Selling Freedom
Meet Larry Sharpe, the Marine turned management consultant who is rising to the top of a leaderless Libertarian Party
Meet Larry Sharpe, the Marine turned management consultant who is rising to the top of a leaderless Libertarian Party
Is Edgar Martinez the Gary Johnson of baseball? No, but his inevitable election to Cooperstown can teach us something useful about politics.
They used to call themselves supporters of limited government. Some still do.
The two-party system continues playing Whac-a-Mole with instant runoff voting
Harris only cares about other women's rights when those rights don't conflict with her career ambitions.
The congressman leaves with a mixed record.
There is roughly a zero percent chance Democrats will succeed in blocking net neutrality repeal through the Congressional Review Act.
Politicians cast attacks on them as attacks on democracy. How self-serving.
Appeals to what 'economists say' is used to coat liberal policy positions with a veneer of scientific certitude.
Even while euthanizing the bureaucratic expression of his electoral fantasies, the president continues to play vote-counting politics with the Department of Homeland Security and Census.
The President shut down the commission because numerous states refused to turn over voter data, citing concerns about privacy and state sovereignty.
Win or lose, libertarians will remind Americans about basic principles we have in common.
What does the future hold for libertarians?
Read bills before voting, and other ways Congress can be less terrible in 2018.
The defeated Senate candidate's refusal to concede is no more preposterous than the claim that the president actually won the popular vote.
The former 1988 Libertarian nominee and 2008 and 2012 Republican candidate for president says Trump is just a temporary setback for the libertarian moment.
*Not that they all actually aired on television.
There will always be arguments about the efficacy of tax cuts for corporations and the rich, but at some point people find out that they get one, too.
A recent Virginia election decided by one vote has given new life to the mantra that "every vote counts." But the chance of a single vote making a difference remains extraordinarily low, and this reality incentivizes voters to be ignorant and biased.
Another day of cartoonish outrage in Washington.
The binary "us vs. them" approach in politics abets the loss of freedom.
Survey finds 47 percent of people believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe.
Few things are as destructive as Socialism, Communism, Fascism...
Losses in Virginia and elsewhere aren't stopping some in the GOP from demanding ever-more cartoonish candidates.
Economics 101 indicates that toll roads can help solve the problem of traffic congestion. But public ignorance often prevents government from acting on this basic insight.
The president wants the Alabama loser to concede. But using Trump's own (fake) voter-fraud math, he shouldn't.
Sloppy work creates self-inflicted wounds.
No one earns a mandate by merely being less awful than the other guy.
Final tally: 49.9 to 48.4 percent.
The Libertarian Party's write-in longshot, Ron Bishop, is also in the race. Bonus: a baker's dozen non-pedo reasons to dislike Roy Moore.
In 2017, the left eats its own and the right shows its true colors.
Conservative apologia for Roy Moore and hostility toward his opponent are anchored on an issue individual senators are highly unlikely to impact.
Neither Laura Ebke nor her cinema-loving constituents seem very scared.
Reason Podcast tackles tax reform, Trump's Roy Moore endorsement, the Flynn flip, and more.
A law signed by Alabama's Republican governor allows many ex-cons to return to the ballot box.
Watch Don Boudreaux vs. Rick Manning at the Soho Forum.