Abortion's Big Night
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Plus: RFK Jr., Wichita's libertarian mayor, Hamas' death toll accuracy, the cult of Erewhon, and more...
The Mormon wing of the conservative #Resistance turned out to be just as fallible as the hawks and libertarians.
Plus: President Joe Biden’s weird economy and Rep. Mike Johnson as the unlikely new speaker of the House of Representatives.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
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Johnson is a relative newcomer to Congress who has never even chaired a committee, and he is a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about mandatory maternity leave.
It's a maneuver that makes little fiscal, philosophical, or political sense, but thankfully it also seems unlikely to work.
DeSantis says that all Gazans are anti-Semitic, while Haley feels that refugees should only go to "Hamas-sympathetic countries."
As long as the Republican Party is a policy-free zone, Jordan might as well be the guy in charge.
Plus: The search for a new speaker of the House continues to be a ludicrous mess.
Plus: Chaos in Congress, and bums in the parks
Trump is still a runaway favorite, even when using a vote-counting technique that's meant to make it more difficult for unpopular candidates to win elections.
On Friday, the Texas representative will introduce a resolution rebuking recent pushes to conduct military operations against Mexican cartels without Mexico’s consent or congressional authorization.
Those sounding the loudest alarms about possible shutdowns are largely silent when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded.
And why he almost certainly will not
Away from the speeches of the party's presidential candidates, the Republican Huntington Beach city attorney talked up his efforts to thwart state zoning reforms.
The libertarian-adjacent Kentucky congressman says he's against the effort to depose Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
Shutdowns don't meaningfully reduce the size or cost of government, but they also aren't the end of the world.
"The orange elephant in the room just never seems to be addressed head on," says Reason's Zach Weissmueller.
The culprit is prohibition, not lax border policing.
We already have a party that's committed to progressive ideals, do we really need another?
“I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally,” Reagan said in 1984.
"Our party does face a time for choosing," said the former vice president last night.
Plus: "Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber," nuclear-powered AI, North Korea, and more...
GOP presidential hopefuls should be more clear about the school choice policies they support.
A positive vision for America's future at the Republican debate
It’s highly unlikely that it would pass constitutional muster.
"He owes it to you to defend his record where they added $7.8 trillion to the debt that set the stage for the inflation that we have."
DeSantis has already removed two reform prosecutors from office in Florida. A federal judge ruled he violated the First Amendment in one of those cases.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thursday for reactions to the 2nd GOP debate from journalist Josh Barro and Reason's Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller.
Until Congress is willing to acknowledge that it makes no sense to send monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
Plus: DeSantis' awkward pot situation, San Francisco's "overpaid executive" tax, and more…
The Colorado governor finds common ground with many libertarians. But does he really stand for more freedom?
This awful idea is increasingly popular on the right, and has been embraced by several GOP presidential candidates.
Plus: The real message behind DeSantis' abortion anecdote, midwives sue over Alabama regulations, and more…
Plus: A listener question about the continued absurdity of sports stadium subsidies
The video site took out ads touting social media's benefits.
The GOP presidential candidate also definitively said climate change is real.
In last night's Republican presidential debate, candidates floated various forms of military action against drug cartels.
Plus: Invade Mexico?!, "Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," and more...
Legislators abuse the emergency label to push through spending that would otherwise violate budget constraints.
It's no mystery why the former president preferred a forum in which his record and positions would face no serious challenge.
The surging candidate, a political unknown, articulated a foreign policy that was somewhat more libertarian than his rivals.
Accusing competitors of being "super PAC puppets," just asking questions about conspiracies, and lying about the media is all of the same successful populist piece.