Donald Trump Says Joe Biden Is the Candidate of Perpetual COVID-19 Lockdowns
Though the presidential debate was pure chaos, Trump destroyed Biden on the question of reopening the economy.
Though the presidential debate was pure chaos, Trump destroyed Biden on the question of reopening the economy.
The U.S. tax code should be front and center.
While establishmentarians continue to push two-party conformity, there remains little evidence that other parties are having any sort of "spoiler" effect.
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
The Libertarian presidential nominee is polling at 5 percent. Who are her followers?
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Trump's garbled response probably wasn't a sign he's planning to subvert the election. But it was a failure of presidential competence.
The Libertarian presidential nominee won't win but is upbeat about Gen Z and protests against lockdowns and police violence.
Voting for Libertarian, Green, or independent candidates will not mean “throwing your vote away.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death elevates a familiar health care policy dynamic to the foreground of the election.
If so, Republicans, Democrats, the state legislature, the state Supreme Court, and Gov. Tom Wolf will all share the blame.
The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals a long-degraded political culture.
What's next for SCOTUS?
Her death creates a vacancy on the Supreme Court just weeks before the presidential election and is likely to spark a major political fight.
If only that signaled a broader respect for legal limits on executive power.
Is it too much to ask for a presidential candidate who cares about America's fiscal health and respects the limits of his office?
Removing single-family zoning will not dismantle the suburbs, but it will dismantle the ability of NIMBYs to use the government to control other people's property.
Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna propose an idea that might help avert a constitutional crisis.
Biden is proposing about $3 trillion in new taxes, mostly on the rich, to pay for up to $11 trillion in new spending. That's a recipe for even bigger budget deficits.
If Biden retains his 2–1 advantage among 2016 Libertarian and Green voters, Trump is probably toast.
Sadly for the president, 2016 Libertarians are not "all Republican voters." Sadly for us, his opposition to "endless wars" doesn't translate into ending them.
Bridget Phetasy on why Trump and Biden fail to inspire and how new media are reshaping politics.
While that's nothing to sneeze at, it is a modest accomplishment in the context of a federal prison system that keeps more than 150,000 Americans behind bars.
Voting during COVID means "we are not going to know who won this on election night," Utah's Republican gubernatorial nominee warns. Postponing post-election deadlines can help.
The podcaster and comedian offers a 12-step plan for political independence and recovery.
Whether Biden or Trump wins this November, we're in for big, unaffordable government. How much bigger and how unaffordable are the only real questions.
Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen will be on every state’s ballot.
The president's daughter says "we’re just getting started." Some details would be nice.
"Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?"
He did not overpromise, and he had the good sense to stop talking about a country beset by violence when he ran for a second term.
A Wisconsin business owner who spoke about losing business to China ended up inadvertently undermining the administration's argument for protectionism.
A political party can be destroyed by warring factions after it nominates a celebrity candidate and loses its coherence. That’s what happened…after 1848, when the Whigs backed Zachary Taylor.
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Thanks to a paradoxical Trump bump, nearly 90 percent of both Democrats and Republicans now say they support international trade.
Better still: Let's have lots of debates that include all candidates who can technically win the election.
A pre-Kenosha poll shows support for Black Lives Matter plummeting among white voters in Wisconsin.
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Unfortunately, Biden has carefully avoided committing to changing much of anything about Trump's trade policies.
Neither does Portland. But the fact that the violence is continuous and seems to be escalating is cause for concern.
The president's case rests on two accomplishments, while his plans for a second term echo the mindless toughness he intermittently condemns.
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In the president’s mind, trade is not a right to be respected but a process to be managed by politicians.
Even when they have a good idea, the argument gets muddled.
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What can libertarianism offer America in the midst of the economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic?