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'Trump Invasion' of American Cities
“CHICAGO MAYOR SHOULD be in jail for failing to protect Ice [sic] Officers!” President Donald Trump blasted on Truth Social on October 8. “Governor Pritzker also!”
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December 2025
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Politicians Make Political Tensions Worse
AT SEPTEMBER'S TELEVISED memorial service for Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump commented on the conservative commentator’s character, saying, \"He did not hate his opponents; he wanted the best for them.” He then added, “That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents.
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December 2025
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Algorithmic Censorship Is Changing the Way We Talk
How slang emerges from social media rules
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December 2025
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Boycott Dystopia
HACKER PABLOS HOLMAN KNOWS THE FUTURE NEEDS MORE ENERGY.
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December 2025
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Chipping Away at CHIPS
IN MARCH, PRESIDENT Donald Trump blasted the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022.
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December 2025
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Knitters Need Free Trade
DANA CHADWELL FOUNDED Chattanooga Yarn Company three years ago.
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December 2025
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Less Indictable Than a Ham Sandwich
IN AUGUST 2025, President Donald Trump took control of the police force in Washington, D.C., and deployed the National Guard throughout the city.
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December 2025
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Don't Send Cubans and Venezuelans Back To Suffer Under Communism
\"UNDER MY ADMINISTRATION, we have taken decisive action to stand with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela,\" President Donald Trump said at the White House in 2017.
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December 2025
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MOVIE: SHIN GODZILLA
When a strange aquatic creature appears in Tokyo Bay, Japanese officials assure the public that there is no reason to worry that it could wreak havoc on shore.
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November 2025
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MOVIE: EDDINGTON
There's never been a movie quite like Eddington.
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November 2025
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REP. CHIP ROY SOMETIMES DISAGREES WITH HIS 'LIBERTARIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS'
THE TEXAS CONGRESSMAN ON SPENDING, IMMIGRATION, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
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November 2025
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MOVIE: WEAPONS
Weapons, the new horror film from writer-director Zach Cregger, is fascinatingly oblique.
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November 2025
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'Botched' Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless Violence
THE WAR ON DRUGS AUTHORIZES POLICE CONDUCT THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE READILY RECOGNIZED AS CRIMINAL.
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November 2025
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Golden Ages Don't Last
BUT THEY CAN TEACH US A LOT ABOUT WHAT MAKES CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND FALL.
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November 2025
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PRANK: LARRY RICHARDSON
Google Scholar is a wonderful research resource. The free service covers a huge amount of the global scientific publishing enterprise, encompassing peer-reviewed articles, books, reports, conference papers, and preprints. It's easy to use and accessible to anyone.
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November 2025
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How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security
THE IDEA OF “national security” is so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine an American political culture without it.
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November 2025
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Trump Is the Coal President
COAL-THE DOMINANT fuel in the U.S., before it was steadily replaced by cheaper and cleaner energy sources—has found new life under President Donald Trump. In April, Trump issued an executive order to reinvigorate “America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry,” which directed federal agencies to remove regulatory barriers to coal production and coal mining on federal lands.
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November 2025
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TV: TOO MUCH
Lena Dunham's new Netflix series Too Much is a meandering, if still highly watchable, rom-com. The show chronicles 30-something Jessica, who relocates to London after a devastating breakup.
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November 2025
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MOVIE: DRACULA: A LOVE TALE
Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale is a conservative interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel.
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November 2025
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Human Rights Crisis in ICE Detention Centers
IN EARLY AUGUST, the number of people in immigration detention in the U.S. surged to an all-time high of more than 60,000. While the Trump administration waited for massive new detention centers to open, it turned to federal prisons and jails, hastily constructed state facilities, and temporary holding cells that were never meant to house people for any extended amount of time. The overcrowding, combined with negligence and malevolence, has led to inevitable abuses that are too large to ignore or deny.
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November 2025
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BOOK: THE MYSTERIOUS MR. NAKAMOTO
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto, journalist Benjamin Wallace’s book about the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin, gives you more details than you likely need if you just want an engaging, informative read on a story that savvy crypto watchers know is not apt to reach an illuminating or surprising conclusion.
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November 2025
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Feds Pump the Brakes on Autonomous Trucks
ON A LONELY stretch of Texas interstate between Dallas and Houston, the possible future of freight transportation is already rumbling down the road. But whether autonomous trucking becomes commonplace might depend on federal regulations that govern stationary trucks, rather than those that are on the move.
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November 2025
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Q & A Glenn Jacobs
GLENN JACOBS, BETTER known to wrestling fans as “Kane,” has spent the past seven years as the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee.
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November 2025
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How Stockholm Tamed Traffic
IF YOU LOVE walking, Stockholm was built just for you. Spread across 14 islands linked by bridges, the city brims with waterfront promenades, ferries gliding through inlets, the whir of bicycle wheels, and pedestrians spilling into lively café-lined squares.
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November 2025
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BRICKBATS
Belgium's Permanent Commission for Linguistic Control upheld a complaint against train conductor Ilyass Alba for violating the country's strict language laws.
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November 2025
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ARCHIVES
Excerpts from Reason's vaults
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November 2025
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'THE TENSION BETWEEN TRADITION AND INDIVIDUALISM'
THE RICH DEBATES OF CONSERVATIVE FOUNDING FATHER FRANK MEYER AND LIBERTARIAN FOUNDING MOTHER ROSE WILDER LANE
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November 2025
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Radiation Rules Are Stalling Nuclear Power
UNREASONABLY STRICT RADIATION exposure limits are holding back nuclear power development, according to a July report from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers. The report challenges the current model for radiation exposure, arguing that recent evidence shows it is biologically unwarranted.
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November 2025
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Trump's War on Chocolate
AMERICAN CHOCOLATIERS NEED IMPORTS, AND TARIFFS HELP NO ONE.
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November 2025
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Police Abuse Protected by Federal Immunity
A POLICE OFFICER had a woman jailed for over two years on false charges in connection with a bogus sex-trafficking ring. But the officer, Heather Weyker, cannot be sued, because a court ruled in July that she was acting under color of federal law.
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