Texas Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for the Crime of Not Realizing She Couldn't Vote
An obsession with election fraud leads to cruel punishments.
Politics
How To Think About The Americans' Final Season: Podcast
Exclusive Q&A with show creator Joe Weisberg and executive producer Joel Fields.
If Republicans Are Doomed in 2018, It's Not Because Some Gerrymandered Districts Got Redrawn
If Republicans get crushed in November, it will be because they tied themselves to an unpopular president and abandoned promises to cut spending.
Trump Administration to Deliberately Undercount Illegal Immigrants in 2020 Census
The Census Bureau's decision to ask about citizenship in its decennial survey for the first time since 1950 will lead to worse data, but better electoral results for Republicans.
Will the Democrats Blow It in 2020?
The question is whether the Democrats will lead their party on a giddy march to the left.
Hillary Clinton, Not Donald Trump or Cambridge Analytica, Is Gaslighting America
When can we as a country admit that the "most-qualified candidate in history" lost the 2016 election and get on with living our lives?
Stossel: China's Freedom-Crushing 'Social Credit Score'
Americans should be wary of something similar.
Cambridge Analytica Was Doing Marketing, Not Black Magic
There's no reason for alarm (yet) over a Facebook data "breach" that benefited a firm with ties to Trump's campaign.
Who Are the Republicans Warning About Firing Mueller, and How Many of Them Are Running for President?
Here are the three main categories of don't-go-there Republicans.
Trump's Anti-Speech Agenda Gets a Boost From Lefty Lawyers and Academics
Declining support for unfettered debate among politicians, academics, and the public doesn't bode well for the future of free speech.
5 Reasons Not to Feed the Russian Troll Hysteria
"If voters are making [stupid] decisions," says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, "that's not the Russians' fault."
Arthur Miller's Daughter Humanizes Playwright in New Documentary
Some controversial behavior connected to the Communist Party gets played down.
The Death of Stalin Director Armando Iannucci on Free Minds Under Soviet Rule
Under Stalin, people could be killed for carrying joke books about him. They did it anyway.
Libertarian Plays Spoiler in Close Pennsylvania Special Election
Democrat Conor Lamb declared victory this morning, but he leads Republican Rick Saccone by just 500 votes. Libertarian Drew Miller got more than 1,300.
Senate Dems Infrastructure Plan: A Tale of Tax Hikes and Transit Subsidies
The plan calls for $1 trillion is spending on everything from walking trails to high-speed internet.
Tracking Down the Elusive Left-Wing Authoritarian
"Left-wing authoritarians can be just as prejudiced, dogmatic, and extremist as right-wing authoritarians."
Ivanka and Conservatives Want to Raid Social Security to Pay for Parental Leave
It's the conservative version of cradle-to-grave welfare.
Gary Johnson: 'I Always Thought Telling the Truth Would Rule the Day. And It Doesn't.'
The 2016 Libertarian presidential candidate on "Aleppo," Donald Trump's unexpected good points, and why Hillary Clinton's trolls were worse than Russian ones.
Some Progressives Targeting the First Amendment, Too
It's not just the Second Amendment in their crosshairs.
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
