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Reason magazine
IMMIGRANTS HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY TOO
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has started forcibly collecting DNA samples from immigrants in detention and sending that information to an FBI criminal database called the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) for permanent storage.
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June 2020
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How the Abolitionist Grandfathers of Modern Libertarianism Won by Losing and Lost by Winning
WHILE EUROPE WAS IN REVOLT, AMERICA HAD ITS OWN FREE SOIL REVOLUTION OF 1848.
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June 2020
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There is no China crisis
Unless we cause one by overreacting to Asia's changing political and economic landscape.
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May 2020
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Judge Napolitano on the Politics of Impeachment
In two decades at the nation’s largest cable network, Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano has provided an unapologetically libertarian critique of state power, regardless of the party holding control in the nation’s capital.
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March 2020
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IS THE AMERICAN DREAM DEAD?
HERE ARE TWO stories about modern Americans’ economic lives.
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May 2020
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Student Loans Aren't Working
BUT FREE COLLEGE WON’T FIX THIS SLOW-MOVING CATASTROPHE
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May 2020
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Star Wars' Identity Crisis AND OUR OWN
“IT IS A period of civil war,” begins the opening scroll of the very first film in the Star Wars series, which just goes to show that these movies have always been more than space chases and lightsaber fights.
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May 2020
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IS THE CRACKDOWN ON PAIN PILLS FINALLY WORKING?
Probably not
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May 2020
Reason magazine
INDIA'S MODI IMPORTS AMERICAN DISCRIMINATION
AMERICA’S SUCCESS IN delivering enviable living standards while protecting human rights has made it the moral gold standard of the world, inspiring global movements for social justice, freedom, and democracy.
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May 2020
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How the American Dream Became Unaffordable
THERE’S NO DENYING that a big chunk of the economy feels pretty screwed up right now for millions of working-class and middle-class Americans.
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May 2020
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How Doctors Broke Health Care AND POLITICIANS MADE THINGS EVEN WORSE
IF THERE’S ONE thing that almost everyone in America can agree on, it’s that the health care system is broken.
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May 2020
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EARTH DAY TURNS 50
HALF A CENTURY LATER, A LOOK BACK AT THE FORECASTERS WHO GOT THE FUTURE WRONG—AND ONE WHO GOT IT RIGHT
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May 2020
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Can't Afford Your Rent? - Blame Herbert Hoover.
THE FEDS PUSHED CITIES TO IMPLEMENT ZONING RESTRICTIONS. HIGH PRICES AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY WERE THE INEVITABLE RESULTS.
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May 2020
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Populism Comes To Chile
When The Chilean government announced on October 4 that it was hiking subway fares by roughly 4 cents in the capital city of Santiago, high school students started jumping turnstiles en masse.
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February 2020
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How Bad Is Online Harassment?
AND HOW DANGEROUS IS IT FOR THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH?
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April 2020
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Just How Good Is Trump's Economy, Anyway?
IF DONALD TRUMP has his way in November’s presidential election, he’ll coast to victory on the strength of the economy.
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April 2020
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The Not-So-Great Society
Historian Amity Shlaes on the good intentions and bad results of LBJ’s war on poverty
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April 2020
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Why Alaskans Can't Get Alaskan Natural Gas
A plan to tap reserves on the far-flung northern coast of Alaska is expected to produce about 80 million tons of liquid natural gas (LNG) over the next 20 years—but thanks to a protectionist shipping law, it’s likely that Americans won’t have access to a single drop.
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February 2020
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Indian Immigrants Are Saving Canadian Hockey
How the Punjabi diaspora rescued Canada’s national sport
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February 2020
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The Truth About Income Inequality
“The issue of wealth and income inequality, to my mind, is the greatest moral issue of our time,” said presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.).
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February 2020
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No Adults in the Room: From Election to The Politician
The recent release of Ryan Murphy’s series The Politician on Netflix has inspired endless comparisons to Alexander Payne’s 1999 film Election.
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February 2020
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The Corruptions Of Talking Like Trump
“This committee is not a court, nor is it a jury,” Sen. Howard Baker (R–Tenn.) informed millions of television viewers on May 17, 1973.
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February 2020
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Writer Meghan Daum Thinks You Need To Toughen Up
“ IF 2018 WAS the year that the concept of ‘cancel culture’ went mainstream,” writes Meghan Daum near the beginning of The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars (Gallery Books), “then 2019 may be the year that cancel culture cancels itself.”
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February 2020
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SENATORS PROPOSE LIMITS ON POLICE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION
A BIPARTISAN PAIR of lawmakers wants to limit the use of facial recognition technology by federal law enforcement.
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February 2020
Reason magazine
FIRED?
AMERICANS CAN LOSE THEIR JOBS FOR ALMOST ANYTHING. WHY ARE WE SO HESITANT TO GIVE PRESIDENTS THE BOOT?
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February 2020
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Trump's Quiet War On Iran Gets Loud
The US Drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 2, 2020, seemed to many Americans like the start of a war.
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April 2020
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The Truth Could Set Them Free
WHY DID CALIFORNIA DESTROY RESEARCH INTO A GROUP OF PEOPLE IT SAYS ARE DANGEROUS ENOUGH TO BE LOCKED UP INDEFINITELY?
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April 2020
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Christopher Preble Says Killing Soleimani Didn't Make America Safer
IN EARLY JANUARY, the United States took out Iran’s top military leader, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as he passed through Iraq. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of a foreign government official was controversial both at home and abroad.
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April 2020
Reason magazine
Understanding Ellison
In a new collection of letters, the great Invisible Man author is further revealed.
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April 2020
Reason magazine
CALIFORNIA'S GIG ECONOMY IS UNDER ATTACK
A NEW CALIFORNIA law intended to force employers to hire workers as employees rather than treat them as contractors is killing freelance jobs across the Golden State and leaving those contractors in limbo.
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