Michael Bastasch Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists have put out a list of policy demands that includes the government and corporations handing out reparations for years of “environmental racism” and “food apartheid.” “Reparations for the wealth extracted from our communities through environmental racism, slavery, food apartheid, housing discrimination and racialized capitalism in the form of…
Stein Selects Activist Ajamu Baraka as Vice-Presidential Choice by Josh Guckert On Monday night, presumptive Green Party nominee Jill Stein announced the selection of Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. The pair will be officially nominated by the party during its convention in Houston this weekend. Stein, who also the 2012 Green nominee, dominated the Green…
Apple Puts an End to Rifle Emojis on Its Phones by Josh Guckert On Monday, Apple announced that it was upgrading its emoji collection. Perhaps most notable among the changes was the replacement of a pistol with a water gun. Additionally, the new group of emojis will feature women doing traditionally male jobs, a pride…
In a weird twist of irony, Trump might be inspiring more Americans to read the U.S. Constitution for the first time since middle school. After his largely publicized feud with the family of a fallen Muslim-American solider , The New York Times has reported that the sale of pocket constitutions have soared. At the Democratic…
McCain Rejects Attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan by Brett Linley Donald Trump‘s relationship with Arizona Senator John McCain is as poor as ever. In light of Trump’s ongoing feud with the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier, McCain offered a scathing rebuke. Per Politico, McCain lashed out at Trump while defending their son’s sacrifice….
Friends, The Libertarian Party’s convention has come and gone, but my commitment to fighting for smaller government and personal freedoms has not. I am proud to say the Stonegait Institute is doing just that. The Stonegait Institute’s mission is to empower activists and advocates through reporting, training, and advocacy, to ensure that the important values of…
by: Blake Neff Yale University has established a new committee dedicated to deciding when and how the school should rename buildings, monuments, and other campus features it believes are too offensive for a modern university campus. The Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming is exactly what it sounds like: A special group that will set rules to…
Kevin Daley Conservative and libertarian legal scholars say Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s vow to appoint conservative jurists to the federal bench isn’t sufficient reason to support him. Reason’s Damon Root surveyed 10 leading conservative and libertarian scholars, asking if the ascendant liberal majority on the U.S. Supreme Court was reason enough to rally around Trump. Of…
Phillip Stucky Conservative industrialist Charles Koch doubled down on his decision to not support the Republican nominee and announced he won’t run a planned series of anti-Hillary Clinton ads. The network of donors organized by the Koch brothers, known as the Koch network, announced Sunday they had no plans to launch negative ads against Democratic nominee Hillary…
by Ted Goodman A Hillary Clinton supporter was arrested Saturday after attacking an elderly gentleman outside of a Clinton rally in Pittsburgh. According to CBS Pittsburgh, 23 year old Joshua Sturman approached a group of Donald Trump supporters outside of the Convention Center in Pittsburgh where Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and running-mate Tim Kaine were set to…