Are Republicans Finally Getting Serious About Social Security?
This week's debate was the first signal that the party's next presidential nominee might actually understand the entitlement crisis.
This week's debate was the first signal that the party's next presidential nominee might actually understand the entitlement crisis.
Abortion and the shadow of Donald Trump hobble GOP prospects.
"Land use restrictions are constricting the supply of housing," said Ramaswamy at tonight's GOP presidential debate in Miami.
"We don't quash this with censorship because that creates a worse underbelly," said Ramaswamy.
Sen. Tim Scott: "You actually have to cut off the head of the snake, and the head of the snake is Iran and not simply their proxies."
Why can neither major party find someone who isn't decrepit and disliked?
Plus: A listener asks the editors about requiring gun buyers to pass a psychological assessment.
The conference includes a variety of legal scholars and other experts on different sides of the issue, including VC bloggers Josh Blackman and myself.
Entitlement reform has long been considered a third rail in American politics, but that perspective might be changing.
Plus: IDF releases footage from Hamas' evil rampage, cancel culture in Los Angeles, Iceland's ladies go on strike, and more...
DeSantis says that all Gazans are anti-Semitic, while Haley feels that refugees should only go to "Hamas-sympathetic countries."
A federal judge barred the former president from "publicly targeting" witnesses, prosecutors, or court personnel.
Being against cancel culture requires consistency.
If Joe Manchin or Larry Hogan thinks he’ll be elected on a No Labels ticket, he’ll be sorely disappointed.
RFK Jr.'s anti-war supporters are welcome to defect, the Libertarian Party said in a statement.
Trump is still a runaway favorite, even when using a vote-counting technique that's meant to make it more difficult for unpopular candidates to win elections.
Away from the speeches of the party's presidential candidates, the Republican Huntington Beach city attorney talked up his efforts to thwart state zoning reforms.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
With a second term, the former president promised to end California's water shortage, clear homeless encampments, and conduct the biggest deportation operation in American history.
"The orange elephant in the room just never seems to be addressed head on," says Reason's Zach Weissmueller.
The culprit is prohibition, not lax border policing.
Plus: Minimum wage laws, space exploration, that time when North Africa was less dysfunctional than California, and more...
We already have a party that's committed to progressive ideals, do we really need another?
“I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally,” Reagan said in 1984.
Pence suggested executing mass shooters in "months, not years," but that would remove crucial procedural protections—and not just for those who are obviously guilty.
The Republican presidential candidate ignores the lethal impact of the drug policies he avidly supports.
"Our party does face a time for choosing," said the former vice president last night.
Plus: "Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber," nuclear-powered AI, North Korea, and more...
GOP presidential hopefuls should be more clear about the school choice policies they support.
A positive vision for America's future at the Republican debate
It’s highly unlikely that it would pass constitutional muster.
"He owes it to you to defend his record where they added $7.8 trillion to the debt that set the stage for the inflation that we have."
DeSantis has already removed two reform prosecutors from office in Florida. A federal judge ruled he violated the First Amendment in one of those cases.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thursday for reactions to the 2nd GOP debate from journalist Josh Barro and Reason's Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller.
Before correcting the record, the former president's spokesman inadvertently implicated him in a federal crime.
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."