Science
Reason magazine
Psychonaut Hamilton Morris On Drugs After Prohibition
What will American drug culture look like once prohibition is finally over and we can start to legally use more substances in more settings?
3 min |
August - September 2019
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Helicopter Parenting For Pet Owners
Lifestyle
3 min |
April 2019
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Quit Worrying And Learn To Love Trade With China
Fretting over deficits and intellectual property will do no good and much harm.
5 min |
April 2019
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Choosing Smart Embryos Isn't Immoral
Let's say you're a fertility doctor advising would-be parents who have exactly two viable embryos ready for implantation. The parents want to implant only one embryo. This is not an uncommon scenario; more than 71,000 babies were born in the U.S. via assisted reproduction in 2016.
3 min |
March 2019
Reason magazine
Gerry Mandering Is Out Of Control
Computers could be the key to resolving partisan fights over congressional boundaries.
10+ min |
May 2018
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How Vietnam Gave Us C-SPAN
Brian Lamb, the network’s founder, is retiring after 40 years of putting cameras on Congress, hosting in-depth interviews, and creating an enduring home for diverse civil discourse.
10+ min |
July 2019
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Law Brett Kavanaugh Flunks His First Test As An Originalist
In his 2018 confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was asked by Sen.
3 min |
July 2019
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Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong
You probably thinkyou know which states have the best and worst education systems in the country.
9 min |
November 2018
Reason magazine
Dissent And Disarray In Putin's Russia
The authoritarian President’s hold on power may be shakier than it looks.
10+ min |
November 2018
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Has America's Obsession With Manufacturing Jobs Gone Too Far?
A wisconsin town is spending billions, seizing homes, and breaking state law to lure a Taiwanese company.
10 min |
November 2018
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Can Laundry And Lettuce Save Cleaveland?
A worker-owned co-op that even a capitalist could love is washing linens for the cleveland clinic and growing vegetables for the city.
10+ min |
November 2018
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Freeborn Frank Turner
The British musician brings a libertarian sensibility to his new folk-punk album.
10+ min |
November 2018
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Do Partisans Hate Each Other More Than Ever?
Scholars try to explain today’s political warfare.
5 min |
November 2018
Reason magazine
Congress Needs An Opioid Intervention
In an effortto combat the opioid crisis in America, Congress is calling for a slate of governmental interventions that have been tried, tested, and shown to cause more harm.
4 min |
November 2018
Reason magazine
Uber, But For Poop
EVERYBODY POOPS, BUT not everybody has to deal with a cartel when trying to dispose of it.
3 min |
November 2018
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Russia's Global Anti- Libertarian Crusade
How Vladimir Putin’s desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics
10+ min |
August/September 2017
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Gorsuch's Record Was More liberal Than Kennedy's This Term
HERE’S A CURIOUS fact about the U.S. Supreme Court term that concluded in June: Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch racked up a more “liberal” voting record than Justice Anthony Kennedy.
3 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
Dear Immigration Restrictionists: Milton Friedman Was Not On Your Side
THE LATE NOBEL Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman was a free market libertarian who believed that immigrants helped make America great.
5 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
Grandparents In The Gulag
DEBRA CUPP, 60, stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on a hot day in July holding a handmade sign: “Ron Cupp died waiting on compassionate release, Jan. 3, 2017.”
2 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
The Tribe Of Liberty
National Review’s Jonah Goldberg wonders how to save civilization in his new book, Suicide of the West.
10+ min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
Meet The Good Soldier Svejk, Patron Saint Of Malingerers And Saboteurs
A 1920s-era Novel Sheds Light on Eastern European Anti-authoritarianism.
8 min |
October 2018
Reason magazine
The Prohibition President
Politics
3 min |
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.
10+ min |
August/September 2018
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The Wall Won't End Pot Smuggling At The Border. Legalization Will.
Pot is bulky and pungent.
10+ min |
April 2019
Reason magazine
Netflix Bows To The Saudis
Even tech giants have to follow the law.
3 min |
April 2019
Reason magazine
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.
2 min |
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.
3 min |
July 2019
Reason magazine
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.
3 min |
July 2019
Reason magazine
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.
8 min |
July 2019
Reason magazine
Fentanyl Is Not A Nuke, And Drug Dealers Are Not Terrorists
Could fentanyl be a weapon of mass destruction?
6 min |