Reason magazine
THE BUDGET BATTLE BOOK
That job includes authoring, debating, and passing a budget for the astounding amount of discretionary federal spending that Congress is charged with managing each year—in this case, about $1.7 trillion.
4 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
TO FIX POLICING, PUNISH BAD COPS
Jordan took a lot of abuse for his remark, which was generally interpreted as boobish and nihilistic.
4 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
The Luddites' Veto
BEWARE OF ACTIVISTS TOUTING \"RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.\" THE SENSIBLE-SOUNDING SLOGAN MASKS A REACTIONARY AGENDA.
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Sen. Pat Toomey on Cryptocurrency and FTX's Collapse
Former Sen. Pat Toomey’s time in Congress, which began in 1999 after he won a House seat in eastern Pennsylvania, officially ended on January 3 when the new Senate session began.
2 min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Is Online Illness Culture Keeping People Sick?
WHILE THE FDA KEEPS EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS OUT OF REACH, THE SPOONIE WORLD MAKES A DIAGNOSIS INTO AN IDENTITY.
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
Ron DeSantis Is on Deck
DOES HE WANT TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT, OR DOES HE JUST WANT TO WIN AT ALL COSTS?
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
THE ZONING THEORY OF EVERYTHING
LAND USE POLICIES EXPLAIN THE BATTLES OVER EVERYTHING FROM RECESSION TO ABORTION TO DONALD TRUMP.
10+ min |
April 2023
Reason magazine
SHODDY RESEARCH REINFORCES ANTI-VAPING NARRATIVE
Three years later, the World Journal of Oncology published a study that claimed vapers face about the same cancer risk as smokers. The authors said “prospective studies should be planned to mitigate the risk.”
5 min |
April 2023
The Atlantic
Struck on One Side
Society tells me to celebrate my disability. What if I don't want to?
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?
THERE'S NO WAY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT IT.
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
PARTY OF TROLLS
Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.
7 min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Short King's
A maverick group of short sellers uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now they're under investigation themselves. Are they the heroes of Wall Street, or the villains?
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Masterpiece No One Wanted to Save
Censored and then forgotten, Anatoly Kuznetsov's Babi Yar, about the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, is again painfully relevant.
10 min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
Did George Washington Burn New York?
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
10 min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Miraculous Salman Rushdie
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
10+ min |
March 2023
The Atlantic
The Third Law of Magic
He spent the night making snow. He packed it tightly into balls of different sizes and stored them in the freezer to keep them stable.
10+ min |
March 2023
Newsweek US
DEATH BY NEGLECT
A lawsuit alleges an Arkansas jail allowed a mentally challenged man to die of dehydration and starvation behind bars. Who is accountable?
10 min |
February 17, 2023
Newsweek US
HOW TO CONQUER YOUR PRIMITIVE BRAIN
More than 40 PERCENT of everything we do-from washing dishes to spreading misinformation is HABITUAL. Science has some ideas about how to do BETTER.
10+ min |
February 17, 2023
Newsweek US
Michigan's Bid to Be the Next Silicon Valley
Automakers and government are combining to make the state a hub of advanced technology
5 min |
February 17, 2023
Newsweek US
Right-Wing Rings of Power
Libertarian tech moguls and conservative politicians have taken inspiration from The Lord of The Rings. Did J.R.R. Tolkien have a free-market message?
5 min |
February 17, 2023
Newsweek US
Evangeline Lilly
NOWADAYS, IF YOU'RE CAST IN A MARVEL FILM, IT'S LIKE WINNING THE lottery. But it didn't start that way for Evangeline Lilly, who stars alongside Paul Rudd in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quintumnia (February 17). \"I was late to the Marvel game because I wasn't into superhero movies.\"
1 min |
February 17, 2023
Newsweek US
A New Era for Labor
Forget about quiet quitting.” This year will be all about loud layoffs”
8 min |
February 17, 2023
Time
The network comedy is Not Dead Yet
THE LATEST COMEDY TO JOIN ABC'S PRIME-TIME LINEUP tells what is, in many ways, a familiar story.
3 min |
February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Time
KEEPING AI IN CHECK
Why ChatGPT's creator is pro-regulation
4 min |
February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Time
Why are groceries SO expensive right now?
BRIDGETTE MOORE, A 40-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FIVE from Lake Park, Ga., has noticed that her family’s grocery bill is much higher these days—way over her $200 weekly budget.
3 min |
February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Time
When science meets seafood
SANDHYA SRIRAM IS IMPATIENT. THE STEM-CELL scientist wanted to put her knowledge to use developing cultivated seafood, but no one was doing that in Singapore.
4 min |
February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Time
TRUMP'S 2024 TEST
His first campaign stops reveal a candidate unsure of what his base wants
3 min |
February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Time
Sleepwalking into a less secure future
EARLY IN THE PANDEMIC, EXPERTS PROJECTED THAT the world economy could shrink by almost 10% in 2020. Yet what played out was a contraction of 3.1%—still a huge loss of output, but not nearly as dire.
3 min |
February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Time
The secret tax on women's time
WHEN STUDIES REVEALED THE SO-CALLED PINK TAX, showing in 2015 that personal hygiene products “for her” cost 13% more than similar products for men, it caused outrage and action.
2 min |
February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Time
CIVILIZATION OVER NATION
Israel is no longer a liberal democracy. As Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government took office on Dec. 29, its illiberalism was evident. No longer a matter for debate or polite embarrassment, the contempt for liberal ideas brings disparate factions together: against the media and intellectuals and increasingly against the old Western-inspired Israeli political system and constitution.
3 min |