The candidate who grasps the gravity of this situation and proposes concrete steps to address it will demonstrate the leadership our nation now desperately needs. The stakes couldn't be higher.
A true dumpster fire of a performance from one or both might be a small step toward avoiding this awful rematch.
It's a classic case of jawboning.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
There is a great deal of panic surrounding the "extreme" nature of the current Court. But that is often not based in reality.
Two years post-takeover, some longtime activists and donors claim the Mises Caucus has driven the party into the ground.
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In an interview, former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien admitted that "the Chinese didn’t honor" the terms of the deal, years after it was clear.
In 2017, the last full year before Trump's tariffs were imposed, America's overall trade deficit was $517 billion. By 2023, it had grown to $785 billion.
We could grow our way out of our debt burden if politicians would limit spending increases to just below America's average yearly economic growth. But they won't even do that.
Facing an opponent who has been credibly described as a sexual predator, Biden instead emphasizes Trump's cover-up of a consensual encounter.
If the trend persists, it may lead to reconsideration of traditional partisan attitudes towards mandatory voting and other policies intended to increase turnout.
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The MAGA movement has suddenly discovered the evils of politicized prosecutions, inequities in the justice system, and fear of police abuse.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted during oral arguments, the right to sell a shirt is different from the right to be the only one who can sell that shirt.
The president has tried to shift blame for inflation, interest rate hikes, and an overall decimation of consumers' purchasing power.
Donald Trump's acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller advocated the plan this week, which Trump later called a "ridiculous idea."
The "most pro-life president in American history" cannot please hardline activists without alienating voters.
Reducing revenue without identifying offsetting spending cuts means Trump is merely promising to borrow more heavily.
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A segment of American voters want insurrectionist candidates. Who are election officials to deny them?
The Libertarian Party's controversial plan is to "stop Biden" and extract promises from Trump along the way.
That take on the former president's New York conviction echoes similarly puzzling claims by many people who should know better.
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Reasonable options include gradually raising the minimum retirement age, adjusting benefits to reflect longer life expectancies, and implementing fair means-testing to ensure benefits flow where they're actually needed.
The lack of a clear rationale for charging Trump with 34 felonies raises a due process issue that is likely to figure in his appeals.
Their cases illustrate the injustice of taking away people’s Second Amendment rights based on nonviolent crimes
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Welcome to a system in which laws and regulations are weaponized by the powerful against opponents.
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.
Matthew Franck on "Choosing Not to Choose" in November
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.
The free speech absolutist and co-founder of The Intercept dives deep into Israel, Latin America, and the necessity of decentralized media in the age of U.S. security state overreach.
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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.
