Senator Elizabeth Warren Channels Her Inner Trump
Threatening government action to stop "snotty tweets" is not a good look.
Threatening government action to stop "snotty tweets" is not a good look.
She said the quiet part out loud.
And it has failed in almost every country where it's been tried.
The Massachusetts senator is the latest Democrat to use the pandemic to justify a policy she already wanted.
This is probably not what Lyndon B. Johnson had in mind.
The last thing this game-inspired, meme-powered finance fight needs is federal meddling.
Both Hawley's "national conservatism" and similar ideas prevalent in many quarters on the left threaten free speech and liberty more generally.
His angry insistence that "I'm the President of the United States!" is reminiscent of Joffrey's famous similar statement: "I am the King!"
Thank god for the First Amendment and the feuds among powerful politicians and platforms that will keep free speech alive.
In two separate op-eds yesterday, the senators pitch central planning as the best response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Power-seeking public officials thrive on our fear.
Warren’s supporters were so enamored with her righteousness that they struggled to see her obvious flaws.
The Massachusetts senator failed to expand her appeal beyond a core group of highly educated upper-middle-class voters.
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The pundits and newspapers pushed Warren, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg, but Super Tuesday voters just wanted boring old Biden and Bernie.
"Compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay."
Biden's win in South Carolina gives his campaign new life, increases the likelihood of a brokered convention in Milwaukee, and ends Tom Steyer's campaign.
Shifting the process from the Justice Department to the White House can help eliminate bureaucracy and meddling from prosecutors.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders correctly diagnose the problem, but fail to provide an adequate solution.
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This was supposed to be the electable alternative?
"Stop and frisk" policies are brought into the crosshairs right away.
Federal outlays per person have increased $1,441 since 2016, to a grand total of $14,652 per person.
What’s at stake in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
After Watergate, Democrats rolled back executive power. Under Trump, they just want to be the ones who get to wield it.
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"We need to stop this generation of big tech companies from profiting off of lies to the American people," the candidate told PEN America.
The Reason Roundtable podcast grapples with a news week so packed it makes Manhattan look like Kansas
Despite costing less to educate, Boston's charter students significantly outperform their peers in both reading and math. So why is Warren still opposed?
When politicians call to punish “disinformation,” we should worry about what that definition encompasses.
Political hypocrisy on school choice needs to be exposed, says Reason Foundation's Corey DeAngelis.
Politicians win, taxpayers lose.
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.
Warren claims total costs for middle-class families would go down under her plan, but there are reasons to doubt this.
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?”
Maybe now would be a good time for Democrats to recognize that identity-politics signaling doesn't translate into votes.
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Expect Biden, Warren, Buttigieg, et al, to relentlessly attack the Vermont socialist, heart-attack survivor, and accused electoral misogynist.
The elimination of three health care taxes will increase the deficit by $373 billion.
She fights against school choice while her kid and grandkids go to private school.
Amity Shlaes' Great Society: A New History details the failure of massive governmental attempts to remake society.
Warren takes aim at Buttigieg and he fires back—not over policy, but over the Democratic Party's identity.
The moderators didn't see ask Elizabeth Warren about her position on the USMCA, which does a serious disservice to prospective voters.
Her lobbying tax proposal is pseudo-policy, a veneer of wonky seriousness over dubious populist dogma.