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Andrew Yang

Several U.S. 0 bills | Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash

Basic Income

Bad News for Universal Basic Income

Researchers found that giving people $1,000 every month for three years resulted in decreased productivity and earnings, and more leisure time.

Eric Boehm | 7.25.2024 1:45 PM

Congressman Dean Phillips campaigning in New Hampshire | Andrew Yang press release, Jan. 18, 2024. https://www.andrewyang.com/blog/my-endorsement-of-dean-phillips

Election 2024

4 Reasons Why Dean Phillips Could Shock Write-in Joe Biden in New Hampshire Tuesday

Though alas, the long shot primary challenger probably will not.

Matt Welch | 1.19.2024 12:15 PM

An open letter's proposed six-month "pause" on A.I. research is a bad idea. It wouldn't work anyway. | Daniel Chetroni | Dreamstime.com

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk, Andrew Yang, and Steve Wozniak Propose an A.I. 'Pause.' It's a Bad Idea and Won't Work Anyway.

For good and ill, human beings advance through trial and error. The same will be the case with A.I.

Ronald Bailey | 3.30.2023 1:20 PM

Andrew Yang | Stan Sholik/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Third Parties

Another Centrist Project Offers Mushy Technocracy To Soothe a Divided Country

Andrew Yang's rebooted Forward Party glosses over Americans’ conflicting values and preferences.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.1.2022 7:00 AM

Q_A | Photo: Jeremy Hogan/Alamy

Third Parties

Andrew Yang Is Still Trying To Move Forward

"We need to break up the duopoly, and the mechanical way to break up the duopoly is by shifting to open primaries and ranked choice votings so that every perspective has a shot."

Nick Gillespie | 1.12.2022 6:00 AM

Screen Shot 2022-01-05 at 2.03.52 PM | Stossel TV

Politics

Andrew Yang Wants To Break the Two-Party System

"We deserve better than this."

John Stossel | 1.5.2022 5:24 PM

8136576_thumb | Yichuan Cao/Sipa USA/Newscom

Basic Income

COVID Proves Andrew Yang's UBI Won't Work

Can the government really cut everyone a check without bankrupting the country and killing labor force participation?

Nick Gillespie | 10.28.2021 2:40 PM

Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang: 'Political Violence Is Becoming More and More of an Inevitability'

The former presidential candidate talks about UBI, race relations, ranked-choice voting, his new political party Forward, and how "the duopoly is killing us."

Nick Gillespie | 10.20.2021 3:08 PM

Yang | Ron Adar/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Crime

New York City's Mayoral Reality Check

Gotham voters are trending toward candidates who acknowledge that violent crime is up, and that school closures were terrible.

Matt Welch | 6.18.2021 4:51 PM

Yang | Lev Radin/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Andrew Yang

New York's Failed Political Class Puzzles Over Why Voters Seem To Prefer Outsider Andrew Yang

When government doesn't deliver, voters look for unpolished candidates from outside government. Go figure.

Matt Welch | 4.22.2021 3:05 PM

Morechurros | Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/Newscom

Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang Gets Schooled on New York Street Vendors

The NYC mayoral hopeful tweeted his foot into his mouth.

Baylen Linnekin | 4.17.2021 8:30 AM

krtphotoslive881723 | Abel Uribe/TNS/Newscom

Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang, Who Wanted Libertarians in His Coalition and Opposed Cancel Culture, Exits the Democratic Race

The New Hampshire polls have closed, and the businessman and math advocate is no longer a candidate for president.

Robby Soave | 2.11.2020 8:54 PM

debatesopoioids_1161x653 | Edward M. PioRoda/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Debates 2020

Smart Debate Responses Against Drug War Lead Inevitably to Big Pharma Bashing

Government solutions to the opioid overdose crisis have contributed to the problem, and no candidate really wants to acknowledge it.

Scott Shackford | 2.7.2020 10:25 PM

rollcallpix117645 | Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Reason Roundup

4 Key Republican Senators To Watch as Trump's Trial Rolls Into the Weekend

Plus: China takes campus free speech issues to a new level, Bloomberg wants to take away your vape, and more...

Eric Boehm | 1.24.2020 9:35 AM

zumaglobalnine687705 | Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Sex Trafficking

Andrew Yang Is Wrong About Prostitution

The Democratic presidential candidate wants to keep prostitution customers criminalized while "decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller."

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.23.2019 10:20 AM

I like math too | TAMI CHAPPELL/UPI/Newscom

Internet

Do We Need a World Data Organization?

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang thinks so.

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2019 1:45 PM

yang11-19 | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang's 'Department of the Attention Economy' Is Why Libertarians Don't Trust Democrats

The answer to real and imagined problems is always spend more, regulate more.

Nick Gillespie | 11.19.2019 10:30 AM

zumaamericastwentyfive549693 | Alex Edelman/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Technology

Andrew Yang Proposes Making Social Media Algorithms Subject to Federal Approval

The presidential hopeful on Thursday released a plan to regulate tech giants.

Billy Binion | 11.15.2019 9:00 AM

reason-yang | Newsom

Debates 2020

'Most Americans Don't Want To Work for the Federal Government' Says Andrew Yang, Trashing Federal Jobs Guarantee

The entrepreneur argued instead for a federal universal basic income proposal that would provide every American $1,000 a month.

Christian Britschgi | 10.15.2019 9:12 PM

Beto-O'Rourke-gun-policy-forum-10-2-19 | YouTube

Gun Control

5 Misconceptions Promoted by Democrats During Their 'Gun Safety Forum'

The presidential contenders hyped the "epidemic" of gun violence and the threat posed by school shootings while perpetuating myths about "assault weapons," background checks, and the Second Amendment.

Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2019 11:20 AM

Kavanaugh | Kevin Dietsch - Pool via CNP / MEGA / Newscom

Reason Roundup

How Did The New York Times Botch the Brett Kavanaugh Story?

Plus: Attacks on Saudi Arabia unlikely to raise U.S. oil prices

Robby Soave | 9.17.2019 9:30 AM

Kavanaugh | Doug Mills - Pool via CNP / MEGA / Newscom

Reason Roundup

Brett Kavanaugh Faces a New Accusation in The New York Times, but the Alleged Victim Didn't Confirm It

Plus: Andrew Yang opts out of cancel culture, Andrew Cuomo wants to crack down on flavored e-cigarettes, and more...

Robby Soave | 9.16.2019 9:30 AM

Andrew-Yang | JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS/Newscom

Debates 2020

Andrew Yang Is the Anti–Elizabeth Warren

A progressive who wants to empower the little guy instead of big government

Shikha Dalmia | 9.13.2019 3:45 PM

polspphotos608441 | F. Carter Smith/Polaris/Newscom

Debates 2020

On Trade, Democrats Continue Struggling To Differentiate From Trump

Elizabeth Warren is probably the worst of the bunch when it comes to protectionism, but few alternatives are emerging.

Eric Boehm | 9.13.2019 11:20 AM

zumaamericastwentyfive126802 | Heidi Gutman/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Debates 2020

Did Andrew Yang Win Last Night's Democratic Debate?

In the latest primary showdown, Democrats talked health care and trade but left debt and deficits behind.

Eric Boehm, Peter Suderman, and Austin Bragg | 9.13.2019 6:45 AM

polspphotos608400 | F. Carter Smith/Polaris/Newscom

School Choice

Elizabeth Warren: 'Money for Public Schools Should Stay in Public Schools.'

Most Democrats agreed, though Andrew Yang argued that it made more sense to fund families directly.

Robby Soave | 9.12.2019 11:08 PM

reason-yang | Nikolas Hample/Sipa USA/Newscom

Debates 2020

Andrew Yang Makes Pitch to, Uh, Libertarians? 'It's Time To Trust Ourselves More Than Our Politicians'

The entrepreneur and long shot presidential candidate finds a libertarian-sounding way to pitch free money to voters.

Christian Britschgi | 9.12.2019 8:55 PM

reason-yang | Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/Newscom

Housing Policy

Andrew Yang Hates Zoning Laws

The long shot presidential candidate wants booming cities to get rid of their restrictions on new development.

Christian Britschgi | 8.12.2019 5:35 PM

polspphotos593389 | Paul Hennessy/Polaris/Newscom

Basic Income

Do Milton Friedman, MLK, and Andrew Yang Really Agree on the Universal Basic Income?

Spoiler alert: No.

Billy Binion | 8.1.2019 4:45 PM

Democratic apocalyptics are wrong | Petar Veinovic/Dreamstime

Climate Change

Despite What Democrats Said at Their Debate, We're Not Heading Toward Climate Apocalypse

Climate change is a problem, but the end of the world is not scheduled for 2030.

Ronald Bailey | 8.1.2019 3:25 PM

upiphotostwo690167 | KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom

Malls

Andrew Yang Is Wrong About Shopping Malls and Amazon

Yang wants to bail out malls that are struggling to compete with online retailers, but Amazon is already putting some of those dead retail spaces to better use.

Alex Muresianu | 8.1.2019 11:10 AM

sipaphotosnine699095 | Jeremy Hogan / SOPA Images/Sipa/Newscom

Occupational Licensing

Occupational Licensing Stops Workers From Moving Across State Lines. Andrew Yang Wants To Fix That.

The Democratic presidential candidate is the latest example that occupational licensing is truly a bipartisan battle.

Billy Binion | 7.23.2019 5:00 PM

yangdollar | Nick Gillespie

Election 2020

Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Is Wrong About the Future of Work

If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.

Nick Gillespie | 5.15.2019 2:35 PM

BookerSanders | YouTube

Election 2020

All the Top Democrats Running for President Favor Legalizing Marijuana

The one potential holdout? Joe "gateway drug" Biden.

Matt Welch | 4.20.2019 9:30 AM

Andrew-Yang | JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS/Newscom

Basic Income

Andrew Yang: The Capitalist Candidate Championing a Universal Basic Income

The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful is running on a "Freedom Dividend" plan which promises a $1,000 per month UBI.

Billy Binion | 4.19.2019 4:50 PM

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Andrew Yang

Put 'Humanity First,' Demands 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

No robots need apply.

Ronald Bailey | 2.13.2018 4:45 PM

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