Barack Obama

Politics

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

Politics

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

Election 2014

How Will You Remember Meeting the President?

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2014 1:27 PM

Politics

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

Matt Welch | 4.24.2014 10:01 AM

Civil Liberties

A Legal Way to Kill?

The Obama administration is probably right to fear the public reveal of its heretofore secret rationale for extra-judicial killing.

Andrew Napolitano | 4.24.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

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

Nick Gillespie | 4.23.2014 1:45 PM

Politics

Ron Hart: What Putin and Obama Have in Common

Nick Gillespie | 4.22.2014 4:02 PM

Politics

The Golden Age of Groupon Government!

Nick Gillespie | 4.22.2014 10:57 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Mike Riggs on Drug-sentence Clemency, Garrett Quinn on Boston Security, Ben Powell on Sweatshops…Plus Drone Killings, More 9/11 Conspiracy Talk, and Sexy After-show!

Matt Welch | 4.21.2014 8:08 PM

Policy

Is a Major, Merciful Change in Presidential Pardon Policy Brewing?

Scott Shackford | 4.21.2014 4:00 PM

Politics

"Change the Presidential Debates": Gary Johnson and Our America's Bold New Lawsuit

Nick Gillespie | 4.21.2014 9:49 AM

Politics

Jay Carney: Obama's Most 'Substantive, Challenging' Election-Year Interview Was With The Daily Show

Peter Suderman | 4.17.2014 3:55 PM

Politics

"Automatic Government" is Leading to an Automatic Spending Disaster

Philip K. Howard, "The Rule of Nobody," and how technocracy is strangling the future.

Nick Gillespie | 4.17.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

Q and A with Philip K. Howard

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 4.16.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

Game of Thrones: Tax Day is Coming!

Paul Detrick and Justin Monticello | 4.13.2014 5:00 PM

Politics

"We Deserved Better than Kathleen Sebelius"

Nick Gillespie | 4.11.2014 9:27 AM

Politics

Government is on Autopilot. And Headed for Disaster.

Nick Gillespie | 4.10.2014 7:49 AM

Politics

Bush Lied. So Did Obama.

Dishonesty is the order of the day at the White House.

A. Barton Hinkle | 4.9.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

White House Says Wage Gender Gap Stats Are Misleading…When Applied to the White House

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.8.2014 10:32 AM

Politics

Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Want the US to Stay Out of Ukraine

Emily Ekins | 4.4.2014 6:56 PM

Politics

Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Want the US to Stay Out of Ukraine

Emily Ekins | 4.4.2014 6:38 PM

Politics

Leaders Are Inevitable, Says Nirvana's Krist Novoselic. But They Shouldn't Suck.

Krist Novoselic | 4.4.2014 5:00 PM

Policy

TV Cook Nigella Lawson Barred from U.S. for Admitting She Did Cocaine; Barack Obama Still President

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.3.2014 4:50 PM

Politics

Poll: Even If Russia Invades Deeper Into Ukraine, 76 Percent of Americans Oppose Sending US Troops

Zenon Evans | 4.3.2014 10:15 AM

Politics

Poll: 51 Percent Disapprove of Obama's Job Performance, 43 Percent Approve

Emily Ekins | 4.3.2014 10:15 AM

Politics

Poll: 51 Percent Disapprove of Obama's Job Performance, 43 Percent Approve

Emily Ekins | 4.3.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Americans Say 75 Percent of Politicians Are Corrupted, 70 Percent Use Political Power to Hurt Enemies

Flight 370 conspiracy theories; college basketball players should share NCAA revenue; distrust of NSA and Facebook; concerns about police misconduct

Emily Ekins | 4.3.2014 9:16 AM

Politics

Obama's Victory on Obamacare May Be Short Lived

Peter Suderman | 4.2.2014 1:22 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Obama Spikes the Football, Paul Ryan Balances the 2024 Budget, Saudi Arabia Persecutes Atheists, Matt Kibbe Promotes Anti-Government Book, Albuquerque Goes Nuts…Plus After-Show!

Matt Welch | 4.1.2014 8:33 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Refuses Opportunity to Repudiate Japanese Internment Ruling

Damon Root | 4.1.2014 10:25 AM

Politics

Would Obama Kiss Justin Bieber to Promote Healthcare.gov?

Nick Gillespie | 3.30.2014 9:24 AM

Politics

Obama's Iraqi Fairy Tale

America's worst foreign policy decision, whitewashed.

Sheldon Richman | 3.30.2014 8:00 AM

Policy

Mark Kleiman Says I Show My Red Team Loyalties by Criticizing Republicans

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2014 5:38 PM

Roman Catholic

President Obama Meets Pope Francis; Vatican, President Have Different Takes on Conversation

A case of hearing what you wanted to hear?

Ed Krayewski | 3.27.2014 1:37 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday, With Rep. Justin Amash, Errol Morris, Nina Kruscheva, TV's Andy Levy, and Katherine Mangu-Ward!

Matt Welch | 3.26.2014 8:44 PM

Politics

Obama Criticizes Russia in Brussels Speech

Matthew Feeney | 3.26.2014 4:37 PM

Politics

Americans Like Obama About as Much as They Like Russia

Zenon Evans | 3.26.2014 12:51 PM

Policy

Obama Continues Reign as Abusive Husband of American Media

Scott Shackford | 3.25.2014 11:55 AM

NSA

White House Leaks Proposed NSA Reforms; Can't President Obama Act on His Own?

Obama administration, House Intelligence Committee float proposals

Ed Krayewski | 3.25.2014 11:21 AM

Politics

@BarackObama's First Tweet Was Anti-War

Matthew Feeney | 3.20.2014 3:11 PM

Politics

Obama Announces More Sanctions Against Russia

Matthew Feeney | 3.20.2014 11:58 AM

Policy

Rand Paul Attacks Obama on NSA Spying: "Martin Luther King was spied upon, civil rights leaders were spied upon"

Damon Root | 3.19.2014 5:08 PM

Politics

Putin Signs Treaty Making Crimea Part of Russia in Wake of US and EU Sanctions

Following Sunday's referendum in Crimea

Matthew Feeney | 3.18.2014 11:19 AM

Politics

Obama's Corporate Bully Pulpit

Should the White House announce an American version of royal warrants?

Ira Stoll | 3.17.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

EU, US Impose Sanctions, Asset Freezes, Travel Bans in Wake of Crimea Referendum

Matthew Feeney | 3.17.2014 11:30 AM

Politics

Why Economists Overestimate Future Growth Just Like Politicians Do.

Nick Gillespie | 3.15.2014 9:22 AM

Politics

Law Prof: "Team Obama's Staggering, Scary Assault on Our Constitution"

Damon Root | 3.14.2014 3:51 PM