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Reason magazine
The Corruptions Of Talking Like Trump
“This committee is not a court, nor is it a jury,” Sen. Howard Baker (R–Tenn.) informed millions of television viewers on May 17, 1973.
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February 2020
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Writer Meghan Daum Thinks You Need To Toughen Up
“ IF 2018 WAS the year that the concept of ‘cancel culture’ went mainstream,” writes Meghan Daum near the beginning of The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars (Gallery Books), “then 2019 may be the year that cancel culture cancels itself.”
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February 2020
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SENATORS PROPOSE LIMITS ON POLICE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION
A BIPARTISAN PAIR of lawmakers wants to limit the use of facial recognition technology by federal law enforcement.
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February 2020
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FIRED?
AMERICANS CAN LOSE THEIR JOBS FOR ALMOST ANYTHING. WHY ARE WE SO HESITANT TO GIVE PRESIDENTS THE BOOT?
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February 2020
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Trump's Quiet War On Iran Gets Loud
The US Drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 2, 2020, seemed to many Americans like the start of a war.
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April 2020
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The Truth Could Set Them Free
WHY DID CALIFORNIA DESTROY RESEARCH INTO A GROUP OF PEOPLE IT SAYS ARE DANGEROUS ENOUGH TO BE LOCKED UP INDEFINITELY?
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April 2020
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Christopher Preble Says Killing Soleimani Didn't Make America Safer
IN EARLY JANUARY, the United States took out Iran’s top military leader, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as he passed through Iraq. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of a foreign government official was controversial both at home and abroad.
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April 2020
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Understanding Ellison
In a new collection of letters, the great Invisible Man author is further revealed.
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April 2020
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CALIFORNIA'S GIG ECONOMY IS UNDER ATTACK
A NEW CALIFORNIA law intended to force employers to hire workers as employees rather than treat them as contractors is killing freelance jobs across the Golden State and leaving those contractors in limbo.
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April 2020
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SEATTLE'S SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS BEGUN DISMANTLING ITS GIFTED PROGRAMS
AS IF TO demonstrate why school choice matters, Seattle’s education system is purposefully dismantling a program to serve its gifted students at one of its schools— and completely ignoring parents’ wishes in the process.
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April 2020
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Against the New Nationalism
“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism,”
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April 2020
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Why Is Nobody Replying To My Emails?
People are less gullible than you think
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March 2020
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Errol Morris Is Fascinated by and Terrified of Steve Bannon
The decorated filmmaker didn’t expect the dramatic reaction to his “toxic” documentary about Trump’s former aide-de-camp.
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March 2020
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How The War On Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women
That prohibitionist laws are always, always, enforced more heavily upon the poor, the disadvantaged, and minorities is not, I think, controversial.
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March 2020
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The Tear of Allah
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CONFISCATED A SACRED METEORITE FROM MUSLIM HERDERS. THEY’RE SUING TO GET IT BACK.
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March 2020
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MASSAGE PARLOR-PANIC
A POTENT COMBINATION OF PURITANISM, RACISM, AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IS PUTTING ASIAN MASSEUSES AND THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THEM IN NEEDLESS DANGER.
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March 2020
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The FBI Rebrands Its Sex Worker Harassment Campaign
The FBI is once again aiding vice squad stings across the country and calling it an effort to stop child sex trafficking.
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November 2019
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Privacy Is Over. We Must Fight Harder Than Ever To Protect Our Civil Liberties.
Once upon a time, privacy was everyone’s default setting.
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November 2019
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Kagan And Gorsuch Clash Over Judicial Deference To The Administrative State
A major conflict is now underway on the U.S. Supreme Court between Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch over the issue of judicial deference to the administrative state.
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November 2019
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Cheap Meds From Canada, Eh?
“For the first time in HHS history, we are open to importation,” Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar told reporters in July.
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November 2019
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How Two Seasteaders Wound Up Marked For Death
If a tiny floating cottage brought down the wrath of the thai navy, is there any hope for stateless life at sea?
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November 2019
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A Florida Retiree's Uncut Lawn May Cost Him His House
The city of Dunedin, Florida, really wants Jim Ficken’s house.
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November 2019
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5G Is The Future
If local nimbys and federal bureaucrats don’t mess it up
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November 2019
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Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change?
Eating meat is bad for the climate—or at least that was one of the main conclusions highlighted in a flood of news reports based on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s August report, Climate Change and Land.
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November 2019
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States Are Depriving Innocent People Of Their Second Amendment Rights
“Red Flag” laws leave gun owners defenseless.
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November 2019
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Will Justin Amash Run for President as a Libertarian in 2020?
Freedomfest, a largely libertarian gath ering in Las Vegas with a significant con servative presence, has been tacking in a noticeably Trumpian direction since the future president spoke there in 2015.
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October 2019
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Hells Angels Meet Housewives on Harleys
How bikers turned into their parents and turned off their kids
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October 2019
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Bernie Sanders Leads the Anti–charter School Charge
“I believe in public education, and I believe in public charter schools,” explained Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) at a CNN town hall in March. What the can didate for the Democratic presidential nomination doesn’t believe in, he said, are “privately controlled charter schools.”
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October 2019
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Neal Stephens Wants to Tell Big Stories
An Economist and a Science Fiction Author Discuss Cryogenics, Mythology, Philanthropy, Fragmentation, and Simulation.
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October 2019
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Hard Lessons From the Russian Civil War
The official 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which birthed the world’s first Communist state, came and went two years ago.
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