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Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie is editor at large at Reason.com and the co-author The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America.

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Listen To Libertarians

Obama’s Overreach Births Trump Rex

If Trump makes good on his promise to ‘bomb the shit out’ of ISIS without even token approval from Congress, we’ll know where he got the idea.

Nick Gillespie

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Not a Doofus

Gary Johnson Is Still a Player

The Libertarian Party nominee can benefit from Trump’s fall, but only if he can convince Republicans and Democrats that he can really be commander in chief.

Nick Gillespie

More Lesser Evilism

The Great Bipartisan Debate Hustle

We’ve got the two most unpopular major-party candidates ever. So what does the Commission on Presidential Debates do? Tighten the rules even more!

Nick Gillespie

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TOO BIG TO FAIL

How To Build a Better EpiPen

Forget political threats. Competition and an easier approval process is the only way to get more, better, and less expensive drugs.

Nick Gillespie

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DISAPPEARING ACT

Penn Jillette vs. Hillary, Trump—and Fat

The Vegas icon used to eat slabs of cheese slathered in peanut butter. Then he made 100 pounds disappear. But he’s bummed he can’t do that with presidential candidates.

Nick Gillespie

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Words, Not Deeds

POTUS Oratory Slips Bonds of US Reality

We don't need empty rhetoric about loss and suffering, we need leaders who inspire trust that they are honest brokers for all Americans.

Nick Gillespie

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Hillary Clinton Is an Empty Pantsuit

She’s damn lucky she’s running against him, because she’s an empty pantsuit with no vision for the future except for her own ambition.

Nick Gillespie

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Misfire

Gun Control Isn’t the Answer

The increase in mass shootings is a much hyped myth. The drop in gun crime is a little noticed reality.

Nick Gillespie

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STRIP TEASE POLITICS

Hot Libertarian Ticket: Johnson and Weld

A pair of former two-term governors will take their shot against the two most disliked big-party presidential candidates in American history.

Nick Gillespie

articles/2016/05/30/a-new-roots-for-a-new-american-era/160527-gillespie-new-roots-tease_rsbhz6
HIT REFRESH

New Times Demand a New ‘Roots’

<p>The original&nbsp;<i>Roots</i>&nbsp;was epochal. If the reboot wants to be, it needs to be situated in the (mostly) better realities of 2016.</p>

Nick Gillespie

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