Nobody Won the VP Debate, Least of All the American Electorate
We don't need more politicians like Kaine and Pence talking over each other. We need more voices and people on the stage debating the country's future.
We don't need more politicians like Kaine and Pence talking over each other. We need more voices and people on the stage debating the country's future.
Asked about our biggest problems, the most common answer among young black voters was racism, while Hispanics said immigration, Asians said education, and whites said terrorism/homeland security.
The point of political reporting is to help provide context, not obscure it.
That September swoon sure didn't last very long.
Some things won't change no matter who wins the 2016 election.
The GOP candidate embraces and exaggerates common prejudices against the overweight.
If the former governor wins his home state, he just might block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from victory at the ballot box.
Like the fixation on Gary Johnson's "Aleppo moments," this stuff stymies serious conversation about first-order concerns like government spending.
Why cops get away with criminal behavior, how the Internet is getting boring, and why a Trump presidency isn't necessarily a bad thing.
"Every American who casts a vote for him is standing for principles," declares World's Greatest Newspaper, as endorsement count moves to 13-6-1* for Clinton-Johnson-Trump
15 years of war have exhausted and demoralized U.S. troops.
Election law expert Richard Winger looks at ballot access issues in the 2016 election.
Some ambiguity about allowed margin of error remains to be settled.
Darryl Perry, who pulled 6 percent in the L.P. nomination race, announces he's an official write-in candidate in many states for Libertarians bothered by Gary Johnson's departures from orthodoxy
Something something Aleppo something marijuana something...
There's more to life than who is sitting in the Oval Office.
LP candidate and running mate Bill Weld go ballistic over dumb wars, exclusion from debates, and more in exclusive video.
The two major parties are "like gangs," said the family-sitcom star. "It's really time for us to break away."
FBI numbers refute his portrait of a nation besieged by violent thugs.
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Complaints about Donald Trump don't make the U.S. any more a responsible player on the world's stage.
Deploys bromides on police training and techniques, but not accountability or transparency.
Who will actually be defining the agenda, because it won't be these two?
Why do we insist on using the "most stupid arrangement of any debate in the history of debating" for presidential candidates?
What the 2012 Democratic nominee took credit for the 2016 nominee blames on Bush.
Ending suspicionless searches didn't cause crime to rise in New York City.
Journalists have a responsibility to present voters and candidates with accurate information.
The GOP candidate releases an expanded of potential SCOTUS picks.
What Hillary Clinton gets right (and what she gets wrong) about occupational licensing and the need for reform
The FBI releases 2015's crime statistics on the day of the first Trump/Clinton debate.
Clinton is still the heavy favorite.
Staring into the abyss.
Trump's supporters have called him a "ridiculous" showman, a "con artist," "a pathological liar," and "a cancer on conservatism."
Sixteen years ago, Trump advocated opening up the presidential debates to third parties. His arguments hold true today.
Libertarian candidate notes he's polling better than Perot was in 1992 when allowed into debates.
Why, this devious Libertarian monster doesn't even want to give free college to everybody!
The lawless passions fueling the rise of Trump are not likely to bring us a freer society.
Wanting to "burn it all down" is not libertarianism.
If you're under 50 and worried about the 2016 election, automation, and your future, listen up!