Some Progressives Targeting the First Amendment, Too
It's not just the Second Amendment in their crosshairs.
Politics
A Jailed Model Claims to Have Evidence of Russian Meddling in U.S. Elections. Her Story Is Even Weirder Than You Think.
Rybka has spent the past several years as a protegee of pickup artist and seduction coach Alex Lesley-and picked up a plausible claim to 2016 election dirt along the way.
Vilifying Gun Owners Doesn't Lead to a Better Society
Progressives push their luck with their totalitarian insistence that everybody is with them or against them on guns and so much else.
Trump Has Exposed the GOP's Shallowness on Fiscal Restraint and Free Markets
He's made the party's economic agenda an extension of the culture wars.
Trumpism's Enduring Legacy to the GOP will be a Relentless Culture War
The party's commitment to fiscal restraint and limited government have vanished
Bob Poole on Trump's Gas Tax, Rep. Beto O'Rourke on Challenging Ted Cruz
Matt Welch hosts Sirius XM Insight (channel 121) from 9-12 ET
Culture War Is All That's Left When Gun Policy Battles Become Pointless
Forget the debates over laws that can't make a difference; the heat and noise is really all about political tribes attempting to inconvenience each other.
Should We Abolish the Sex Offender Registry? A Debate.
Watch sociologist Emily Horowitz debate legal scholar Marci Hamilton at the Soho Forum.
Democrats Release Memo Rebutting Claims that FBI Inappropriately Snooped on Former Trump Aide
Argues that secret wiretap authorizations were not abused.
Curling Is the Closest the Olympics Ever Get to Anarchy
The culture of curling rejects appeals to authority and encourages civility even in the midst of intense competition. That's a lesson for American politics.
New Federal Charges Filed Against Manafort, Gates
A total of 32 claims of tax and bank fraud in concealing foreign income.
Pennsylvania's New Congressional Districts Are More Compact. But They're Still Just as Partisan.
The state Supreme Court did away with a Republican gerrymander and tilted the new map toward Democrats. That should be worrying.
Don't Feed the Russian Troll Hysteria
The "information warfare" described in Friday's indictment is not an existential threat to American democracy.
Former CIA Director and Fox News Host Share a Laugh Over American Interference in Foreign Elections
James Woolsey says America only interferes in other nations' elections "for a very good cause," but he can't keep a straight face while saying it.
After the Gun Ban
Looking back a few years after hypothetical new restrictions on semiautomatic weapons in private hands, we see a country grown more divided, but no less armed.
Don't Feed President Troll
Four questions to ask yourself before you freak out about Trump's latest tweet
Feds Announce Indictments of Russian Nationals for Attempting to Influence American Elections
Thirteen individuals and three companies accused of conspiracy against the U.S., wire fraud, and identity theft.
The Inconvenient Individualism of Frederick Douglass
A bizarre New York Times piece knocks down a strawman.
Put 'Humanity First,' Demands 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang
No robots need apply.
Did We Get the Tea Party Wrong?: Podcast
An autopsy for the brief limited-government era of conservatism that ended on Friday
Surprise: Voters Aren't More Polarized than Ever, Only Pols and Media Are
Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina says it's media and political elites who live in ideological bubbles, not regular Americans.
Can We Talk About Something Besides Trump?
At some point, maybe we should just take Trump's antics as a given
The Tea Party Is Officially Dead. It Was Killed by Partisan Politics.
I helped make the grassroots activist movement a reality. But now the party's over.
How GOP Fiscal Sanity Died, in 7 Easy Steps
Here are the moments when Republicans, including professed deficit hawks, snuffed out the 2009-2014 flicker of budgetary sanity
That Time the LaRouchies Won Two Primaries in Illinois
Friday A/V Club: Before there was Arthur Jones, there was Mark Fairchild.
Our Infrastructure Is Not 'Crumbling.' Repeat: Our Infrastructure Is Not 'Crumbling'
The number of structurally deficient bridges, never high to begin with, has been dropping over the past 30 years.
Consumers Are Open to Superhuman Vision and Cognitive Enhancements. Are Regulators?
The first comprehensive survey on attitudes about human enhancement finds Americans are open to some crazy new technologies.
Dilbert's Scott Adams Explains How He Knew Trump Would 'Win Bigly'
The cartoonist-turned-political-prognisticator talks about "master persuaders" and winning arguments in a "world where facts don't matter."
Larry Sharpe, Libertarian Candidate for Governor of New York, Quits the Party's National Committee
Controversy over LNC Vice-Chair Arvin Vohra's comments on veterans, age of consent laws makes Sharpe realize he doesn't belong on the national party's governing board.
There's Still No Big 'There' in the Russia Probe
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
Pennsylvania's Redistricting Crisis Deepens as SCOTUS Takes Hard Pass on Getting Involved
The SCOTUS won't get involved in a dispute over Pennsylvania's congressional district lines. Could an algorithm succeed where lawmakers and judges have failed?
Want to Make an Untraceable Handgun at Home? Cody Wilson Can Help.
His Ghost Gunner and 3D printing are destroying the concept of gun control.
No Freedom From the Church of America
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism.
Felons Who Want Their Voting Rights Back Are Getting Unconstitutionally Screwed, Says Judge
The state uses a panel of partisan officials with absolute discretion to determine who gets to vote again
Groundhog Day: 2018
Does the news ever feel like the same thing over and over and over again?
Farewell to Nicholas von Hoffman, the Newsman Who Got Fired for Comparing Nixon to a Dead Mouse
Friday A/V Club: Columnist, broadcaster, and critic of concentrated power
Donald Jr.'s Trump Tower Meeting Was Not a Crime, and Neither Was Lying About It
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the president's role in writing an ass-covering statement that was misleading but not illegal.
Sadly, America's Not the Freest Country in the World
The U.S. used to come in second or third in rankings, but according to the latest Human Freedom Index it's at 17.
The New York Times Is Now a Nazi Paper. Wait, What?
If everything problematic is evil, silencing and punishing everything problematic becomes a social necessity.
Is Selfishness a Virtue? A Debate With Yaron Brook and Gene Epstein.
"The Christian morality of sacrifice and altruism is wrong," says Brook, executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute.
R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin, Author of One of the Greatest Novels About Freedom Ever Written
How libertarians learned to stop worrying and love The Dispossessed
Here Are 5 Criminal Justice Reform Measures That Americans Say They Support
A new poll says voters want change. They can get it if they truly want it.
