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.
Friday A/V Club: Great moments from the C-SPAN archive
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.
Competitors, skeptical delegates, and podcasters attack the congressman for being an incrementalist Deep State enabler rather than a principled radical.
The Reason Roundtable discusses eternal New Deals, multi-trillion-dollar mistakes, and sobbing face-first in the parking lot of life. Happy Monday!
Followed by an in-person convention for other business in Orlando in July
"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."
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.
The Libertarian presidential hopeful makes his case for your vote.
The Michigan congressman on why Donald Trump is too erratic, Joe Biden is too old, and his vision of a freer country.
The Michigan congressman's run for the White House will change the Libertarian Party and national politics.
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."
Some welcome, one wonders what took him so long, and one thinks the Libertarians should "stop nominating [former Republican] pricks!"
The previously independent five-term Michigan congressman joins the L.P. and takes aim at the septuagenarian competition.
Lessons learned from the zookeeper Netflix made famous
COVID-19 was making the traditional means of collecting petition signatures impossible.
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