Yes, It's Time for Both Brian Williams and Jon Stewart to Move On

Nick Gillespie

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

Nick Gillespie

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

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Ideas Yes, It's Time for Both Brian Williams and Jon Stewart to Move On It’s weird that Jon Stewart announced he was stepping away from The Daily Show the same day that NBC announced its six-month suspension of Brian Williams from NBC Nightly News. Stewart has long

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Ideas The 5 Worst Moments From Last Night's State of the Union The annual State of the Union Address (SOTU) is a rotten, time-honored ritual that marks the effective end of the holiday season in America. It’s like one last fruit cake that nobody wants and

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Ideas The Increasingly Irrelevant Christian Primary Despite a long, slow decline in religious participation among Americans, do not expect Christian conservatives to light a candle rather than curse the darkness when it comes to politics. At least two

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Ideas 5 Earth-Shaking Trends To Follow in 2015—and Beyond!Whether you believe the “libertarian moment has finally arrived” or not, there’s no question that 2014 was a watershed for the decentralization of all sorts of cultural, economic,

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Ideas Is Reading Executives' Hacked Emails Really Any Better Than Peeping at Hollywood in Its Birthday Suit?It was just a few months ago that everybody and his grandmother was truly livid—or at least feigned anger before firing up our search engines—when hackers released naked pictures of

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Ideas Cameras Wouldn't Just Prevent Police Brutality. They Would Prevent Violent Protests Too If you’re outraged—and you should be—that no indictment followed Eric Garner’s death at the hands of the New York Police Department, thank the people who captured the

Ideas Uber's Real Crime Is Giving In to Politics as Usual So does Uber, the smartphone-enabled ridesharing service, have “an a–hole problem” that threatens the company’s very future? The New York Times warns that

Ideas Did President Obama Just Break the Internet?So President Obama has announced that the Internet should effectively be regulated as a public utility along the lines of the old-time Ma Bell phone system. He’s asking the Federal

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