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Their Kids Said They Were Trans.Then CPS Came Knocking.
ACROSS THE COUNTRY, PARENTS OF GENDER-DYSPHORIC KIDS ARE CONFRONTING STATE INTRUSION.
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April 2025
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Centuries of Trade Reflected in Ceramic Tiles
WANDER THROUGH THE streets of Seville or Porto, and you’ll find yourself immersed in a world of color and intricate patterns. Elaborately painted tiles, called azulejos, adorn churches, palaces, train stations, and sidewalks.
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April 2025
Reason magazine
Malaria Vaccine Delivered Via Mosquito Bite
“THE MOSQUITO IS one of the deadliest animals on the planet,” declared two South African researchers in a recent Nature article.
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April 2025
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Google Is Big. Is That Bad?
NO ONE HAS A MONOPOLY ON THE DEFINITION OF A MONOPOLY.
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March 2025
Reason magazine
CAN ULTIMATE FRISBEE HEAL THE MIDDLE EAST?
FOR TEENAGERS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN AND ELSEWHERE, IT'S MORE THAN JUST A GAME.
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March 2025
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Florida Drug Deaths Surged on Pam Bondi's Watch
WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD Trump announced his nomination of Pam Bondi as attorney general, he extolled her \"incredible job\" in \"work[ing] to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs and reduc[ing] the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths.\"
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March 2025
Reason magazine
The Strange Case of The Immortality Key
THOUGH THE SCIENCE journalist Michael Pollan called the book \"groundbreaking,\" Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key is largely a rehash of others' work shaped into a Da Vinci Codestyle thriller.
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March 2025
Reason magazine
LOVE, MONEY, AND SURROGACY
EVELYN AND WILL Clark met after college through mutual friends.
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March 2025
Reason magazine
Trump vs. California: Round 2
CALIFORNIA WAS ONE of President Donald Trump's largest foes during his first term; the state sued his administration over 120 times.
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March 2025
Reason magazine
The Future of AI in the Trump Administration
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S deregulatory impulses could be a boon to the AI industry, but his hostility to free trade threatens to undermine its progress. Policies from the first Trump administration and caustic campaign rhetoric caution against unqualified optimism.
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March 2025
Reason magazine
Will We Get to the Bottom of COVID-19's Origin?
WILL THE INCOMING Trump administration and Republican Congress get to the bottom of how the COVID-19 pandemic began? There's every indication that they'll at least try.
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March 2025
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you can't Evict Polly
HOW THE FAIR HOUSING ACT ENABLED THE RISE OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PARROTS, FROGS, AND EMUS
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March 2025
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Gay Penguins Face the Ban Hammer
ONE FLORIDA SCHOOL district is facing a legal battle over its decision to ban a book about gay penguins.
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March 2025
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THE END OF RENT CONTROL IN ARGENTINA
HOW JAVIER MILEI UNLEASHED THE MARKET AND BROUGHT BUENOS AIRES BACK TO LIFE
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March 2025
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The Most Controversial Paper in the History of Psychedelic Research May Never See the wa Light of Day
WAS THE PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE LED BY SCIENCE OR FAITH?
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March 2025
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THE REAL THREAT IS AN ISOLATED CHINA
DECOUPLING FROM TRADE WILL MAKE THE U.S. POORER AND CHINA MORE TOTALITARIAN.
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February 2025
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Against Our Own Best Souls'
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN ON HERLIFE ASA WITNESS ON DEATH ROW
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February 2025
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'THE POLITICS HAVE COME TO US'
HOW A CHRISTIAN CHARITY IN EL PASO ENDED UP AT WAR WITH THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT FOR HELPING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS
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February 2025
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MATERIEL LOSS
HOW THE U.S. MILITARY BUSTS ITS BUDGET ON WASTEFUL, CARELESS, AND UNNECESSARY 'SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONES'
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February 2025
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'NOT A SUICIDE PACT'
HOW A 1949 SUPREME COURT DISSENT GAVE BIRTH TO A MEME THAT SUBVERTS FREE SPEECH AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
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February 2025
Reason magazine
HOW MUSK CAN HELP TRUMP CUT TRILLIONS
DURING PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s first term in office, the national debt increased by $8 trillion—due, in large part, to huge spending hikes that Congress passed and Trump signed.
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February 2025
Reason magazine
THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF MAGA-MUSK
IS ELON MUSK A REACTIONARY WITHA DEFECTIVE BULLSHIT METER OR THE BEST PART OF THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION?
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February 2025
Reason magazine
A Free-Range Family
RIGHT NOW, CHILDHOOD is intensely meh. Maybe you read the recent report in The Journal of Pediatrics that said that as kids' independence and free play have gone down, their anxiety and depression have been going up.
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February 2025
Reason magazine
Educulture Wars
THE CULTURE WAR is costing school districts billions, according to a report released in October 2024 by the UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access. The report surveyed superintendents at 467 school districts nationwide about extra expenditures they undertook because of increased conflict over culture war issues such as critical race theory, book chal- lenges, gender-related debates, and other politicized topics. The report estimates that such fights cost school districts around $3.2 billion during the 2023-2024 school year.
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February 2025
Reason magazine
Q&A Penny Lane
PENNY LANE'S NEW Netflix documentary, Confessions of a Good Samaritan, delves into her life-changing decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. Known for her thoughtful and provocative storytelling, Lane has explored human connection and empathy in films such as Hail Satan? and The Pain of Others. Last October she spoke with Reason's Nick Gillespie and shared her emotional, physical, and philosophical experience with anonymous kidney donation and the challenges that came with it.
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February 2025
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The Fragile U.S. Refugee Resettlement System
IN FY 2024, the U.S. resettled 100,034 refugees—the highest number in 30 years and about nine times the number resettled in FY 2021. The 2024 tally is a reason to celebrate and a reminder that refugee resettlement is highly subject to presidential whims.
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February 2025
Reason magazine
Rancher Jailed for Cloning Giant Sheep
MONTANA RANCHER ARTHUR “Jack”Schubarth, 81, succeeded in cloning a wild Marco Polo argali sheep, the world’s largest ovine species. That achievement cost him six months in jail.
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February 2025
Reason magazine
It's Still the Economy, Stupid
LEADING UP TO the 2024 election, pundits, pollsters, and political operatives discussed the electorate as a bundle of distinct race and gender categories, sometimes with even narrower subcategorizations attached. How would black women vote? What about Latino men? Suburban, college-educated women?
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February 2025
Reason magazine
Setbacks for Drug Policy Reform
IN 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, voters approved a raft of drug policy reforms.
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February 2025
Reason magazine
The SEC's War on NFTS
SHOULD ARTISTS HAVE to file paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just to sell their own creations? Should they be required to warn buyers that art values might fluctuate?
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