Trump's Conviction Requires Him To Surrender His Guns. Civil Libertarians Should Be Troubled.
The former president's loss of his Second Amendment rights highlights an arbitrary restriction that applies to many people with no history of violence.
The former president's loss of his Second Amendment rights highlights an arbitrary restriction that applies to many people with no history of violence.
Chief executives' illicit motives can render their subordinates' actions unconstitutional. There is good reason for courts to enforce that rule.
Whatever Trump did after the 2016 presidential election, it seems safe to say that it did not retroactively promote his victory.
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There was a glaring mismatch between the charges against the former president and what prosecutors described as the essence of his crime.
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The judge said the jurors need not agree about the "unlawful means" that Trump allegedly used to promote his 2016 election.
There's nothing wrong with thinking the music from your teenage years was the best ever made, but please don't vote as if you'll bring that back.
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The former and possibly future president hopes voters will overlook his incoherence.
Closing arguments in the former president's trial highlight the mismatch between the charges and the "election fraud" he supposedly committed.
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"It was the weirdest room I've ever been in," one Libertarian Party delegate tells Reason
Ulbricht is serving two life sentences plus 40 years in connection with the Silk Road, an online marketplace he founded and operated where users could buy and sell illegal substances.
Let there be no confusion: The Libertarian Party overwhelmingly rejects Trump.
He says the two ideas "are not in tension with one another." He's wrong.
Donald Trump’s promise to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation” in U.S. history would tear apart families, harm American workers, and require militaristic enforcement.
This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.
The close Trump ally tried to argue that more aggressive U.S. policy in the Middle East would help the U.S. get out of the Middle East.
A party in disarray squabbles over its future in the shadow of the former president.
Since he favors aggressive drug law enforcement, severe penalties, and impunity for abusive police officers, he may have trouble persuading black voters that he is on their side.
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He also explains how the same is true of the current leadership of the Libertarian Party.
Public ignorance has a big impact on voter atttudes on a major issue in the 2024 election.
Despite both presidential candidates touting protectionist trade policy, tariffs do little to address the underlying factors that make it difficult for U.S. manufacturers to compete in the global marketplace.
Where are the fact-checkers?
To convert a hush payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are relying on a chain of assumptions with several weak links.
"The scale of trade barriers proposed by candidate Trump is unprecedented."
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Are Americans prepared to spend a trillion dollars to deport undocumented migrants?
The presidency is a powerful position, and the job application should be hard on hopefuls.
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Two debates, no RFK Jr.—not an improvement.
Will the real president of the United States during the years 2020 through 2022 please stand up?
Contrary to what prosecutors say, the former president is not charged with "conspiracy" or "election fraud."
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Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business records even if Daniels made the whole thing up.
The economics of tariffs have not changed in the past eight years. Marco Rubio has.
The latest movie in the Apes franchise gestures at interesting ideas about politics and civilizational conflict, but it doesn't develop them.
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New York prosecutors are relying on testimony from several people who do not seem trustworthy.
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Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
Social Security is expected to hit insolvency in 2035, while the portion of Medicare that pays for hospital visits and other medical care will be insolvent by 2036.