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Reason magazine
The Prohibition President
Politics
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April 2019
Reason magazine
America's Biggest Rental Car Company Is Lobbying to Drive Away Competitors
The first time New Hampshire State Rep. Sherman Packard (R–Rockingham) heard of the car-sharing startup Turo, it was from a lobbyist.
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August/September 2018
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The Wall Won't End Pot Smuggling At The Border. Legalization Will.
Pot is bulky and pungent.
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April 2019
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Netflix Bows To The Saudis
Even tech giants have to follow the law.
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April 2019
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The IRS Targets Drug Policy Reformers
A recently adopted IRS rule for tax exempt organizations seems to violate the First Amendment by taking aim at groups that support drug policy reform.
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April 2019
Reason magazine
Trump Just Can't Quit Afghanistan
IMAGINE BEING A U.S. citizen who believes that America should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after nearly 18 years of increasingly pointless war.
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July 2019
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World South Africa Goes Halfway On Pot
JOHANNESBURG’S WORST-KEPT SECRET looks like any other suburban bar, with a bartender who has nothing unusual to offer.
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July 2019
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Oh Deer
30 Million of Bambi’s Buddies Are on the Loose in the U.s., Causing Crop Damage and Car Accidents. Markets Can Help.
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July 2019
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Fentanyl Is Not A Nuke, And Drug Dealers Are Not Terrorists
Could fentanyl be a weapon of mass destruction?
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July 2019
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How We Childproofed Our Cities
Kid-friendly spaces make it harder to grow up.
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February 2019
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Blockchain Is Changing Lives In Africa
Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.
10 min |
November 2018
Reason magazine
Don't Blame Karl Marx For ‘Cultural Marxism'
Political correctness isnt acommunist plot.
10+ min |
November 2018
Reason magazine
Starve The Tax Man
Americans are increasingly reluctant to pay the IRS. Who can blame them?
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May 2019
Reason magazine
Would We Have Been Better Off With Perot?
An alternative history of America after 1992
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May 2019
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Kamala Harris Is A Cop Who Wants To Be President
The California Senator and former prosecutor has a long record of Pushing Illiberal Policies.
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July 2019
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Marie Kondo Understands What Tucker Carlson And Bernie Sanders Do Not
Marie Kondo understands what Tucker Carlson and Bernie Sanders do not.
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May 2019
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A Big Freak-Out Over Donald Trump's 'Skinny' Budget
PRESIDENTIAL BUDGETS HAVE all the legal force of a letter to Santa—they’re essentially the White House asking Congress for a pony. The “skinny” blueprint released by the Office of Management and Budget in March is the result of even less consultation and collaboration than usual with the legislators who hold actual budget-making power, which makes wish fulfillment even more unlikely. Nevertheless, when President Donald Trump announced $54 billion in cuts to several federal agencies, the press immediately got to work on its own form of slash fiction, fetishizing the appropriations status quo and moaning over any possibility of budgetary restraint.
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June 2017
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An Economist Goes To Shanghai
LAST OCTOBER, I found myself in an Uber being whisked along a bank of the Huang pu River. I’d just arrived in Shanghai, and several of my students were eager to take me to see the sights. They wanted to show me the Bund (rhymes with fund). That’s the local, Persian-origin name for the promenade on which the Europeans a century ago erected a collection of 50 or so banks, trading companies, and insurance firms: the very heart of pre-Communist capitalism in China. The buildings, especially nice when illuminated at night, are done in 1920s Beaux-Arts or art deco style.
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June 2017
Reason magazine
The Disappearing Sixth Amendment
YOU HAVE THE right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you.
2 min |
June 2017
Reason magazine
How Washington Lost The War On Muscle
Steroid Users Hustle To Stay One Rep Ahead Of The Law.
10+ min |
June 2017
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Republicans Don't Lack A Plan To Replace Obamacare. They Lack A Unified Theory
THERE HAS NEVER been a shortage of gop substitutes for Obamacare, from think tank white papers to congressional committee frameworks to fully drafted bills. But in the seven years that congressional Republicans spent promising to repeal and replace President Obama’s health care law, none ever moved beyond the development phase, because what Republicans lacked wasn’t a plan. It was a theory.
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June 2017
Reason magazine
Meet Eric July
Your New Favorite Anarcho-Capitalist Christian Rap-Metal Artist
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June 2017
Reason magazine
Supreme Court Tries To Draw A Line Around Gay Wedding Cakes
IF DECORATING A cake counts as constitutionally protected speech, what doesn’t count? That was the question at stake during Supreme Court oral arguments in Masterpiece Cake shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
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February 2018
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The FCC Takes Its Hands Off The Internet
IN APRIL, AJIT Pai, the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced his first major initiative: taking internet regulation back to 2014.
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February 2018
Reason magazine
Junkyard Blight No More
LIKE OIL-SLICKED SEAGULLS and smokestacks spewing black fumes, piles of rusting cars were standard symbols of environmental blight in the 1960s and early ’70s. “Few of America’s eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junked automobiles,” President Richard Nixon declared in a 1970 speech.
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February 2018
Reason magazine
Throw Your Kid In The Scorpion Pit
“HE HAS A class on race and emotional safety,” an old friend of mine squealed with delight about her son’s public school schedule.
3 min |
February 2018
Reason magazine
Banned In Cannes
Perched on France’s southern coast, Cannes is famous for its luxurious beaches.
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November 2016
Reason magazine
Guitar Globalization
Ex–Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.
4 min |
November 2016
Reason magazine
Hollywood Takes On Fan Fiction
A Star Trek lover’s new film is making the studios unhappy.
3 min |
November 2016
Reason magazine
Free Brazil!
Meet the millennial libertarian activists who helped bring down a president.
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