Politics

When you balance the “qualifiers” with the “disqualifiers,” it isn’t clear that either candidate is really qualified, much less “the most qualified.” 

Tim LaHaye's view of the end times as expressed in his 'Left Behind' series was influential in expanding the market for Christian fiction," said Merrill Matthews, IPI resident scholar. "The basic tenets of premillennial dispensationalism that emerged in the series were already embraced by many evangelicals. LaHaye's contribution was to put that theology in a format that was more accessible and relatable to readers.

This year’s convention is set to be a four-day effort to buy votes with taxpayer and employer money.

ISIS-inspired terrorists are increasingly targeting civilians. Here's why.

Institute for Policy Innovation President Tom Giovanetti tweeted that the 2016 draft GOP platform's language on "protecting Internet from taxation and regulation is INADEQUATE" and proposed language that IPI would prefer.

While Clinton’s administration lost 31 Supreme Court cases unanimously and George W. Bush’s administration lost 30, Obama has bested both of their records by nearly 50 percent: 44 unanimous losses. 

Obama rails against guns when the lives of innocent Americans are taken, but boasts of his efforts with drones that kill civilians.

Donald Trump’s anti-free-trade bloviating of late might give the impression the whole party has lost its bearings on this economic issue. Fortunately, like so much else, Trump doesn’t talk for Republicans.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are proposing the most protectionist, anti-trade policies we’ve heard since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Trump recently delivered a speech intended to demonstrate his grasp of trade policy, so it’s worth fact-checking some of his comments.

"Dear GOP delegates: You cannot nominate someone who endorses these positions," Tom Giovanetti, the president of a free market think tank, tweeted, adding, "Trump would turn the Republican Party into the party of economic know-nothings."