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.
Giving presidents impunity for using force and fraud to try to nullify election results is far worse than any potential risk of prosecuting Trump.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
When he alleged fraud and sought help from government officials, they say, Trump was exercising rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Plus: Why don't journalists support free speech anymore?
The Democrats and Republicans seem ripe for replacement. But how and by what?
Recent articles by Lawfare and Walter Olson perform a valuable service on this front.
His state of mind when he tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election remains a mystery, perhaps even to him.
The new federal charges against Trump depend on the assumption that his claims were "knowingly false."
Plus: More "manifesting prostitution" nonsense, U.S. loses top-tier credit rating, and more...
His attempt to stay in power despite losing an election is well worthy of prosecution and punishment, on grounds of retribution and deterrence.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith says Trump attempted to "defraud the United States."
Unlike calling Trump's stolen-election fantasy "the Big Lie," his lawyer's statements were demonstrably false assertions of fact.
New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to suggest algorithms are shifting our political views.
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?
Appeals in the January 6 cases raise serious questions about how broadly the statute should be applied.
Republicans who participated in the scheme say they relied on legal advice grounded in historical precedent.
No amount of third-party/RFK Jr. shaming can erase the fact that Joe Biden is a weak and unpopular incumbent.
The alleged state and federal felonies involve intent elements that may be difficult to prove.
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?
Eager for the adulation of Trump supporters, the former Fox News host suggests that rigged election software delivered a phony victory to Joe Biden.
Though the 2024 Republican candidate's proposals vary in seriousness, they feature plenty of prohibition and brute government force.
That issue is central to Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation of the former president's response to Joe Biden's victory.
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.
"Disinformation" researchers alarmed by the injunction against government meddling with social media content admire legal regimes that allow broad speech restrictions.
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.
RFK Jr. on libertarianism, Tulsi Gabbard, conspiracy theories, drugs, guns, free speech, and more
His bloody rhetoric undermines his defense of the sentencing reforms he proudly embraced as president.
Will the Beaver State join Maine and Alaska?
The 2024 hopeful has put together a platform full of big-government action.
Why are some Republicans turning their backs on the free market principles we’ve advocated for generations?
The sanctions imposed on Sidney Powell and other attorneys raising frivolous challenges to the 2020 election were narrowed and slightly reduced, but largely upheld.
The Trump campaign's claim that two Atlanta poll workers pulled fraudulent ballots from a suitcase on election night are "false and unsubstantiated" after a two-year investigation.
Plus: Was Gerald Ford right to pardon Richard Nixon?
The constitutional lawyer and criminal justice reformer talks about our two-tier punishment system and deep-seated corruption at the Justice Department.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of the Trump indictment with constitutional lawyer Clark Neily.
Plus: The FTC takes on Microsoft, RIP Cormac McCarthy, and more...
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