Where Voters Are Likeliest to Legalize Marijuana in a Month
With pot on the ballot in nine states, support for allowing recreational use is strongest in California, while Florida looks likeliest to permit medical use.
Election 2016
Immigration Authoritarianism
Trump's pandering to xenophobia is nothing new for the GOP.
Gary Johnson's Radical Foreign Policy Moment: Accused of "Moral Equivalence" Over Condemning U.S. Bombing of Civilians
The New York Times may think this will wound Johnson, but a similar moment of "unpopular" truthtelling regarding American foreign policy was the making of Ron Paul in 2007.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Have More in Common Than You Think
Both 2016 presidential hopefuls believe in the primacy of the state over the individual.
Mike Pence's VP Debate Performance Showed That Trump Can Only Be Defended By Lying
The Trump campaign's detachment from reality is a recipe for unbound and unaccountable government.
Tim Kaine Invokes bin Laden While Trying To Sell Hillary Clinton's Big ISIS Plan
But taking out al Qaeda's leadership probably didn't make the world any safer.
One Giant Takeaway from the Vice-Presidential Debate Between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence
We don't need more politicians talking over each other but we do need more voices on the stage debating America's future.
Nobody Won the VP Debate, Least of All the American Electorate
We don't need more politicians like Kaine and Pence talking over each other. We need more voices and people on the stage debating the country's future.
Surveys Show Gary Johnson Appeal Growing Among Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White Millennials
Asked about our biggest problems, the most common answer among young black voters was racism, while Hispanics said immigration, Asians said education, and whites said terrorism/homeland security.
The Reporting of Trump's PTSD Comments Shows Why His Supporters Hate the Media
The point of political reporting is to help provide context, not obscure it.
Gary Johnson Tied or Slightly Up in 8 out of 8 Recent National Polls
That September swoon sure didn't last very long.
EpiPens and Government Cheese
Some things won't change no matter who wins the 2016 election.
Donald Trump's Fat-Shaming Fetish
The GOP candidate embraces and exaggerates common prejudices against the overweight.
Does the Road to the White House Run Through Gary Johnson's New Mexico?
If the former governor wins his home state, he just might block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from victory at the ballot box.
Donald Trump's Billion-Dollar Tax Loss Is a Diversion From More-Serious Matters
Like the fixation on Gary Johnson's "Aleppo moments," this stuff stymies serious conversation about first-order concerns like government spending.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds on his Twitter Suspension, Online Free Speech, & His Presidential Vote
Why cops get away with criminal behavior, how the Internet is getting boring, and why a Trump presidency isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Chicago Tribune Becomes 6th and Largest Newspaper to Endorse Gary Johnson (UPDATED)
"Every American who casts a vote for him is standing for principles," declares World's Greatest Newspaper, as endorsement count moves to 13-6-1* for Clinton-Johnson-Trump
Poll: Active Military Members Have Had Quite Enough of Nation Building, Regime Change
15 years of war have exhausted and demoralized U.S. troops.
Ballot Access: Another Way Dems and the GOP Screw Third Parties
Election law expert Richard Winger looks at ballot access issues in the 2016 election.
Libertarian Party Senate Candidate in Florida Might Meet the Stated Criteria to Get Into Televised October Candidate Debate
Some ambiguity about allowed margin of error remains to be settled.
Radical Libertarians Now Have a (Write-In) Choice for President
Darryl Perry, who pulled 6 percent in the L.P. nomination race, announces he's an official write-in candidate in many states for Libertarians bothered by Gary Johnson's departures from orthodoxy
Everyone's Making the Same Joke About Gary Johnson and Libertarians
Something something Aleppo something marijuana something...
Beyond the Presidency, Reasons to Go on Living
There's more to life than who is sitting in the Oval Office.
Watch Gary Johnson Get ANGRY Over Foreign Policy And Exclusion From Debates (You Will Too)!
LP candidate and running mate Bill Weld go ballistic over dumb wars, exclusion from debates, and more in exclusive video.
Actress Melissa Joan Hart Joins Gary Johnson's Presidential Campaign
The two major parties are "like gangs," said the family-sitcom star. "It's really time for us to break away."
Trump's Phony Crime Crisis
FBI numbers refute his portrait of a nation besieged by violent thugs.
Why Obamacare Exchanges Are Collapsing: Richard Epstein Talks with Nick Gillespie
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Clinton Bemoans Those Who 'Try to Destabilize the World', But That's What She's Done
Complaints about Donald Trump don't make the U.S. any more a responsible player on the world's stage.
Hillary Talks Police Brutality at Debate, Connects Reform to Black-on-Black Violence
Deploys bromides on police training and techniques, but not accountability or transparency.
Neither Trump Nor Clinton Know a Damned Thing About Cybersecurity, and Yes, You Should Be Concerned
Who will actually be defining the agenda, because it won't be these two?
Next Time, Make Trump and Clinton—And Johnson and Stein!—Answer Each Other's Questions
Why do we insist on using the "most stupid arrangement of any debate in the history of debating" for presidential candidates?
Hillary Clinton Just Made the Same Point About Obama Not Ending the Iraq War That Romney Did in in 2012
What the 2012 Democratic nominee took credit for the 2016 nominee blames on Bush.
Donald Trump Said Stop and Frisk Wasn't Unconstitutional. It Was.
Ending suspicionless searches didn't cause crime to rise in New York City.
Moderators Should Do More Than Fact-Check Debates: They Should Proactively Present Candidates With Facts
Journalists have a responsibility to present voters and candidates with accurate information.
Can Trump Be Trusted on Supreme Court Appointments?
The GOP candidate releases an expanded of potential SCOTUS picks.
Clinton Suggests Paying States and Cities to Fix Bad Licensing Laws
What Hillary Clinton gets right (and what she gets wrong) about occupational licensing and the need for reform
Maybe Donald Trump Is the Real Ferguson Effect
The FBI releases 2015's crime statistics on the day of the first Trump/Clinton debate.
Gary Johnson Getting Nearly as Many LGBT Voters as Trump
Clinton is still the heavy favorite.
Spending Other People's Money Makes Trump a Perfect Fit for Washington
Staring into the abyss.
