Trump Wants More Stimulus Spending. Biden Wants a National Mask Mandate. Both Are Wrong.
Is it too much to ask for a presidential candidate who cares about America's fiscal health and respects the limits of his office?
Is it too much to ask for a presidential candidate who cares about America's fiscal health and respects the limits of his office?
Removing single-family zoning will not dismantle the suburbs, but it will dismantle the ability of NIMBYs to use the government to control other people's property.
Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna propose an idea that might help avert a constitutional crisis.
Biden is proposing about $3 trillion in new taxes, mostly on the rich, to pay for up to $11 trillion in new spending. That's a recipe for even bigger budget deficits.
If Biden retains his 2–1 advantage among 2016 Libertarian and Green voters, Trump is probably toast.
Sadly for the president, 2016 Libertarians are not "all Republican voters." Sadly for us, his opposition to "endless wars" doesn't translate into ending them.
Bridget Phetasy on why Trump and Biden fail to inspire and how new media are reshaping politics.
While that's nothing to sneeze at, it is a modest accomplishment in the context of a federal prison system that keeps more than 150,000 Americans behind bars.
Voting during COVID means "we are not going to know who won this on election night," Utah's Republican gubernatorial nominee warns. Postponing post-election deadlines can help.
The podcaster and comedian offers a 12-step plan for political independence and recovery.
Whether Biden or Trump wins this November, we're in for big, unaffordable government. How much bigger and how unaffordable are the only real questions.
Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen will be on every state’s ballot.
The president's daughter says "we’re just getting started." Some details would be nice.
"Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?"
He did not overpromise, and he had the good sense to stop talking about a country beset by violence when he ran for a second term.
A Wisconsin business owner who spoke about losing business to China ended up inadvertently undermining the administration's argument for protectionism.
A political party can be destroyed by warring factions after it nominates a celebrity candidate and loses its coherence. That’s what happened…after 1848, when the Whigs backed Zachary Taylor.
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Thanks to a paradoxical Trump bump, nearly 90 percent of both Democrats and Republicans now say they support international trade.
Better still: Let's have lots of debates that include all candidates who can technically win the election.
A pre-Kenosha poll shows support for Black Lives Matter plummeting among white voters in Wisconsin.
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Unfortunately, Biden has carefully avoided committing to changing much of anything about Trump's trade policies.
Neither does Portland. But the fact that the violence is continuous and seems to be escalating is cause for concern.
The president's case rests on two accomplishments, while his plans for a second term echo the mindless toughness he intermittently condemns.
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In the president’s mind, trade is not a right to be respected but a process to be managed by politicians.
Even when they have a good idea, the argument gets muddled.
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What can libertarianism offer America in the midst of the economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic?
We suffered through it so you didn't have to.
The focus on personality over policy obscures as much as it reveals.
Measure 110 would reduce felony convictions for drug possession by an estimated 95 percent.
Postmaster Louis DeJoy told members of Congress that the post office must make changes to survive. Will Congress let it?
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"I was not invited to participate in any way."
The rhetoric may not be accurate, but it is definitely useful.
Stop pandering to Joe Biden and listen to Americans who want to stop shielding abusive officers from liability.
Compared to 2016, fewer people are watching on broadcast and cable TV because they know a dull infomercial when they see one.
The vice presidential candidate opportunistically painted the site's co-founders as villains when they were actually helping law enforcement to catch sex traffickers.
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The far-right gadfly palled around with Richard Spencer and said she hoped immigrants would die.
Hostility to political opponents sustains what's left of the legacy parties.
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