Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed.
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Reason's Emma Camp attended the Republican National Convention to ask attendees if they still believe in the power of free markets.
He showed he's the boss of the GOP and that Joe Biden and the Democrats need to raise their game.
Reason's Zach Weissmueller talked with Trump supporters at the Republican National Convention about heated rhetoric, the weaponization of government, and plans for unity.
This week left no doubt that the GOP's current leadership wants the government to do more, spend more, and meddle more.
We asked delegates at the Republican National Convention whether a second Trump term would address America's debt problem.
Plus: Biden drop-out watch, tech issue grounds flights, J.D. Vance and the dissident right, and more...
The two major parties despise each other, but they hate the thought of leaving us alone even more.
Trump called the skimpy policies of the GOP platform a feature, not a bug.
Fox News commentator Mary Katharine Ham discusses Trump's new policy agenda.
Vance's vibes are Trumpian but also traditional—a potent and dangerous combination.
There seems to be general bipartisan agreement on keeping a majority of the cuts, which are set to expire. They can be financed by cleaning out the tax code of unfair breaks.
If voting was the solution to the ills of America's working class, wouldn't it have worked by now?
Trump’s supporters tried to sell “peace through strength”—and war for “generations to come.”
Reason's Emma Camp attended the Republican National Convention to ask delegates and voters who they think libertarians should vote for this year and why.
The party platform previously called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn children. Now, it says abortion should be left to the states.
In the Republican party platform and at the 2024 convention, alternatives to tough-on-crime policies are unfortunately in short supply.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
Tuesday’s programming was light on policy and heavy on horror.
Trump's former rivals are forced to concede that he is the man of the moment.
If our politics is increasingly determined by random twists of fate, we should invest less power in the politicians who ultimately luck into office.
Trumpism, not Reaganism, is the doctrine of the Grand Old Party for the foreseeable future.
Plus: Classified documents case dismissed, 1968 all over again, venture capitalists finally get representation, and more...
Opening night of the Republican National Convention programmed a central issue with a Trumpian twist: "Make America Wealthy Again."
Plus: Is Biden fit to be president today, let alone stand for reelection?
Can the candidate turn crowd-pleasing nostrums into a program that will do more good than harm?
Sens. J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio—unlike Gov. Doug Burgum—have proven that they will move the GOP away from free market economics.
Although former President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda would make some positive changes, it's simply not enough.
The party's neglect of the issue is consistent with its domination by Donald Trump, who pays lip service to the Second Amendment but has never been a true believer.
Neither would be viable contenders for office in the absence of such a disliked opponent.
Which party can do the least to fix America's troubled old-age welfare system?
Plus: GOP platform changes, Russia destroys children's hospital, Mayor Eric Adams invents garbage cans, and more...
"Documented Dreamers" continue to have to leave the country even though this is the only home many have ever known.
The best way to promote liberty is by reducing the government power, not by harnessing it on behalf of supposedly conservative or populist nostrums.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
There is a great deal of panic surrounding the "extreme" nature of the current Court. But that is often not based in reality.
A much more liberal left is facing off with a slightly more conservative right.
A handful of Republican lawmakers worked with Democrats to repeal an 1864 law banning most abortions.
The justice's benign comments set off a lengthy news cycle and have been treated as a scandal by some in the media. Why?
The MAGA movement has suddenly discovered the evils of politicized prosecutions, inequities in the justice system, and fear of police abuse.
Plus: The Federal Reserve considers an interest rate cut, its chairman considers persistently high inflation, housing pops up on the National Mall, and more...
Reasonable options include gradually raising the minimum retirement age, adjusting benefits to reflect longer life expectancies, and implementing fair means-testing to ensure benefits flow where they're actually needed.
Welcome to a system in which laws and regulations are weaponized by the powerful against opponents.
Why aren't politicians on both sides more worried than they seem to be?
The close Trump ally tried to argue that more aggressive U.S. policy in the Middle East would help the U.S. get out of the Middle East.
Are Americans prepared to spend a trillion dollars to deport undocumented migrants?
The House Oversight and Education committees are investigating the sources of “malign influence” behind campus protests. They’re using tactics Republicans used to hate.