Democrats Unveil Policing Reform Bill
The bill includes many items on police reformers' wishlists, but it would also pump more federal money to police departments instead of shrinking their budgets.
The bill includes many items on police reformers' wishlists, but it would also pump more federal money to police departments instead of shrinking their budgets.
Real changes will require fewer laws and less violent enforcement.
The presidential candidate deserves praise for retreating from his tough-on-crime stance. But let's not forget that his policies contributed to mass incarceration and the police misconduct that people are protesting today.
Police brutality brought Americans into the streets. What would military force do?
Plus: Protest updates, COVID-19 upates, a surge in gun sales, and more...
Good riddance to the racist, anti-immigrant congressman from Iowa.
Biden voted for the 1997 bill that created the Pentagon's 1033 program, which allows surplus military gear to be passed along to local cops. It took 23 years, but he finally changed his opinion.
Princeton's Omar Wasow talks about the complicated effects of civil rights demonstrations, police brutality, and racial fears on public policy.
The perpetual scapegoat for unrest
Top-down, one-size-fits-few mandates are recipes for conflict.
The right's response to the coronavirus lockdowns brings out a longstanding American paradox.
Barton Gellman's new book is a riveting account of exposing NSA excesses to the light of the day.
Jo Jorgensen is running for the White House.
The Reason Roundtable grapples with virus-swapping, policy-bungling, and Libertarian politics.
A law passed by Florida Republicans to limit a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to felony offenders violates the 14th and 24th Amendments, the judge ruled.
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.
New legislation proposed in Beijing signals the likely end of the "one country, two systems" policy that has allowed Hong Kong to flourish.
On crime, drugs, immigration, and foreign policy, his 44-year policy record is a cautionary tale of bipartisanship in response to perceived crises.
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And why does he think he has the power to do that?
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."
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A president who can attach his own new conditions to federal grants to states could use that power to undermine state autonomy on many issues - especially now that federal spending has been massively expanded during the coronavirus crisis.
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."
No amount of money can buy victory for candidates who fail to persuade voters.
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.
There is a difference between reporting facts that make the president uncomfortable and manufacturing facts to fit a preconceived view of him.
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."
No amount of psychoanalyzing can disguise the grim choice facing voters this fall.
From our modern vantage point, it's easy to scorn some decisions that suffrage movement leaders made. Suffrage adds context.
Feds now say the national security advisor's lie wasn’t “material” and they cannot prove it.
Remember Bill Clinton?
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.