Reason magazine
Visit Your Ancestral Homeland
LAST YEAR I honeymooned in Rome, which was a long day trip from the tiny 2,500-year-old village in the Campania region of Italy that my maternal grandparents left in the 1910s. Of course I had to go—it was surely my only chance to see where that side of my family had come from.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
The Glories of Mexican Dentistry
I CROSSED THE U.S./Mexico border six times in a month in 2018, an economic refugee in my own way.
4 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
A Beautiful Private Bridge
FOR MY 80TH birthday, my wife Lou offered to plan a trip somewhere I'd always wanted to go. I chose the Millau Viaduct—Europe's highest and most wonderful bridge.
1 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
CAPITALISM IN THE CRACKS
A THREE-STORY HOUSE tucked into a mere one-meter gap between tall buildings. A flower shop shaped like a triangle, wedged between a retaining wall and the sidewalk. A standing bar humming with laughter beneath the rumble of passing trains. In most cities, these spaces would be dead zones—awkward, overlooked, written off by zoning and building codes as unusable.
8 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
12:00 THE RISE-AND DEMISE?-OF FREQUENT FLYER MILES
I JOINED MY first frequent flyer program—American AAdvantage—before a trip to Australia in 1991. Sadly, I let those miles expire. Five years later I was out of college, flying regularly for work, and reading all the materials airlines used to send in the mail.
9 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
Tiny Nations in the Crack of the Map
AFTER THE INITIAL thrill of a few stamps on one's passport, the idea of touching down in yet another nation-state may seem jejune. After you've seen one nation-state, how truly different can another one be? Airports and highways with instantly navigable signage, cultures and cuisines flattened to meet the supply and demand of global trade, traditions reduced to photo opportunities—just more of the same.
5 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
Tropical Culture in Canada's Multicultural Arctic Outpost
ON SATURDAY NIGHT, I had Indian food at a mosque potluck. The next day, I went to an African church service full of gospel music. In between, I went to a hockey game and stood on sea ice to watch a dogsled race. That's life in Iqaluit, a Canadian boomtown on the edge of the Arctic.
8 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
11-Day Middle-earth Fantasy in New Zealand
IT’S LITTLE SURPRISE that many libertarians count The Lord of the Rings among their favorite stories.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
The Final Vacation Frontier
LOOKING TO GET really away from it all? How about 250 miles straight up and traveling at 17,500 mph away from it all? This year, why not take a vacation in low earth orbit—specifically, on the International Space Station (ISS)?
2 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
THE NEARLY FREE MARKETS OF GUATEMALA
EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT the McDonald's Happy Meal—a global icon, with its bright box, its golden arches, and a toy that keeps kids entertained long after the fries are gone. What most don't know is this worldwide sensation was born in Guatemala, a small Central American country more often associated with coffee, bananas, and (unfortunately) crime.
4 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
A CITY BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS—AND BEER
FAR BELOW DOWNTOWN Cincinnati, you'll find large stone-and brick-walled caverns with dirt-strewn floors. Their great arched passageways loom over piles of century-old rubble, vast vats that once overflowed with beer, and recently added stairways to assist tourists passing through.
6 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
TRUMP'S CRACKDOWN ON FOREIGNERS IS CRIMPING AMERICANS' TRAVEL PLANS
AS THE TRUMP administration began snatching college students, detaining legal European tourists, denying entry to British crust-punks, rejecting transgender passports, deporting tattooed Salvadorans, insulting the sovereignty of Canadians, and floating plans to ban visitors from 43 countries, the domestic travel and tourism industry braced itself for bad news.
5 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
The Rise of the Digital Nomad
\"IT WAS A grueling three-hour commute to my Colorado office this morning. I left Telluride with a yellow day pack strapped to my back, and climbed north into the mountains through the golden glow of early-October aspens,\" wrote Steven K. Roberts in his 1988 book, Computing Across America.
10 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
IN SEASIDE, LIVING IS A WAY OF LIFE
YOU MIGHT NOT expect there to be much for libertarians to like about a town that boasts a master plan, where design conformity is rigorously enforced across virtually every building and street, and whose admirers wax poetic about a building code that covers “everything from building materials to roof pitch.”
5 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
In Defense of 'Tourist Traps'
IF YOU EVER go to New Orleans, one of your first stops should be the very unhidden gem of Café Du Monde’s French Market location. There you can buy some New Orleans special beignets and, if the weather is hot enough (it almost certainly will be) a frozen coffee to wash them down.
6 min |
August - September 2025
Good House Keeping - US
My Dementia Diaries
I've started writing letters to my future self as I watch my mom's mind give way to Alzheimer's. It's a road map to guide me (and my children) should I follow in her footsteps.
6 min |
July - August 2025
Good House Keeping - US
HARNESS THE POWER OF THE SUN
No outlet? No problem! A solar charger uses natural light to juice up your gadgets. Here's what to look for when shopping:
1 min |
July - August 2025
Good House Keeping - US
Cancel the Baby Shower.Plan a Nesting Party Instead.
I didn’t need more stuff for baby number two, so I invited my closest friends and family members over. Bringing together my community was the best gift I could have gotten.
5 min |
July - August 2025
Car and Driver
The Irreverence
FUN, PROVOCATIVE, DARING, AND NEVER BORING.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Car and Driver
The Experience
IT IS A TRUISM THAT THE WORST IDEAS OFTEN MAKE THE BEST STORIES.
3 min |
July - August 2025
Car and Driver
The Comparo
GATHER, TEST, JUDGE, WRITE, REPEAT.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Car and Driver
SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT
Modern cars and light trucks offer an alphabet soup of active safety helpers. Just how effective are they?
9 min |
July - August 2025
Car and Driver
GOAT vs. Goat
We see how the iconic 1960s Pontiac GTO stacks up dynamically against today’s Jeep Wrangler.
7 min |
July - August 2025
Car and Driver
MINE CRAFT
SUBARU DROPS OFF A CRUSHER CAR AT OUR OFFICE, SO WE BREAK OUT OUR SAWZALL AND TAKE A TRIP BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH.
7 min |
July - August 2025
Good House Keeping - US
Hot SUMMER READS
This season's most essential accessory (after SPF, naturally) is a book you can't put down. Tuck one of our picks—from rom-coms to thrillers—into your tote and find a shady spot to dive in.
4 min |
July - August 2025
Good House Keeping - US
PAINT & WALLPAPER
Dare to go bold! Let these standout spaces serve as permission to get creative with colors and patterns.
3 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
A Fossil Rewriting Dinosaur History
A DNA STRAND LIKE ME IS A BLUEPRINT for building a living thing,\" says the anthropomorphic double-helix Mr. DNA at the start of 1993's Jurassic Park.
1 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
THE SCAM THAT DUPED POKÉMON'S MOST OBSESSIVE CARD COLLECTORS AND THE AMATEUR SLEUTH WHO EXPOSED THE TRUTH
THE FIRST TIME Jason held a set of Pokémon cards was in 1999, when he was 9 years old and he received a pack as a birthday gift.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Underground Incan Tunnels
THE INCAN TEMPLE OF THE SUN IN Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Accessing 37 Dimensions
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS don’t really get along, as the science of the subatomic can get...well...weird.
2 min |