The Lessons Americans Refuse To Learn From Trump's Tax Returns
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
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Libertarian Party Candidate Jo Jorgensen: Don't Waste Your Vote on Trump or Biden
The Libertarian presidential nominee is polling at 5 percent. Who are her followers?
Jo Jorgensen: Don't Waste Your Vote on Trump or Biden
The Libertarian presidential nominee won't win but is upbeat about Gen Z and protests against lockdowns and police violence.
The Incredible Shrinking Third Party Voter
If Biden retains his 2–1 advantage among 2016 Libertarian and Green voters, Trump is probably toast.
You Have Libertarian Alternatives to Biden and Trump This November
Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen will be on every state’s ballot.
Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?
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.
Jo Jorgensen Is the 2020 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee
What can libertarianism offer America in the midst of the economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic?
You Don't Have to Vote for Your Party's Crappy Ticket
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?
Jo Jorgensen on Black Lives Matter: 'I Think We Should Support the Protesters'
But she warns against "opportunistic people hijacking the movement.”
Tom Cotton's Only Challenger Is a Black Libertarian Prison Chaplain
Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., is running to keep Tom Cotton out of the White House.
The Libertarian Party Mourns Garrett Foster, Activist Killed at a Black Lives Matter Protest
"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."
Who Should Libertarians Vote For in 2020? A Soho Forum Debate
Ilya Somin, Angela McArdle, and Francis Menton debate whether libertarians should vote for Joe Biden, Jo Jorgensen, or Donald Trump.
Should Libertarians Vote for Biden, Jorgensen, or Trump? A Soho Forum Debate
Ilya Somin, Angela McArdle, and Francis Menton debate how libertarians should cast their votes in 2020.
Potential Key to the 2020 Election: Voters Who Can't Stand Both Trump and Biden
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.
Justin Amash's Tenure as the Libertarian Party's First Member in Congress Will Be Shortlived
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...
Kmele Foster: Black Lives Matter 'Is Hostile Towards Free Markets and Capitalism'
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
With 1 Republican Cosponsor, Rep. Justin Amash Gains Tripartisan Support To End Qualified Immunity
Rep. Tom McClintock (R–Calif.) announced he will support the Ending Qualified Immunity Act.
A Libertarian Candidate Enters the Presidential Race
Jo Jorgensen is running for the White House.
How Coronavirus Is Like Venereal Disease, and Other Bad Analogies
The Reason Roundtable grapples with virus-swapping, policy-bungling, and Libertarian politics.
Libertarian Party Picks Spike Cohen as Its Vice-Presidential Candidate
Cohen, who had been linked with parodist Vermin Supreme, identifies as an anarchist.
Jo Jorgensen Wins Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination
The Clemson psychology lecturer and 1996 Libertarian vice presidential candidate got 51 percent on the fourth ballot.
We Watched the Libertarian Party Vice Presidential Debate So You Didn't Have To
Larry Sharpe, Spike Cohen, and Ken Armstrong strategize about how to sell liberty during a pandemic.
Libertarian Party Presidential Debate Offers Choice Between All Liberty Now or Moving the Ball of Liberty Down the Field
Libertarians will decide this weekend if a message that "nothing matters more...than living in a free society" will resonate in 2020.
That Time the Libertarian Party Debated the Private Ownership of Nuclear Weapons
Friday A/V Club: Great moments from the C-SPAN archive
'The Welfare-Warfare State is Anti-American': L.P. Presidential Hopeful Jacob Hornberger
The longtime activist believes in open immigration, free trade, ending the drug war, and bringing all troops back home immediately.
Libertarian Presidential Contender Jo Jorgensen Wants To Combine Principle With Palatable Persuasion
She sees government COVID-19 restrictions as "the biggest assault on our liberties in our lifetime."
L.P. Presidential Candidate Jacob Hornberger Wants 'To Live in a Free Society'
The longtime activist is the front-runner for the L.P. presidential nomination and has a special message to young people.
It's Official: Money Printer Go Brrr
The Reason Roundtable discusses Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's 60 Minutes admission, as well as the Libertarian Party presidential race post-Justin Amash
Don't Believe the Hype About Georgia's Dramatic Drop in COVID-19 Cases
Plus: Justin Amash's quick reversal, Ronan Farrow's flaws, and more...
Vermin Supreme Says This Time, He's Serious
"The political duopoly electioneering of the presidential system has indeed risen to the level of a joke."
Justin Amash Drops Out of Presidential Race
A week before the Libertarian Party begins voting, its most high-profile candidate steps aside.
Justin Amash's Confusing and Contradictory Immigration Record
His mixed immigration record might be good for a Republican, but it's not exactly impressive for a Libertarian.
The Libertarian Party Critique of Justin Amash
Competitors, skeptical delegates, and podcasters attack the congressman for being an incrementalist Deep State enabler rather than a principled radical.
Have We Crossed the Threshold of Doom?
The Reason Roundtable discusses eternal New Deals, multi-trillion-dollar mistakes, and sobbing face-first in the parking lot of life. Happy Monday!
Libertarian Party To Choose Its Presidential Ticket in Virtual Vote Over Memorial Day Weekend
Followed by an in-person convention for other business in Orlando in July
HBO Host Bill Maher Thinks Third Party Candidates Can't Win. Justin Amash Says He's Wrong.
"I think you'll find that I'm the normal guy, the regular guy," Amash told HBO's Real Time host. "These other two guys are the buffoons."
Justin Amash: 'I'm Promising to Be a President Who Will Reduce My Power'
The candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination talks with the Fifth Column podcast about coronavirus, constitutionalism, open-carry protests in Michigan, and how his own House Freedom Caucus was corrupted.
Justin Amash: People Want a President 'Who Is Normal, Honest, Practical, Capable.'
The Libertarian presidential hopeful makes his case for your vote.
Justin Amash Wants To Be the First Libertarian President
The Michigan congressman on why Donald Trump is too erratic, Joe Biden is too old, and his vision of a freer country.
How Justin Amash's Presidential Campaign Changes the 2020 Election
The Michigan congressman's run for the White House will change the Libertarian Party and national politics.
Justin Amash Becomes the First Libertarian Member of Congress
In an interview, the freshly-minted presidential candidate talks abortion, the "spoiler" charge, and Joe Biden's flip-flopping, while insisting that 2020 is a "winnable race."
Libertarian Party Presidential Candidates React to Rep. Justin Amash Entering the Race
Some welcome, one wonders what took him so long, and one thinks the Libertarians should "stop nominating [former Republican] pricks!"
Justin Amash Is Running for President as a Libertarian
The previously independent five-term Michigan congressman joins the L.P. and takes aim at the septuagenarian competition.
I Ran for Governor of Oklahoma Against Tiger King's Joe Exotic
Lessons learned from the zookeeper Netflix made famous
Libertarian Party Wins COVID-19-Related Lawsuit Over Ballot Access in Illinois
COVID-19 was making the traditional means of collecting petition signatures impossible.
Should Justin Amash Run for President?
The Reason Roundtable podcast delivers a mixed verdict.
Justin Amash Has Been Actively Pondering a Libertarian Presidential Run for 2 Months, and Will Decide Soon
Here are 4 questions the independent congressman and the rest of the country will have to consider
