Paradoxically, in the current moment—a moment Biden helped to create by blocking Bork—being unqualified for the presidency is the best qualification a candidate can have.
From Iowa to impeachment, Biden burnout to Trump triumph, the opposition party had itself a rough 7 days.
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Elections are a time when a few of the wealthiest, most cossetted, and least appealing members of society try to convince us that America is an impoverished wasteland.
In New Hampshire, Biden says marijuana should be "basically legalized." That's an accurate representation of his proposed policies, but it also shows how he's lagging on the issue.
The former New York City mayor, who thinks legalizing pot is "one of the stupidest things we've ever done," nevertheless says "putting people in jail for marijuana" is "really dumb."
But he'll have to do more than coast on a few commendable pardons if he wants to prove he's serious.
Maybe the celebration speech last night wasn't premature?
Letting any single state go first is a mistake. But a national primary would be problematic too. Luckily, those aren't the only two options.
Last night's caucus flop was a meltdown of small-d democracy.
Plus: What is the Shadow app? And are the Iowa caucuses dead?
The president's would-be primary challengers fail to reach 2 percent, and are being out-fundraised a combined 230 to 1.
The Reason Roundtable podcast grapples with a news week so packed it makes Manhattan look like Kansas
While the president seems sincerely concerned about "very unfair" drug penalties, it's not clear whether he thinks his work in that area is done.
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Such inflammatory exaggeration seems designed to avoid a substantive discussion of the presidential candidate's gun control proposals.
The billionaire former three-term mayor of New York panders to Democratic loyalists rather than laying out a vision for a prosperous, tolerant America.
The pro-impeachment libertarian independent has more cash on hand than any of his competitors.
Activists urge Klobuchar to suspend her presidential campaign.
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When politicians call to punish “disinformation,” we should worry about what that definition encompasses.
Political hypocrisy on school choice needs to be exposed, says Reason Foundation's Corey DeAngelis.
Politicians win, taxpayers lose.
The Vermont socialist has always claimed to be a champion of the working class. But over time, his wealth tax would fall heavily on ordinary Americans.
One dynamic that works in favor of both Trump and Sanders is that voters discount their extreme stances, figuring that they just represent opening offers that will eventually be watered down in compromises with powerful interest groups and with establishment lawmakers.
The presidential hopeful weighs in on the Supreme Court.
Sanders' lead over Warren has doubled since her campaign tried using a private 2018 conversation against him.
Plus: Brexit is finally (for real!) going to happen, Bernie Sanders surges in the polls, and a peaceful Virginia gun rights rally was apparently violent all along
"I don't think you should do Twitter if you think you're better than Twitter."
An unnecessary and personal attack on Bernie Sanders is another example of Clinton's poor political judgement, and smacks of Democratic desperation to stop the Vermont senator's rise.
That's a bad thing, even—or especially—from a libertarian perspective.
Biden tells the New York Times he would revoke Section 230 protections and hold Facebook (and other sites) liable for their content.
Historian Amity Shlaes talks about the last time a president massively expanded the federal government to help people.
Amity Shlaes's new history of the late 1960s explains the failure of the last time the federal government tried to fix all that was wrong with America.
The Trump administration's "phase one" deal with China will keep many tariffs in place, but Democrats don't seem to have the guts to stand up for freer trade.
Being relentlessly negative is no way to win votes, even against someone as dark and divisive as Donald Trump.
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It's good to hear Biden admit that his initial vote to go to war was a mistake, but he continued to support the war well after it was clearly a disaster.
Taiwan’s system is less generous than the Sanders plan—yet it still struggles with cost control and access to care.
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Expect Biden, Warren, Buttigieg, et al, to relentlessly attack the Vermont socialist, heart-attack survivor, and accused electoral misogynist.
The Sanders-Warren agenda of higher taxes, increased regulation, and more government control worries Wall Street
Talking congressional oversight, the Bernie resurgence, and the death of Neil Peart on the Reason Roundtable podcast
The New Jersey senator was also willing to buck the establishment at key moments.
So long, and thanks for all the memes.
The former Rhode Island governor and senator said state-level legalization efforts are “interesting, positive experiments.”
The policy has earned a well-deserved First Amendment lawsuit.
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