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Richard Epstein examines efforts by the new Republican Congress to restrict the power of federal regulators, and explains the history of how unelected administrators came to hold so much political power.

Our final podcast of the week features our tear-bathed tribute to the departing Barack Obama and his commutation of the sentences of traitors and the pardon of terrorists. Also, a look ahead to liberal hypocrisy in the Trump era and a near-total meltdown by me on the subject of the supposedly “anti-intellectual” David Gelernter, the most intellectual person I’ve basically ever known. Give a listen.

The left is shrieking, the press is lying, the pols are whining and, against all odds, Donald Trump is about to become the president.

In the final podcast of the Obama presidency, Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cheer Donald Trump's goal of aggressively reducing the size of government but acknowledge it will not be easy. They also react to Bernie Sanders saying America is not compassionate because our government does not do as much for people as more liberal governments do. And they scratch their heads as Rep. Tulsi Gabbard embarks on a mysterious trip to Syria.

Why haven’t we learned our lesson when it comes to the American education system? Why are we still allowing our schools to degrade, our students to stagnate, our teachers to bottom out in mediocrity? When every few years a new idea comes along to “reinvent our schools,” what are the practical realities of improving education […]