For Libertarians, No Silver Lining With President Trump
There's been little sign that those who despise Trump are beginning to understand that the only real solution lies in radically shrinking the state.
There's been little sign that those who despise Trump are beginning to understand that the only real solution lies in radically shrinking the state.
There will always be arguments about the efficacy of tax cuts for corporations and the rich, but at some point people find out that they get one, too.
Another day of cartoonish outrage in Washington.
Losses in Virginia and elsewhere aren't stopping some in the GOP from demanding ever-more cartoonish candidates.
Congressional conservatives want to ban "discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex."
Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Final tally: 49.9 to 48.4 percent.
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
The GOP would be on higher ground if it stood on principle for a tax code that treats everyone the same.
Big Insurance will be the chief beneficiary of scrapping the Obamacare mandate
White men and black women were the most likely to endorse America moving beyond the Dem-GOP binary.
The House and Senate still refuse to consider cutting government spending.
A amendment from Democrats says no state money can go to defending the law in court.
It's time to put the myth of electoral bias out of its misery.
Can the conservative movement survive the election of a possible child molester?
Jeff Flake wonders: Is this what the Republican Party has become?
James Lankford's "I am a no" makes at least three GOP senators who worry that the debt/deficit math doesn't add up
This week's show covers Venezuela, the New York City terrorist attack, Russian hackers, the Republican tax agenda, and a preview of a debate on Capitalism.
Our political system is dominated by two major political parties with serious identity crises.
Matt Welch interviews our resident conspiracist, plus Liz Mair on Jeff Flake and Nancy Rommelmann on "shitty media men," on Channel 121.
"There may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party."
From Iran to Obamacare to DACA, the president is acting on what Republicans have long promised, in a way that rightly devolves power to the legislative branch.
Yes, the president is erratic and incompetent. But prominent GOPers like John McCain have been saying crazy things about North Korea and elsewhere for a quarter century
The former deficit hawk gets budget-busting religion now that he holds real power.
There was nothing bipartisan about the way the law was passed.
Social science could help identify objective principles for creating competitive voting districts.
Trump is 'the best recruiting tool for the Libertarian Party we've ever had.'
Plenty of GOP members would rather put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore than underwrite this addled project.
Behold a squabbling but still powerful coalition of nationalist authoritarians, immovable interventionists, finger-in-the-wind opportunists, and vastly outnumbered libertarian-leaners.
Also: GOP Congress should fix health care, taxes, and easy money.
The Arizona senator calls for limited government, takes clear aim at Trump's authoritarianism, GOP big-spending.
The libertarian congressman says the internet is poised to destroy politics as we know it.
A GOP bill would set up impossible obstacles for fleeing foreigners
The Republican Party hates immigrants more than it hates big government.
And they don't care about limited government either.
Most of the party's members of Congress have done their best to downplay or excuse Trump's strange fondness for Vladimir Putin.
Second-place finisher in 2016 presidential primary will run for Missouri Senate seat as a Republican.
The argument carries a powerful emotional charge but it isn't a particularly constructive or clear-minded way to think or talk about writing laws.
Congressional Republicans promise to achieve greater frugality in Medicaid without inflicting more hardship. It's not gonna happen.
Distaste for the president may not translate to distaste for other Republicans, as the special election in Georgia showed.
Commit to principles and ideals, not politicians.
Senators drafting massive combination bill with "Kate's Law" and "Back the Blue" mandatory minimum sentences that are expensive, unneeded.
Greg Gianforte joins a pantheon of violent politicians who don't want to answer questions from journalists
Republicans may rue the day they won Congress with Trump as president
Where is divided government when you need it?