The […]

Why are conservatives on board with Question Time at all? Plus: defending Paul Ryan’s entitlement reforms; and two surveys demonstrate broad political ignorance.

What viewers are sure to remember are the images of the government devoting tremendous resources to impose arbitrary environmental rules on ordinary Americans.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes the case that much of the Left’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United is overstated.