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Reason magazine
INTERNET SEARCH IS BETTER THAN EVER IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT
IN FEBRUARY, THE software engineer and blogger Dmitri Brereton wrote an essay titled “Google Search Is Dying” for his personal website.
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October 2022
Reason magazine
INFLATION WON’T WHIP ITSELF
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT GERALD Ford was simultaneously one of the luckiest and unluckiest presidents when he took office in 1974.
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October 2022
Reason magazine
Glenn Greenwald on Corporate Media and Identity Politics
LAWYER-TURNED-JOURNALIST Glenn Greenwald’s work with whistleblower Edward Snowden to reveal illegal government surveillance won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. That same year he helped launch The Intercept, but he abruptly resigned six years later after a disagreement over editorial policy. In July, Reason’s Nick Gillespie spoke with Greenwald at FreedomFest 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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October 2022
Reason magazine
GOODBYE, GLOBALIZATION?
AS AMERICAN POLITICIANS TURN AGAINST ECONOMIC OPENNESS, HISTORY SUGGESTS THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DIRE.
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October 2022
Reason magazine
THE UNSCIENTIFIC PANIC OVER SOLAR GEOENGINEERING
WHY ARE ACTIVISTS TRYING TO STOP RESEARCH INTO A PROMISING BACKUP PLAN TO HANDLE CLIMATE CHANGE?
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October 2022
Reason magazine
IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS THE FEDS
THE FBI’S LONG HISTORY OF USING INFORMANTS AND MANUFACTURED PLOTS TO PROSECUTE EXTREMISTS
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October 2022
Reason magazine
THE AUTHORITARIAN CONVERGENCE
THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN POLITICS ISN'T POLARIZATIONIT'S RISING ILLIBERALISM.
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October 2022
Reason magazine
Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan
As Pop Culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Who Controls What Books You Can Read?
Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries
Where there's demand for books, the Internet will supply them.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Biden Comforts the Comfortable
DURING HIS CAMPAIGN for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted that his primary goal as president would be to help the struggling American middle class.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Rise of the Sensitivity Reader
Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published or even written.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Desantis Vs. Disney
Ron Desantis, Florida's Republican governor, has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
After Uvalde, Irrelevant Gun Control Proposals
The horrifying May 24 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults, happened just 10 days after a gunman murdered 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
The Weird World of Watergate
Fifty years later, the motive behind the mother of all modern political scandals remains clouded.
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July 2022
Reason magazine
Medieval Geopolitics Help Explain Modern Russia and Ukraine
Explanations for Russia's 2022 war in Ukraine often go back to 2014, when the Revolution of Dignity replaced Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western government and Vladimir Putin responded by annexing Crimea and sponsoring separatist enclaves in Eastern Ukraine.
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July 2022
Reason magazine
CIVIL LIBERTIES: A JUDGE SAYS SHAKEN-BABY CASES RELY ON 'JUNK SCIENCE'
AFTER HIS 11-MONTH-OLD son showed signs of neurological damage in 2017, Darryl Nieves was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
IMMIGRATION: THE BORDER LEGACY OF TITLE 42 EXPULSIONS
WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden announced in April that he would not extend a controversial public health order that allowed U.S. immigration officials to expel migrants, many on the right criticized the move as premature or misguided. But the order has actually made the border less secure.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
London Libel Lawsuits Punish Truth Tellers
THE U.S. SHOULDN'T IMPORT BRITISH DEFAMATION LAW, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DONALD TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO.
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Little Libraries, Free at Last?
GOOD NEWS FOR FANS OF LITERACY AND OPPONENTS OF RESTRICTIVE ZONING CODES
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August - September 2022
Reason magazine
Christopher Alexander's Utopian Blueprint
Imagine a Federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can still experience many ways of life different from their own."
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July 2022
Reason magazine
Zoning vs. the Good Samaritan
How labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic
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July 2022
Reason magazine
Biden Can't Pin Inflation on Putin
If Biden is looking to spread the blame for inflation evenly, he should look in the mirror.
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July 2022
Reason magazine
Zap Comix Were Never for Kids!
Disreputable and censored COMIX improbably brought the art form from the gutter to the museums.
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July 2022
Reason magazine
Kids Can Learn Without Instruction
Don’t show this to your kids, because they might cry. But guess how much time children in “traditional societies”— indigenous groups pretty much off the grid—spend in direct instruction, the way American kids do in school?
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July 2022
Reason magazine
Why a Wealth Tax Is a Bad Idea
Billionaires are better at figuring out what to do with their money than the government will ever be.
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June 2022
Reason magazine
Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?
WE’RE NOT JUST fighting an epidemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, declared at the Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2020. “We’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus and is just as dangerous.”
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June 2022
Reason magazine
Ukrainians Find Refuge in Previously Unwelcoming Places
Immigration
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June 2022
Reason magazine
America's Nuclear Reluctance
ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, Oregon’s NuScale Power signed an agreement with the Polish mining and processing firm KGHM to deploy NuScale’s innovative small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Poland by 2029.
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June 2022
Reason magazine
William Ruger on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
William Ruger, who holds a Ph.D. in politics specializing in foreign policy, is the newly appointed president of the American Institute for Economic Research. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he was a prominent voice in calling for U.S. withdrawal from that country. He was picked by former President Donald Trump to be ambassador to Afghanistan, but his nomination was never voted on.
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