Are Government Shutdowns Good for Limited Government?
Plus: A listener asks whether younger generations are capable of passing reforms to entitlement spending.
Plus: A listener asks whether younger generations are capable of passing reforms to entitlement spending.
The former president is right to worry that supporting restrictions on abortion could hurt him in the general election.
Journalism's in-house critics take a bold stance against attempting journalism, because of Trump.
"He said, you strike, you're fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that we can use that once again, absolutely."
Plus: A listener asks for the editors’ advice on how to spend his money.
A lawsuit to keep Donald Trump off the Florida primary ballot fails.
Donald Trump's latest argument for protectionism is undermined by the realities of his own trade policies.
Election law expert Derek Muller reminds us that we have seen these sorts of claims before.
Plus: A listener question about the continued absurdity of sports stadium subsidies
Haters and lovers of the former president can both express their diametrically opposed views with a Trump mug-shot mug.
The paper worries that "social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation."
Mug shots are not taken to humiliate a defendant before they've been convicted. But that's the purpose they widely serve now.
The video site took out ads touting social media's benefits.
The GOP presidential candidate also definitively said climate change is real.
In last night's Republican presidential debate, candidates floated various forms of military action against drug cartels.
Plus: Invade Mexico?!, "Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," and more...
It's no mystery why the former president preferred a forum in which his record and positions would face no serious challenge.
Only Vivek Ramaswamy and Gov. Ron DeSantis said they wouldn't support additional aid to Ukraine. But both argued we should be more militarily engaged against China and Mexico.
The surging candidate, a political unknown, articulated a foreign policy that was somewhat more libertarian than his rivals.
Accusing competitors of being "super PAC puppets," just asking questions about conspiracies, and lying about the media is all of the same successful populist piece.
"Donald Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," Haley said during the opening moments of Wednesday's first Republican primary debate.
At best, tonight's debate is a glorified preseason football game—an unwatchable spectacle that no one ought to enjoy.
The next presidential election may be between the two men. Can't we do better?
A report reveals new draconian restrictions the 2024 frontrunner wants to implement, such as sea blockades in Latin America and "ideological screening" for migrants.
Plus: Kansans fight over driver's license gender markers, chain restaurants bridge social divides, and more...
Plus: Idaho can't enforce ban on transgender girls playing on female sports teams, Minneapolis may mandate minimum wage for ride-share drivers, and more...
It was never a principled fight against special privileges granted to a private company.
Haley seeks to make her relative youthfulness a selling point. It hasn't caught on among primary voters, but it's nonetheless worth considering whether the oldest candidates are always the best.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
The Democrats and Republicans seem ripe for replacement. But how and by what?
Plus: More "manifesting prostitution" nonsense, U.S. loses top-tier credit rating, and more...
After its spectacular screw-ups on COVID-19 "misinformation," the government shouldn't be so quick to squelch dissenting voices.
After firing the staffer blamed for a video that borrowed Nazi imagery, is Ron DeSantis finally backing away from the authoritarian edgelords?
Plus: Should libertarians consider employing noble lies when pitching themselves to new potential voters?
No amount of third-party/RFK Jr. shaming can erase the fact that Joe Biden is a weak and unpopular incumbent.
He'd be a stronger candidate if he applied that thinking to situations that don't involve former President Donald Trump.
Plus: Does Tom Cruise really do all of his own stunts?
Though the 2024 Republican candidate's proposals vary in seriousness, they feature plenty of prohibition and brute government force.
The crowd at the socially conservative FAMiLY Leadership Summit was not receptive, and Glenn Beck likened the Arkansas governor's performance to the crash of the Hindenburg.
The Liberal Fascism author and co-founder of The Dispatch talks candidly about the weird state of the contemporary political right.
The anti-vax environmental lawyer is not worthy of the rehabilitation tour he's getting from pundits and podcasters.
Many politicians offer a simplified view of the world—one in which government interventions are all benefits and no costs. That couldn't be further from the truth.
The wildly popular podcaster is still "politically homeless" but says leaving California and having a kid have improved her life immensely.
The environmentalist and anti-vaccine activist talks about his presidential run and whether he'd jail climate change skeptics.
At a minimum, the national debt should be smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver.
Joe Biden's big economic speech is a poor attempt at a branding exercise.