Politics Highlights

Jimmy Carter explains that the President, Barack Obama should stop trying to negotiate with the “totally irresponsible” Republicans, and let the American people know where he stands, without equivocation.

Are young people being discriminated against? Founded in 1968, the National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) says yes and works to educate the public on how laws intended to protect young people instead treat them as second-class citizens. Reason.tv sat down with NYRA's president Jeffrey Nadel to discuss how drinking, curfew, and other laws punish young adults.

How bad is the Greek debt crisis? How will the U.S.'s inability to get its fiscal house in order impact rising countries such as Turkey? Economist Murat Yulek hails from Turkey and is a former Georgetown University professor and finance company CEO, talks to Reason.TV about these issues

Lindsey Graham explains that like most college students, Congress waits until the situation is critical before it gets down to work. He also describes his type of political ideology.

The GOP needs to “look in the mirror” and justify its conflicting ideologies, says Ken Mehlman.

While Johnson may not make it to the Republican debate at California's Ronald Reagan ranch, Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie caught up with Gov. Gary Johnson at FreedomFest in July to talk tax reform, cutting federal spending across the board by 43 percent (the amount currently being financed by debt), and how focusing on social conservatism could reduce the GOP to minor-party status.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants to control your smartphone.Yesterday, Schumer went after Google, Apple, and other smartphone-industry players who have refused to follow a "voluntary" request by him and Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) that they ban apps that show where police are setting up to catch drivers under the influence.

Young people need to look at the world in a fresh new way and say: "Enough is enough, you guys screwed it up, we need to take our planet back."

Jimmy Carter explains that over the next 50 years, China will become a global superpower, but unlike the U.S., it is very careful to avoid the entanglements of war.

Beginning with the successful campaign in Afghanistan, which broke with American military tradition, and tackling all that went wrong in Iraq, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld offers behind-the-scenes insights into how wartime decisions were made. He discusses interagency (Defense, State, and CIA) friction during the Iraq war and President Bush's critical decision, in the face of considerable opposition, to "surge" additional troops into the conflict.

Tax Day (April 18) is fast approaching, which means anxiety and night sweats for about 99 percent of us. And moaning by those at the top of the income pyramid about how they aren't forced to pay even more in taxes. The top 1 percent of filers pay about 40 percent of income taxes.