How GOP Fiscal Sanity Died, in 7 Easy Steps
Here are the moments when Republicans, including professed deficit hawks, snuffed out the 2009-2014 flicker of budgetary sanity
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'Family Values' Republican Accused of Paying for Sex Also Voted to Raise Penalties for Paying for Sex
Last year, Utah's Jon E. Stanard voted to raise the penalty for soliciting prostitution to $2,500. And this year...
Congressman Calls on Capitol Police to Arrest 'Dreamers' at State of the Union
So it's come to this.
Everybody's Talking About 'The Memo' and Ignoring the Surveillance Debate
Partisan posturing drowns out important civil liberties concerns.
The New York Times Is Now a Nazi Paper. Wait, What?
If everything problematic is evil, silencing and punishing everything problematic becomes a social necessity.
Republicans Who Think Trump Has Gone Soft Have a Plan: Criminalize Dreamers, Slash Legal Immigration, and Invade Americans' Privacy
The Securing America's Future Act is a nativist nightmare.
Trump and GOP Nativists Are Preparing to Screw Dreamers
Their poison pill demands are making a deal nearly impossible.
Dianne Feinstein Ignores GOP Lawmakers, Blames #ReleaseTheMemo on Russians and Social Media Instead
Any excuse to try to censor the internet
The Trump Effect: White Men Stand Alone?
A new poll shows white women souring on the GOP.
Meet the Republicans Who Care About Surveillance Abuse Only When Trump's the Target (UPDATE: Trump Signs 702 Bill)
They voted to expand federal snooping. Now they're outraged about how it's used.
The Republican Plan to Build a Wall Is Fighting the Last War
It is a reactionary and obsolete plan.
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.
Democrats Are Fooling Themselves About Tax Reform's Unpopularity
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.
Tax Bill Passes Congress—Are You Dead Yet???
Another day of cartoonish outrage in Washington.
Republicans Won't Win Unless They Start Electing Cannibal Dictators
Losses in Virginia and elsewhere aren't stopping some in the GOP from demanding ever-more cartoonish candidates.
House Republicans Push Symbolic Nonsense Abortion Bill
Congressional conservatives want to ban "discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex."
Grover Norquist: GOP Tax Bill Is Good Enough For Now (He's Planning to 'Whine Later')
Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Seat; Roy Moore Does Not Concede
Final tally: 49.9 to 48.4 percent.
Kill the Mortgage Interest Deduction Now!
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
Tax Bill Mixes Very Encouraging Developments With Very Disappointing Ones
The GOP would be on higher ground if it stood on principle for a tax code that treats everyone the same.
The GOP Senate Tax Bill Takes Two Rights and Makes a Wrong
Big Insurance will be the chief beneficiary of scrapping the Obamacare mandate
71 Percent of Millennials Say U.S. Politics Needs a Third Major Party
White men and black women were the most likely to endorse America moving beyond the Dem-GOP binary.
Maybe Not Libertarian, But There Are Some Things to Like in This Tax Reform
The House and Senate still refuse to consider cutting government spending.
Ban on Abortion Because of Down Syndrome Clears Ohio Legislature
A amendment from Democrats says no state money can go to defending the law in court.
No, The Electoral College Isn't Rigged to Favor Rural Trumpism
It's time to put the myth of electoral bias out of its misery.
Roy Moore and the End of Republican Credibility
Can the conservative movement survive the election of a possible child molester?
The Alabama GOP's Awful Responses to the Roy Moore Sexual Assault Allegations Are Dead-End Partisanship At Its Worst
Jeff Flake wonders: Is this what the Republican Party has become?
Senate Fiscal Hawks Could Strangle Tax Reform in its Crib
James Lankford's "I am a no" makes at least three GOP senators who worry that the debt/deficit math doesn't add up
What's More Sinister than Russian Election Hackers? [Podcast]
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.
We're Blindly Picking Between Political Poisons
Our political system is dominated by two major political parties with serious identity crises.
Listen to Jesse Walker Talk About the JFK Files on SiriusXM Insight at 2 pm ET
Matt Welch interviews our resident conspiracist, plus Liz Mair on Jeff Flake and Nancy Rommelmann on "shitty media men," on Channel 121.
Libertarian Republican Sen. Jeff Flake Will Not Run for Re-Election (UPDATED)
"There may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party."
Trump Calls the Congressional GOP's Bluff
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.
Anti-Trump Republicans Need to Re-Examine Their Own Reckless Foreign Policy
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
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney: 'We Need to Have New Deficits'
The former deficit hawk gets budget-busting religion now that he holds real power.
Republicans Should Reject 'Bipartisan' Solution for Obamacare
There was nothing bipartisan about the way the law was passed.
Will the Supreme Court Stop Politicians from Choosing Their Voters?
Social science could help identify objective principles for creating competitive voting districts.
Nicholas Sarwark on the Future of the Libertarian Party
Trump is 'the best recruiting tool for the Libertarian Party we've ever had.'
Why Trump's Wall Is Not Going to Happen
Plenty of GOP members would rather put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore than underwrite this addled project.
Trump's Arizona Rally Is an Advertisement for the GOP's Pathologies
Behold a squabbling but still powerful coalition of nationalist authoritarians, immovable interventionists, finger-in-the-wind opportunists, and vastly outnumbered libertarian-leaners.
Steve Forbes on Trump, Taxes, and 100 Years of Forbes Magazine
Also: GOP Congress should fix health care, taxes, and easy money.
Jeff Flake's Conscience Is Good for Libertarians—and the Country
The Arizona senator calls for limited government, takes clear aim at Trump's authoritarianism, GOP big-spending.
Rep. Justin Amash: The Two-Party System Needs to Die
The libertarian congressman says the internet is poised to destroy politics as we know it.
The Party of Trump Is Trying to Gut America's Asylum Process
A GOP bill would set up impossible obstacles for fleeing foreigners
