Yes, Russian Trolls Tried To Influence the 2016 Election. No, They Didn't Win It for Trump.
Are we really going to shut down the internet because Hillary Clinton ran a bad campaign and blew an easy win?
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Maine Decides All Its Registered Libertarian Voters Are No Longer Registered Libertarians
Now the Party needs to register over 5,000 voters to get on the ballot in 2020, even though it already had that many before the state arbitrarily changed their registration.
In Venezuela, Yet Another Socialist Government Crushes Dissent
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
Everybody Wants To Regulate the Internet Except Ajit Pai: Podcast
One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.
Trump Is Shifting American's Views on Trade, But Not the Way He Wants
A new poll shows Americans (including Republicans) are rejecting Trump's nationalist view of global trade.
The Fantasy of a 2020 Independent Centrist
John Kasich, Mark Cuban, and an army of op-ed political strategists are wrong if they think you can just whip up an independent presidential candidacy or new third party from scratch.
Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead at 66
The Cypherpunk co-founder was a major influence on both bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
Did Trump Violate Campaign Finance Laws?
Legal experts debate whether payments to kill stories about then-candidate Trump's affairs were undisclosed campaign expenditures.
Mueller Mulls Middle East Meddling: Reason Roundup
Plus: Trump inauguration spending also under scrutiny, feds want fentanyl cases out of state court, and Twitter's stock is surging.
Why Are Conservatives Suddenly Supporting Mandatory Paid Leave?
The additional cost of adding paid leave to Social Security would be $114 billion over 10 years.
Federal Judge Upholds Maine's Ranked-Choice Voting
A Republican representative lost his seat in the new instant runoff system, so he sued.
Trump Plausibly Pleads Ignorance in His Latest Defense Against Criminal Charges for Campaign Finance Violations
Even if hush payments to his alleged mistresses amounted to illegal campaign contributions, the president says, he did not know that at the time.
Is the Libertarian Party Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Party activists reflect after both a disappointing midterm and an energizing Jeff Hewitt win
Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Cohen blames Trump for sending him down a "path of darkness"
Give Nixon, McCain, and Bush Some Blame for Trump's Campaign Finance Trouble
Republicans all too often adopt themselves many of the most misguided beliefs of the left. Among these misconceptions: money is inherently corrupt.
Give Nixon, McCain, and Bush Some Blame for Trump's Campaign Finance Trouble
Republicans all too often adopt themselves many of the most misguided beliefs of the left. Among these misconceptions: money is inherently corrupt.
California's Top-Two Voting System Keeps Leaving Voters Without Options
Given only two candidates from the same party, millions just don't choose at all.
Brexit Is Broken and No One's Quite Sure How to Fix It: Reason Roundup
Plus: Google CEO to get grilled today on bias and tobacco farmers are finding new profits in hemp.
Is Rand Paul Right About Special Prosecutors Being Wrong?: Podcast
Also: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owns the cons while spouting policy B.S.
Trump's Cluelessness Remains His Best Defense Against Charges That He 'Knowingly and Willfully' Violated Campaign Finance Law
If Trump did not recognize hush payments to his (alleged) former mistresses as illegal campaign contributions, he is not criminally culpable.
John Kelly Was President Trump's Top Authoritarian Fearmonger. Good Riddance.
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
Facebook Cripples Community Organizing With Overzealous Attempts to Stop Russian Trolls: Reason Roundup
Plus: Trump changes his mind about military spending and why Rand Paul hates Trump's new attorney general pick.
The Libertarian Party Future, Perennially Out of Reach
Where does political libertarianism go after the midterms?
Should We Let Children Vote? The Troubling Implications of Standard Reasons for Rejecting a Flawed Idea
Few will agree with Cambridge political scientist David Runciman's proposal to lower the voting age to 6. But standard reasons for rejecting the idea raise serious questions about many adult voters, too.
Prosecutors Recommend Prison for Cohen, Say He Paid off Women on Trump's Behalf
Manafort, meanwhile, tried to conceal that he was still talking to Trump administration officials after he was indicted.
Libertarian Jeff Hewitt Wins Seat on Riverside County Board of Supervisors
The L.P.'s biggest 2018 winner wants to tackle California's public sector pension crisis head-on
Political Ignorance and George H.W. Bush's Defeat in the 1992 Election
Bush lost because voters punished him for the recession of the early 1990s - an event he did not cause. This is just one example of a broader phenomenon of voters rewarding and punishing politicians for things they do not control.
Mueller Says Flynn's Been Cooperative with Russian Investigation, Asks for Light Sentence
Snitches get a slap on the wrist sometimes.
George H.W. Bush Averts Government Shutdown From the Grave: Reason Roundup
Plus: France postpones planned fuel-tax hike after Yellow Vest protests.
Has Anti-Racism Become as Harmful as Racism? John McWhorter vs. Nikhil Singh
Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.
Putin's Potential Penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow Launches Investigation: Reason Roundup
Plus: CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill for Palestine comments and the link between life expectancy declines, opioid pills, and prohibition.
Trump Ex-Lawyer Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress About Russian Negotiations
Negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow continued during the primaries, he now says.
8 Years in Prison for Voting Illegally Is Way Too Much
But not according Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Expect More Conservative Purges on Social Media If Republicans Target Section 230
Killing Section 230 would only lead web platforms to ban even more speech.
Facebook and Big Tech Discover That Political Friends Are Fickle Friends
As Facebook's supposed ideological allies unfriend the social media giant, the tech industry is learning that there are no permanent allegiances in politics.
What's Happening in the Mississippi Senate Runoff
The race has come to be defined more by controversy than by policy.
No, Sex Wasn't Better for Women Under Socialism
It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
Don't Cry for Kat Timpf, Cry for America Instead
Americans are becoming increasingly intolerant with each other over politics, and have special wrath for people who do not stay in identifiable partisan and even geographical lanes. This does not end well, people.
Trumpism Hastens Orange County's Shift From Red to Blue
By careening towards populism, the GOP handed over to the Democrats modern, growing, diverse and prosperous suburbs such as Orange County.
Director Jason Reitman on The Front Runner, Gary Hart, and the Private Lives of Politicians
Reitman and his co-writers, Matt Bai and Jay Carson, on what their new film reveals about today's politics.
On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for Property Rights
There's no reason to celebrate collective ownership.
Bail Bond Industry Attempting to Force California Jail Reforms to the Ballot Box
A law signed in August will eliminate cash bail entirely in the Golden State, and quite a few jobs in the process.
Rep. Joe Kennedy III Says He Supports Weed Legalization So the Feds Can 'Regulate' It
After years of opposition, Kennedy has finally jumped on the pro-weed legalization bandwagon.
Suppressing Trump's Bigotry on Facebook Is Another Form of Bias
Censoring politicians' racist, sexist, and abhorrent behavior on social media does a big favor to racist, sexist, and abhorrent politicians.
Request for local counsel in Washington State
Amicus brief on electoral college discretion
Convicted of Brutally Beating His Wife, This Judge Was Given a Second Chance in City Government. Now He's Been Arrested for Her Murder: Reason Roundup
Plus: lawmakers move to allow headscarves on the Hill and private landlords protect from lead better than city Health Department.
