"It is very smart to be the people who are like, 'We are normal moms and dads who love football, freedom, and faith, and we want to keep your freedoms intact,' " the New York Times contributor tells Reason.
A new report shows that politically connected companies were better able to navigate the exclusion process and avoid paying tariffs during the Trump administration.
Reason's Billy Binion speaks with political pundit and podcaster Meghan McCain.
Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use the past to make sense of the present.
Trump's protectionist running mate comes out against “cheap, knockoff toasters” and common sense.
A lot more than Oren Cass and J.D. Vance want you to think, and Americans wouldn't like the tradeoffs necessary.
Autonomous vehicle developer Waymo is at the center of a fight between labor unions and venture capital that's dividing the populist right.
"We'd have a national ban on pornography if we could, right?"
Dorr Legg saw the government as homosexuals' enemy.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about Project 2025.
The controversy over Vance's advocacy of higher tax rates for childless adults illustrates the power of framing.
The New Right talks a big populist game, but their policies hurt the people they're supposed to help.
Plus: A listener asks the editors if employers should be held responsible for the speech and actions of employees outside of the workplace.
This week left no doubt that the GOP's current leadership wants the government to do more, spend more, and meddle more.
Fox News commentator Mary Katharine Ham discusses Trump's new policy agenda.
The party platform previously called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn children. Now, it says abortion should be left to the states.
Keir Starmer’s Labour secures a sweeping victory, taking the helm from Rishi Sunak.
The best way to promote liberty is by reducing the government power, not by harnessing it on behalf of supposedly conservative or populist nostrums.
A much more liberal left is facing off with a slightly more conservative right.
The justice's benign comments set off a lengthy news cycle and have been treated as a scandal by some in the media. Why?
"The scale of trade barriers proposed by candidate Trump is unprecedented."
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode of transportation that is actually quite energy efficient.
Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last.
It's a good thing opponents of the move can appeal to the liberal values of free speech, free association, and equal treatment under law.
Matt Yglesias and Bryan Caplan offer contrasting theories. But neither fully works.
As she explains, admiration for Putin on the US right is rooted in a combination of illiberalism, nationalism, and cultural grievance.
Plus: Illegal homes in California, Erdogan's party does poorly in local elections, and more...
Support for industrial policy and protectionism are supposed to help the working class. Instead, these ideas elevate the already privileged.
Notre Dame law Prof. Derek Muller so finds in a new analysis of law professor political donations between 2017 and 2023.
Despite the popular narrative, Millennials have dramatically more wealth than Gen Xers had at the same age, and incomes continue to grow with each new generation.
Just say no to empowering government actors to put their thumbs on the scale on behalf of certain sectors.
Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, talks U.S. foreign policy on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Plus: Suozzimentum, gun factories, body-count discourse, and more...
As the party grows more populist, ethnically diverse, and working class, will Republicans abandon their libertarian economic principles?
As the party grows more populist, ethnically diverse, and working class, will Republicans abandon their libertarian economic principles?
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Plus: Javier Milei’s powerful speech on economic prosperity in Davos
His political makeover into a Trumpy cultural warrior undermined what could have been a compelling campaign about the value of freedom.
The Cato Institute has posted a Spanish-language version of the article I coauthored with Alex Nowrasteh.
Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all?
The famed Harvard law professor tries to outline a set of principles liberals - broadly defined - can agree on. And it's a strong effort, even though I have a few caveats and reservations.
Once you get past the aesthetics, the similarities between Milei and MAGA mostly vanish.
Richard M. Weaver seemed to question whether liberal order was compatible with human flourishing. By the end of his life, he saw individual liberty as more than incidental to the good society.
An extensive new study finds that the answer is "no." Belief in conspiracy theories is about equally common on different sides of the political spectrum.
As long as the Republican Party is a policy-free zone, Jordan might as well be the guy in charge.
A cabinet minister who once defended the right to blaspheme now wants a crackdown.
Plus: Invade Mexico?!, "Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," and more...
Legislators abuse the emergency label to push through spending that would otherwise violate budget constraints.
