Is Trump Winning the Middle East or Doubling Down on Previous Failures?
The Cato Institute's Christopher A. Preble lays out a uniquely libertarian approach to Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere.
The Cato Institute's Christopher A. Preble lays out a uniquely libertarian approach to Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere.
Chafee may be the first in an eventual wave of former Republicans seeking the Libertarian presidential nod.
When things were normal—whether you benchmark to the Republican version or the Democratic version—politicians were still venal and governance shoddy.
They probably won't succeed in criminalizing Pornhub, but manifesto-wielding conservatives are trying to reshape the GOP into a movement against individualism.
What do hotly contested high school class presidency elections—set 20 years apart—teach us about our attitudes toward politics?
Tyler Cowen is wrong to champion "State Capacity Libertarianism," but he's right that advocates of free minds and free markets need to up our game.
The two Democratic billionaires have spent a combined $200 million on campaign ads already. That doesn't mean much to them, but the opportunity costs are staggering.
“Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.”
"It's doubtful there's a sufficient market for a pro-life/pro-impeachment independent in the district to allow him a path to a sixth term," concludes the Cook Political Report.
"There has to be a war on poverty," says Michael Bloomberg. Does he know how the last one turned out?
The problem, as always, is that voters are likely to say they want Congress to balance the budget, but are less likely to back any specific ideas for doing so.
We've got a lot of problems with you people.
Because the world needs another ballot access Christmas carol.
The Democratic presidential candidate wants to keep prostitution customers criminalized while "decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller."
Amity Shlaes' Great Society: A New History details the failure of massive governmental attempts to remake society.
Bernie Sanders knocked the former veep for supporting the Iraq War, while Pete Buttigieg promised to mostly withdraw the troops.
Warren takes aim at Buttigieg and he fires back—not over policy, but over the Democratic Party's identity.
Democratic presidential candidates sparred over how they'd close one of the worst excesses of the war on terror.
The moderators didn't see ask Elizabeth Warren about her position on the USMCA, which does a serious disservice to prospective voters.
Biden's reputation as a bipartisan dealmaker might be appealing in these polarized times, but his record as a policy maker is atrocious.
Her lobbying tax proposal is pseudo-policy, a veneer of wonky seriousness over dubious populist dogma.
"I come before you to make a stand for the center," said Gabbard in a statement.
His case now heads to the Senate, where he will almost certainly be acquitted.
The libertarian congressman announced on the House floor that he will vote in favor of impeachment.
On their own, some of those tax breaks might be defensible. Dumping them into a must-pass budget bill is not.
Trump is impeachable, but the process might exacerbate political tensions without resolving anything.
A range of libertarian-world approaches to the impending trial of Donald Trump
Plus: Judiciary releases impeachment report, sanity on Title IX, Hallmark's lesbian ad kerfuffle, and more...
In an interview with Fox News, the former FBI director admitted mistakes with the FISA process but defended his team.
Meanwhile, outgoing Gov. Matt Bevin made some controversial pardon choices as he headed for the door.
When the vice president's son was caught using illegal drugs, he escaped legal problems. We should all be so lucky.
The new right naively thinks a government more empowered to "protect children" would be good for families. Nope.
Plus: "Vaping policy" consumes the White House, the porn wars portend something bigger, the DHS wants subpoena power, libertarians in space, a Milk Freedom Act, and more...
Plus: the foundations bankrolling bad tech policy, they is the word of the year, and more...
One of Brexit's architects says leaving the EU is a victory for free trade and decentralization and warns that a Corbyn victory will destroy the U.K.'s future.
Plus: corruption, corruption, runaway spending, and more corruption...
The government's surveillance of Carter Page might not have been improperly motivated, but it was still seriously flawed.
Venezuela's failed collectivist experiment brought death and despair to a once-prosperous country.
Rules are for the little people, not the eighth richest man on the planet.
"You don't like the building? You think it's old and decaying? Then get out there and push to get a new one," she said.
He reversed position only as he decided to run for president and now seems surprised he’s getting asked about it.
In the midst of a housing crisis, L.A. politicians have decided to limit their own incentives to allow more housing construction.
A sign of just how far left Democrats have moved under Trump
It's great to see Congress assert its role in checking the power of the executive branch. But is this too little, too late?
Activists disrupt a talk by Sharon McBride, a South Bend City Council member who is backing Buttigieg.
Just like their counterparts in the Democratic Party do!