Elections

Politics

Virginia Millennials Say They Love Libertarian Rob Sarvis, But Will They Show Up on Election Day?

Stephanie Slade | 10.23.2014 1:57 PM

Politics

Virginia Millennials Prefer Libertarian Robert Sarvis to GOP Candidate

24 percent say they'll vote Sarvis

Reason Staff | 10.23.2014 12:00 PM

Election 2014

Ed Krayewski on Issues Libertarian Candidates Bring to the Table

Reason Staff | 10.21.2014 4:31 PM

Election 2014

Four Big Issues Libertarians Bring to the Table in Elections

Libertarian candidates are crucial for the issues they tackle that Democrats and Republicans have avoided during the 2014 election cycle.

Ed Krayewski | 10.21.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

'These are are all folks who vote with me,' President Says of Dems Trying to Escape His Lethal Clutch

J.D. Tuccille | 10.21.2014 10:07 AM

Politics

The Petty, Empty Spectacle of the 2014 Election

The 2014 midterm election is campaign to portray the other side as worse.

Peter Suderman | 10.21.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Ebola Politics, Jacob Sullum on Guns and Mental Health, LP Senate Candidate Chad Grimm, U.S. Aid to ISIS, Gay-Marry-Me-or-Else!, Keene = Ferguson?, and After-show

Matt Welch | 10.20.2014 8:20 PM

Politics

Poll: 53% of Americans Satisfied with House and Senate Candidates; Independent and Independent-Leaning Republicans Least Satisfied

Emily Ekins and Melanie Sitzer | 10.20.2014 4:46 PM

Politics

Maine Rep. Larry Lockman Finds It's Hard to Live Down Pro-Rape Comments

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.20.2014 4:40 PM

Politics

Poll: 53% of Americans Satisfied with House and Senate Candidates; Independent and Independent-Leaning Republicans Least Satisfied

Emily Ekins and Melanie Sitzer | 10.20.2014 4:15 PM

Politics

NSA Opponent Mark Udall Could Lose Senate Seat

Lucian McMahon | 10.20.2014 3:59 PM

Politics

Ebola Infects Democrats' Election Hopes

This is the issue they fall on?

Reason Staff | 10.20.2014 2:44 PM

Politics

Early Voting Starts in 34 States

Election Day has turned into Election Month

Reason Staff | 10.20.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

Is Barbra Streisand's Plea for Democrats a Stroke of Genius or Sign of Desperation?

Nick Gillespie | 10.20.2014 10:28 AM

Election 2014

Obama to Rally Votes for Embattled Illinois Governor

It would be a bit embarrassing to lose the home state.

Reason Staff | 10.17.2014 3:52 PM

Ballot Initiatives

Guns, Drugs, and Money: Here's What's on State and Local Ballots in the 2014 Midterms

Ballot initiatives across the country offer more substance in the midterm elections than the battle for Senate control.

Scott Shackford | 10.16.2014 4:30 PM

Election 2014

Will a Libertarian Play Spoiler in the Illinois Governor's Race?

Scott Shackford | 10.16.2014 3:25 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: John Stossel on the Constitution, Ebola Blame, Iraq WMDs, Hong Kong Violence, Bad Polls for Everyone, and our Weekly Enemy of Freedom

Matt Welch | 10.15.2014 8:26 PM

Politics

Democrats' House Hopes in Disarray

Looks like open season on donkeys.

Reason Staff | 10.15.2014 3:01 PM

Politics

Microsoft Predicts Who Will Win Midterm Elections

Zenon Evans | 10.15.2014 11:15 AM

Politics

Ebola: Election 2014's 'October Surprise'

Issue particularly fraught for Democrats

Reason Staff | 10.15.2014 9:35 AM

Politics

Poll: Third-Party Voters Side With Democrats on Police and Foreign Policy and with Republicans on Economics

Emily Ekins | 10.15.2014 8:45 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: South Dakota Independent Senate Candidate Larry Pressler, Dems Fleeing Obama, The Invisible Ebola Czar, Zuckerberg's Millions, the One-Man Highway, Michael Moynihan, Mollie Hemingway, Michael Weiss, and Aftershow

Matt Welch | 10.14.2014 8:34 PM

Election 2014

Senate Future Continues to Lean Right, But Will It Actually Tip Over?

Scott Shackford | 10.14.2014 11:25 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Ebola Politics, Gary Johnson on Libertarian 'Spoilers,' LP Senate Candidate Amanda Swafford, Columbus Day Partying, Bobby Bones on Football Hazing, and After-show!

Matt Welch | 10.13.2014 8:34 PM

Texas

Wendy Davis Defends Wheelchair Ad

...by calling her opponent a hypocrite.

Reason Staff | 10.13.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

The GOP's 2016 Shadow Primary Has Already Begun

Peter Suderman | 10.13.2014 3:41 PM

Politics

Do Libertarian Party Candidates Always Pull From Republicans?

Nick Gillespie | 10.13.2014 1:35 PM

Gay Marriage

Huckabee Threatens to Walk If GOP Backs Off on Gay Marriage

Scott Shackford | 10.13.2014 11:20 AM

Politics

Watch This Democratic Senate Candidate Repeatedly Refuse to Say Whether She Voted for President Obama

Peter Suderman | 10.10.2014 2:32 PM

Politics

Pelosi-Bashing Gains Popularity—With Democrats

We should all be able to agree that Nancy Pelosi is horrible.

Reason Staff | 10.9.2014 2:27 PM

Politics

Polls Looking Good for GOP Next Month

Reason Staff | 10.8.2014 6:57 PM

Politics

A Libertarian Party Moment?

Three high-polling L.P. candidates contemplate a possible banner year for the third party

Brian Doherty | 10.8.2014 4:31 PM

Politics

Democrats Steer Clear of Obama in 2014 Election

So much for the candidate of "hope."

Reason Staff | 10.8.2014 10:15 AM

Election 2014

House Dems: Labor, Environmental Groups Abandoning Us Ahead of Election

Hard not to?

Reason Staff | 10.7.2014 8:45 AM

Politics

Lindsey Graham 'Nowhere Near' a Presidential Run, Lucky for Us All

Patrick Hannaford | 10.6.2014 4:44 PM

Politics

What to Expect from a GOP Congress

Will it matter if the Republicans retake Congress next month?

Ira Stoll | 10.6.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Let's Take Babies Out of Politics

Nick Gillespie | 10.5.2014 10:29 AM

Elections

The 10 Most Vulnerable Governors in the Country

Reason Staff | 10.4.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

Please Don't Vote

The biggest fans of "democracy" treat this orgy of vacuous lever pulling as if it were sacred or patriotic. It's neither.

David Harsanyi | 10.3.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Republicans are Shifting on Social Issues. That's a Lesson for Democrats.

Peter Suderman | 10.3.2014 2:06 PM

Lindsey Graham

Let's All Stop for a Moment to Consider a President Lindsey Graham

Scott Shackford | 10.3.2014 11:15 AM

Senate

GOP Surges in Alaska Senate Race

It's in the bag.

Reason Staff | 10.2.2014 3:30 PM

Politics

Could This Be the Start of Something Beautiful for the Libertarian Party?

Stephanie Slade | 10.1.2014 1:25 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: DON'T PANIC, S.S. Follies, Libertarian Spoilers, Peter Suderman on Obamacare, Why Are We Still in Afghanistan, Intel vs. Obama, Plastic Bans, Are Hot Dogs Sandwiches, and Aftershow!

Matt Welch | 9.30.2014 8:08 PM

Politics

Jim Webb for President?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.30.2014 11:52 AM

Politics

Poll Predicts Libertarian Spoiler in North Carolina Senate Race

Patrick Hannaford | 9.29.2014 5:15 PM

Republican Party

Increasingly Likely: GOP Takes Senate

Not looking good for the Donkey Party.

Reason Staff | 9.29.2014 4:00 PM