Politics

Judge Garland might have a great legal mind, but there is little reason to think he would be anything other than a reliable liberal vote—because virtually all of the Court’s liberals are reliable liberal votes, and have been for decades.

Donald Trump’s loss in winner-take-all Ohio keeps alive the possibility of a contested GOP convention that denies Trump the nomination.

If there's going to be an indictment, it needs to happen before July. 

Challenging times require bold reforms, but very few political candidates have proposed any. With this paper we try to fill that gap by identifying five reforms that would solve current problems, spur economic growth and return power and money to the states and the people.

"I'm a content guy, " said IPI president Tom Giovanetti on Twitter. "Content of Romney speech excellent. Wrong messenger? Possibly. Will it work? Probably not."

In true Trump fashion, this isn't exactly a magnum opus of policy wonkery. "The outline of his health plan is nothing more than an outline that is so thin that you can't really make any assessments of what it would do, because from the outline, it wouldn't do much at all," said Merrill Matthews, IPI resident scholar.

There may be a huge divide between what a President Trump wants to do and what House and Senate Republicans are willing to pass—assuming they retain control of both houses.

Tax cuts are nice but they are not enough. The government doesn’t just take too much money, it also spends too much.

This is a city that votes for big-government politicians who promise the world but can’t even deliver safe water. Will they reconsider that pattern? And Flintstones aren’t the only Democrats losing faith in government.

A new paper is explaining why NOAA’s conclusions about 2015 are too hot.