Remember 'T-Bone,' Cory Booker's Imaginary Drug Dealer Friend?
The New Jersey senator is a friend of criminal justice reform, but his best friend might steal the spotlight.
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.
Despite Weld's 14 months of party-building as a Libertarian, the local media and some of his allies are talking up a GOP primary challenge to Donald Trump
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a veteran, believes that military intervention should be a last resort.
Who's ready for a class war from the party of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and the Kennedy/Roosevelt clans?
The senator and presidential hopeful went to bat for dirty prosecutors, opposed marijuana legalization, and championed policies that endanger sex workers.
The Starbucks magnate is rich and early enough to buy his way onto ballots, but it's hard for a relative unknown to beat the third-party boomerang effect in a time of centrism-hating polarization.
Transitioning to a fully government-run system would require eliminating private health insurance for nearly 180 million Americans.
Plus: Another way the E.U. "right to be forgotten" is risky, and Baltimore cuts back on pot prohibition
The 2020 contender's single-payer pitch is all about disruption.
The former Starbucks CEO is getting dragged by liberals and progressives because he is talking about debt and spending in ways they don't like.
An investigation into why people are working more without accomplishing more
Is it moral to blame a country's problems on a handful of wealthy individuals? Is it a wise political strategy?
It's time to admit that Venezuela's "21st century socialism" failed.
How would you like it if nearby strangers could instantly access your credit score on their phones?
Pete Buttigieg wants to move forward, not backward. What a novel campaign platform!
Pew survey data complicate the young/old and left/right framing of this issue.
It's safe to say this guy would not make a good president.
The antivirus visionary hopes Libertarians will credit him for "standing up and risking things" for freedom by campaigning in exile.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the former vice president acknowledges regrets about his role in the drug war and mass incarcerations.
Plus: Kamala Harris officially enters the 2020 race and Google News may leave the E.U.
Bush, Chris Christie, Bill Kristol, and a bunch of op-ed interventionists stoke 2020 speculation around the Republican governor of Democratic Maryland.
"That's me!" jokes Bill Weld, while calling Amash a "hero" and encouraging the congressman to run.
Paying customers may be the next targets for social media "deplatforming."
Most politicians have evolved on gay issues. But not all were directly connected to anti-gay organizations.
Friday A/V Club: A little chat about Stalin
Industry representatives succeed in forcing a referendum on reforms passed by lawmakers.
"This is not me promoting anything, including myself," the former Ohio governor says, while promoting himself.
In 2019, it's liberals, not conservatives, who are holding the pill hostage for political gain.
Plus: optimism about the end of liberalism and Marco Rubio's new tech bill.
Shutdown teaches us that much of government is NOT essential.
Rebutting Krugman, cracking on Graham, and searching in vain for "freedom" in a caucus.
The Hawaii congresswoman will be a voice for humility in U.S. foreign policy.
A Canadian Supreme Court decision striking down a law denying the right to vote to expats who have resided abroad for over five years raises broader questions about democratic theory.
Q&A about the rise of right-wing "grifters" such as Charlie Kirk, the death of The Weekly Standard, and the future of the American right.
It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
The Introduction to the revised second edition summarizes the rest of the book, and is available for free.
The book neglects to mention all the times Harris' office appealed cases that were thrown out for gross prosecutor misconduct.
David Leyonhjelm will pursue state office instead to fight restrictive, nannying laws.
Plus: Israel boycott bill divides Democrats, Cyntoia Brown gets clemency, and the "skills gap" was a lie.
What conservatives against "market fundamentalism" can tell you about libertarians without power
A second covert campaign against Judge Roy Moore is revealed, suggesting that voters need to up their media-literacy game, and fast.
The California senator's plan to create a new refundable tax credit is bad policy, but it says a lot about her politics heading into 2020.
The interaction began when he was stopped by the side of the road trying to power-wash stenciled messages on a dirty concrete barrier.
Online room-sharing services had no avenue to legally challenge demands for private info.
You can't have it both ways.