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The Mushroom Moment Manifesto
The saturday after voters in Washington, D.C., and Oregon voted to loosen legal restrictions on magic mushrooms, my girlfriend and I celebrated in the most appropriate way possible.
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March 2021
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TikTok After Trump
Tiktok has succeeded wildly where similar short-form video platforms—including Vine and the Facebook-backed Lasso—did not.
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March 2021
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THE ALT-CURRENCY MARTYR
BEFORE THE FEDS FEARED BITCOIN, THEY FEARED E-GOLD.
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April 2021
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From Magic Mushroom to Forbidden Fungus (and Back)
Half a century ago, Congress declared that there is no legitimate use for psilocybin. State and local governments are finally challenging that judgment.
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March 2021
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Preserve your sanity by preserving food
Canning is a hedge against uncertainty, an education in self-reliance, and a pocket of calm amid tumult.
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February 2021
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The Silver Lining in Biden's Massive Housing Plan
A democratic White House and a Republican Senate might be the best of all worlds when it comes to federal housing policy.
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February 2021
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Don't Pack The Court
Joe Biden shouldn’t repeat FDR’s big mistake.
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February 2021
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In Defense of Covid Billionaires
People love to hate billionaires. And they really love to hate large pharmaceutical companies.
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February 2021
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Congress Targets Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google for Being Popular
With fresh faces in the White House and Congress, many Trump-era political agendas will soon be discarded.
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February 2021
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Why Is America Still In Syria?
Trump brought chaos to a region already on the brink, and the unintended consequences of his actions will reverberate for years to come.
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February 2021
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Trump Wasn't a Dictator, but He Played One on TV
The 45th President busted norms left and right. But the abuse of executive power didn’t start and won’t end with him.
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February 2021
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A Practical Wish List For Joe Biden
Some doable libertarian ideas for the new President
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March 2021
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A Silicon Curtain Descends
Trump escalated America’s war against Huawei and China. Biden should beware burgeoning technonationalism.
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February 2021
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Fashion Crimes
When fabulous clothes are outlawed, only outlaws will be fabulous.
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January 2021
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An Anti-racist Education for Middle Schoolers
K-12 STUDENTS IN large public school districts across the country spent much of the fall semester at home, a less-than-ideal result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom learning was hardly the only significant change to the education system. Some school districts are embracing trendy but dubious ideas about how to fight racism in the classroom.
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January 2021
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Glenn Greenwald – ‘Journalists are Authoritarians'
Glenn Greenwald discusses what went wrong at the outlet he co-founded, what’s wrong with the ACLU, and what might go wrong in the Biden administration.
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February 2021
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Biden Pledges To Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement
“Today, The Trump Administration officially left the Paris Climate Change Agreement,” tweeted President-elect Joe Biden on November 4, 2020. “And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it.”
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February 2021
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MURKY LAWS MAKE IT TOO EASY TO LABEL GOOD PARENTS ‘NEGLECTFUL'
IS IT LEGAL for parents to let their kids play outside on their own or stay home alone for a little while? That’s a simple question without a simple answer.
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January 2021
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STATES ARE FINALLY REVOKING COPS' LICENSE TO STEAL
A RECENT FLURRY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY SUGGESTS WHY FORFEITURE REFORM SUCCEEDS—AND WHY IT FAILS.
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January 2021
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The Truth About the Free Market Family
HERE IS AN ambiguity, if not a bait and switch, at the heart of Maxine Eichner’s The FreeMarket Family. In her telling, the last 40 years of American public policy have left families to fend for themselves in the marketplace while providing little in the way of support for children and working parents. Filled with both broad data and specific anecdotes, the book argues that we are failing to raise healthy, well-adjusted children because market incentives and poor public policy make it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, even as growing economic inequality, driven by free markets, has made it harder for lower-income adults to find good jobs.
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January 2021
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WILL CITIES SURVIVE 2020?
COVID-19 IS REIGNITING OLD DEBATES ABOUT ZONING, PUBLIC HEALTH, URBAN PLANNING, AND SUBURBAN SPRAWL.
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January 2021
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SOMETIMES BIGGER IS BETTER
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING TOGETHER ON AN ANTITRUST PUSH AGAINST BIG TECH. IT WILL BACKFIRE BIG-TIME.
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January 2021
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Keeping Up With the Lees
SINGAPORE IS NOT A MODEL FOR AMERICA.
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January 2021
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Would the ACLU Still Defend Nazis' Right To March in Skokie?
Former Executive Director Ira Glasser discusses the past, present, and increasingly shaky future of free speech.
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January 2021
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$75 BILLION IN BAND-AIDS WON'T CURE AILING AIRLINES
REGAL CINEMAS ANNOUNCED in early October that it will temporarily close all 536 of its U.S. locations as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep customers away. This move affects about 40,000 employees across the country. Yet nobody in Congress is talking about a bailout for theaters
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January 2021
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COVID-19 DIDN'T BREAK THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. IT WAS ALREADY BROKEN.
FAMILIES ARE LEAVING TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS IN RECORD NUMBERS FOR PODS, HOMESCHOOLING, CHARTERS, AND MORE.
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December 2020
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HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE BEING CANCELED
Kindly Inquisitors author Jonathan Rauch on the never-ending battle to defend free speech
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December 2020
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PANDEMIC RULES ARE ONLY FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE
THE DEFINING MOMENT in the “rules for thee but not for me” ethos of the ruling class during the COVID-19 pandemic may have come when Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist behind Britain’s lockdown policy, met with his married girlfriend in defiance of the restrictions he promoted.
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December 2020
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HOW FREDERICK DOUGLASS DESTROYED JOHN C.CALHOUN WITH THE POWER OF JOHN LOCKE
ARMED WITH THE CONSTITUTION, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE FAR- REACHING GUARANTEES OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY THAT THEY CONTAINED, DOUGLASS TOOK THE FIGHT DIRECTLY TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS.
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December 2020
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The Atlanta Sex Toy Magnate Who Can't Stop Picking Fights
MICHAEL MORRISON USED TO BE A BOXER. NOW HE BRAWLS WITH ZONING BOARDS AND TAX COLLECTORS.
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