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Reason magazine
What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like
Dr. Lee Gross’ direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits
The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.
3 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech
IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”
4 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
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There's Nothing Modern About MMT
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) tells us that governments should finance public spending by creating money.
5 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.
10+ min |
June 2021
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The Era of Small Government Is Over
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
10+ min |
June 2021
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An $86 Billion Moral Hazard
The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.
3 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Pandemic Will Make Kids Or Break Them
The COVID-19 era has worked as a stress test for parents and kids alike, breaking some while bringing out reserves of strength and resilience in others.
3 min |
June 2021
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Cult Country
Is this a new age of cultism— or a new cult panic?
10+ min |
June 2021
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‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers
“Hero Pay” Laws, which require big wage increases for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, are sweeping the West Coast. Store closures, unemployment, and lawsuits have followed in their wake.
2 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Last Pandemic
Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like Covid-19.
10+ min |
May 2021
Reason magazine
'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed Of The Counterculture'
A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
The Conversion of Thomas Sowell
IT WASN’T UNTIL HIS THIRTIES THAT THE ECONOMIST STARTED TO TURN FROM MARXISM.
10 min |
July 2021
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The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away
While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.
10+ min |
May 2021
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Wartime Rationing Changed How America Ate for a Century. The Pandemic Will Do the Same.
The government tried to stabilize the Nation’s food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.
10+ min |
May 2021
Reason magazine
Coming Out Of The Chemical Closet
Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart says most of what the public knows about drugs is both scary and wrong.
10+ min |
May 2021
Reason magazine
Beyond Covid
More uses for new mRNA technology
3 min |
May 2021
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Clings To His Pedestal
A year ago, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a pandemic hero.
5 min |
May 2021
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The Dream Of The '90s Died In Portland
Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.
10+ min |
May 2021
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A Declassified Case Against Torture
After 9/11, the Bush administration unleashed interrogation methods that were self-sabotaging as well as immoral.
7 min |
May 2021
Reason magazine
Why We (Still) Shouldn't Censor Misinformation
Trump’s loss in 2020, a majority of his supporters believed the election had been rigged. Some adopted wild conspiracy theories involving Chinese supercomputers, Hugo Chavez, and state-level Republican officials. These beliefs culminated in an attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead. To make sense of these events, many officials have argued that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter allowed conspiracy theories to spread unimpeded, leading to erroneous beliefs and deadly behaviors. In other words, they blame misinformation for the violence.
6 min |
April 2021
Reason magazine
The War On Free Speech Is About To Get A Lot Uglier
One week after being trapped inside the United States Capitol as thousands of pro–Donald Trump marauders attempted to forcibly “stop the steal” of the presidential election, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) suggested one possible federal government response: convening a national commission on media literacy.
6 min |
April 2021
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Grant McCracken on How To Reengineer the Honor Code
IN THE NEW Honor Code: A Simple Plan for Raising Our Standards and Restoring Our Good Names (Tiller Press), anthropologist, brand consultant to the stars, and past Reason contributor Grant McCracken explores the history and use of the honor code, arguing for its relevance to our private and public lives today.
3 min |
June 2021
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Africa Tries Free Trade
Economic nationalism has plagued Africa since decolonization. In 2021, that is set to change.
4 min |
April 2021
Reason magazine
Will Feminists Please Stop Calling The Cops?
The Women’s Liberation Movement has gotten tied to mass incarceration. It needs to break free.
10+ min |
April 2021
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What It's Like To Treat Opioid Addiction in Appalachia
Psychiatrist Sally Satel on her eye-opening year at a clinic in Ironton, Ohio.
10+ min |
April 2021
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This Florida Drug Smuggler Escaped 7 Life Sentences—Twice
Dickie Lynn’s story shows how the drug war warped the Criminal Justice System.
10+ min |
April 2021
Reason magazine
Enchanted New York
A tale of religion in Manhattan in the 19th and 20th centuries
6 min |