The Looming Illegitimate Election of 2020
Will Americans make peace with unpalatable election results?
Will Americans make peace with unpalatable election results?
The Democratic Party presidential candidate attacks Donald Trump's mental faculties while revealing his own issues.
Will his blunt self-aggrandizement reinvigorate concerns about presidents who exceed their powers?
New York City's primary election fiasco reveals gross incompetence rather than fraud.
Unpacking TikTok freakouts, mail-in voting controversies, and money printers going brrr, on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
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The reason is Trump's recent tweet calling for postponement of the election.
And no, mail-in voting is not more vulnerable to fraud than absentee voting. It's actually the exact same thing.
His political claim to fame was his "9-9-9" tax plan.
The plan, whose timetable is uncertain, will reshuffle 5,600 troops elsewhere in Europe.
Via a SuperPAC, Thiel is promoting conservative nationalism via the former Kansas secretary of state and current U.S. Senate contender.
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The summer of 2020 got a lot crappier over the weekend, according to the Reason Roundtable podcast.
A National Guard officer will testify that the June 1 clearing of protesters outside the White House was "an unnecessary escalation of the use of force" and "deeply disturbing."
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The president has ditched a promising, free market-influenced revamp of Obama-era fair housing regulations in favor of a legally dubious new rule that's heavy on local control.
Trump sics his border police on Americans: We are all immigrants now
A president from a party supposedly committed to restraining the federal government is now sending enforcers to cities over local objections.
Thanks to him, there will be no escaping accusations by the left that states' rights are merely a ruse to protect white power.
Data from Yelp shows that the long-term economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only starting to be realized. And federal unemployment data shows layoffs are climbing again.
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American voters know what's up.
The lawsuit raises a variety of important issues, including a nondelegation challenge. It could turn out to be a very significant case.
Whitmer's argument is short on facts and legal reasoning.
The president’s heavy-handed response to protests against police brutality belies his promise of "law and order."
Cases per 1,000 tests are rising in the majority of states.
The Reason Roundtable talks Portland, policing, federalism, coronavirus, and the perennially dumb discourse.
From the torching of an Elk statue to clandestine raids by federal officers, it's like a bizarro episode of Portlandia
The "haters demographic" broke strongly in Trump's favor in 2016, but this time the group is younger, more liberal, and more likely to vote for Biden.
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
He has added strong anti-abortion and anti-vaccine views to his public profile, and said it was racist to think blacks needed to vote Democrat.
"The best aspect of the Trump foreign policy is that he has revealed the mind of the foreign policy establishment," says historian Thaddeus Russell. "The worst part... he's a mass murderer just like the rest of them."
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Two centuries of precedents say the president is not immune from judicial process.
The Reason Roundtable weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
The ruling is at odds with decisions by four other circuits and could be headed to the Supreme Court - unless Biden wins the election and reverses administration policy.
An analysis finds that Trump is both more stingy and more self-serving than his predecessors in how he has used the pardon power to date
Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
Stone was set to report to federal prison to serve 40 months for lying to Congress and witness tampering.
The article critiques the majority decision, and outlines a better way to limit Congress' subpoena power.
Vance strikes me as compelling and correct. Mazars creates a complex and unwieldy balancing test.
The Supreme Court weighs the legality of subpoenaing Trump’s financial records.
The Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump's claims of immunity, but reaffirmed limits on investigatory powers, and ruled in favor of Native American tribal claims against Oklahoma.
The Trump administration is using the pandemic to rid the country of foreigners
We know now that young kids aren't particularly susceptible to catch, transmit, or suffer from Covid-19. Time to give them (and their parents) a break.
The Reason Roundtable podcast has some helpful suggestions for the summer of 2020.