The president's last-minute endorsement of Paxton was driven by his petty grievances against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who was clearly the safer bet to retain the seat.
Plus: Makeup company better than the MTA, phones and the birthrate, Ebola spreads, and more...
If this is how the Republican Party treats the libertarian-leaning lawmakers in its midst, then libertarians should take note and act accordingly.
Hungary is Europe's basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.
Hungary’s voters turned against the poster boy of the national conservative movement.
A new poll shows Make America Healthy Again supporters are drifting from Trump, but their “health first” politics may reshape conservative politics in the process.
Stephen Miller's wife is giving renewables a P.R. boost.
The Second Amendment protects your right to carry a gun at a protest.
Furious Minds identifies national conservatives, postliberals, and Claremonters as the coalition driving the New Right.
Brexit leader Daniel Hannan urges Trump voters to hit the exits.
Huntington Beach's elected officials are pursuing performative MAGA policymaking and keep losing in the courts.
You don't need a detailed theory to explain the departing congresswoman's journey.
By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party’s future.
Blowing up boats won’t stop drugs—but it could sink Trump.
She's praised Nancy Pelosi, said Republicans aren't doing enough to make things affordable, and is generally making a lot of sense. That's weird, but also good.
The president is alarming the MAGA faithful by saying he wants more high-skilled immigration. But that doesn’t mean he’s rethinking the rest of his nativism.
Shrugging off the radicalization of right-wing political culture is a mistake.
“We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,” the Georgia congresswoman said.
Speeches by the president, Stephen Miller, and Tucker Carlson will accelerate dislike of the president’s agenda.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," the FCC chairman said, threatening to punish broadcasters for airing the comedian's show.
Plus: a weak jobs report and Trump’s economic record, New College of Florida weighing privatization after its clash with DeSantis, and the DOJ pushes to block transgender Americans from gun ownership
"Nobody ever said that to be a good natcon you have to love Jews," Hazony declared at last week's National Conservatism Conference.
Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story.
Today’s MAGA intellectuals rail against COVID restrictions, but in 2020 many cheered them on—or demanded even harsher crackdowns.
If a Democratic president tried to so directly politicize an independent agency, Republicans would be screaming about the coming tyranny.
Former Rep. Justin Amash and Fox News’ Kennedy join Nick Gillespie to examine how MAGA populism reshaped the Tea Party’s limited-government mission, why Congress no longer acts as a check on power, and what it will take to spark a new libertarian revival.
Michael Weitzel was ejected for violating the club’s fan code of conduct, which prohibits “threatening, abusive, or discriminatory" symbols and language.
Christian artist Sean Feucht has been forced to find new venues for all six of his most recent shows in Canada.
An unholy alliance between MAGA and progressives to ban research on an emergency backup plan to cool the planet may be emerging.
Plus: Throuple reproduction, weight-loss drug competition, and more...
The executive director of The American Conservative discusses Trump's meeting with Netanyahu, support for Ukraine, MAGA schisms, and the president's "grand strategy" on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
A veteran CIA analyst says Israel's attack on Iran was unjustified and that America should not support its war on the latest Just Asking Questions episode.
Did mainstream conservatives and libertarians lose a generation of young men to the reactionary right?
Even if Trump were a font of intelligence and wisdom (and he's not), no one person should be directing any country's economy.
As young adults swap cigarettes and vapes for oral nicotine products, policymakers should recognize this shift as harm reduction instead of cracking down on personal choice.
Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent fashion imaginable.
The author and columnist joins the show to discuss immigration, deportations, and being a "MAGA leftist."
"Bad ideas have been making a comeback," the host of Conversations with Tyler tells Reason.
The Austrian economist's principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right.
Vanity Fair's James Pogue dives into the dissident right, his personal experiences with MAGA, and how Ukraine policy is unfolding.
Do lawmakers believe they should be trying to make more Christians?
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?
Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?
The president-elect's pick for FBI director says he rejects some of the right-wing sect's bizarre beliefs but agrees with "a lot of what the movement says."
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
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