Going Down?
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Plus: Hunter Biden is guilty of crimes that shouldn't be crimes, North Dakota's voters take on gerontocracy, and more...
The "most pro-life president in American history" cannot please hardline activists without alienating voters.
Reducing revenue without identifying offsetting spending cuts means Trump is merely promising to borrow more heavily.
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The Libertarian Party's controversial plan is to "stop Biden" and extract promises from Trump along the way.
That take on the former president's New York conviction echoes similarly puzzling claims by many people who should know better.
Reasonable options include gradually raising the minimum retirement age, adjusting benefits to reflect longer life expectancies, and implementing fair means-testing to ensure benefits flow where they're actually needed.
The lack of a clear rationale for charging Trump with 34 felonies raises a due process issue that is likely to figure in his appeals.
Plus: A single-issue voter asks the editors for some voting advice in the 2024 presidential election.
An amendment in the state's election law would delay implementation of a proposed November ballot initiative. Voting organizations urge a governor's veto.
Welcome to a system in which laws and regulations are weaponized by the powerful against opponents.
The Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate says he would address areas from a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants to high-skilled visa reform.
Whatever Trump did after the 2016 presidential election, it seems safe to say that it did not retroactively promote his victory.
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There was a glaring mismatch between the charges against the former president and what prosecutors described as the essence of his crime.
The L.P. presidential candidate clarifies his views amid criticisms that he is too "woke."
Matthew Franck on "Choosing Not to Choose" in November
The judge said the jurors need not agree about the "unlawful means" that Trump allegedly used to promote his 2016 election.
There's nothing wrong with thinking the music from your teenage years was the best ever made, but please don't vote as if you'll bring that back.
The former and possibly future president hopes voters will overlook his incoherence.
Closing arguments in the former president's trial highlight the mismatch between the charges and the "election fraud" he supposedly committed.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for voting advice and commiseration in a predominantly democratic state.
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"It was the weirdest room I've ever been in," one Libertarian Party delegate tells Reason
After a highly contentious convention, Oliver won the nomination on the seventh ballot.
Ulbricht is serving two life sentences plus 40 years in connection with the Silk Road, an online marketplace he founded and operated where users could buy and sell illegal substances.
Let there be no confusion: The Libertarian Party overwhelmingly rejects Trump.
He says the two ideas "are not in tension with one another." He's wrong.
This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.
The close Trump ally tried to argue that more aggressive U.S. policy in the Middle East would help the U.S. get out of the Middle East.
A party in disarray squabbles over its future in the shadow of the former president.
Since he favors aggressive drug law enforcement, severe penalties, and impunity for abusive police officers, he may have trouble persuading black voters that he is on their side.
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Despite both presidential candidates touting protectionist trade policy, tariffs do little to address the underlying factors that make it difficult for U.S. manufacturers to compete in the global marketplace.
Where are the fact-checkers?
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To convert a hush payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are relying on a chain of assumptions with several weak links.
Are Americans prepared to spend a trillion dollars to deport undocumented migrants?
Rescheduling does not resolve the conflict between federal pot prohibition and state rejection of that policy.
It looks like Attorney General Merrick Garland overrode the agency's recalcitrant drug warriors in deciding to reclassify the drug.
The presidency is a powerful position, and the job application should be hard on hopefuls.
The vice president's exaggeration reflects a pattern of dishonesty in the administration's pitch to voters who oppose the war on weed.
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Contrary to the president's rhetoric, moving marijuana to Schedule III will leave federal pot prohibition essentially unchanged.
Two debates, no RFK Jr.—not an improvement.
Will the real president of the United States during the years 2020 through 2022 please stand up?
Contrary to what prosecutors say, the former president is not charged with "conspiracy" or "election fraud."
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