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Reason magazine
Q&A Mark Calabria
IF YOU HAVE a mortgage on your home, the odds are that it's backed by one of two congressionally chartered, government-sponsored enterprises (GSES), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Musical Surveillance
SOMEWHERE IN SAN Francisco's Mission District, they say a solar-powered phone is concealed in a box atop a pole.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
No Longer a World Heritage Site, Liverpool Evolves and Thrives
IN 2021, LIVERPOOL made global headlines when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) revoked its World Heritage status, citing new development along the waterfront as causing the \"serious deterioration and irreversible loss\" of the area's historic value.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Don't Credit Drug Warriors for Reducing Overdoses
DURING THEIR PRESIDENTIAL campaigns, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both promised to fight substance abuse by disrupting the drug supply.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Taxpocalypse
WHEN THE NEW session of Congress opens on January 3, the clock will already be ticking toward the most important set of fiscal decisions lawmakers will make this decade.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
More Creative Corruption
IN SEPTEMBER 2024, federal officials indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams on charges including wire fraud and bribery.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Glucose Monitors Are Finally Available Over the Counter
THE U.S. FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the first continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for over-the-counter sale-a major win for health freedom and common sense.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Nuclear Power Saves Lives
THE PANIC FOLLOWING the catastrophic meltdown of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union in April 1986 resulted in nearly 400 fewer new nuclear power plants being built than had been projected.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Why Kamala Harris Lost
FEW REALISTIC POLITICAL observers expected a blowout for Kamala Harris.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Trump's $2 Trillion?
\"AT LEAST $2 trillion\" was Elon Musk's casual preelection response when asked how much a new Donald Trump administration could cut from the federal government.
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January 2025
Reason magazine
Abolish the NSA and CIA
ENDING THESE UNACCOUNTABLE AGENCIES WOULD SAFEGUARD CIVIL LIBERTIES AND IMPROVE INTELLIGENCE GATHERING.
3 min |
December 2024
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Abolish ICC
THE AGENCY DISRUPTS COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES, FOR NO GOOD.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
We Still Live in the Physical World
The digital world has not effaced our humanity, no matter what social critics like Christine Rosen say.
6 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Blaming Bill Buckley
IT'S THE CLEANEST, neatnest [sic] operating piece of social machinery I've ever seen. It makes me envious.\" When Rexford Tugwell, an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, wrote these words in 1934, he was not referring to the New Deal programs in his purview.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
The Backpage Trial Finally Ends-With a Suicide and a Sentencing
UNFAIR ALLEGATIONS OF SEX TRAFFICKING CHILLED FREE SPEECH ONLINE AND RUINED LIVES.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
Abolish the National Park Service
PRIVATIZATION CAN MAKE AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS MORE ACCESSIBLE AND BETTER MAINTAINED.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
Abolish the Fed
IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE AMERICA WITHOUT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, BUT A CENTRAL BANK IS NOT ESSENTIAL TO A FUNCTIONING ECONOMY.
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December 2024
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Abolish the FCC
LET THE INVISIBLE HAND REGULATE THE INVISIBLE RESOURCE.
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December 2024
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Abolish the Department of Transportation
IT DOESN'T EVEN BUILD THE ROADS. IT JUST INCREASES COSTS.
3 min |
December 2024
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Abolish Borders
LINES DRAWN BY GOVERNMENTS DON’T HAVE MORAL MAGIC.
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Abolish the Army
IMMEDIATE ATTACKS ON OUR SOVEREIGNTY WOULD COME NOT FROM LAND BUT FROM THE SEA.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries
IN SEPTEMBER, A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive-one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software-in a copyright case with significant implications for publishers, libraries, and readers.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
Pearl Clutchers in Hot Spring County
IS THE FILM Night of the Living Dead too racy for daytime television? What about double entendres about \"spotted dick\" pudding? Or a travel documentary about Paris featuring burlesque dancers and a museum with nude paintings? These were just some of the federal obscenity complaints that made Hot Spring County, Arkansas, the most prudish place in America.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
Q & A: Jane Coaston
JANE COASTON IS a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times who describes herself as having “libertarian tendencies.”
3 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
Censorship on Campus
LAST YEAR, STUDENT-LED protests over the Israel-Hamas war broke out at dozens of college campuses. With the new school year well underway, student demonstrations have begun again in earnest.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
There's More to the 'Motherhood Penalty'
IS MOTHERHOOD BAD for women's careers? Conventional wisdom says \"yes,\" but a new study suggests \"maybe not.\"
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December 2024
Reason magazine
Citizen Journalism Under Threat
CIVIL LIBERTIES
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December 2024
Reason magazine
Modern Crafters Rediscover an Old Sweater
YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE been picking up fiber arts such as knitting in recent years, spurred by social media trends and pandemic-era boredom. Knitting forums now feature young crafters not just rediscovering traditional patterns but reinventing them for modern times.
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December 2024
Reason magazine
A Psychedelic Ban Would Disrupt Important Research
YOU HAVE PROBABLY never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), much less worried about its possible abuse. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban this synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical used in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated a previous DEA attempt to ban DOI in 2022, is determined to stop the agency's interference with science again.
2 min |
December 2024
Reason magazine
What Is the 'Working Class'?
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS alike want to be seen as champions of the working class-understandably so, since that cohort of Americans is understood as essential to winning several presidential swing states.
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