Justin Amash Wants To Be the First Libertarian President
The Michigan congressman on why Donald Trump is too erratic, Joe Biden is too old, and his vision of a freer country.
The Michigan congressman on why Donald Trump is too erratic, Joe Biden is too old, and his vision of a freer country.
The Libertarian congressman and presidential hopeful says both Biden and Trump "are disqualified if they've engaged in some kind of assault, especially a sexual assault."
Those claiming that the pandemic means Trump's restrictions are here to stay, regardless of the November elections, are being too pessimistic.
Plus: Backlash to Amash's presidential run, new SCOTUS cases, and more...
The Michigan congressman's run for the White House will change the Libertarian Party and national politics.
"I'm for Biden, regardless. But still I have to come out and say this."
Whatever the latest polls say about Biden versus Trump, the Delaware Democrat almost surely has a better chance at winning the presidency than he does at undoing Milton Friedman's life work.
Why aren't TV networks grilling Biden about this?
Identity matters more for young, highly educated liberals than it does for many minorities.
Dean Baquet's argument for proceeding cautiously with Joe Biden but not with Brett Kavanaugh isn't very persuasive.
"We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable."
"I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful," Sanders told supporters in a livestreamed address on Wednesday morning.
Under fire for refusing to support Tara Reade, Milano says she never thought #MeToo would "destroy innocent men."
So far, it's been silence from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and others.
A former staffer says he sexually assaulted her in 1993.
Politicians of both major parties are using COVID-19 to advance their pre-existing policy agendas.
While the rest of the country was hunkering down against coronavirus, Democrats have very nearly chosen their presidential nominee.
This is what happens when you think all of America looks like the Acela corridor.
Joe Biden rightly noted that Medicare for All "would not solve the problem" posed by the coronavirus.
Coronavirus fears prompted organizers to drop the live audience, which was just as well.
A.B. 5 has caused chaos in the Golden State.
Plus: Yang endorses Biden, Klobuchar's antitrust bill, and more...
A slew of decisive primary victories expand the former vice president's lead in the Democratic primary.
The presidential contender has trouble explaining why the guns he wants to ban fall outside the Second Amendment.
The Reason Roundtable podcast debates the severity of the both the outbreak and the potential governmental responses.
What those donors understand is that a President Biden would nominate judges who are favorably disposed, or at least not hostile.
It's an interesting strategy for a president who ran in 2016 on a Nixonian "law and order" platform.
Plus: Libertarian Party results, Bloomberg's bad showing, Gabbard gets one delegate, California targets porn performers, and more...
Michael Bloomberg spent at least $500 million in his bid for a Super Tuesday blitz. He came away with...American Samoa.
It's a two-man race and the Delaware Democrat is a comeback kid.
The pundits and newspapers pushed Warren, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg, but Super Tuesday voters just wanted boring old Biden and Bernie.
Deciding which Democratic front-runner is the lesser of two evils is not easy.
Unraveling panic, policy, and bad metaphors on the Reason Roundtable podcast
Klobuchar is a cop too, though it took a little longer for her record to catch up with her.
Plus: South Carolina primary tallies, coronavirus claims two lives in Washington state, and more...
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.
No matter how bad the outbreak might turn out to be, politicians will find a way to make it worse.
The former vice president's accusations require a couple of footnotes.
Plus: Bloomberg's rough night, libertarian Catholicism, Philadelphia's soda tax still sucks, and more...
"The policy was abhorrent," Biden said of Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk program. Yes, but so was pretty much every criminal justice policy Biden pushed through the Senate.
Paradoxically, in the current moment—a moment Biden helped to create by blocking Bork—being unqualified for the presidency is the best qualification a candidate can have.
From Iowa to impeachment, Biden burnout to Trump triumph, the opposition party had itself a rough 7 days.
In New Hampshire, Biden says marijuana should be "basically legalized." That's an accurate representation of his proposed policies, but it also shows how he's lagging on the issue.
While some Republicans conceded that the president acted inappropriately, they concluded that his conduct was not impeachable.
Plus: What is the Shadow app? And are the Iowa caucuses dead?
The Reason Roundtable podcast grapples with a news week so packed it makes Manhattan look like Kansas
"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in an impeachment."
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