Dr. Rand Paul’s Op-Eds

For years, I've led the fight in Washington to restore one of Kentucky's most historically vital crops by legalizing industrial hemp. I am proud to be a leading voice for the hemp industry, including championing legislation, testifying before the Kentucky legislature...

The proper role of government is to ensure that individual rights are protected, the most basic of which is the right to life.In 2019, Planned Parenthood was responsible for 345, 871 abortions. Averaging out to a rate of 947 per day, or one every 91 seconds. Also, in...

In an age of government overreach and mass regulation, individual freedom is often forgotten. I have been one to continually fight for liberty and freedom for all, especially that of American workers.For far too long, Big Labor has controlled the rules, regulations,...

Democrats (and many Republicans) don't seem to care about the mountain of debt Congress added last year and continues to add this year. Instead of simply opening the economy back up as the virus wanes, Democrats are plowing ahead with another $2 trillion in deficit...

I have consistently opposed Executive overreach, whether the abuse came from a Republican or a Democrat.I opposed President Obama's executive orders illegally changing immigration law.Even though I support a security wall in places along our border, I opposed...

This week, I will sit on a panel of jurors in the U.S. Senate in a most unusual trial.The trial is of dubious merit and even more dubious constitutionality.It will stop both sides of the political aisle from pursuing solutions and goals for policy, from presidential...

Sometimes in Washington, the powers that be will embark on a little bit of political theater. You can always spot it, though, if you look closely enough at what's real and what's not.In the last days of the presidency of Donald Trump, the Democrats and a handful of...

Democrats claim to want to unify the country, but impeaching a former president, a private citizen, is the antithesis of unity. This impeachment is nothing more than a partisan exercise designed to divide the country further.They have brazenly appointed an openly...

After President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, I said I believed Judge Barrett would make an excellent justice that would serve our country...

In his speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday night, President Trump said if you want the rest of the country to look like Portland, Ore., put the Democrats fully in charge and that's what you'll get.That's hard to argue with considering what we are...

Labor Day has passed, and in most years, the entire country would now be back to school. Kids would be learning, catching up with old friends, and swapping stories from the summer. Teachers would have decorated and readied themselves for a year of struggles and...

While I'm a big supporter of home schools, many single parents who work aren't able to teach their kids at home. Even some parents with advanced educational degrees simply don't want to teach their kids at home or believe their kids will listen more consistently to...

When Alice Johnson ran to embrace her family after her release from prison, she was a 63-year-old grandmother who spent almost 22 years behind bars. But Johnson was supposed to die in custody. The co-defendants who testified against her received sentences ranging from...

In a free society, citizens should be able to easily distinguish between civilian law enforcement tasked with keeping the peace in our communities and the armed forces tasked with protecting our country from foreign adversaries.Unfortunately, thanks to the federal...

It has been almost 20 years since our country went to war in Afghanistan. After 9/11, the American population rightfully demanded our forces take action against those who attacked us. Had I been in Congress I would have voted for that action.When a country goes to war...

Fatal conceit: it is the concept that central planning, with decision-making concentrated in a few hands, can never fully grasp the millions of complex individual interactions occurring simultaneously in the marketplace.It is a fatal conceit to believe any one person...

The Roman Judge Lucius Cassius is reported to have often used the phrase: "Cui bono" or "who benefits?"That very question needs to be asked in examining why an intelligence officer in our government committed a felony by releasing classified information alleging that...

Last week, there was much discussion over "unmasking," where Obama administration officials flagrantly violated the constitutional rights of American citizens, including those of their political opponents.To be sure, this behavior was abhorrent, and I gladly...

As much as we respect Dr. Anthony Fauci's service to our country and medical opinion, we disagree that his current positions on the virus outbreak provide the best path forward. Instead, discouraging states from reopening will only prolong a long-term public health...

I don't think any medical professional would enjoy receiving a lecture from someone who is clearly scientifically illiterate.Ryland Barton's charged, leftwing diatribe scolding me for making "claims [not] backed up by science" is itself ignorant of and...