Gender-Reversed Presidential Debate Reveals Trump's Allure to Clinton Voters
Organizers assumed swapping gender roles would show how unacceptable Trump's style would be in a woman.
Organizers assumed swapping gender roles would show how unacceptable Trump's style would be in a woman.
500,000 people turned out because they see Donald Trump as a threat to social progress.
Is there room for a politics that embraces abortion rights, economic rights, civil liberties, free trade, and immigration? Yes, now more than ever.
A disagreement over who to vote for, or not vote for, isn't a good reason to end a relationship, whether familial, intimate, or just friendly. Even if the politician voted for does great harm.
In first press conference, president-elect uses the bully pulpit to make Hillary Clintonesque threats against insufficiently patriotic companies
Third party voters were blamed for Trump's election, but Clinton's inability to motivate her own party's voters was a far greater factor in her defeat.
Robby Soave and Matt Welch knee 'em in the freedom on tonight's Kennedy
Donald Trump's pro-tariff action yesterday underlines a reality long in the making: The post-Cold War neoliberal triumphalism is dead in the West.
Leaking embarrassing emails about Hillary Clinton did not undermine democracy.
The LP candidate didn't make the debates and didn't crack 5 percent. All he did was launch the beta version of 21st-century politics.
How to dodge responsibility, whether you're a candidate or a cop.
Breakdown in traditional voting blocs for Dems and Reps alike means big opportunities for libertarian-style policies.
The examination of Huma Abedin's emails was legally justified, but it could have been faster and quieter.
Bill Clinton joins his wife in blaming FBI Director James Comey for her humiliating loss.
We've gone beyond virtue-signaling to toxic brew of all-you-people-need-to-shut-up-and-listen-to-why-you're-the-problem ranting.
No matter what faceless spooks assure us, it's far from clear the Russian government directed the leaks of the DNC or John Podesta emails.
In the unlikely event of a large revolt of "faithless electors," Congress will still make Trump president.
One man's interference with the electoral process is another man's voter education.
A poor craftsman blames his tools and a poor candidate blames anyone but herself.
Bemoaning shift on Russia by Republicans, but not his own or that of fellow-travelers.
"Hacking" and "leaking" are two different things, and the distinction is significant.
Even when they voted, more people bypassed the main event than usual.
Desperate Democrats would subvert the Constitution to deny Donald Trump the Oval Office.
From Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, conspiracy theorizing to political lying, Matt Welch answers questions about the media's latest fad
Trump also ended with more money left over.
'It's a danger that must be addressed and addressed quickly,' she says for the umpteenth time.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss how Democrats will (or won't) cope, why Republicans are turning against free trade, and whether millennials will go libertarian in 2017.
From Bernie to Hillary, from Trump to the chumps in Congress, we used the spectacle of politics to argue about the substance of policy.
The justice Trump admires twice voted to overturn criminal penalties for flag burning, which Clinton later tried to reinstate.
These names would be better than most of the ones being floated.
The one good thing about Trump's win? It shows a willingness among Americans to blaspheme against saints and reject the religion of hollow progressiveness.
Something like titles of nobility.
The would-be secretary of state brags about providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
What was Obamacare, in the end, but an arrogant overreach by an elite out of touch with the rest of America?
The defeated Democrat still thinks the email issue was bogus, even though she also thinks it cost her the election.
The party's crack-up has arrived, and the fight will revolve around federal interventions and authority.
How a billionaire rode a rising tide of populism to the White House.
Who, exactly, are these impassioned social-media screeds supposed to sway?
Guys, this is bleak. We can't keep doing this to ourselves.
Trump voters were also drastically less likely than Clinton voters to say the government should do more.
Only if you ignore how many more "likely" Democratic voters went for Trump or didn't vote at all.
While many will call this a mandate for Donald Trump, it's better read as an anti-mandate for Hillary Clinton.
Clinton gives her concession speech, and the Democrats face a reckoning.
Reason TV traveled to Albuquerque to get Johnson supporters' take on this election and their role in it, and to find out what's next for the Libertarian Party after an historic showing in the popular vote.
I voted my conscience for a candidate who is for free trade, immigration, and sane drug policy. And who is anti-war. Might've voted for yours if they were too.