Workers Are Consumers Too

Since Taking Office, President Joe Biden has sought to position himself as an ally of working Americans. His administration is enacting what it calls a “worker-centric” trade policy, and the president scarcely seems to give a public address without mentioning the importance of union jobs.

The Dangerous Lesson of Book Bans in Public School Libraries

An obscure Supreme Court case provides a roadmap through the curricular culture war.

We Have a Printing Paper Problem

A new supply chain parable for our times

Grow Your Own

Always a good hobby, gardening is also a hedge against supply disruptions.

Digital Immortality or Deathbot?

Would you want your persona to live forever in the metaverse after your physical body shuffles off this mortal coil? That is what the metaverse platform Somnium Space plans to offer its users, starting in the next year or so, with its Live Forever service.

INTERNET SEARCH IS BETTER THAN EVER IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT

IN FEBRUARY, THE software engineer and blogger Dmitri Brereton wrote an essay titled “Google Search Is Dying” for his personal website.

INFLATION WON’T WHIP ITSELF

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT GERALD Ford was simultaneously one of the luckiest and unluckiest presidents when he took office in 1974.

Glenn Greenwald on Corporate Media and Identity Politics

LAWYER-TURNED-JOURNALIST Glenn Greenwald’s work with whistleblower Edward Snowden to reveal illegal government surveillance won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. That same year he helped launch The Intercept, but he abruptly resigned six years later after a disagreement over editorial policy. In July, Reason’s Nick Gillespie spoke with Greenwald at FreedomFest 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

GOODBYE, GLOBALIZATION?

AS AMERICAN POLITICIANS TURN AGAINST ECONOMIC OPENNESS, HISTORY SUGGESTS THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DIRE.

THE UNSCIENTIFIC PANIC OVER SOLAR GEOENGINEERING

WHY ARE ACTIVISTS TRYING TO STOP RESEARCH INTO A PROMISING BACKUP PLAN TO HANDLE CLIMATE CHANGE?

IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS THE FEDS

THE FBI’S LONG HISTORY OF USING INFORMANTS AND MANUFACTURED PLOTS TO PROSECUTE EXTREMISTS

THE AUTHORITARIAN CONVERGENCE

THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN POLITICS ISN'T POLARIZATIONIT'S RISING ILLIBERALISM.

Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan

As Pop Culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.

Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue

You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries

Where there's demand for books, the Internet will supply them.

Biden Comforts the Comfortable

DURING HIS CAMPAIGN for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted that his primary goal as president would be to help the struggling American middle class.

Rise of the Sensitivity Reader

Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published or even written.

Desantis Vs. Disney

Ron Desantis, Florida's Republican governor, has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.

After Uvalde, Irrelevant Gun Control Proposals

The horrifying May 24 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults, happened just 10 days after a gunman murdered 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

The Weird World of Watergate

Fifty years later, the motive behind the mother of all modern political scandals remains clouded.

Medieval Geopolitics Help Explain Modern Russia and Ukraine

Explanations for Russia's 2022 war in Ukraine often go back to 2014, when the Revolution of Dignity replaced Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western government and Vladimir Putin responded by annexing Crimea and sponsoring separatist enclaves in Eastern Ukraine.

CIVIL LIBERTIES: A JUDGE SAYS SHAKEN-BABY CASES RELY ON 'JUNK SCIENCE'

AFTER HIS 11-MONTH-OLD son showed signs of neurological damage in 2017, Darryl Nieves was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

IMMIGRATION: THE BORDER LEGACY OF TITLE 42 EXPULSIONS

WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden announced in April that he would not extend a controversial public health order that allowed U.S. immigration officials to expel migrants, many on the right criticized the move as premature or misguided. But the order has actually made the border less secure.

London Libel Lawsuits Punish Truth Tellers

THE U.S. SHOULDN'T IMPORT BRITISH DEFAMATION LAW, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DONALD TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO.

Little Libraries, Free at Last?

GOOD NEWS FOR FANS OF LITERACY AND OPPONENTS OF RESTRICTIVE ZONING CODES

Christopher Alexander's Utopian Blueprint

Imagine a Federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can still experience many ways of life different from their own."

Zoning vs. the Good Samaritan

How labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic

Biden Can't Pin Inflation on Putin

If Biden is looking to spread the blame for inflation evenly, he should look in the mirror.

Zap Comix Were Never for Kids!

Disreputable and censored COMIX improbably brought the art form from the gutter to the museums.

Kids Can Learn Without Instruction

Don’t show this to your kids, because they might cry. But guess how much time children in “traditional societies”— indigenous groups pretty much off the grid—spend in direct instruction, the way American kids do in school?