Science
Reason magazine
DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'
DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.
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October 2021
Reason magazine
History – Walking the Delicate Line Between Reporter and Activist
I spent the second half of the 1990s hanging out with people who operate unlicensed radio stations. That was partly because I was covering them as a reporter, and it was partly because I was active in a movement to legalize their illicit transmissions.
5 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?
A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate
The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cashed Out
What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.
After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.
3 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt
The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.
3 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?
President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.
3 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster
Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword
Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.
6 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY
FUTURE
7 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
WORLD
3 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP
A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.
9 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
6 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Post Apocalypse
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?
“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”
10 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Autonomous Mexico
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
6 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech
Is Facebook a monopoly? Should Amazon be forced to do business with the new social media platform Parler? Is Apple harming its customers—and maybe democracy—by installing the Safari web browser on iPhones? Did Google bully people into using its search engine?
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like
Dr. Lee Gross’ direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits
The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.
3 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech
IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”
4 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
There's Nothing Modern About MMT
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) tells us that governments should finance public spending by creating money.
5 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Era of Small Government Is Over
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
An $86 Billion Moral Hazard
The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.
3 min |