Science
Reason magazine
Don't Just Do Something
“I don't know what the answer is,” Kacey Musgraves shouted during her set at Lol lapalooza on August 7, “but obviously something has to be fucking done.”
6 min |
October 2019
Reason magazine
The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech
The companies that make your life better are under attack from left and right.
10+ min |
October 2019
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Jonathan Kaiman: ‘I'M Radioactive'
Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #metoo movement. A year later, the fallout continues.
10+ min |
October 2019
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The Joyful Contrarianism of Gordon Tullock
Meet the Economist who understood Nascar Crashes, the Sale of Indulgences, and the Feeding Habits of Coal Tits.
10+ min |
October 2019
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Elizabeth Warren's Plans Don't Add Up
The Warren Worldview of Ill-founded Economic Pessimism is Both Bloodless and Moralizing.
10+ min |
October 2019
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Booze, Profit & Prayer
When Europe’s beer-brewing, liquor-distilling monks combine catholicism and capitalism, the results are delicious.
10+ min |
January 2019
Reason magazine
Can Algorithms Run Things Better Than Humans?
Welcome to the rise of the algocracy.
10+ min |
January 2019
Reason magazine
America Needs More Dentists
Too bad we won’t let them come here from overseas.
2 min |
January 2019
Reason magazine
Gorsuch Challenges Blank Check For The U.S. Attorney General
In October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an important case that asks whether Congress violated Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution by delegating its lawmaking authority to the executive branch.
2 min |
January 2019
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Can't Afford A Vacation? Blame The State!
With temperatures rising, your sweet summer getaway is just around the corner—if you can afford one.
3 min |
August/September 2017
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Why Are Cops Putting Kids In Cuffs?
Federal funding, zero tolerance, and lack of choice encourage the creeping criminalization of student misbehavior.
10+ min |
March 2017
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Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville's Little Kurdistan
Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville’s Little Kurdistan
10+ min |
October 2017
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Mississippi's Jump-Out Boys
The police punish people for living in a bad neighborhood.
3 min |
October 2017
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An Expensive Experiment With Singlepayer Health Care
An Expensive Experiment With Singlepayer Health Care
3 min |
October 2017
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Breaking Addicts In Order To Fix Them
How Synanon revolutionized drug treatment and poisoned the politics of prohibition.
4 min |
October 2017
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Economics
Health Care Costs Are The Reason You’Re Not Getting A Raise
3 min |
October 2017
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From Washington To Wisconsin, States Are Punishing Dissent
From Washington To Wisconsin, States Are Punishing Dissent
3 min |
June 2018
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The Gambia May Beat America To Ending The Death Penalty
The Gambia May Beat America To Ending The Death Penalty
3 min |
June 2018
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In The U.S., There Are 219,000 Women Behind Bars
In The U.S., There Are 219,000 Women Behind Bars
3 min |
June 2018
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Good Neighbors Can Make Good Fences
But when it comes to Mexico, the United States isn’t being very neighborly.
5 min |
May 2017
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Will Florida Ban Fracking?
NIMBYism in the Sunshine State
2 min |
June 2017
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P.J.O' Rourke: Things Are Going To Be Fine
But There's Going To Be Some Trouble Getting To The Fine Part.
10+ min |
June 2017
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The Dangerous Toys Of Christmas Past
Hungry Cabbage Patch Kids, loose bear eyeballs, hot Creepy Crawlers, and more
4 min |
January 2018
Reason magazine
Trump Takes On Obamacare
Trump Takes On Obamacare
3 min |
January 2018
Reason magazine
Public Sector Unions On Trial
Public Sector Unions On Trial
2 min |
January 2018
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Against Capitalism
Against Capitalism
3 min |
January 2018
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The Annual Federal Spending Frenzy Is A Terrible Fall Tradition
The Annual Federal Spending Frenzy Is A Terrible Fall Tradition
3 min |
January 2018
Reason magazine
The Volokh Conspiracy Comes To Reason
In December, the cast of characters known collectively as The Volokh Conspiracy left The Washington Post—where they have made their home since 2014—and moved to reason.com. Shortly before the eclectic crew of legal bloggers began their migration, the conspiracy’s namesake and unofficial ringleader, University of California, Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh, talked with Reason’s Nick Gillespie about life, liberty, and the law.
3 min |
March 2018
Reason magazine
When Governments Suspend Their Own Rules
Special economic zones can be anything from tools of crony capitalism to seeds of a freer world order.
4 min |
March 2018
Reason magazine
The Awful Supreme Court Precedent That Helped Create Today's Asset Forfeiture Nightmare
CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE is one of the most destructive and flagrantly unconstitutional government practices occurring in the United States today.
2 min |