Has Phony Betomania Already Bitten the Dust?
Legitimately interesting yet eminently mockable GenXer Beto O'Rourke joins the 2020 presidential scrum.
Legitimately interesting yet eminently mockable GenXer Beto O'Rourke joins the 2020 presidential scrum.
George Mason's Todd Zywicki says the senator and presidential hopeful has inherited the ideas of Louis Brandeis without learning the lessons of overregulation.
Whether red vs. blue or city vs. country, political tensions are best addressed by letting people run their own lives.
Nobody in the media should be supporting an elected official trying to control what speech online platforms allow.
Meanwhile, both support single-payer, which would radically cut payments to health care providers.
The libertarian-leaning Michigan congressman takes aim at two scourges of American democracy, despite what it would mean for his party's political interests.
When voters see what the actual options are, their interest in political competition plummets.
A new symposium outlines several ideas for improving our democratic system. All are worth considering. But none are likely to be as good as expanding opportunities for people to "vote with their feet."
How will a former vice president with a lot of baggage fare in an increasingly progressive, intersectional Democratic primary?
The Massachusetts Democrat is running for president, but sometimes it seems like she's running for America's super-CEO.
Democratic mega-proposals, GOP budgetary fictions, prostitution decriminalization surprises, and Zardoz moments galore
Plus: Klobuchar thinks government should profit when Big Tech sells your data, and the FDA drops a ban on genetically modified salmon.
When libertarians dole out blame for the growth of government, perhaps we should take a look in the mirror.
Plus: outrage over water bottles, and Cory Booker introduces the "next step" on criminal justice reform
No matter their age or political persuasion, Americans have similar thoughts on this one.
In a New Yorker interview, the would-be primary challenger compares the president to Charles Lindbergh.
The cartoonist talks about being libertarian, why Marvel is OK with "serums" but not drugs, and how comic books have evolved over the past 30 years.
An Atlantic article makes the case that some very privileged people don't want to hear from the other side.
It's an attempt at scaremongering meant to win over social traditionalists.
The former Colorado governor enters the presidential race, for no particular reason anyone can see.
Voters "still want someone who is not a politician," the billionaire tells the Daily News. "And you're not getting that from anyone in the Democratic Party."
Just 18 percent of Americans have favorable views of socialism.
We live in desperate times when the brake on both Democratic socialism and Republican executive-branch abuse is a 78-year-old San Francisco Democrat.
The senator's own San Francisco is a case study in the policy's poor consequences.
Plus: Amash 2020?...Huwei to sue the U.S. government...and who needs Russian bots when you've got TV reporters?
There's intersectionality in theory, and then there's intersectionality as practiced by the most hysterically identity-obsessed activists.
The libertarian Republican tells CNN's Jake Tapper "it is important that we have someone in there who is presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting."
The president's speech at CPAC was a bedazzling mix of bravado, B.S., humor, and positive vision no Democrat will be able to top.
Even for conservatives who believe in individualism, group identity trumps all.
Beto O'Rourke-who won't call himself a "progressive," let alone a "democratic socialist"-is expected to jump into the presidential race.
Democrats approached the issue carefully in 2016. Now six presidential candidates are all-in for complete reform.
Plus: Democrats move to make ad targeting illegal, and more on Elizabeth Warren's child care proposal
The biggest conservative conference of the year used to be welcoming to libertarians. What about this year?
Nick Gillespie talks with The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes and Jim Swift about CPAC, the future of the GOP, and why conservatives should be into pot legalization.
A&E's Trump Dynasty explores the president's family and business history but doesn't do justice to the corrupt New York culture surrounding it.
Ronna McDaniel's CPAC comments are latest indication that the Republican National Committee will tilt heavily Trump in 2020.
"This isn't a partisan issue," the Utah senator says. "This is a constitutional issue."
Learning from Robert McNamara's mistakes and magnanimity
Harris said it was an "unintended consequence," but CNN reports it was the explicit purpose of the policy, which she opposed changing.
"All I can do is keep plotting straight ahead," says the GOP field's lone challenger, who is polling at 18 percent.
Former BB&T Bank CEO John Allison vs. Moody's Mark Zandi
"I think that we have to understand though that it is not as simple as that."
Plus: Sanders on democratic socialism, Medicare for All, and what to do about Venezuela
A lame headline provokes even lamer charges of incitement to violence.
More than 200 Democrats-plus one Republican-co-sponsor a joint resolution against Trump's national emergency declaration.