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Is Economic Anxiety Driving People to Socialism?

Plus: War crime allegations against Hegseth, Congress threatens the legal hemp industry, and reflections on the legacy of Tom Stoppard

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Hegseth's Alleged Order To 'Kill Everybody' Complicates Trump's Defense of His Murderous Anti-Drug Campaign

Even if you accept the president's assertion of an "armed conflict" with drug smugglers, blowing apart survivors of a boat strike would be a war crime.

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Why DOGE Mattered

It didn't meaningfully cut spending or reduce the size of government, but the DOGE project proved that politicians shouldn't be scared of doing those things.

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Trump Embraces Mamdani Socialism as 'Practical'

Plus: DOGE is disbanded, Trump attempts to influence the Warner Bros. merger, and Democrats tell the military to reject illegal orders

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Did Democrats Blow It on the Government Shutdown?

Plus: Obamacare subsidies take center stage, the abundance agenda meets socialism after Mamdani’s win, and the differences between liberals and libertarians

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TikTok's Revolutionaries

Plus: Poland invokes Article 4, zoning code has a problem with orgies, and more...

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Steamed NIMBYs Mandated Saunas To Stop New Housing

Several Lone Star cities are attempting to undermine new state-level zoning reforms by requiring new apartment buildings come with ritzy amenities.

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The Trump Administration's Move To Halt Wind and Solar Development on Federal Lands Reverses a Biden Priority

Reducing the government’s ownership of federal lands is the best way to protect against this energy policy whiplash.

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Netanyahu Nominates Trump for Peace Prize

Plus: TSA time wasters, in defense of tourist traps, Trump announces new tariffs, and more...

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TSA Policies Become Slightly Less Stupid

Plus: Texas flooding update, shark policy, tariffs affecting Prime Day, and more...

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California Enacts Sweeping Exemption to Development-Killing Environmental Law

Plus: Real rent decreases in New York City, the return of missing middle housing in Virginia, and how everyone's a socialist on housing in New York.

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Did NYC Vote for Socialism or Against the Establishment?

Plus: Senate GOP releases version of “Big Beautiful Bill” and Republicans shift on gay marriage

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Anti-War President Starts New War. Again.

The Iran bombings, public land selloffs, and the collapse of big city governance

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New Jersey Business Owners Sue City of Perth Amboy Over Bogus Blight Designation

Two business owners are suing the city of Perth Amboy for using eminent domain to seize their property based on unsubstantiated allegations of blight.

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Texas Revs the Growth Machine

Plus: The near death of starter-home reform in Texas, Colorado's pending ban on rent-recommendation software, and a very Catholic story of eminent domain abuse.

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How To Fix California's Self-Inflicted Homeowner's Insurance Crisis

A recent policy report points to much-needed market-based reforms.

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The GOP Budget Is Big, Bloated, B.S.

Plus: A listener asks if the economic inequality data is bad.

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Miami Beach Homeless Arrests Spiked in February Under Anticamping Law

During one week in February, arrests of homeless people accounted for 66 percent of all arrests in Miami Beach.

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New Jersey Town Uses Flimsy Blight Allegations To Seize Tire Shop, Apartment Building

Plus: The White House proposes stiff funding cuts at HUD, Baltimore proposes "missing middle" reforms, and Gov. Gavin Newsom urges local governments to clear encampments.

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What Did We Learn From DOGE?

Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers.

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Trump's War on Childhood

Plus: A listener asks if we're finally defunding NPR and PBS.

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100 Days of Trump

Plus: "Calm corners" in the subway system, mysterious 18-hour power outage, and more...

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Trump's Independent Voter Problem

Plus: A listener asks about possible book club books that are "subtly libertarian."

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Mahmoud Khalil, the Great Rorschach Test

Plus: Ukraine attacks Russia with drones, Newsom's revisionist history, and more...

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