Twitter's New 'Deceptive Video' Labeling Plan Immediately Abused To Attack a Silly Joke Ad from Bloomberg
Nobody is being misled by this obviously joking debate clip. But this sort of ginned-up outrage will be used to target political opponents.
Nobody is being misled by this obviously joking debate clip. But this sort of ginned-up outrage will be used to target political opponents.
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Don't believe those who tell you that Sanders is some sort of centrist.
Bloomberg says "We're not going to throw out capitalism"; Sanders isn't so sure.
This was supposed to be the electable alternative?
"The policy was abhorrent," Biden said of Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk program. Yes, but so was pretty much every criminal justice policy Biden pushed through the Senate.
"Stop and frisk" policies are brought into the crosshairs right away.
Sinking in the Swamp authors Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng are documenting all the president's grifters for The Daily Beast.
Instead of destroying the political gatekeepers, we've merely handed the keys to the populists.
The presidential candidate’s gun control platform, like his defense of "stop and frisk," sacrifices civil liberties on the altar of public safety.
Sanders wins New Hampshire while Michael Bloomberg rockets into second place. Plus: Bill Barr's DOJ, Trump's budget, and more.
She’s nearly three years into a five-year sentence for releasing classified documents showing Russian attempts to hack U.S. election systems.
Critics say the long-running satiric cartoon has created "a generation of boys" who are smug and disengaged.
"I hope our country will never see the time, when either riches or the want of them will be the leading considerations in the choice of public officers," Adams wrote in 1776.
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Federal outlays per person have increased $1,441 since 2016, to a grand total of $14,652 per person.
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
Like Trump before him, Sanders is using establishment disunity to mount an insurgent campaign.
Americans probably don't want a president who will nationalize the means of production, but we're happy to keep electing ones who grow government spending.
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The former Massachusetts governor and 2016 Libertarian V.P. candidate gets just 9 percent in his own back yard, will continue to Super Tuesday.
If the president wants voters to take him seriously, he should stop pretending the problem has been solved.
The democratic socialist and independent senator from Vermont is the Democratic Party's first socialist frontrunner.
The New Hampshire polls have closed, and the businessman and math advocate is no longer a candidate for president.
The former New York mayor is being called a racist for his former support of searching young minorities without cause.
"If a consenting adult wants to engage in sex work, that is their right," Gabbard says.
Paradoxically, in the current moment—a moment Biden helped to create by blocking Bork—being unqualified for the presidency is the best qualification a candidate can have.
From Iowa to impeachment, Biden burnout to Trump triumph, the opposition party had itself a rough 7 days.
You have this Democrat or this other Democrat. What other options do you need?
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"I like a lot of what she has to say," the former Libertarian Party presidential candidate tells Reason.
Elections are a time when a few of the wealthiest, most cossetted, and least appealing members of society try to convince us that America is an impoverished wasteland.
In New Hampshire, Biden says marijuana should be "basically legalized." That's an accurate representation of his proposed policies, but it also shows how he's lagging on the issue.
The former New York City mayor, who thinks legalizing pot is "one of the stupidest things we've ever done," nevertheless says "putting people in jail for marijuana" is "really dumb."
But he'll have to do more than coast on a few commendable pardons if he wants to prove he's serious.
Maybe the celebration speech last night wasn't premature?
Letting any single state go first is a mistake. But a national primary would be problematic too. Luckily, those aren't the only two options.
Last night's caucus flop was a meltdown of small-d democracy.
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The president's would-be primary challengers fail to reach 2 percent, and are being out-fundraised a combined 230 to 1.
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While the president seems sincerely concerned about "very unfair" drug penalties, it's not clear whether he thinks his work in that area is done.
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Such inflammatory exaggeration seems designed to avoid a substantive discussion of the presidential candidate's gun control proposals.