With Biden Up in Pennsylvania, Are We Headed Toward Gridlock?
Plus: Republicans denounce Trump fraud allegations, Trump campaign mounts multiple legal challenges, and more...
Plus: Republicans denounce Trump fraud allegations, Trump campaign mounts multiple legal challenges, and more...
Libertarians would have a more promising future if they spent less time worrying about national elections and more time working politically at the local level.
This isn't fraud. This isn't a scheme to steal the election. It is the very predictable outcome of the president's own words and actions.
Voters came out for legalizing marijuana, removing criminal penalties for psychedelic use, and treating drug addiction as a public health concern.
Virginia's upcoming redistricting will be handled by a bipartisan commission.
What is the platform accomplishing by calling further attention to the president's wild claims of voting fraud?
Third-party voters tend to sit out elections without third-party choices.
Trump's tweets are muddying the process. His legal challenges deserve to be heard, and all votes will continue to be counted.
Plus: protests, the Senate race, and more...
Nebraska (!) may well turn out to have provided the critical vote for a Biden victory
Neither candidate promised fiscal solvency or less government interference in our lives.
As independent thinkers exit mainstream institutions, groupthink and blind spots are likely to get worse.
How to slow massive and unchecked national deficits in an age of runaway spending and divided government.
California Sen. Scott Wiener coasted to victory in an election that pitted his deregulatory housing agenda against his opponent's socialist vision.
A reformer ousted the incumbent district attorney of L.A. County, and several major cities voted to create police oversight boards.
The president's complaints about "a major fraud" present a familiar puzzle.
The most expensive ballot initiative campaign in Massachusetts history ended with a resounding victory for property rights.
A GOP Senate could act as a powerful check on a Biden administration.
Socialism: Not so popular among those who remember it well.
The legal fight over mail-in ballots may soon heat up at SCOTUS.
Ballot initiatives continue to reverse marijuana prohibition while making the treatment of other drugs less oppressive and more tolerant.
The Libertarian presidential nominee is at 1.14 percent, has 1.58 million votes, and is ahead of all third-party candidates in every state. She's also beating the Trump-Biden spread in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
Plus: Presidential results still unclear (but Trump declares victory in a few states anyway), California approves Proposition 22, and more...
The ballot initiative allows recreational consumers to grow their own or buy cannabis from state-licensed stores.
And in a three-way race for governor in Indiana, Libertarian Donald Rainwater gets more than 13 percent and wins more than 20 counties.
Reason's roundup of state races and ballot initiatives
It is the first state to do both at the same time.
The initiative makes noncommercial possession of controlled substances a citable offense punishable by a $100 fine.
The ballot initiative allows adults to use the promising psychedelic at state-licensed "psilocybin service centers."
The initiative makes Arizona the 13th state to allow recreational use.
Mississippi is the 35th state, and the second in the Deep South, to recognize marijuana as a medicine.
The ballot measure applies to noncommercial production, distribution, and possession of "entheogenic plants and fungi."
The constitutional amendment charges state legislators and regulators with writing specific rules.
It's been a good night for incumbents.
Regardless of Tuesday's final tally, Libertarians have cemented themselves as the third party in the United States.
A new survey from realty company Redfin finds that only 24 percent of Trump supporters and 32 percent of Biden voters support reducing zoning regulations in their neighborhood.
And other free advice to the next president of these United States.
Republicans rode an electoral wave in 2010 and used that perch to draw favorable congressional districts in many states. Will Democrats have the same opportunity after this year?
It wasn’t a plot to undermine democracy. It wasn’t a Russian intelligence operation. It was a low-tech scam.
American voters have the chance to usher in a few libertarian policies this election, courtesy of these state ballot measures.
A new lawsuit says the state's electioneering statutes violate the First Amendment.
The president's warnings about the destructive potential of a Democratic White House should make us skeptical of the powers of the executive—not just the person who wields them.
There was nothing remotely fraudulent about the 127,000 votes cast in Harris County's drive-thru voting station.
An election-eve primer on The Reason Roundtable
If Trump loses his bid for re-election, it will be because Rust Belt voters abandoned him after four years of misguided economic policies.