How the American Conservative Crowd Is Voting
Trump gets a plurality, while figures ranging from Jill Stein to David French get cameos.
Conservatism
Anti-Immigration Restrictionism Is for Losers
Conservative intellectuals are pushing a turn that will alienate millennials, not secure the GOP's white base.
Actively Open-Minded Thinking About Climate Change
It's not really all that open-minded. Science curious people on the other hand ...
Maybe Donald Trump Is the Real Ferguson Effect
The FBI releases 2015's crime statistics on the day of the first Trump/Clinton debate.
A New Look at the Kennedy-Reagan Growth Recipe
JFK and the Reagan Revolution argues that America can return to prosperity by looking to the Kennedy-Reagan model of income tax cuts and a strong, stable dollar.
Conservatives Against Incarceration
How criminal justice reform found support on the right—and what it will take to push it further
Where Did Trump Come From?
A new history of the American right sheds light on the GOP in 2016.
Newt Gingrich in 2013: 'We Simply Cannot Continue' With 'Catastrophic' Immigration Rhetoric
But Trump's speech last night? 'Energetic and audacious'!
Gun Control is Not a Culture War Issue
But worrying about a vice presidential candidate's attitude vs. reasonable assumptions about presidential policy is privileging culture war over policy.
Are Attitudes About Discrimination and Guns More Important Than Policy About Spending?
Conservatives continue to write off Johnson/Weld for being insufficiently anti-left.
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.
For Republicans, a Vote for Trump Is a Wasted Vote
Not voting for a conservative at all.
Tall People Vote Conservative, Says New Study
Could it be that taller people actually tend to be more libertarian?
Republican Delegates Wish Party Would Get Over Its Porn Paranoia
"I don't know that it's the government's part to regulate sins and all of that."
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.
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.
Republican Presidential Nomination
Fear, Feminism, and Freeing the Delegates: Inside a Last-Ditch #NeverTrump Fundraiser
Assembled over classical music and quinoa cups, a group of conservative allies aims to change the course of the presidential election. Or do they?
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
Two Kinds of Social Conservatism
Whether Donald Trump is "socially conservative" depends on what sort of social conservatism you mean.
Liberals, Not Conservatives, Express More Psychoticism
Psychoticism: Uncooperative, hostile, troublesome, socially withdrawn, manipulative, and lack of feelings of inferiority
Is This Where Libertarians Say Goodbye to Conservatives?
To right-wingers, Gary Johnson's embrace of "social liberalism" negates his pledge to "sign off on any reduction in the federal government."
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
Austin Petersen Catches More Endorsements from the Media Right for His Presidential Campaign
Mary Matalin and Erick Erickson on board for the Libertarian who thinks he can best sell the Party to conservatives.
Meet the Hawks for Hillary!
A running list of military interventionists who have declared preference for the long-hated Democrat
Why Mark Zuckerberg Should Have Told Conservatives To Screw Off
The Facebook summit got high marks from attendees but is just one instance of today's childish outrage culture.
Conservatives More Susceptible to Bullshit Than Liberals
Supporters of Trump, Cruz, and Rubio more likely to see profoundness in bullshit than supporters of Clinton, Sanders, and O'Malley
The Unholy Anti-Immigration Alliance Between Pro-Life Conservatives and Population Control Weirdos
National Review is the sole link to respectability for neo-Malthusian, ultra-restrictionist outfits that enviros are shunning.
Trump Fans and 'Social Justice Warriors,' Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin
Both the social-justice left and the alt-right view the world primarily through identity politics.
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.
Enviros Shun While Pro-Life Conservatives Embrace Population Control Restrictionists. Go Figure.
Immigration makes the strangest bed fellows
Does Facebook Suppress Conservative News Outlets and Topics?
Ex-staffers of the social media behemoth claim stories written by and about conservatives are deliberately kept from "Trending."
In Search of the Elusive Cultural Libertarian
You might be a cultural libertarian if... well, that depends on whom you ask.
US 4th Circuit Rules in Favor of Trans Teen; May Impact North Carolina Law
Maybe this is the beginning of the end of the bathroom wars.
Sorry—Economic Conservatives are Nothing Like Trump
Prepare to hear a lot of conservatives and free market types compared to Trump.
Why An Ugly Trump Is Better Than a Lovely Trump
He embodies and exposes the ugliness of the modern conservative agenda
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
Dear Conservatives: Don't Peddle Racist Garbage If You Are Not Racist
Their growing flirtation with the sick anti-immigration dystopia, Camp of Saints, is disturbing
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
Will Texas' Use of 'Safety Regulations' to Close Abortion Clinics Be Declared Unconstitutional?
SCOTUS heard testimony last week.
Make America Free Again
We shouldn't aspire to be a great nation. We should aspire to be fully free persons.
At CPAC, Pro–Criminal Justice Reform and Anti–Death Penalty Activists Make Their Case
Conservatives are no longer monolithic on these issues.
Rubio Says Trump Is 'Not Conservative' but Can't Explain Why
The billionaire developer seems to support the principles that the Florida senator mentioned.
Bosses Who Donate to Republicans Are Less Likely to Promote Female Staff
A new study of U.S. law firms looks at how managers' personal political views affect gender roles at work.
Is Social Science Politically Biased?, Asks Michael Shermer in Scientific American
Surely as scientists, liberals are able to maintain their dispassionate objectivity
Donald Trump's Anti-Immigration Views Aren't Conservative; Neither Are Many Conservatives'
Where did Donald Trump's sentiments come from?
