Reason magazine
GUN CONTROL PUTS YOUR LIFE AT RISK
In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
6 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
Rethink Crisis Response
PEOPLE WHO CALL 911 SHOULDN’T GET AN ILL-TRAINED POLICE OFFICER, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE DEALING WITH A MENTAL HEALTH EMERGENCY.
8 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
HOPE FOR FREE MARKET REFORM IN URUGUAY
ALTHOUGH THE GLOBAL media barely covered last year’s elections in Uruguay, President Luis Lacalle Pou’s victory was significant for ending 15 years of governance by the leftist Broad Front.
3 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
End the War on Drugs
DRUG PROHIBITION TURNS POLICE OFFICERS INTO ENEMIES TO BE FEARED RATHER THAN ALLIES TO BE WELCOMED.
7 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
Bust the Police Unions
THEY’RE A CONSISTENT FORCE OF ORGANIZED RESISTANCE TO CALMER, SAFER, LESS AGGRESSIVE POLICING.
8 min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
FICTION - Deep Cut
“Naw, you don’t have to worry about me,” Thomas said, after his mother had finished her characteristically perfunctory warning to us about drugs, alcohol, and rough-looking types. “Paul thinks he’s cool now, though.” ¶ “Paul, when did this happen?” Mrs. Rickley said. ¶ She wasn’t a hip mom, exactly, but she got points for not caring particularly about what her children or their friends got up to.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Mother Jones
REBEL FELL
Iconoclasm will rise again
3 min |
September/October 2020
Mother Jones
In The Rough
Donald Trump has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his struggling Scottish golf resorts. Lawmakers in Edinburgh want to know where that cash came from.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Mother Jones
Stay to Play
Trump cronies, lobbyists, and special interests have boosted the president’s DC hotel. This November, the election isn’t the only thing on the line.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Mother Jones
Cold As Ice
Local Sheriffs Are Driving Trump's Deportation Agenda– And Terrifying Communities.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Mother Jones
Whose Streets?
Oakland residents convinced the city to rethink how it tackled gun violence. Now, amid calls to defund the Police other cities are eyeing it's strategy.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Mother Jones
Buy The Book
Lexipol says its policies keep police departments out of trouble. Critics say they left violent cops off the hook. Buy the book
6 min |
September/October 2020
Mother Jones
The Shield
Police Unions are key to undestanding why so many violent officers escape discipline. Will this year's racial justice uprisings finally force reform?
10+ min |
September/October 2020
The Atlantic
POLICE REFORM IS NOT ENOUGH
The moral failure of incremental change
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Lying as an Art Form
Elena Ferrante’s new novel about adolescence explores the power of fictions.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Anatomy of an American Failure – How the virus won
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation.
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
The Mythology Of Racial Progress
Believing that things are always getting better actually makes them worse.
9 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
A Pressidential Guide To Crisis Management
What Trump should have learned from his predecessors
9 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Beware The Digital Cure
Tech companies are helping the government respond to the pandemic. What’s in it for them?
10 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Time, Space, and the Virus
How a pandemic transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar
4 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Seamus Heaney – “How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
The Collaborators
What causes people to abandon their principles in support of a corrupt regime? And how do they find their way back?
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Supermarkets are a miracle
Why did we ever take them for granted?
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Reason magazine
WHY DOES HOLLYWOOD HATE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS?
THE TYPECASTING OF BUILDERS AS VILLAINS MIGHT HELP EXPLAIN WHY NIMBYS SO OFTEN WIN THE POLICY BATTLES OVER URBAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.
10+ min |
August/September 2020
Reason magazine
Coronavirus Cuisine
IN THE FACE OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGE IN GENERATIONS, AMERICA’S CHEFS, BARTENDERS, AND RESTAURANT OWNERS ARE REINVENTING THEIR FOOD, THEIR BUSINESSES, AND THEMSELVES.
10+ min |
August/September 2020
Reason magazine
Indians and Aliens
Human beings’ disturbing capacity to manufacture history to serve our own ends
5 min |
August/September 2020
Reason magazine
TRUMP'S TRADE WAR MADE THE PANDEMIC WORSE, AND NATIONALISM WILL SLOW THE RECOVERY
PROTECTIONISM IS NOW INFECTING THE GOP TO A DEGREE THAT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO ERADICATE WHEN THE TRUMP ERA ENDS.
10+ min |
August/September 2020
Reason magazine
Jo Jorgensen Is the 2020 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee
Jo Jorgensen, a senior lecturer in psychology at Clemson University,
3 min |
August/September 2020
Reason magazine
I Don't Want To Be Anybody's Employee
THE PUSH TO RECLASSIFY INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS IS HARMING MANY OF THE WORKERS IT’S SUPPOSED TO HELP.
10+ min |
August/September 2020
Reason magazine
FROM ANTIFA TO UFOS, ONE JOKE CAN SPAWN A THOUSAND CONSPIRACIES
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PRANK OR SPOOF SPARKS A REAL BELIEF?
10+ min |