Americans probably don't want a president who will nationalize the means of production, but we're happy to keep electing ones who grow government spending.
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The democratic socialist and independent senator from Vermont is the Democratic Party's first socialist frontrunner.
From Iowa to impeachment, Biden burnout to Trump triumph, the opposition party had itself a rough 7 days.
After Watergate, Democrats rolled back executive power. Under Trump, they just want to be the ones who get to wield it.
Elections are a time when a few of the wealthiest, most cossetted, and least appealing members of society try to convince us that America is an impoverished wasteland.
The former New York City mayor, who thinks legalizing pot is "one of the stupidest things we've ever done," nevertheless says "putting people in jail for marijuana" is "really dumb."
Last night's caucus flop was a meltdown of small-d democracy.
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The Reason Roundtable podcast grapples with a news week so packed it makes Manhattan look like Kansas
Political hypocrisy on school choice needs to be exposed, says Reason Foundation's Corey DeAngelis.
Politicians win, taxpayers lose.
The Vermont socialist has always claimed to be a champion of the working class. But over time, his wealth tax would fall heavily on ordinary Americans.
One dynamic that works in favor of both Trump and Sanders is that voters discount their extreme stances, figuring that they just represent opening offers that will eventually be watered down in compromises with powerful interest groups and with establishment lawmakers.
Also on the Reason Roundtable podcast: why we should be worried about the rise of Bernie Sanders
The presidential hopeful weighs in on the Supreme Court.
Sanders' lead over Warren has doubled since her campaign tried using a private 2018 conversation against him.
The Reason Roundtable hands out darts and laurels for the impeachment process to date, and also wades into the Democrats' great Gender Wars of 2020.
An unnecessary and personal attack on Bernie Sanders is another example of Clinton's poor political judgement, and smacks of Democratic desperation to stop the Vermont senator's rise.
The Trump administration's "phase one" deal with China will keep many tariffs in place, but Democrats don't seem to have the guts to stand up for freer trade.
Being relentlessly negative is no way to win votes, even against someone as dark and divisive as Donald Trump.
"Senator Warren, what did you think when Sanders said a woman couldn’t win the election?”
Taiwan’s system is less generous than the Sanders plan—yet it still struggles with cost control and access to care.
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Expect Biden, Warren, Buttigieg, et al, to relentlessly attack the Vermont socialist, heart-attack survivor, and accused electoral misogynist.
Talking congressional oversight, the Bernie resurgence, and the death of Neil Peart on the Reason Roundtable podcast
Amity Shlaes' Great Society: A New History details the failure of massive governmental attempts to remake society.
Bernie Sanders knocked the former veep for supporting the Iraq War, while Pete Buttigieg promised to mostly withdraw the troops.
The moderators didn't see ask Elizabeth Warren about her position on the USMCA, which does a serious disservice to prospective voters.
Sen. Rand Paul's new book discusses the horrible things that befall countries that tried it.
A sign of just how far left Democrats have moved under Trump
The editors of the left-wing magazine Jacobin and MAGA-loving artist Jon McNaughton don't let reality intrude on their hero worship.
The senator from Massachusetts thinks more Americans should join the military. Why?
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What she and Bernie Sanders are proposing is nothing short of a wholesale transformation of the size and scope of government.
The Democratic candidates are making promises they can’t deliver.
Development restrictions and NIMBYism, not tech sector success, explain Silicon Valley's housing costs.
The actor and comedian is the owner of a three-unit rental property in Chicago.
While the Controlled Substances Act generally gives the attorney general the authority to deschedule drugs, it also invokes treaty obligations that seem to preclude doing that with cannabis.
Progressive purity tests and Supreme Court wish lists
The senator's marijuana legalization plan is heavy on taxes, regulation, and executive power.
Bashing the rich may be good politics, but it’s terrible economics.
It’s far from clear how any of the reforms championed by AOC and Bernie will truly challenge the public education status quo.
Tonight's Democratic debate is the Massachusetts senator's moment to shine, if she can withstand attacks from her rivals.
New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou is a plaintiff in a lawsuit to stop a Habitat for Humanity housing project.
An argument against Bernie Sanders' health care plan in The New York Times.
Sanders has proposed a wealth tax to eliminate billionaires and fund his expensive domestic policy agenda.
For both good and ill, the Democratic field has moved so far to the left that 2012 Obama would have a hard time fitting in.
