Reason magazine
Let Prisoners Work for Themselves
For nearly two decades, some Puerto Rican prisons allowed a very different sort of prison labor.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Making Food Out of Thin Air
THANKS TO INNOVATIONS in food science and agriculture, the world is producing more food than ever before. While this has significantly reduced global hunger since the 1970s, it has impacted the environment; in 2023, food production generated about 26 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to Our World in Data.
1 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Chatbots Win the Debate
IN A MAY 2025 study in Nature Human Behavior, researchers set up online debates between two humans, and between a human and the large language model GPT-4. In some debates, they provided both humans and AI with basic personal information about their opponents—age, sex, ethnicity, employment, political affiliation. They wanted to find out if such personalized information helped debaters both human and machine to craft more persuasive arguments.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
A Spy's Eye View
NOT ALL OF James Bond's gadgets were fictional. In the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond uses a strange-looking metal square to photograph supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s secret plans. The same metal square appears in the 2013 season of the Cold War-themed show The Americans, when an FBI asset is sent to copy documents in the Soviet Embassy.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
WHY EUROPEANS HAVE LESS
EUROPE IS POOR BECAUSE IT CHOOSES TO BE.
10+ min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Poland Climbs, Hungary Slips
LOOKING BACK ON his career as one of Poland's most prominent economists and political leaders, Leszek Balcerowicz offered a succinct lesson for policymakers everywhere.
3 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Cracks in the Map
THE IDEA OF carving out territorial exceptions to, or escape zones from, the hand of the nation-state has long captured the imagination of free market enthusiasts. In the 1990s, I was involved in several organizations devoted to the idea, and I witnessed the movement's gradual shift from a pipe dream of libertarian theorists to something attracting serious interest, and investment capital, from entrepreneurs, as libertarian-oriented free ports, special economic zones, charter cities, and even floating maritime cities (seasteads), began to look more politically possible. In 1993, my “free nation” group was meeting in a local North Carolina hotel; by 2011, I was sipping cocktails at a rather swankier “free cities” conference on the resort island of Roatán, Honduras—which, not coincidentally, today boasts its own charter city, Próspera.
5 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
The Depopulation Bomb
NATALIST PANIC IS rife nowadays. The White House is weighing initiatives to boost the number of births, ranging from a $5,000-per-baby bonus to awarding “National Medals of Motherhood” to mothers with six or more children. In March, the NatalCon gathering in Austin, Texas, declared that we're “living through the greatest population bust in human history.” In April, the tech billionaire (and father of 14 children) Elon Musk posted on X: “Low birth rates will end civilization.”
4 min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
Richard Dawkins on the New Enemies of Scientific Thinking
THE LEGENDARY ATHEIST AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST ARGUES THAT TRUTH SHOULDN'T BEND TO FAITH OR FASHIONABLE POLITICS.
10+ min |
October 2025
Reason magazine
DOGE BEFORE DOGE
BEFORE TRUMP HAD ELON MUSK, NIXON HAD HOWARD PHILLIPS.
10+ min |
October 2025
Los Angeles Times
The Russia and Ukraine summits show potential to push for peace
The president should emphasize U.S. willingness to continue to sell weapons to Kyiv if no peace deal is reached
3 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Trump and the U.S. gain nothing from relationship with Putin
Despite the president's belief that the world's 'two big powers' could work toward a peace deal, only Russia's leader walked away from Alaska with anything to show for it
3 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Anaheim warns of immigration raids as agents swarm the city
Officials describe the actions as 'the most significant and disruptive' in weeks.
3 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Spain endures one of its most destructive wildfire seasons
Spain tackled several major wildfires on Tuesday in one of the country’s most destructive fire seasons in recent decades, despite temperatures dropping across the Iberian Peninsula.
2 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Ruling blocks players' paths to suiting up for USC, UCLA
District judge denies injunction requests by Wingfield, Robinson to play this fall.
3 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
How state plans to boost EVs with no federal help
Restoring subsidies is key among several strategies identified by California officials.
4 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Moreno has grown into his role as a clutch kicker for San Pedro
Once a scrawny freshman, the junior has developed into a consistent performer.
2 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Federal crackdown ripples through capital
White House has touted arrests, while D.C. officials have criticized operation.
4 min |
August 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
DE LOS Rauw Alejandro is among honorees
Puerto Rican pop visionary Rauw Alejandro will be honored at the 38th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards.
2 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
L.A.'s tagged towers remain in limbo
Bankruptcy sale of the spectacular eyesore downtown drags on with no end in sight.
3 min |
August 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
BECOMING THE GIRL THE WORLD BLAMED
Grace Van Patten takes on Hulu's Amanda Knox story, from arrest to release
6 min |
August 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Ancestral land returned to tribe
A church turns over a half-acre plot to the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians.
4 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Maker of voting machines had 'slush fund,' feds allege
An election technology firm allegedly overbilled Los Angeles County for voting machines used during the 2020 election and funneled the extra cash into a \"slush fund\" for bribing government officials, federal prosecutors say in a criminal case against three company executives.
7 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Hamas response to plan spurs call for Gaza truce
A key mediator on Tuesday stressed the urgency of brokering aceasefire in the Gaza Strip after Hamas militants’ “positive response” to a proposal from Arab countries, but Israel has yet to weigh inas its military prepares an offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas.
4 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Finally, a smart solution for L.A.'s empty skyscrapers
Nearly 30% of downtown office spaces sit vacant following the pandemic. Here's how the city could transform them.
4 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
FTC accuses group of fraud in ticket resales
Complaint alleges trio made millions off of concert seats on Ticketmaster.
2 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
THE BEST AND WORST FREEWAYS IN SOUTHLAND
From the easy, breezy 261 to the imperfect 10, The Times ranks them based on speed, crashes and other factors
10+ min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Not all is right in Dodgers' outfield
Betts meets with Roberts, Friedman after Hernández's poor defense
3 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Laughter is dying down in cinemas
Comedy no longer rules the box office. But, funnily enough, the genre has hope.
5 min |
August 20, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Boxer Chávez Jr. is sent to Mexico
Julio César Chávez Jr., whose high-profile boxing career was marred by substance abuse and other struggles and never approached the heights of his legendary father, was in Mexican custody Tuesday after being deported from the United States.
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