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Reason magazine
MADE IN AMERICA, BROKEN BY TRUMP
A PLATTSBURGH FACTORY'S GROWTH GRINDS TO A HALT THANKS TO THE TRADE WAR.
9 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Refoul Play
REPORTERS AND ADVOCACY groups found it hard to catalogue the Trump administration’s chaotic and secretive mass deportation program when it launched this winter, beginning with what word best describes the unprecedented tactics.
2 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Put the Libertarians Back in Charge
A COMMON GRIPE in American politics is that for too long, libertarians have been in charge, wielding too much power.
3 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Don't Use the Alien Enemies Act on Alien Friends
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a criminal street gang.
2 min |
July 2025
Reason magazine
Your Tribalism Is Dumb
NO, YOUR TRIBALISM IS DUMB!
8 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Postnatal Drug Tests Turn Mothers Into Felons
FIVE YEARS AFTER giving birth to a baby girl in 2019, Mississippi mother Brandy Moore was arrested for \"aggravated domestic violence\" based on a postnatal drug test.
2 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
In Praise of Zeppo and Shemp
When you think of the Marx Brothers, you likely think of Groucho’s wisecracks, Harpo’s sight gags, and even Chico’s piano specialties. You don’t think about their brother Zeppo.
5 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
O&A Rand Paul
SEN. RAND PAUL (R–Ky.) has opposed the TikTok ban since it caught on in Congress.
3 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
The Trade War We're Losing to Ourselves
THE FIRST FEW weeks of the second Trump administration were a whirlwind of counter-productive, illogical trade policies.
4 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Supreme Court Takes Up WrongHouse Raids
ON AN EARLY morning in 2017, Trina Martin was shocked by a pyrotechnic exhibit she compares to the Fourth of July. Except it was October, and it was inside her home in Georgia.
2 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Lost Cities in the Jungle
In 2024, A Mayan megacity was discovered in Campeche, Mexico. Swallowed by the rainforest, this lost urban center contained pyramids, plazas, amphitheaters, and highways.
3 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
The Present and Future of the Gerontocracy
POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF THE LONGEVITY TRANSITION
10+ min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
The New Prohibitionists
ANTI-ALCOHOL ACTIVISTS ARE IGNORING EVIDENCE AND HIJACKING FEDERAL DIETARY GUIDELINES.
10+ min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Virtual Fences on the Range
“OH, GIVE ME a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play,” goes the venerable Western folk song “Home on the Range.”
2 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
How Far Will the U.S.Go Against Cartels?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP promised on the campaign trail that he’d go after Mexico’s drug cartels, which he claimed in January “essentially run” that country.
3 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Students Deserve Privacy Too
A MENTAL HEALTH survey administered to Seattle-area middle and high schoolers is putting their sensitive personal information at risk, according to a February investigation from The Seattle Times and the education-focused outlet The 74.
2 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Trump Is Wrong About McKinley's Tariff Legacy
ON HIS FIRST day back in office, Donald Trump praised his new presidential role model, William McKinley, for having \"made our country very rich through tariffs.\"
4 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
THE ANARCHIST AND THE REPUBLICAN
HOW JOHN MCCLAUGHRY AND KARL HESS FOUGHT TO DECENTRALIZE POWER-ONE FROM INSIDE THE SYSTEM, ONE EVER FURTHER FROM IT
10+ min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Not Guilty but Punished Anyway
SENTENCING DEFENDANTS BASED ON ACQUITTED CONDUCT VIOLATES BASIC NOTIONS OF JUSTICE.
10+ min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
In Defense of 'Luxury Beliefs'
“LUXURY BELIEFS” ARE the ideological equivalent of an icy tray of Blue Point oysters— trendy, expensive, and often impractical for the average person, but deeply satisfying for those who can afford them. And, on rare occasions, sickening.
4 min |
May 2025
Reason magazine
Rise of the Samurai Lawyers
HOW A STABLE AND RELATIVELY JUST LEGAL ORDER EMERGED IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN
7 min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
How Sanctions Backfire
IF THERE’S ONE part of foreign policy where President Donald Trump has been consistent, it’s economic sanctions on Iran.
6 min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor
TOO OFTEN, POLITICAL ADVOCACY TRUMPS RESEARCH IN SCIENCE.
10+ min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
TRUMP'S DRAMATIC CROSSROADS
WILL PROTECTIONISM OR DYNAMISM SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
10+ min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
AI Isn't Destabilizing Elections
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PESSIMISTS, take note: New research suggests that fears about AI tools destabilizing elections through political misinformation may be overblown.
2 min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
Trump Tests the Limits of Executive Orders
WELL BEFORE PRESIDENT Donald Trump returned to office, his supporters boasted that he would start the second term with a flurry of executive actions.
3 min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
The American Right Is Abandoning Mises
THE AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST’S PRINCIPLED THOUGHT ONCE SERVED AS A CHECK ON THE INTELLECTUAL RIGHT.
10 min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
Trump's War on the Press
A MONTH BEFORE last November’s presidential election, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris that was edited to make her response to a question about Israel “more succinct,” as the show’s producers put it.
3 min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUTS WOLVES IN YOUR BACKYARD
ENDANGERED RED WOLVES BECAME A SYMBOL OF FEDERAL OVERREACH-AND A TARGET FOR LOCAL IRE-IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
10+ min |
April 2025
Reason magazine
Biden Rushed Billions Out Before Trump Took Office
ON PRESIDENT JOE Biden’s way out the door, officials in his administration were busy—not just packing up their offices, but shoveling as much money as possible before incoming President Donald Trump could get his hands on it.
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