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Reason magazine
PROPOSITION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SHOULD BE REGULATED
AFFIRMATIVE: Don't Trust Governments With A.I. Facial Recognition Technology
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May 2023
Reason magazine
PROPOSITION: IT'S TIME FOR A NATIONAL DIVORCE
AFFIRMATIVE: A National Divorce Is an Opportunity for Peaceful Coexistence
9 min |
May 2023
Reason magazine
DEBATE IS FOR THE COOL KIDS
\"STUDIES SHOW THAT debate is good for you\" is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect someone in an ill-fitting blazer and awkward shoes to say at a high school debate competition.
5 min |
May 2023
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'All the Parents Want Is a Chance To Make That Choice'
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears wants state education dollars "to follow the child instead of the brick building."
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Sen. Pat Toomey on Cryptocurrency and FTX's Collapse
Former Sen. Pat Toomey’s time in Congress, which began in 1999 after he won a House seat in eastern Pennsylvania, officially ended on January 3 when the new Senate session began.
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April 2023
Reason magazine
Is Online Illness Culture Keeping People Sick?
WHILE THE FDA KEEPS EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS OUT OF REACH, THE SPOONIE WORLD MAKES A DIAGNOSIS INTO AN IDENTITY.
10+ min |
April 2023
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SHODDY RESEARCH REINFORCES ANTI-VAPING NARRATIVE
Three years later, the World Journal of Oncology published a study that claimed vapers face about the same cancer risk as smokers. The authors said “prospective studies should be planned to mitigate the risk.”
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April 2023
Reason magazine
THE BUDGET BATTLE BOOK
That job includes authoring, debating, and passing a budget for the astounding amount of discretionary federal spending that Congress is charged with managing each year—in this case, about $1.7 trillion.
4 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
NEW LAWS STOP COPS FROM LYING TO KIDS
Maryland and Washington state already enforce such a rule. And in 2021, Illinois and Oregon became the first two states to ban police from lying to minors during interrogations.
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April 2023
Reason magazine
REAL ESTATE XENOPHOBIA
THERE’S A SPECTER supposedly haunting the globe’s expensive housing markets: the absentee foreign owner.
2 min |
April 2023
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TO FIX POLICING, PUNISH BAD COPS
Jordan took a lot of abuse for his remark, which was generally interpreted as boobish and nihilistic.
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April 2023
Reason magazine
The Luddites' Veto
BEWARE OF ACTIVISTS TOUTING \"RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.\" THE SENSIBLE-SOUNDING SLOGAN MASKS A REACTIONARY AGENDA.
10+ min |
April 2023
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THE ZONING THEORY OF EVERYTHING
LAND USE POLICIES EXPLAIN THE BATTLES OVER EVERYTHING FROM RECESSION TO ABORTION TO DONALD TRUMP.
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Ron DeSantis Is on Deck
DOES HE WANT TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT, OR DOES HE JUST WANT TO WIN AT ALL COSTS?
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Don't Underestimate Clarence Thomas
Critics of the enigmatic Supreme Court Justice have overlooked his influence for too long.
10+ min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
As someone who covers the intersection of sex and technology, I was primed to love Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. A great book could be written on this topic-but this is not it.
1 min |
February 2023
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Bodies Against the State
In China, crowds of people line the streets. They are holding blank sheets of paper. There's nothing special about the paper; it's ordinary A4 letter size. The police nonetheless know what they mean. The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party know what they mean. The world knows what they mean.
3 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
Biden's Antitrust Crusade
In summer 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on "Promoting Competition in the American Economy." A White House fact sheet declared that the economy was "booming under President Biden's leadership," saying the order was "building on this economic momentum" by pushing back against corporate consolidation, primarily through aggressive antitrust enforcement.
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February 2023
Reason magazine
Biden's 'Marijuana Reform' Leaves Prohibition Untouched
According to the New York Times, the "marijuana reform" that President Joe Biden announced in October represented "a fundamental change in America's response to a drug that has been at the center of a clash between culture and policing for more than a half-century." If only.
3 min |
January 2023
Reason magazine
What Women Want
Maybe it’s to be treated as individuals?
10+ min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
A Modern History of 'groomer' Politics
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
10+ min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
In Defense of Algorithms
They’re good for us. They might even be good for democracy.
10+ min |
January 2023
Reason magazine
California Wants to Run Out of Gas
In late august, California air regulators announced that the state would ban the sale of most gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, a policy aimed at encouraging a shift to electric vehicles (E.V.s). A week later, amid a massive heat wave, California officials begged E.V. owners not to recharge their cars during peak evening hours so as not to overload the state's energy grid.
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January 2023
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Immigration: America Needs 'Low-skilled' Workers
At a moment when even modest immigration reform is politically contentious, several Republicans in Congress are open to letting in more "high-skilled" immigrants. But that approach overlooks the fact that the country would benefit from admitting workers at all skill levels.
2 min |
January 2023
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Argentina's Inflation Crisis
Argentina is no stranger to economic turmoil, having defaulted on its national debt three times since 2001.
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February 2023
Reason magazine
Jennifer Sey Keeps Getting Canceled for Speaking Up
In 2008, Jennifer Sey was subjected to a vicious backlash after the 1986 USA Gymnastics national champion released Chalked Up, the first memoir published about rampant abuse in the sport. Her new book, Levi's Unbuttoned: The Woke Mob Took My Job but Gave Me My Voice, feels like a continuation of that story, detailing Sey's ouster from the jeans juggernaut-where she was set to become its first female CEO-after she again ruffled feathers earlier this year. This time she wasn't speaking out against abuse in sports; she was speaking out against COVID-19 school closures.
2 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
The Case for 50 Percent Open Borders
A call for restricting immigration accidentally makes the case for radical liberalization.
6 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
The Everything Bubble
How the Fed redistributed wealth upward and encouraged reckless corporate behavior
5 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
IS THERE A FUTURE FOR THE CITY OF TOMORROW?
THE CONSEQUENCES, OF OUR OBSESSION 7 WITH URBAN DYSTOPIAS AND UTOPIAS
10 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
Can Larry Krasner Fix Philly's Crime Problem?
Philadelphia's progressive district attorney tried to enact criminal justice reform and got impeached for his trouble.
10+ min |