No One Defended Immigration at the First Presidential Debate
The topic was reduced largely to border crossing numbers, dubious claims about migrant crime, and enforcement bona fides.
The topic was reduced largely to border crossing numbers, dubious claims about migrant crime, and enforcement bona fides.
I thought democracy was at stake?
In between insanities, the erratic Republican was considerably more right about COVID-19 policy in September 2020 than the smug Democrat or the scoldy journalist.
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The candidate who grasps the gravity of this situation and proposes concrete steps to address it will demonstrate the leadership our nation now desperately needs. The stakes couldn't be higher.
A true dumpster fire of a performance from one or both might be a small step toward avoiding this awful rematch.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
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Two years post-takeover, some longtime activists and donors claim the Mises Caucus has driven the party into the ground.
"It’s not like public health is infallible," the Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration author tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
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Facing an opponent who has been credibly described as a sexual predator, Biden instead emphasizes Trump's cover-up of a consensual encounter.
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The "most pro-life president in American history" cannot please hardline activists without alienating voters.
Reducing revenue without identifying offsetting spending cuts means Trump is merely promising to borrow more heavily.
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The Libertarian Party's controversial plan is to "stop Biden" and extract promises from Trump along the way.
Reasonable options include gradually raising the minimum retirement age, adjusting benefits to reflect longer life expectancies, and implementing fair means-testing to ensure benefits flow where they're actually needed.
Plus: A single-issue voter asks the editors for some voting advice in the 2024 presidential election.
An amendment in the state's election law would delay implementation of a proposed November ballot initiative. Voting organizations urge a governor's veto.
Welcome to a system in which laws and regulations are weaponized by the powerful against opponents.
The Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate says he would address areas from a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants to high-skilled visa reform.
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There was a glaring mismatch between the charges against the former president and what prosecutors described as the essence of his crime.
The L.P. presidential candidate clarifies his views amid criticisms that he is too "woke."
Matthew Franck on "Choosing Not to Choose" in November
The former and possibly future president hopes voters will overlook his incoherence.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for voting advice and commiseration in a predominantly democratic state.
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"It was the weirdest room I've ever been in," one Libertarian Party delegate tells Reason
After a highly contentious convention, Oliver won the nomination on the seventh ballot.
Ulbricht is serving two life sentences plus 40 years in connection with the Silk Road, an online marketplace he founded and operated where users could buy and sell illegal substances.
Let there be no confusion: The Libertarian Party overwhelmingly rejects Trump.
He says the two ideas "are not in tension with one another." He's wrong.
This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.
The close Trump ally tried to argue that more aggressive U.S. policy in the Middle East would help the U.S. get out of the Middle East.
A party in disarray squabbles over its future in the shadow of the former president.
Since he favors aggressive drug law enforcement, severe penalties, and impunity for abusive police officers, he may have trouble persuading black voters that he is on their side.
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Despite both presidential candidates touting protectionist trade policy, tariffs do little to address the underlying factors that make it difficult for U.S. manufacturers to compete in the global marketplace.
Where are the fact-checkers?
To convert a hush payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are relying on a chain of assumptions with several weak links.
Are Americans prepared to spend a trillion dollars to deport undocumented migrants?
Rescheduling does not resolve the conflict between federal pot prohibition and state rejection of that policy.
It looks like Attorney General Merrick Garland overrode the agency's recalcitrant drug warriors in deciding to reclassify the drug.