Presidential Debates Should Be More Frequent, and Tougher on Candidates
The presidency is a powerful position, and the job application should be hard on hopefuls.
The presidency is a powerful position, and the job application should be hard on hopefuls.
The vice president's exaggeration reflects a pattern of dishonesty in the administration's pitch to voters who oppose the war on weed.
Contrary to the president's rhetoric, moving marijuana to Schedule III will leave federal pot prohibition essentially unchanged.
Two debates, no RFK Jr.—not an improvement.
Will the real president of the United States during the years 2020 through 2022 please stand up?
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Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
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Biden has not delivered on his promise to decriminalize marijuana.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
To convert a hush money payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are invoking an obscure state election law that experts say has never been used before.
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Moving marijuana to Schedule III, as the DEA plans to do, leaves federal pot prohibition essentially untouched.
Once again, DeSantis is a guy who claims to love freedom—until he disagrees with the choices some adults make.
Kennedy’s plan for government-backed mortgage bonds will do to housing what federal student loans have done to college tuition.
"Today it is highly centralized, where a few people at the top control everything," the former five-term congressman tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
The leading possibilities are all problematic in one way or another.
Reproductive freedom initiatives are advancing toward November ballots, putting the matter of abortion access in voters' hands.
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"There's all these illiberals on the left, there's all these illiberals on the right, and yet liberalism endures," says the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
The case hinged on statutory interpretation, not the merits of the state's 1864 ban.
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Too many people think democracy works only if they get to dominate their opponents.
His embrace of federalism is one of those rare instances when political expedience coincides with constitutional principles.
The former and would-be president is keen to avoid alienating voters who reject both kinds of extremism on the issue.
The new plan is much less ambitious than the president's 2022 blanket forgiveness effort, mostly relying on an expansion of previous smaller-scale debt cancelation schemes.
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The 35-year-old Texan formerly known as Dustin Ebey voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and says the national debt is America's biggest problem.
The centrist establishment lane in third party presidential politics remains empty.
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Surprisingly strong support for "none of the above" in the 2024 primaries shows voters aren't thrilled with their options.
A 10 percent tariff on all imports would trigger more inflation at the grocery store, particularly for products such as fresh fruit and coffee.
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The former RNC chair's concession that Biden won "fair and square" did not save her from internal outrage at her support for Trump's stolen-election fantasy.
Neither presidential candidate is willing to back the reforms necessary to close the gap between revenue and benefits.
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Even if successful, the strategy demonstrates how little interest politicians have in standing for something, rather than against something else.
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The newspaper portrays the constitutional challenge to the government's social media meddling as a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters.