Conservatism
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Conservatives Against Incarceration
How criminal justice reform found support on the right—and what it will take to push it further
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Where Did Trump Come From?
A new history of the American right sheds light on the GOP in 2016.
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Newt Gingrich in 2013: ‘We Simply Cannot Continue’ With ‘Catastrophic’ Immigration Rhetoric
But Trump’s speech last night? ‘Energetic and audacious’!
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Are Attitudes About Discrimination and Guns More Important Than Policy About Spending?
Conservatives continue to write off Johnson/Weld for being insufficiently anti-left.
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Conservatives Are From Mars, Libertarians Are From...Woodstock?
There's no ceasefire in conservative Republican concern-trolling about Gary Johnson and William Weld's ideological apostasies.
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For Republicans, a Vote for Trump Is a Wasted Vote
Not voting for a conservative at all.
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Quiet Liberal Victories at the Republican Convention
Want to see how far feminism and gay liberation have come? Watch what passes without comment at the RNC.
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Ted Cruz Defines Freedom As Its Opposite
The Texas senator tells Republicans freedom is just another word for blocking immigration, restricting trade, and banning gay marriage.
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Senator Mike Lee: Give More Power to Congress (and Take it Away from Federal Agencies)
The constitutional conservative has an ambitious plan to rebalance the separation of powers
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Two Kinds of Social Conservatism
Whether Donald Trump is "socially conservative" depends on what sort of social conservatism you mean.
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Bill Kristol's Clownshow Has Made the Moobs-Stripper Party Look Sane
While #NeverTrumpers continue playing Fantasy Election-ball, Libertarians do the hard work to compete
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Meet the Hawks for Hillary!
A running list of military interventionists who have declared preference for the long-hated Democrat
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The 'Conservatarian' Collapse, Obama's 'Narrative' Dishonesty, and the Real Estate Anguish of Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fifth Column welcomes Charles C.W. Cooke to talk #NeverTrump, idiotic writings, and more.
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Enviros Shun While Pro-Life Conservatives Embrace Population Control Restrictionists. Go Figure.
Immigration makes the strangest bed fellows
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In Search of the Elusive Cultural Libertarian
You might be a cultural libertarian if... well, that depends on whom you ask.
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Sorry—Economic Conservatives are Nothing Like Trump
Prepare to hear a lot of conservatives and free market types compared to Trump.
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Why An Ugly Trump Is Better Than a Lovely Trump
He embodies and exposes the ugliness of the modern conservative agenda
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America Should be Grateful for Trump: New at Reason
He is the right face for conservatism
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Would Conservatives Have Formed a #ForeverTrump Movement If He Were a Less Crazy Strongman?
There is little fundamental policy disagreement between him and various conservative factions
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Serial Resignations at Breitbart News After the Michelle Fields Manhandling Incident
Fields, Ben Shapiro, and at least four others leave the conservative rabble-rousing site