Libertarian Candidate Marshall Burt Wins Wyoming State House Race
And in a three-way race for governor in Indiana, Libertarian Donald Rainwater gets more than 13 percent and wins more than 20 counties.
And in a three-way race for governor in Indiana, Libertarian Donald Rainwater gets more than 13 percent and wins more than 20 counties.
Regardless of Tuesday's final tally, Libertarians have cemented themselves as the third party in the United States.
The Libertarian Party has been pursuing a heavier-than-average ground game in races with just one major-party opponent and a small number of voters needed to win.
Yet the Libertarian presidential nominee is still not being polled in one-third of the country, including states that are historically friendly to third-party candidates.
Donald Rainwater, who is polling north of 10 percent, attracts voters who oppose Indiana's heavy-handed coronavirus lockdowns.
Advancing laws that further libertarian objectives, no matter who champions them, looks like the surer route to our preferred ends.
Ilya Somin, Angela McArdle, and Francis Menton refresh their cases for Biden, Jorgensen, and Trump.
The Libertarian ticket is campaigning against lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the World Health Organization, in addition to the usual taxation, prohibition, and war.
Ricky Dale Harrington is polling at 38 percent in a two-way race against one of the leading voices of the GOP's ascendant authoritarian nationalism.
Two November ballot initiatives would introduce ranked-choice voting in two more states.
He is expected to be extradited to face the charges he knew were coming, which inspired his past few years of international exile.
Plus: Libertarian Jo Jorgensen draws biggest support from millennials and Gen Z, John McAfee being charged with tax evasion, Trump released from hospital, and more...
"If it were me, I would certainly put my nominee forth," Jorgensen says. Partisan bickering over the confirmation process is just "politics as usual."
Lindsey Graham just dodged a third-party bullet, but there are a handful of other tossup Senate races where third-party candidates could exceed the major candidates' margin.
While establishmentarians continue to push two-party conformity, there remains little evidence that other parties are having any sort of "spoiler" effect.
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
The Libertarian presidential nominee is polling at 5 percent. Who are her followers?
The Libertarian presidential nominee won't win but is upbeat about Gen Z and protests against lockdowns and police violence.
If Biden retains his 2–1 advantage among 2016 Libertarian and Green voters, Trump is probably toast.
Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen will be on every state’s ballot.
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.
What can libertarianism offer America in the midst of the economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic?
At least 100 million Americans live in states where the presidential winner is a foregone conclusion. Maybe don't reward your party for nominating candidates you don't like?
But she warns against "opportunistic people hijacking the movement.”
Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., is running to keep Tom Cotton out of the White House.
"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."
Ilya Somin, Angela McArdle, and Francis Menton debate whether libertarians should vote for Joe Biden, Jo Jorgensen, or Donald Trump.
Ilya Somin, Angela McArdle, and Francis Menton debate how libertarians should cast their votes in 2020.
The "haters demographic" broke strongly in Trump's favor in 2016, but this time the group is younger, more liberal, and more likely to vote for Biden.
Plus: Homeland Security memo worries masks will thwart their surveillance, the feds are snatching people off the streets in Portland, Congress takes up the D.C. shroom debate, and more...
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
Rep. Tom McClintock (R–Calif.) announced he will support the Ending Qualified Immunity Act.
Jo Jorgensen is running for the White House.
The Reason Roundtable grapples with virus-swapping, policy-bungling, and Libertarian politics.
Cohen, who had been linked with parodist Vermin Supreme, identifies as an anarchist.
The Clemson psychology lecturer and 1996 Libertarian vice presidential candidate got 51 percent on the fourth ballot.
Larry Sharpe, Spike Cohen, and Ken Armstrong strategize about how to sell liberty during a pandemic.
Libertarians will decide this weekend if a message that "nothing matters more...than living in a free society" will resonate in 2020.
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The longtime activist believes in open immigration, free trade, ending the drug war, and bringing all troops back home immediately.
She sees government COVID-19 restrictions as "the biggest assault on our liberties in our lifetime."
The longtime activist is the front-runner for the L.P. presidential nomination and has a special message to young people.
The Reason Roundtable discusses Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's 60 Minutes admission, as well as the Libertarian Party presidential race post-Justin Amash
Plus: Justin Amash's quick reversal, Ronan Farrow's flaws, and more...
"The political duopoly electioneering of the presidential system has indeed risen to the level of a joke."
A week before the Libertarian Party begins voting, its most high-profile candidate steps aside.
His mixed immigration record might be good for a Republican, but it's not exactly impressive for a Libertarian.