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Reason magazine
SOMETIMES BIGGER IS BETTER
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING TOGETHER ON AN ANTITRUST PUSH AGAINST BIG TECH. IT WILL BACKFIRE BIG-TIME.
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January 2021
Reason magazine
Keeping Up With the Lees
SINGAPORE IS NOT A MODEL FOR AMERICA.
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January 2021
Reason magazine
Would the ACLU Still Defend Nazis' Right To March in Skokie?
Former Executive Director Ira Glasser discusses the past, present, and increasingly shaky future of free speech.
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January 2021
Reason magazine
$75 BILLION IN BAND-AIDS WON'T CURE AILING AIRLINES
REGAL CINEMAS ANNOUNCED in early October that it will temporarily close all 536 of its U.S. locations as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep customers away. This move affects about 40,000 employees across the country. Yet nobody in Congress is talking about a bailout for theaters
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January 2021
Reason magazine
COVID-19 DIDN'T BREAK THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. IT WAS ALREADY BROKEN.
FAMILIES ARE LEAVING TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS IN RECORD NUMBERS FOR PODS, HOMESCHOOLING, CHARTERS, AND MORE.
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December 2020
Reason magazine
HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE BEING CANCELED
Kindly Inquisitors author Jonathan Rauch on the never-ending battle to defend free speech
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December 2020
Reason magazine
PANDEMIC RULES ARE ONLY FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE
THE DEFINING MOMENT in the “rules for thee but not for me” ethos of the ruling class during the COVID-19 pandemic may have come when Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist behind Britain’s lockdown policy, met with his married girlfriend in defiance of the restrictions he promoted.
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December 2020
Reason magazine
HOW FREDERICK DOUGLASS DESTROYED JOHN C.CALHOUN WITH THE POWER OF JOHN LOCKE
ARMED WITH THE CONSTITUTION, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE FAR- REACHING GUARANTEES OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY THAT THEY CONTAINED, DOUGLASS TOOK THE FIGHT DIRECTLY TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS.
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December 2020
Reason magazine
The Atlanta Sex Toy Magnate Who Can't Stop Picking Fights
MICHAEL MORRISON USED TO BE A BOXER. NOW HE BRAWLS WITH ZONING BOARDS AND TAX COLLECTORS.
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December 2020
Reason magazine
PETER NAVARRO'S NO-GOOD ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
PETER NAVARRO IS a loser. Literally.
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December 2020
Reason magazine
The Guillotine Mystique
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION HAS LONG INSPIRED PROGRESSIVE RADICALS READY FOR CHANGE AT ANY COST.
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December 2020
Reason magazine
Abolish Qualified Immunity
This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.
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October 2020
Reason magazine
The Case Against Biden | Joe Biden's Politics of Panic
THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT HAS A LONG HISTORY OF RECKLESS RESPONSES TO THE MENACES DU JOUR.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
THE GAMES MUST GO ON
COVID-19 UPENDED THE NBA, THE NFL, THE NHL, AND MLB. HOW THE PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUES RESPONDED OFFERS A GLIMPSE INTO OUR FUTURE.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD CIVILIZATION
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED over the last few decades. For the first time in human history, a single global civilization emerged.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
WHY CAN'T THEY BOTH LOSE?
THEY SAY IF you don’t vote you can’t complain.They’re wrong.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
The Case Against Trump | Donald Trump Is an Enemy of Freedom
WHEN IT COMES TO LIMITING THE SIZE AND SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT AND PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES, AMERICA’S 45TH PRESIDENT HAS BEEN ACTIVELY MALIGN.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
SHROOMS ARE ON THE D.C. BALLOT
RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON, D.C., will have a chance to vote for the decriminalization of certain psychedelic drugs this November. The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they’re optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
MEAT BILLS ARE ON THE MENU IN CONGRESS
AMERICA’S MEAT SUPPLY has been hammered by COVID-19 outbreaks at many of the nation’s largest meat processing plants, and consumer meat prices have spiked as a result.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
Political Ignorance Is Bliss
COULD PAYING LESS ATTENTION TO POLITICS BE BETTER FOR YOU, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS, AND SOCIETY?
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November 2020
Reason magazine
PLEASE STAND BY
BE PATIENT: WE MIGHT NOT KNOW WHO WON THE ELECTION RIGHT AWAY
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November 2020
Reason magazine
IS THE SENATE FILIBUSTER A ‘JIM CROW RELIC'?
DURING HIS JULY eulogy for Rep. JohnLewis (D–Ga.), a leading figure in the civil rights movement, former PresidentBarack Obama expressed support for eliminating the Senate filibuster, which he called a “Jim Crow relic.” That position contradicted the one Obama took as a senator in a chamber controlled by Republicans, and his historical framing was more than a little misleading.
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November 2020
Reason magazine
What It's Like to Be a Business Owner During Covid-19
Cheese shop owner Jill Erber on why she’s keeping her store open to take care of her customers and her community
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August/September 2020
Reason magazine
WHY HONG KONG'S PROTESTS TURNED VIOLENT
THE ESCALATION IS PART OF A STRATEGY TO UNMASK CHINA’S ABUSES BEFORE THE WORLD.
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October 2020
Reason magazine
AMERICAN IDOLATRY MEETS WOKE ICONOCLASM
WHY DO PEOPLE PULL DOWN STATUES?
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October 2020
Reason magazine
‘I Am More Optimistic Than I've Been in a Long Time'
The Washington Post ’s Radley Balko was a pioneer in reporting on the disastrous consequences of police militarization and the need for criminal justice reform. Now everyone else is catching up.
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October 2020
Reason magazine
Regulate Use of Force
“WHEN YOU’RE CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE THAT EVERY PERSON... POSES A THREAT TO YOUR EXISTENCE, YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO BUILD OUT MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS.”
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October 2020
Reason magazine
GUN CONTROL PUTS YOUR LIFE AT RISK
In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
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October 2020
Reason magazine
Rethink Crisis Response
PEOPLE WHO CALL 911 SHOULDN’T GET AN ILL-TRAINED POLICE OFFICER, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE DEALING WITH A MENTAL HEALTH EMERGENCY.
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October 2020
Reason magazine
HOPE FOR FREE MARKET REFORM IN URUGUAY
ALTHOUGH THE GLOBAL media barely covered last year’s elections in Uruguay, President Luis Lacalle Pou’s victory was significant for ending 15 years of governance by the leftist Broad Front.
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