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Reason magazine
How Sanctions Backfire
IF THERE’S ONE part of foreign policy where President Donald Trump has been consistent, it’s economic sanctions on Iran.
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April 2025
Reason magazine
How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor
TOO OFTEN, POLITICAL ADVOCACY TRUMPS RESEARCH IN SCIENCE.
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April 2025
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TRUMP'S DRAMATIC CROSSROADS
WILL PROTECTIONISM OR DYNAMISM SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
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April 2025
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AI Isn't Destabilizing Elections
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PESSIMISTS, take note: New research suggests that fears about AI tools destabilizing elections through political misinformation may be overblown.
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April 2025
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Trump Tests the Limits of Executive Orders
WELL BEFORE PRESIDENT Donald Trump returned to office, his supporters boasted that he would start the second term with a flurry of executive actions.
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April 2025
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The American Right Is Abandoning Mises
THE AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST’S PRINCIPLED THOUGHT ONCE SERVED AS A CHECK ON THE INTELLECTUAL RIGHT.
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April 2025
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Trump's War on the Press
A MONTH BEFORE last November’s presidential election, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris that was edited to make her response to a question about Israel “more succinct,” as the show’s producers put it.
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April 2025
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WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUTS WOLVES IN YOUR BACKYARD
ENDANGERED RED WOLVES BECAME A SYMBOL OF FEDERAL OVERREACH-AND A TARGET FOR LOCAL IRE-IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
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April 2025
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Biden Rushed Billions Out Before Trump Took Office
ON PRESIDENT JOE Biden’s way out the door, officials in his administration were busy—not just packing up their offices, but shoveling as much money as possible before incoming President Donald Trump could get his hands on it.
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April 2025
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Their Kids Said They Were Trans.Then CPS Came Knocking.
ACROSS THE COUNTRY, PARENTS OF GENDER-DYSPHORIC KIDS ARE CONFRONTING STATE INTRUSION.
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April 2025
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Centuries of Trade Reflected in Ceramic Tiles
WANDER THROUGH THE streets of Seville or Porto, and you’ll find yourself immersed in a world of color and intricate patterns. Elaborately painted tiles, called azulejos, adorn churches, palaces, train stations, and sidewalks.
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April 2025
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Malaria Vaccine Delivered Via Mosquito Bite
“THE MOSQUITO IS one of the deadliest animals on the planet,” declared two South African researchers in a recent Nature article.
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April 2025
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Google Is Big. Is That Bad?
NO ONE HAS A MONOPOLY ON THE DEFINITION OF A MONOPOLY.
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March 2025
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CAN ULTIMATE FRISBEE HEAL THE MIDDLE EAST?
FOR TEENAGERS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN AND ELSEWHERE, IT'S MORE THAN JUST A GAME.
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March 2025
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Florida Drug Deaths Surged on Pam Bondi's Watch
WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD Trump announced his nomination of Pam Bondi as attorney general, he extolled her \"incredible job\" in \"work[ing] to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs and reduc[ing] the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths.\"
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March 2025
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The Strange Case of The Immortality Key
THOUGH THE SCIENCE journalist Michael Pollan called the book \"groundbreaking,\" Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key is largely a rehash of others' work shaped into a Da Vinci Codestyle thriller.
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March 2025
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LOVE, MONEY, AND SURROGACY
EVELYN AND WILL Clark met after college through mutual friends.
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March 2025
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Trump vs. California: Round 2
CALIFORNIA WAS ONE of President Donald Trump's largest foes during his first term; the state sued his administration over 120 times.
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March 2025
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The Future of AI in the Trump Administration
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S deregulatory impulses could be a boon to the AI industry, but his hostility to free trade threatens to undermine its progress. Policies from the first Trump administration and caustic campaign rhetoric caution against unqualified optimism.
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March 2025
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Will We Get to the Bottom of COVID-19's Origin?
WILL THE INCOMING Trump administration and Republican Congress get to the bottom of how the COVID-19 pandemic began? There's every indication that they'll at least try.
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March 2025
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you can't Evict Polly
HOW THE FAIR HOUSING ACT ENABLED THE RISE OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PARROTS, FROGS, AND EMUS
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March 2025
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Gay Penguins Face the Ban Hammer
ONE FLORIDA SCHOOL district is facing a legal battle over its decision to ban a book about gay penguins.
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March 2025
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THE END OF RENT CONTROL IN ARGENTINA
HOW JAVIER MILEI UNLEASHED THE MARKET AND BROUGHT BUENOS AIRES BACK TO LIFE
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March 2025
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The Most Controversial Paper in the History of Psychedelic Research May Never See the wa Light of Day
WAS THE PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE LED BY SCIENCE OR FAITH?
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March 2025
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THE REAL THREAT IS AN ISOLATED CHINA
DECOUPLING FROM TRADE WILL MAKE THE U.S. POORER AND CHINA MORE TOTALITARIAN.
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February 2025
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Against Our Own Best Souls'
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN ON HERLIFE ASA WITNESS ON DEATH ROW
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February 2025
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'THE POLITICS HAVE COME TO US'
HOW A CHRISTIAN CHARITY IN EL PASO ENDED UP AT WAR WITH THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT FOR HELPING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS
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February 2025
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MATERIEL LOSS
HOW THE U.S. MILITARY BUSTS ITS BUDGET ON WASTEFUL, CARELESS, AND UNNECESSARY 'SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONES'
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February 2025
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'NOT A SUICIDE PACT'
HOW A 1949 SUPREME COURT DISSENT GAVE BIRTH TO A MEME THAT SUBVERTS FREE SPEECH AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
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February 2025
Reason magazine
HOW MUSK CAN HELP TRUMP CUT TRILLIONS
DURING PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s first term in office, the national debt increased by $8 trillion—due, in large part, to huge spending hikes that Congress passed and Trump signed.
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