In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
Supported by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, opposed by Shirley Chisholm and Jerry Brown—the department has a long history of scrambling political alliances.
The author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels on global warming, fracking, Ayn Rand, and the president-elect.
JFK and the Reagan Revolution argues that America can return to prosperity by looking to the Kennedy-Reagan model of income tax cuts and a strong, stable dollar.
Attempted murder? 35 years in a hospital. Nonviolent drug charges? Life in prison.
Robert Altman's spoof of political conventions
Nancy Reagan demanded that everyone-not just schoolchildren-parrot her all-or-nothing, black-and-white approach to drugs.
The former first lady, who died this week, was wedded to repressive drug policies that hurt many innocent people.
Mrs. Reagan was staunch advocate of War on Drugs, later bucked Republican party by pushing for stem cell research.
The Gipper and Cruz are near total opposites on immigration and amnesty
It wasn't because he thought someone was mean to him, and after the Iowa caucus Reagan realized he had made a mistake.
Some writers see Star Wars as a cinematic Death Star.
The Gipper handled several influxes of asylum-seekers greater than the trickle of Syrians who have come to America so far
Novelist Thomas Mallon on the Cold War, gay Republicans, Facebook vs. the novel, & why "95% of writers he knows are liberal Democrats."
The Republican Party will never command the future unless it gives up its ridiculous nostalgia for its last great figure.
Looking through Republican Party platforms on immigration, from Reagan-Bush to Trump-Carson
When it come to immigration and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Republicans and Democrats sound more like South Park rednecks than statesmen.
Comparing the rhetoric of two presidents who inherited economic messes reminds us of the wide gap between their respective recoveries.
George H.W. Bush: "We have made illegal some kinds of labor that I'd like to see legal."
Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.
As a result of his injuries from the failed Reagan assassination attempt
This week in preposterous legal threats
Most people don't spend much time thinking about government policies, which is why bad ones can persist for years or decades.
The CIA and Pentagon feared their budgets and staffs would be slashed with the end of the Cold War, and needed a new antagonist.
The sooner the GOP groks this, the sooner they will support limited goverment.
Republicans check their WWRRD? bracelets.
Served president after assassination attempt injured James Brady
Park renamed in 2004, statue put up last year
Say the former president wouldn't be welcome in today's GOP
His daughter recently speculated he would have
7 forgettable State of the Union speeches by second-term presidents
5 great Reason interviews in one ebook
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