"The fact that [Dr. Oz] can't beat Fetterman in a race is not anything that libertarians should be biting their nails or clutching their pearls over."
Even before his personal foibles became front-page news, the former football star was more like a caricature of a bad candidate.
The most jarring thing about Senate candidate J.D. Vance is how open he is about rejecting the rule of law.
Neither candidate in the crucially important Pennsylvania Senate race has made much of a positive case for his candidacy.
If the midterms favor Republicans, their top priority needs to be the fight against inflation—whether or not they feel like they created the problem.
Biden's planned address on Wednesday night will call out "those who deny the documented truth about election results and those who seek to undermine public faith in our system of government."
The anti-immigrant tenor of the state's GOP candidates is keeping reasonable conversations about border security out of reach.
Amendment 1 would grant public workers collective bargaining power over just about anything that affects them, ignoring the will of voters and lawmakers.
Reflexive opposition to the 45th president was terrible for Covid policy and basic ethics.
Department of Homeland Security
While the Department of Homeland Security pressured tech companies to censor their users' posts, it also branded election deniers as potential terrorists.
The journalist and comedian makes the case that "new puritans" espousing the religion of social justice have captured the Western world.
The House Speaker's husband was attacked by a crazy home intruder. Why is Donald Trump pretending otherwise?
Andrew Doyle on the "new puritans" and their godawful religion of social justice.
Like Arizona's Marc Victor, Erik Gerhardt is a potential spoiler in one of the nation's biggest Senate races. Unlike Victor, he's embracing the role.
Voters will soon cast ballots on a constitutional amendment that seeks to explicitly remove any protections for abortion in the state's constitution.
Many politicians who want to ban gas-powered vehicles appear to misunderstand the science.
The Libertarian—who polled as high as 6 percent in the past 8 days—thinks Republican Masters is "gonna be one of us" in the Senate.
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Democrats paid $435,000 to back a pro-Trump Republican in Michigan—nearly $100,000 more than the candidate himself raised.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.
An interesting echo, I think, of NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware (1982).
Progressives shouldn't be ashamed of being anti-war.
New data from the Public Religion Research Institute show a dramatic decline in Republican support for making abortion illegal in all cases. How this will effect voter behavior remains to be seen.
Chalking tires, curbing meters, and secretly recording videos.
An interview between President Joe Biden and social media star Dylan Mulvaney offers a lesson in mutual forbearance.
This November, voters will have the chance to abolish it. They should.
Plus: Charlottesville cracks down on city employee speech, judge dismisses "blackout challenge" lawsuit against TikTok, and more...
The ballot initiative also would authorize state-licensed "healing centers" where adults could obtain psychedelics for supervised use.
An amicus brief by Professor Derek Muller suggests the justices need not confront the "Independent State Legislature" doctrine head on.
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that GDP grew 0.6 percent in the third quarter of 2022.
Plus: Pandemic learning loss, German weed legalization, and more...
The idea that the Fed has the knowledge necessary to control the economy with perfectly calibrated policies was always an illusion.
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