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Reason magazine
The Destruction of Black Bottom
How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit
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March 2022
Reason magazine
A Nation of Quitters?
Has America become a nation of quitters? It might seem so.
3 min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Two Courts Debunk Persistent Opioid Myths
Since 2014, state and local governments have filed thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies they blame for causing the “opioid crisis” by exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the risks of prescription pain medication. The theory underlying these cases is pretty straightforward: Drug manufacturers lied, and people died.
2 min |
March 2022
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Two Years to Slow the Spread
Government can’t stop moving the Covid-19 goal posts.
10+ min |
March 2022
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When Is Drinking Ayahuasca a Religious Experience?
Inside the vast apparatus of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), there’s a bureaucrat who is tasked with investigating the tenets of psychedelic churches. That improbable job figures in the legal troubles encountered by Arizona’s Vine of Light Church.
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March 2022
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Inflation Will Make Government Budget Problems Worse
"Recent comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy. Until recently, inflation was described as transitory. But at some point, that story has to change."
3 min |
February 2022
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MASSACRE at FLOWERTOWN
2.5 MILLION DEAD BEES, AND AN UNLIKELY TEST OF PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS
10+ min |
April 2022
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IS HIGH INFLATION THE NEW NORMAL?
ECONOMICS
3 min |
April 2022
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HOW THE WAR ON SPRAWL CAUSED HIGH HOUSING PRICES
REGULATION
5 min |
April 2022
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How Robots Will Transform the 2020s
THE SERVICE BOT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE WAREHOUSES, HOSPITALS, FARMS, AND MAYBE YOUR HOME.
9 min |
April 2022
Reason magazine
China's Quest to Take Taiwan
Chinese officials have started directing citizens to stock up on food amid rising vegetable, egg, and pork prices. Encouraging people to become preppers could just be how the Chinese government expresses concern about cold snaps and potential future COVID-19 lockdowns. But some fear it’s a more sinister sign, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants people to prepare for the growing threat of war.
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
What Progressives Get Wrong About Judicial Review
IN FEBRUARY 1958, a distinguished liberal jurist named Learned Hand told a distinguished liberal audience some-thing that it did not want to hear. The U.S. Supreme Court’s celebrated power of judicial review, Hand declared in a lecture at Harvard Law School, was fundamentally illegitimate.
10 min |
February 2022
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‘The Only Crime of Most of Us Was That We Were Uyghur Muslims'
Concentration camp survivor Tursunay Ziyawudun on her imprisonment and torture in China
10+ min |
February 2022
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LIFE GETS BETTER FOR SPORTS BETTORS
BUT PLACING A WAGER ON YOUR FAVORITE TEAM IS STILL TOO COMPLICATED IN MANY STATES.
10+ min |
March 2022
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How To Talk About Racism
Linguist John McWhorter on the ways social justice activists have betrayed black Americans
10+ min |
March 2022
Reason magazine
Closing Schools to Protect Kids Made Them Sick
NOT LONG AGO, parents spent time and energy worrying about contagious diseases other than COVID-19: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); hand, foot, and mouth disease; strep throat; and even the boring old flu. But the default standards for “safety” haphazardly narrowed and heightened as COVID-19 burst onto the scene. Lockdowns, school closures, and other restrictions substantially limited people’s access to each other.
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
Andrew Yang Is Still Trying To Move Forward
For a politician who’s never won anything, Andrew Yang is pretty famous. Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign failed to earn any delegates to the Democratic National Convention after getting about 5 percent in the Iowa caucuses and 3 percent in the New Hampshire primary. He came in fourth in New York City’s 2021 ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor. Despite his political struggles, Yang is now launching a new political party, the Forward Party.
3 min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
Against Champagne Socialists
Why Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Elizabeth Warren should open their wallets before they open their mouths.
10+ min |
February 2022
Reason magazine
THE LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN
ALARMED BY UNILATERAL COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, STATES ARE IMPOSING NEW LIMITS ON EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. ERIC BOEHM
10+ min |
February 2022
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WE KEEP GOING BACK TO THE MATRIX
HOW A GENERATION WAS REDPILLED BY A NERD POWER FANTASY ABOUT DEFINING YOURSELF IN THE DIGITAL AGE
10+ min |
February 2022
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Everything is Infrastructure Now
How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning
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October 2021
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DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'
DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.
2 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
History – Walking the Delicate Line Between Reporter and Activist
I spent the second half of the 1990s hanging out with people who operate unlicensed radio stations. That was partly because I was covering them as a reporter, and it was partly because I was active in a movement to legalize their illicit transmissions.
5 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?
A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.
10+ min |
October 2021
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Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate
The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cashed Out
What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.
After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.
3 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt
The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.
3 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?
President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.
3 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster
Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything
10+ min |