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My Conversations with John Bolton

Trump's new National Security Adviser is a preemptive warrior, a nonproliferation obsessive, and someone who has described himself as a "hawkish libertarian."

Matt Welch | 3.23.2018 1:20 PM

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Libertarianism: The Choice of a New Generation in Politics (and Cable News)

Gary Johnson is making a play with Millennials in a proportion that Clinton and Trump can't touch

Matt Welch | 8.19.2016 5:03 PM

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Listen to Matt Welch, Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan at Noon ET on SiriusXM's Insight Channel

Matt Welch | 9.18.2015 9:58 AM

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Good News and Bad News, for Fans of The Independents

Five days a week instead of four, but minus the Pips

Matt Welch | 1.16.2015 12:20 AM

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On The Independents: Enemies of Freedom!

Matt Welch | 1.14.2015 8:04 PM

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On The Independents: The Best of 2014

Featuring Montel Williams, Killer Mike, John Bolton, K-Walking, Keepin' it Kmele, Where it's Matt, and Two Minutes Hate!

Matt Welch | 1.13.2015 8:07 PM

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Hangover Cures for Government Spending, Police Overreach, Fourth Amendment-Shredding…and Also Booze

Matt Welch | 1.12.2015 4:21 PM

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Tonight on The Independents: New Year's Hangover, Featuring TV's Andy Levy, Supermodel Carol Alt, Money-Maker Charles Payne, Michael Malice, and More!

Matt Welch | 1.9.2015 6:49 PM

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Civil Liberties

The Independents on Charlie Hebdo

Matt Welch | 1.8.2015 12:35 PM

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On The Independents: Our Legislative Agenda, Boehner Lives, FBI Stingrays, Emptying Gitmo, More Clinton Sex Scandals, Aftershow and More!

Matt Welch | 1.6.2015 8:15 PM

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On The Independents: Rep. Thomas Massie on the House Leadership Fight, Peter Suderman on the Gas Tax, Huckabee 2016, #BlackBrunchMatters, NYPD Blue, Harshing Sleds, the Bullet Train to Madera, and After-show

Matt Welch | 1.5.2015 8:10 PM

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On The Independents: 2015 Resolutions, Predictions, Politics, Economics, Gadgets, and Cyberwars, With Peter Schiff, Michaels Moynihan and Malice, and More!

Matt Welch | 1.2.2015 8:16 PM

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Watch Lenore Skenazy Talk About the Craziest Zero-Tolerance Stories of 2014!

Matt Welch | 1.2.2015 3:36 PM

On The Independents: A New Year's Eve Best-of Show, Featuring Montel Williams, Killer Mike, John Bolton, K-Walking, Keepin' it Kmele, Where it's Matt, and (of Course!) Two Minutes Hate

Matt Welch | 12.31.2014 7:03 PM

On The Independents: Scalise's Dukey, NYPD Slowdown, Disputed Hack, Obama on Race, More Grubering, the Big (and Forgotten) Stories of 2014, a New Enemy of Freedom, and Punch-drunk After-show!

Matt Welch | 12.30.2014 8:27 PM

The Independents Rides Again, With Lenore Skenazy, Kyle Smith, Mugshot Monday, NSA Document Dumps, The Interview, NYPD vs. BdB, and More

Matt Welch | 12.29.2014 8:32 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Our 10 Heroes of Freedom! Starring Peter Suderman, Michael Malice, David Boaz, and Special Guest Stars!

Matt Welch | 12.19.2014 5:05 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Cuba Policy Libre, Ron Paul, Geraldo Rivera, Obamas on Race, Heroes of Freedom, and Two Minutes Hate!

Matt Welch | 12.17.2014 2:33 PM

On The Independents: John Bolton on Torture Popularity and Sony Terrorism, Timothy Sandefur on Sony's Free-Speech Claims, Deroy Murdock on Jeb & Hillary, Plus Heroes of Freedom, E-Cigs, De Blasio Hypocrisy and Aftershow

Matt Welch | 12.16.2014 8:12 PM

On The Independents: Radley Balko on Cops, Lisa Daftari on Sydney's 'Known Wolf,' Plus Cromnibus Politics, Jeb & Warren, Cheney's Torture Apologetics, Sony Fallout, Uber's Surge Pricing, and Online-Only Aftershow

Matt Welch | 12.15.2014 7:50 PM

On The Independents: Justin Amash on the Secret Surveillance Bill, Bernie Sanders on Economics, Andy Levy & Jimmy Failla on Torture, Guns, License Plates, Rick Perry, and Sony; and Me on Rolling Stone

Matt Welch | 12.12.2014 8:38 PM

Watch Thomas Massie on Gruber, Penn Jillette on Garner/Ferguson, Julian Sanchez on Torture Report

Matt Welch | 12.12.2014 12:37 PM

On The Independents: Penn Jillette and Thomas Massie! Also Dick Cheney's Torture, Cromnibust, Smith Apology, Trigger-shy SNL, and More

Matt Welch | 12.10.2014 8:25 PM

On The Independents One-Year Anniversary Show: Tortured Grubers, LeBron & Lena, Julian Sanchez, Scott Brown, More Heroes of Freedom, and Saucy Aftershow!

Matt Welch | 12.9.2014 8:19 PM

Donate to Reason! Because We Let You Fling Your Monkey-Poo at Us on Live Television!

Matt Welch | 12.9.2014 7:22 PM

Tonight on The Independents: The Racial Divide, the Torture Report, Demoralized Military, Tom Brady's F-Bombs, Rolling Stone Fallout, Heroes of Freedom, and After-Show!

Matt Welch | 12.8.2014 8:22 PM

Tonight on The Independents: The Supremes! (As in Court.) Starring Damon Root, Judge Napolitano, Peter Suderman, and Timothy Sandefur!

Matt Welch | 12.5.2014 7:23 PM

Glenn Reynolds: "We have in this country an issue with police being too quick to escalate force"

Matt Welch | 12.4.2014 11:57 AM

The Independents

Tonight on The Independents: Ask a Communist, Party Panelists Amy Holmes and Rick Ungar, and Judge Napolitano Returns! Open Thread!

Matt Welch | 12.3.2014 8:49 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Judge Napolitano on Suicide Pact, Commie Jesse Myerson on the Awesome National Debt, Plus Ferguson, Four More Presidential Candidates, and Holder's 'End' to Racial Profiling

Matt Welch | 12.2.2014 8:24 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Ferguson Fallout, Obama's Tortures, the Terrorists Are Coming!, Comedy in a World With No Humor, and Online-Only Aftershow

Matt Welch | 12.1.2014 8:03 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Ferguson, ISIS, Rand Paul's Declaration of War, Black Friday, Our Latest Enemy of Freedom, and #LetTheTurkeyCool

Matt Welch | 11.26.2014 4:30 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Let's Try That Ferguson Show Again, Featuring Deroy Murdock, Basil Smikle, Eric Guster, Mollie Hemingway, and More

Matt Welch | 11.25.2014 7:25 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Obama's Immigration, Thad McCotter on Libertarians Rising, Ecstasy for PTSD, FCC for the Internet, Jeb's Common Core, Webb's Uncommon Appeal, Obamacare Closing Hospitals, Plus Citizenship Quiz!

Matt Welch | 11.21.2014 8:37 PM

Timothy Sandefur, Tamar Jacoby, John Tierney, Mike Baker, and The Independents Co-hosts Assess the Wisdom and Legality of Obama's Executive Actions on Immigration

Matt Welch | 11.20.2014 1:14 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Obama's Executive Action Play, Jared Polis on Pelosi & NSA, John Stossel on Jon Gruber, U.S. Continues to Plummet, Drinking Your own Pee, and Two Minutes Hate

Matt Welch | 11.19.2014 8:30 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Goodbye, USA Freedom and Keystone Pipeline! Hello, Executive Action, Weird Chinese Censorship, and Ferguson Build-up! Also, Anthony Fisher on Jerusalem Terror, and After-show

Matt Welch | 11.18.2014 8:13 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Gruber? I Just Met Her! Plus Bill Nye the Science Guy, Robert Bryce on Keystone, Kmele Foster on the USA Freedom Act, Michael Weiss on ISIS, After-show, and More!

Matt Welch | 11.17.2014 8:27 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Are There Any Secret Libertarians Running for President? Also: Suderman on Obamacare, Welch on the Collapse of Communism, V.A. Whistleblower Scott Davis, and Let the Damn Turkey Cool!

Matt Welch | 11.14.2014 7:39 PM

Justin Amash: The New GOP Majority May Be Better Than You Think

Matt Welch | 11.13.2014 4:43 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday, With Justin Amash, Jeffrey Miron, TV's Andy Levy, and Your Host Matt Welch!

Matt Welch | 11.12.2014 8:52 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Mohammed Cartoons Publisher Fleming Rose, Obama-Putin Fashion Show, How to Support Veterans, Bye-Bye Ebola, the War on Valerie Jarrett, the Death of Procreative Sex, and Aftershow

Matt Welch | 11.11.2014 8:24 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Now What? With a Trash-Talking Ron Paul, Plus Gary Johnson, Alan Colmes, Andrea Tantaros, FAIR's Dan Stein, and More

Matt Welch | 11.7.2014 8:31 PM

Tonight on The Independents: The Day After, With Michael Barone, David Boaz, Bill Burton, and More

Matt Welch | 11.5.2014 7:53 PM

Desperate Pols and Pundits Play the Election 2014 Race Card

Matt Welch | 11.4.2014 6:48 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Election Desperation, Grover Norquist Woos Libertarians, John Fund Warns About Voter Fraud, Everybody's Racist and Sexist, Rock the Non-Vote, and Assisted Suicide

Matt Welch | 11.3.2014 8:00 PM

Watch The Independents Halloween Spectacular Tonight at 9 p.m. ET!

Matt Welch | 10.31.2014 8:49 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Millennials Abandon Dems, Suderman-Computerman on Obamacare, President John eBolton on "chickenshit," Julian Sanchez on the White House Cyber Attack, and a New Enemy of Freedom That Rhymes With "Yost off 'is"

Matt Welch | 10.29.2014 8:24 PM

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