Political Individualists Are Holding the Country Together
Not everyone has chosen a side.
More than 200 Democrats-plus one Republican-co-sponsor a joint resolution against Trump's national emergency declaration.
The possible presidential contender has come a long way since his tough-on-crime speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, but he's still emphasizing his U.S. attorney past.
Reformers always have a new scheme to take "the money out of politics," but it usually just makes the government larger and campaign spending increase.
We trust young people to make a lot of weighty decisions. Voting should be one of them.
Richard Nixon faced a primary challenger in 1972...and he squashed him like a bug.
The Vermont independent has yanked Democrats so far to the left that his competitors are becoming mini-mes.
All too often, the Massachusetts senator and 2020 hopeful gets key details wrong.
More than 8 percent of the state's population is currently disenfranchised.
Medicare for All, free college, breaking up the banks, a $15 minimum wage-the Vermont socialist wants to do it all.
How an independent helped shape the Democratic policy agenda.
The Minnesota senator says the national debt constrains policymaking, giving the rare impression of a candidate who has actually thought things through.
Bargaining over policy is supposed to be frustrating. That's a feature, not a bug, of limited government.
Plus: on hate crimes and hoaxes; Warren's child care plan; growing government discontent; and building new kink communities
If its recent record is any indication, Winston Churchill might have been wrong about democracy.
The first semi-declared 2020 GOP challenger comes out blazing against the president while trying to wriggle off the hook about his recent Libertarian past.
They got nothing in return for handing Trump money except for a national emergency.
Pro-choice, Obama-supporting "Libertarian for life" will take a "substantial" move Friday toward competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
Noah Rothman says the right and the left are using appeals to victimization and identity politics to gain political power.
The presidential contender is a johnny-come-lately on legalization, but she is right about the importance of fun.
Congressional leaders have reached a compromise. But Trump will have the final say.
Billionaire seeks ballot access, political party seeks cash, both hate the national debt...but Schultz is far more interventionist at home and abroad than, say, Bill Weld.
Trump won much more than the Democrats did.
New Yorkers don't want him. Why would the rest of the country?
The senator is already lying about her record as a drug warrior, but she's also dissembling about what music was around during her college and law school years.
Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian.
It's an inversion of the formula Trump used to get elected by scapegoating illegal immigrants. She's just targeting a different minority group.
For most of the presidential candidate's political career, she was absolutely dead set against full legalization.
Plus: Klobuchar and Warren join Democrat 2020 contest and AOC retracts "Green New Deal" draft.
"Minnesota Nice" branding belies mean streak and temper, said staff. Will it harm her presidential chances?
Using climate change to justify government-guaranteed jobs, health care, and housing.
Thanks to the Citizens United decision, the streaming service can play it whenever and wherever it wants.
Town hall pilloried because Schultz is undeclared, uninformed, unelectable...and because he might become the next-or help the current-Donald Trump.
There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America.
Climate change is the excuse; radically remaking the American economy is the aim.
"As far as we're concerned he's a Libertarian and he can't flip-flop back and forth for political expediency," says New Hampshire GOP chair.
But she provided very little evidence to back up her claims.
Although that assumes that socially liberal and fiscally conservative voters even exist, which they don't, right?
San Francisco encourages homelessness by limiting housing, offering generous welfare, and failing to enforce basic laws.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt delivers the L.P.'s prebuttal to tonight's SOTU, while the L.A. Times asks whether Hewitt can "make a fringe party mainstream."
What comes next in the Virginia governor scandal, why "Medicare for All" ain't happening, and how Baby Boomers are a fatberg clogging America's cultural sewers
How willing are you to pay taxes when you know they're intended to do you harm?
The New Jersey senator is a friend of criminal justice reform, but his best friend might steal the spotlight.
Her big new tax plan is impractical, ineffective, and probably unconstitutional.
Plus: Congress defends unauthorized war and a genetic-testing company is opening up its records to the federal government.