Hey, Republicans: Stop Coddling Crazies and Puckering Up to Putin
Republican idiocy is setting back the cause of freedom.
Republican idiocy is setting back the cause of freedom.
Plus, hear the Reason editors' response to President Biden's SOTU.
Inspiring support for Ukrainian freedom is undermined by the remainder of the president’s agenda.
Ukrainians have taken to the streets with arms to defend their country and their freedom.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
Biden says reducing prices is his "top priority" but his economic agenda suggests the opposite.
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More than a year into the Biden administration, promises to expand clemency, decriminalize marijuana, and end solitary confinement and the federal death penalty remain unfulfilled.
Biden offered a mix of mostly pointless or arguably unconstitutional "solutions" to the misuse of guns by criminals.
Attendees at Biden's State of the Union speech were almost entirely unmasked.
Biden was right to reinforce that American soldiers shouldn't be fighting in Ukraine. But he missed a valuable opportunity to outline immigration measures for Ukrainians and Russians.
The president touted his support of cost-increasing 'Buy America' requirements for American infrastructure projects.
Biden made some vague promises about deficit reduction during Tuesday's State of the Union address. They don't add up.
The world's conscience had been shocked by Russia's recent invasion of a sovereign European state. Ike responded with sober, long-game containment in Europe...and more reckless escalation in the Middle East.
Guess whose fault it is that it’s so expensive to ship goods to America? (Spoiler: The U.S. government's.)
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For Biden, the pandemic has become a catchall justification for a slew of big-government programs that he and the Democratic Party already wanted to pursue.
Destroying the ability of freelancers to make a living is union protectionism, not economic opportunity.
This is a subsidy for the schools, not the students.
Biden tonight, like LBJ in 1964, Ford in 1975, Reagan in 1981, and Obama in 2009, is ready to make some terraforming asks to a pliant Congress.
After Watergate, Democrats rolled back executive power. Under Trump, they just want to be the ones who get to wield it.
The president promised to protect Medicare and Social Security, America's biggest entitlement programs.
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American manufacturing has been in a recession for the past year.
But he'll have to do more than coast on a few commendable pardons if he wants to prove he's serious.
President Donald Trump's schizophrenic approach to foreign policy was on full display during his State of the Union address tonight.
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There are dueling bills in front of Congress, both backed by Republicans. One would expand Trump's tariff authority, while the other would check it.
But Amash's reaction wasn't all positive.
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He was off script, and he probably hasn't checked with his ultra-restrictionist White House aide Stephen Miller.
"The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican Agenda or a Democrat Agenda. It is the agenda of the American People."
The president talks a good game about driving into the future, but his eyes are glued to the rear-view mirror.
Or the $22 trillion (and counting) national debt. Or the entitlement programs that will continue adding to them.
The president proposed a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan in his previous State of the Union address.
Sanders is an avowed democratic socialist.
Ending the spread of HIV is within our reach, but the administration's approach to opioid abuse is a problem.
But there's a long way to go before patients have control over their own medical care.
"America is a Nation that believes in redemption."
The president's speech was a mixed bag on foreign policy.
But she provided very little evidence to back up her claims.
The Last Word is what every politician wants. It's better in boozy form.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt delivers the L.P.'s prebuttal to tonight's SOTU, while the L.A. Times asks whether Hewitt can "make a fringe party mainstream."
"Why is he talking over the black woman our party chose to speak for us?"
The president has devoted himself to a pointless, self-defeating project.