Politics

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The Most Interesting Man in Buzzfeed's Paul Ryan Profile Is Not Paul Ryan

Poverty and the right

Jesse Walker | 4.29.2014 12:32 PM

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Libertarians Should Take Over the GOP, Not Create 3rd Party

Nick Gillespie and Amanda Winkler | 4.29.2014 12:30 PM

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Scalia Decries 'Unelected Agency Officials Exercising Broad Lawmaking Authority' in EPA Case

Damon Root | 4.29.2014 12:25 PM

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Obama Is Right on Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Conservatives have no good reason to caterwaul this time.

Gene Healy | 4.29.2014 12:00 PM

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58 Percent Oppose Minimum Wage Increase if it Costs Jobs, but 51 Percent Would Accept Higher Prices

Emily Ekins | 4.29.2014 9:10 AM

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Mark Cuban: Sterling's Racism "Abhorrent" But "People Are Allowed to be Morons"

Nick Gillespie | 4.29.2014 9:07 AM

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Hung Up on 'Stand Your Ground'

The absence of a duty to retreat does not explain the outcome of Michael Dunn's murder trial.

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2014 7:00 AM

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DOJ's 'Operation Choke Point' May Be Root of Porn Star Bank Account Closings

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.28.2014 8:40 PM

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Sarah Palin: 'Waterboarding Is How We Baptize Terrorists'

Zenon Evans | 4.28.2014 5:00 PM

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The Latest Left-Wing Bias by The New York Times

Charter schools require no apology.

Ira Stoll | 4.28.2014 4:30 PM

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Kareem, on Donald Sterling: 'Shouldn't we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media?'

Matt Welch | 4.28.2014 4:26 PM

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U.S. Announces More Sanctions Against Russians Amid Ukraine Crisis

Officials and companies targeted.

Matthew Feeney | 4.28.2014 11:27 AM

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Do Flat State-Income Taxes Produce Inequality? Would Progressive Taxes Ameliorate It?

Nick Gillespie | 4.28.2014 11:20 AM

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Supreme Court Remains Silent on Major Gun Rights Case

Damon Root | 4.28.2014 10:19 AM

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Arrested Development

Economists who set out to help the world's poor may actually be part of the problem.

Brian Doherty | 4.28.2014 10:00 AM

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John Oliver's New Show Slams Oregon for Its Failed Health Exchange

Peter Suderman | 4.28.2014 9:58 AM

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Come to Reason's 'Thank You for Vaping' Event Tonight at New York's Museum of Sex!

Matt Welch | 4.28.2014 9:30 AM

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Hillary Clinton, the Unrepentant Hawk

Hillary Clinton is a long-standing and unblushing advocate of frequent military intervention abroad.

Steve Chapman | 4.28.2014 7:00 AM

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Should NBA Clippers Owner Donald Sterling be Fired for Racist Remarks? Scheduled to Get NAACP Award on May 15

Nick Gillespie | 4.27.2014 9:33 AM

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Amuse Yourself with Embattled Calif. State Sen. Yee's Voter Guide Statement

His job is to prevent corruption, he says.

Scott Shackford | 4.26.2014 5:00 PM

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Feds Grant Massachusetts Extra Year to Complete Obamacare Transition

Peter Suderman | 4.25.2014 4:12 PM

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Video: Megan McArdle: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success

Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin | 4.25.2014 3:15 PM

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John Paul Stevens, Leading Enabler of the War on Drugs, Says Pot Prohibition Was a Big Mistake

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2014 1:34 PM

Election 2014

How Will You Remember Meeting the President?

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2014 1:27 PM

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U.K. Euroskeptic Doesn't Think German Wife Is Taking British Job

Matthew Feeney | 4.25.2014 1:05 PM

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California Officials Dread Rail Project Trial

The $68 billion high-speed boondoggle may not comply with its legal promise.

Steven Greenhut | 4.25.2014 12:00 PM

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Feds to Take Over Oregon's Failed $300 Million Health Insurance Exchange

Peter Suderman | 4.24.2014 4:34 PM

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Is John Bolton a 'hawkish libertarian'?

Matt Welch | 4.24.2014 4:15 PM

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Carter vs. Reagan on Spending, Take 2 featuring Ramesh Ponnuru

Nick Gillespie | 4.24.2014 2:45 PM

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Russia Threatens Invasion Unless Ukraine Stops Stopping Separatists

Zenon Evans | 4.24.2014 2:34 PM

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Suspicion of Government Isn't Racist, But People Suspicious of Government Are? What?

J.D. Tuccille | 4.24.2014 1:38 PM

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Paying for Obamacare

We passed it. We're finding out what's in it. And now we have to pay for it.

Peter Suderman | 4.24.2014 1:30 PM

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Like in U.S., 'Isolationist' Now Used As Lazy Slur in U.K.

Matthew Feeney | 4.24.2014 11:15 AM

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Rand Paul Is Right: Carter Was Thriftier Than Reagan

The sooner the GOP groks this, the sooner they will support limited goverment.

Nick Gillespie | 4.24.2014 10:40 AM

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Obama Breaks Armenian-Genocide Promise for 6th Year in a Row

Matt Welch | 4.24.2014 10:01 AM

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Forgetting Jefferson

The long decline of the decentralist political tradition

John McClaughry | 4.24.2014 10:00 AM

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Progressives Need to Think About a Post-Affirmative Action World

Shikha Dalmia | 4.24.2014 9:40 AM

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Watch Matt Welch Debate Pot Prohibitionists Tonight at 10 p.m. on Hannity (Update: False Alarm)

Matt Welch | 4.23.2014 9:26 PM

Policy

Amending the First Amendment: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2014 5:59 PM

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Tonight on The Independents: Mystery Meat Wednesday, With Praise for Canada, BLM Commentary From Chuck Woolery, Income Inequality, Julie Borowski, Armenian Genocide, a Libertarian Quiz for John Bolton, and Two Minutes Hate!

Matt Welch | 4.23.2014 4:44 PM

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Behold the Democratic Future, Boasts Jonathan Chait, Because Suspicion of Government Is Racist

J.D. Tuccille | 4.23.2014 3:42 PM

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Strippers v. the Supreme Court: Live Nude Theater!

Joshua Swain | 4.23.2014 3:00 PM

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Gene Healy Talks About Kill-List Record of 'Most Transparent Administration' in History

Matt Welch | 4.23.2014 2:05 PM

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Successful U.S. Action in Libya Leads to Jihadists Controlling Secret American Bases There.

Nick Gillespie | 4.23.2014 1:45 PM