Reason Foundation

How the Sleeper Socialist Blew up the Democratic Primary - "Embracing a political label that, outside a few mutinous congressional districts, has been instant electoral death for the past six decades, the independent senator from Vermont has not only renounced the political triangulation that gave Democrats all their presidential victories of the past 48 years; he openly preaches class warfare...Even if Bernie Sanders' candidacy flickers and blows out, the questions it has raised will remain long after November: Has the American electorate taken a sharp turn left? Will we start seeing Che Guevara T-shirts on the podium at conventions? Or is Sanders just one more political sunspot in an election cycle that has already given us a Twitter war between a GOP candidate and a murderous Mexican drug bandit?"

• Bernie Sanders' 10 Worst Economic Ideas
• Liberals and Conservatives Should Reject Sanders' Fantasy Policies
• When It Comes to Wall Street Regulation, Bernie Sanders Has a Short Memory

Next Stop: Raising Federal Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour  - "The most generous way to describe Hillary Clinton's stated willingness to sign a $15 an hour national minimum wage into law, then, is to say that she is willing to make a massive gamble on the nation's economy and the jobs of millions of citizens based on essentially no direct evidence that it would pay off." — Reason.com's Peter Suderman 

Let's Play True and False on the Minimum Wage

Unionized Hotel Workers Realize Minimum Wage Deals Screwed Them Over

Video: Economist Don Boudreaux Discusses the Impact of Raising the Minimum Wage

How the Sleeper Socialist Blew up the Democratic Primary  - "Embracing a political label that, outside a few mutinous congressional districts, has been instant electoral death for the past six decades, the independent senator from Vermont has not only renounced the political triangulation that gave Democrats all their presidential victories of the past 48 years; he openly preaches class warfare...Even if Bernie Sanders' candidacy flickers and blows out, the questions it has raised will remain long after November: Has the American electorate taken a sharp turn left? Will we start seeing Che Guevara T-shirts on the podium at conventions? Or is Sanders just one more political sunspot in an election cycle that has already given us a Twitter war between a GOP candidate and a murderous Mexican drug bandit?" — Glenn Garvin in Reason magazine

• Bernie Sanders' 10 Worst Economic Ideas
• Liberals and Conservatives Should Reject Sanders' Fantasy Policies
• When It Comes to Wall Street Regulation, Bernie Sanders Has a Short Memory

Does Trump's Foreign Policy Appeal to Libertarians?  - "Americans apparently need to keep re-learning that even presidential candidates who vow to roll back the military and surveillance state will likely do no such thing."

• Would President Trump Be Bound by the Paris Climate Change Agreement?
• University Wants Cultural Sensitivity Training After Students Wrote "Trump 2016"
• Ted Cruz Takes a Stand Against Operation Choke Point
• Here's Why Ted Cruz Fought to Keep Sex Toys Illegal in Texas  

The Culture of 'You Can't Say That'  - "The strangling of free, open commentary on Islam—and on various other ideologies—has had an impact that is as predictable as it is dire."

• People Turn On Free Speech When They Hear Something They Don't Want To
• Greg Lukianoff Discusses Comedy, College, and the Fight to Save Free Speech
• High School Shames Student for Writing Politically Incorrect Essay It Knew Was Satire
• Bill Nye, "Science Guy," Open to Jail Time for Climate Change Skeptics