Barack Obama

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Don't Break the Banks

Why Obama's plan to reinstate Glass-Steagall is a terrible idea

Anthony Randazzo | 2.9.2010 4:30 PM

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Wayne Allyn Root's "Lessons Obama Should Have Learned From Watching the Super Bowl"

Matt Welch | 2.8.2010 12:33 PM

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Back to the Drawing Board

Democratic fantasies face the bracing slap of reality.

Matt Welch | 2.8.2010 12:00 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch Talks Obama on MSNBC

Reason Staff | 2.5.2010 1:18 PM

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Are We That Thinned-Skinned?

Why Rahm Emanuel's use of the R-word isn't a firing offense

David Harsanyi | 2.5.2010 12:00 PM

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With A Bipartisan Commission At His Side, President Obama Will Avoid Seriously Addressing Solve the Nation's Deficit Problem

Peter Suderman | 2.5.2010 10:49 AM

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If You Read These Stats and Still Have Faith in Them, I've Got Some MBSes I Want to Sell You at a Great Price.

Nick Gillespie | 2.5.2010 8:53 AM

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Civility Begins in the Heart

Matt Welch | 2.4.2010 5:01 PM

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All the President's Budget Assumptions

The 2011 budget contains more rosy scenarios than a romance novel.

Veronique de Rugy | 2.4.2010 3:00 PM

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Big Government's Cronies

The real reason politicians like complicated tax and regulatory schemes

John Stossel | 2.4.2010 12:00 PM

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Fiscal Stimulus is Buying Trouble

Why government spending hasn't brought the economy around

Steve Chapman | 2.4.2010 7:00 AM

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It Depends On What the Meaning of "Excluded" Is

Peter Suderman | 2.3.2010 12:10 PM

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Barack Obama vs. Wayne Allyn Root, Live at Caesar's Palace

Matt Welch | 2.3.2010 12:10 PM

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Reason.tv: 3 Reasons Not to Sweat Citizens United

Reason Staff | 2.3.2010 10:10 AM

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What Would Happen if the Bush Tax Cuts Just Disappeared in Some Scary Version of The Rapture?

Nick Gillespie | 2.3.2010 9:28 AM

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Announcing The Largest Federal Workforce. Ever.

Nick Gillespie | 2.3.2010 8:24 AM

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Federal Spending and GDP: Uh-oh, Here We Go

Matt Welch | 2.2.2010 3:07 PM

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Obama's Budget Makes the "terrible mistake" of "borrow[ing] against our children's future to pay our way today"…According to Obama

Matt Welch | 2.2.2010 11:14 AM

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Terrorism and Civil Liberties: Two Views on Obama, Neither of Them Comforting (Though For Different Reasons)

Nick Gillespie | 2.2.2010 10:09 AM

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Obama's "Plan B" for Organized Labor?

Damon Root | 2.2.2010 9:50 AM

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Reason.tv: Obama's Doublethink Doubletalk (State of the Union Remix)

Reason Staff | 2.2.2010 9:00 AM

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The Audacity of Populism

Obama dons a venerable mantle, but Bryan's real descendants may be media stars.

Jesse Walker | 2.2.2010 7:00 AM

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Watch The Budget Get Delivered to Capitol Hill!

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2010 5:21 PM

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Is Organized Labor Turning on Obama?

Damon Root | 2.1.2010 10:22 AM

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Meet The New Obama, Same as The Old Obama: Tomorrow We Scrimp, But Today We Spend!

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2010 7:35 AM

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Fiscal Fraud—or Frugality?

Runaway spending is a bipartisan problem

Steve Chapman | 2.1.2010 7:00 AM

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Nevermind All Those Opposition Solutions; Obama's Opposition Has No Solutions!

Peter Suderman | 1.29.2010 5:38 PM

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Recently at Reason.tv: Obama's Jobs Program Success, Virginia is For (Liquor) Lovers, & "Obamanomics"

Nick Gillespie | 1.29.2010 3:50 PM

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Our "So-Called" Leader

The trouble with Obama's State of the Union

David Harsanyi | 1.29.2010 3:00 PM

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Obama Decries Divisive Rhetoric, Says Healing Can Happen if Opponents Stop Being Such Effing D-bags

Nick Gillespie | 1.29.2010 10:08 AM

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How's That Budget Freeze Working Out?

Nick Gillespie | 1.28.2010 1:37 PM

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Reason.tv: Obama's Jobs Program Successes—giving the president his due!

Reason Staff | 1.28.2010 12:41 PM

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Forget Bullet Trains. I Could Only Get Behind Funding Bullet Man The Human Bullet.

Nick Gillespie | 1.28.2010 12:13 PM

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Alito's "Not True" Moment

Matt Welch | 1.28.2010 8:10 AM

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It's the Economy, Stupid

Understanding Obama's plummeting approval ratings

Steve Chapman | 1.28.2010 7:00 AM

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Stirred, But Not Shaken

Peter Suderman | 1.27.2010 10:59 PM

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SOTU Drinks and Links: Play Along With Our Customized, Reason-Themed State of the Union Drinking Game

Peter Suderman | 1.27.2010 5:12 PM

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Which First-Time SOTUer Said it?

Matt Welch | 1.27.2010 3:49 PM

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Obama's Rhetorical Retreat

Has reality finally caught up with the president?

David Harsanyi | 1.27.2010 12:00 PM

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Obama: I Can Still Kill a U.S. Citizen Without a Trial

Brian Doherty | 1.27.2010 11:21 AM

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Advice to Barack Obama by Two People Who Didn't Vote for Him (or John McCain)

But just might if he ever got serious about governing.

Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie | 1.26.2010 4:30 PM

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Jazz and Modern Liberalism: The Eerie Parallels

Brian Doherty | 1.26.2010 11:48 AM

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Obama's Empty Cost-Containment Rhetoric: Should We Call Him Out on It?

Nick Gillespie | 1.26.2010 8:59 AM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch on Bloggingheads.tv Talking Democratic Depression With Michelle Goldberg

Reason Staff | 1.26.2010 8:35 AM

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Obama to Propose Three-Year Spending Freeze

Matt Welch | 1.25.2010 9:36 PM

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How Obama Rid Washington of Special Interest Lobbyists, Except for All the Special Interest Lobbyists

Matt Welch | 1.25.2010 6:56 PM

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New Yorker's (and Jimmy Carter's) Hendrik Hertzberg on Lord Obama's "Nominally Respectable" Opponents

Nick Gillespie | 1.25.2010 1:44 PM

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Briefly Noted: Playing Paranoia

Peter Suderman | 1.25.2010 11:55 AM