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Dec 31 2016
News
5 Things Libertarians Should Be Nervous About in 2017
Say goodbye to 2016. But don’t let your guard down.
ReasonAug 04 2016
News
Libertarian Candidates Pitch Themselves As Antidote To Partisanship
Libertarian Party candidates Gary Johnson and Bill Weld pitched themselves as the antidote to Washington partisanship in a CNN town hall, hoping to appeal to voters frustrated with both the Republican and the Democratic presidential nominees.
Both are former Republican governors — Johnson from New Mexico and Weld from Massachusetts — and told CNN's Anderson Cooper they align with most
NPR (Online News)Nov 30 2020
Opinion
Libertarians Have No Home in Either Dominant Political Party
To go by the post-election commentary, we libertarians are a powerful group holding sway over American politics and policy. Yet Team Blue and Team Red still enthusiastically embrace authoritarianism and scorn our insistence on letting people run their own lives.
Despite growing recognition that libertarians matter, Democrats and Republicans show little sign of extending an olive branch
ReasonNov 03 2020
News
Meet the Highest-Polling Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate in the Country
Donald Rainwater, the Libertarian Party's (L.P.) candidate for governor of Indiana, has racked up some unprecedented polling numbers for a Libertarian in a race in which both major parties are running candidates. The 57-year-old Navy veteran and information technology professional hit as high as 24 percent in a Change Research poll back in September.
While that very high result was an
ReasonMay 27 2016
News
Libertarian Party set to pick nominee at convention
They get the bronze medal every four years in what is really a two-person race.
That's what it must feel like to be a third-party candidate in a two-party country.
CNN (Online News)Nov 06 2014
Opinion
Libertarian message wasn’t the ticket to the GOP wave
No, the GOP brand does not “suck.” And the libertarian moment is a canard. The GOP does not have to be anti-interventionist, pro-drug legalization, anti-foreign aid, anti-police or very libertarian at all to win. Practical governors, hawkish senators and dependable establishment Republicans are heading into office. Maybe the GOP need not reinvent itself to target youth voters while spurning
Jennifer RubinApr 08 2024
News
Utah will host a presidential debate next week — but not with the candidates you expect
SALT LAKE CITY — The Republican and Democratic presidential primaries have been virtually wrapped up for weeks, but three candidates still vying for the nomination of the Libertarian Party will be in Salt Lake City for a debate next week ahead of the party's national convention in Washington over Memorial Day weekend. The candidates — former police officer Mike ter Maat, tech entrepreneur Lars
KSLSep 10 2014
News
Is the Next Generation of Hispanic Voters Shifting Libertarian?
Despite traditionally identifying with Democrats, Hispanics are calling themselves libertarian at just about the same rate as whites, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
The BlazeJul 17 2020
News
Why libertarians are joining BLM calls to defund police
In New Hampshire, Carla Gericke is a Republican running for state Senate. Her views on policing trace back to the origins of “classical liberalism” – efforts to curb the arbitrary powers of the crown over criminal justice.
Sometimes, people have a hard time trying to peg the protest politics of Carla Gericke.
As a Republican candidate for the New Hampshire Senate and a “hardcore
Christian Science Monitor