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May 26 2016
Opinion
Will Political Winds Favor the Libertarians?
The one common thread is this presidential election is how much voters dislike the presumptive candidates of our political duopoly. The reality is — voters want more choices.
Sadly, one area where Republicans and Democrats are most willing to cooperate is stopping third party efforts with rules and regulations meant to protect the duopoly. One such reform in California now means many
HuffPostAug 22 2016
Opinion
OPINION: Where's the love for the Libertarians?
You can hold your nose and vote Clinton or Trump, or consider this pair of former governors.
USA TODAYAug 01 2013
News
Libertarians flex their muscle in the GOP
Tensions between the Republican establishment and party's libertarian wing come to the fore.
Washington PostApr 09 2013
Opinion
Will The Future GOP Be More Libertarian?
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul thinks embracing libertarian ideas is one way the party can be more inclusive. And GOP leaders are starting to think he might be on to something.
NPR (Online News)Oct 21 2022
Analysis
Truss's demise ends the revival of Thatcher's libertarian economics
Daniel Pryor, who lobbies for governments to shrink the state and cut taxes, feels Liz Truss's brief, disastrous spell as prime minister has killed off his dream of a low-tax, deregulated British economy for at least a generation.
Pryor, who works at the Adam Smith Institute in London, laughs bitterly at the irony that Truss, who said on Thursday she would resign, was forced to abandon
ReutersSep 01 2020
Analysis
Bourgeois Libertarianism Can Save America
As various American cities descend into weeks or even monthslong street disorder, launched by anger and anguish over police brutality, standard American political ideas and groups seem equally powerless to preserve the domestic tranquility for which Americans theoretically give over large chunks of our fortunes and our choices to government. Many of these protests have evolved into generalized
ReasonAug 30 2020
Analysis
Bourgeois Libertarianism Can Save America
As various American cities descend into weeks or even monthslong street disorder, launched by anger and anguish over police brutality, standard American political ideas and groups seem equally powerless to preserve the domestic tranquility for which Americans theoretically give over large chunks of our fortunes and our choices to government. Many of these protests have evolved into generalized
ReasonMay 12 2020
Analysis
The Libertarian Party Critique of Justin Amash
With less than two weeks left before 1,000 or so Libertarian Party delegates select their 2020 presidential and vice presidential nominees in an unprecedented online-only vote, you could probably forgive Jacob Hornberger for being a little irritable.
Hornberger, the 70-year-old founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation, has, after all, won a clear majority of the party's presidential
ReasonMay 22 2020
Analysis
Is America too libertarian to deal with the coronavirus?
Why widespread testing in the country may not work.
America’s public health experts are working hard to map out a plan to combat the coronavirus in America. And there are indeed many proposals — from academic centers, from think tanks, and from the government.
While the plans differ, nearly all of them rely on some combination of surveillance, mass testing, isolation, and contact
VoxApr 29 2020
News
Justin Amash Is Running for President as a Libertarian
The previously independent five-term Michigan congressman joins the L.P. and takes aim at the septuagenarian competition.
More than three years after first seriously contemplating it, one year after coming out in favor of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, nine months after leaving the Republican Party, two months after hitting pause on his congressional reelection
Reason