Abolish Qualified Immunity; Bust the Police Unions; Regulate Use of Force; Rethink Crisis Response; End the War on Drugs; Release Body Cam Footage; Stop Overpolicing; Restrict Asset Forfeiture; Interview: Radley Balko; Why Hong Kong's Protests Turned Violent

Don't Pack the Courts
Trump Wasn't A Dictator, But He Played One On TV
A Silicon Curtain Descends
Interview: Glenn Greenwald
Why Is America Still In Syria?

Will Cities Survive 2020? Keeping Up With The Lees Sometimes Bigger Is Better Comic: Milton Friedman In It's A Miracle Interview: Ira Glasser States Are Finally Revoking Cops’ License To Steal

The Guillotine Mystique; To Help Kids Find Their Passion, Give Them Free Time; COVID-19 Didn't Break the Public School System. It Was Already Broken.; The Atlanta Sex Toy Magnate Who Can't Stop Picking Fights; Interview: Jonathan Rauch; Peter Navarro's No-Good Economic Nationalism

The Case Against Trump: Donald Trump Is an Enemy of Freedom; The Case Against Biden: Joe Biden's Politics of Panic; Political Ignorance Is Bliss; Debt Reckoning; Interview: Betsy DeVos

Wait, Wasn't Peter Thiel a Libertarian?; From Antifa to UFOs, One Joke Can Spawn a Thousand Conspiracies; The Education of Adam Smith; Trump's Trade War Made the Pandemic Worse, and Nationalism Will Slow the Recovery; I Don't Want To Be Anybody's Employee; Coronavirus Cuisine; Interview: Cheese Lady Jill Erber

When Should Force Be Used To Protect Public Health?; Criminal Justice Divides the 'Conservative' Judiciary; Buddymandering; Interview: Rick Doblin; Disaster Relief for Small Businesses Is a Disaster All Its Own; Alone Together in the Pandemic

America Wasn't Ready for Coronavirus; Joe Biden Won the Democratic Primary. But Bernie Sanders Won the Party.; In Zimbabwe, It's Crisis as Usual; 10 Ways a Roadside Police Stop Can Go Wrong; Traffic Stops in Black and White; Interview: Matt Ridley

How the American Dream Became Unaffordable; Student Loans Aren't Working; Can't Afford Your Rent? Blame Herbert Hoover.; How Doctors Broke Health Care; There Is No China Crisis; Earth Day Turns 50; Interview: David French

Against the New Nationalism; Just How Good Is Trump's Economy, Anyway?; The Truth Could Set Them Free; The Thoroughly Modern Spinoza; Interview: Amity Shlaes

Massage Parlor Panic; How the War on Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women; The Tear of Allah; Interview: Errol Morris; People Are Less Gullible Than You Think

Fired?; Indian Immigrants Are Saving Canadian Hockey; The Truth About Income Inequality; Socialists in Space; Sex Offender Laws Are Broken. These Women Are Working To Fix Them.; Interview: Meghan Daum

Socialism Killed My Father; There Is No Line; Meet the Grandmothers Who Rule Kenya's Legal Drug Markets; Tiny Homes for Austin's Homeless; Climate Change: How Lucky Do You Feel?; Interview: Tulsi Gabbard

But Gorsuch!; Comic: The Quite Contrary Mary Wollstonecraft; Not All Regulation Is Bad; What Is a 'Well Regulated Militia,' Anyway?; Regulation and 'The Right Ordering of Economic Life'; Why Don't Environmentalists Just Buy the Land They Want To Protect? Because It's Against the Rules; Interview: Kat Rosenfield

5G Is the Future; From Turkey to Cuba to Mexico to America: A Kurdish Refugee's Journey; How Two Seasteaders Wound Up Marked for Death; States Are Depriving Innocent People of Their Second Amendment Rights; Interview: Dave Barry

The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech; 'I'm Radioactive'; The Joyful Contrarianism of Gordon Tullock; Elizabeth Warren's Plans Don't Add Up; Interview: Neal Stephenson

Less War, More Food, Better Health, Longer Lives; Be Who You Are, Love Who You Want; The Podcast Revolution; Meatless Meat Is Better Than Ever; The Glory of Drugs After Prohibition; How Work Got Good; Humans Are Building Better Versions of Themselves; HIV Will Soon Be History; The Terrifying Rise of Authoritarian Populism; America's Golden Door Is Slamming Shut; Kids These Days Love Socialism; The End of the Free Internet Is Near; Man-Made Disaster in Venezuela; The Rent Is Too Damn High

Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President; How To Get Better at Budgets; Oh Deer; Guns Are for Everybody; Deal With the Devil; Interview: Brian Lamb; Intersectionality 101

Oh, the Places They'll Go--If You Let Go; When Did We Get So Scared of 'Screen Time'?; Don't Be Like the Rainbow Fish; Credo; Meet the Teens Who Want To Get Vaccinated Against Their Parents' Wishes; 10 Colleges Where You Won't Have To Walk on Eggshells; Make School Hard Again; Conversation: Parenting Without Fear; Immunize Your Kids Against Intrusive Government

Will Today's Global Trade Wars Lead to World War III?; 'It is Better To Work for Yourself Than Sit and Wait for Aid'; Standing on the Shoulders of Tyrants; Interview: Paloma Heindorff; The Telegraph Was America's First Singularity

The Wall Won't End Pot Smuggling at the Border. Legalization Will.; Immigration Grunts; Can Victims' Rights Go Too Far?; Interview: Mitch Daniels; Everyone Agrees Government Is a Hot Mess. So Why Does It Keep Getting Bigger Anyway?

The Chemists and the Cover-Up; Bonesaw Diplomacy; The Lingering Stench of Marijuana Prohibition; When Experience Is a Liability; Democracy in Decline?; Interview: Tyler Cowen

Kanye West Is Misunderstood; Is CBD a Miracle Cure or a Marketing Scam? (Both.); Washington Forced Segregation on the Nation; The Case of the Notorious RBG; The Future Is Female. And She's Furious.

Can Algorithms Run Things Better Than Humans?; What If the Algorithms Are Racist?; Booze, Profit, and Prayer; When Nonviolence Isn't Enough; Bad Incentives; Interview: Francis Fukuyama; Dropouts Built America

Mad Genius; Legalizing Marijuana and Gay Marriage Seemed Impossible; We've Got Good News...and Bad News; Students for a Freer Future; What Does It Mean To Be a Libertarian?; Sole and Despotic Dominion; Your Child Is More Resilient Than You Think; Interview: Thomas Sowell

The Best Schools Are Not Where you Think.

Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong.

Dissent And Disarray In Putin's Russia.

Has America's Obsession With Manufacturing Jobs Gone Too Far? and more...

The Debate Issue
The Best Case for Liberty Is Consequentialist; Corporate Data Collection Poses a Threat to Personal Freedom; Libertarians Should Be Vegetarians; Objectivists Are Not Libertarians; Bakers Should Not Be Forced to Produce Cakes for Same-Sex Weddings; Be an Anarchist, Not a Minarchist; For Political Change, Choose Exit Not Voice; Intellectual Property Must Be Protected; Libertarians Should Support Abortion Rights; Libertarians Should Work Within the Two-Party System

Innocent Until Proven Guilty, But Only If You Can Pay; When the Supreme Court Blessed the Imperial Presidency; America's Biggest Rental Car Company Is Lobbying to Drive Away Competitors; Interview: Christopher Moraff; The U.S. Needs More Immigrants; The Shocking Waste Hidden Inside the $126 Billion Afghan Reconstruction

Burn After Reading; Personal Encryption 101; 3 Steps to Buy and Store Bitcoins Anonymously; To Spy on a Cheating Spouse; How to Get on a Jury; The Great Escape; How to Break Out of Zip Tie Cuffs; Ross Ulbricht Is Serving a Double Life Sentence; Reason's Classic Pot Brownies; Smoking Not Your Style? Try a Cannabis Cocktail; Recipe: Prison Hooch; Off-Grid Survival for You and Me; Outlaw Mags; Adventures in Home Biohacking; What to Know Before You Pay for Sex; How to (Legally) Make Your Own Off-the-Books Handgun; Don't Let Uncle Sam Seize Your Salami; Mushrooms Aren't Magic; This Is Not a Pot Pipe

The Economic Case for Free Trade Is Stronger Than Ever; Protectionism vs. Cheap Beer; If You Can Afford a Plane Ticket, Thank Deregulation; When Cancer Was Conquerable; Interview: Steven Pinker; 'Assault Weapons' Explained

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