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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate

Plus: A listener asks if rebranding tariffs as taxes would make any difference in reducing their appeal to politicians and voters.

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Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal

Plus: A listener asks the editors about tariffs and subsidies in the manufacture of electric vehicles.

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Biden's Last Gasps

Plus: Venezuelan election follow-up, racial segregation is back (for Kamala), and more...

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Weekend at Biden's

Plus: Trump immunity ruling, cosmopolitan thinking on immigration, cringe Kamala, and more...

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Abortion, Guns, and Hunter Biden.

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the Selective Service.

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Partisan Border Wars

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the Constitution and trains.

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Should Donald Trump Have Been Convicted?

Plus: A single-issue voter asks the editors for some voting advice in the 2024 presidential election.

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Super Size Me Was Not Groundbreaking Journalism

Morgan Spurlock's death and legacy are a reminder that skepticism is a necessary part of any balanced diet.

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Death of an Authoritarian

Plus: The editors field a question from a Gen Z libertarian.

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Where Do Libertarians Stand on the Campus Wars?

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the magical thinking behind the economic ideas of Modern Monetary Theory.

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Congress Does Not Come Back With a Warrant

Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).

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Trump's and Biden's Terrible Tariffs

Plus: A listener asks if Trump or Biden have done anything to secure the blessings of liberty.

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Goodbye, Navalny

Plus: A listener asks if the editors have criteria for what constitutes a good law.

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Biden's Cognitive Shrinkflation

Plus: A listener asks if the state of Oregon’s policy on drug decriminalization should be viewed as a success.

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Some early pandemic restrictions were “really unfortunate” mistakes, former NIH director admits

The folly of attaching “infinite value” to a life saved by government regulation should be obvious, Jacob Sullum writes. If that value were infinite, it would justify any policy that promises to save lives.

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Biden Expands Pardons for Low-Level Federal Marijuana Offenders

The pardons freed no prisoners, but the White House says they will ease the burden of a criminal record.

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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy includes two impactful dissents in 2005

Her position in Kelo v. New London was partly vindicated when some states enacted laws aimed at discouraging eminent domain abuse, Jacob Sullum writes.

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How Reason Helps You Stay Sane During Political Brainworms Season

Turns out subjecting presidential aspirants to libertarian-flavored scrutiny is good for journalism! And sanity.

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Matthew Perry, Drug Abuse, and Prohibition

The death of the Friends star should remind us of the costs of the war on drugs.

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The 'Whack Jobs' Were Right

Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.

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Why Oregon is wrong to consider repeal of drug law reform

Oregonians are understandably troubled by the nuisance of public drug use since the state decriminalized low-level possession of illegal drugs. But reversing Measure 110 is not the answer.

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Hunter Biden Gets Caught in America's Double War on Drugs and Guns

Plus: A listener asks for the editors’ advice on how to spend his money.

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Marijuana reclassification won’t fix conflict between state, federal laws on pot

Moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III would facilitate medical research and benefit pot suppliers, but the federal prohibition on pot use would remain.

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It’ll always be wrong to yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater

Columnist Jacob Sullum apparently has trouble internalizing that every freedom has a limit when it constrains the freedom of others, a reader writes.

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Why Stripping Fox's Broadcast License Is a Terrible Idea

Plus: A listener inquires about the potential positive effects of ranked-choice voting reforms.

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