Los Angeles Times
How 'Little Amélie' takes on the big questions
The tale about a young Belgian girl is propelled by grown-up themes like loss of innocence
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November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Davidson leads a stifling defense for Trojans
The USC freshman has three steals, and Dunn's three sparks the offense in victory.
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November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Jason Clarke isn’t a Method actor, but he’s close
(Clarke, from Et] recordings of the trial, reading books on psychology and working with dialect coach Tim Monich, Clarke underwent a physical transformation to become Alex. He gained about 40 pounds, wore a wig and dyed his eyebrows since he did not want to rely on prosthetics. The physicality of the character helped everything click into place.
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November 20, 2025
Reason magazine
Work From Home, Have More Kids
PRONATALISTS PUSH ALL manner of big-government schemes aimed at raising fertility rates. But could a more modest—and more market-oriented—policy prove better at boosting births? Research suggests that more remote work leads to larger families.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
What Would a $100,000 H-1B Fee Do?
IN DECEMBER 2024, a battle erupted between the tech right and the nativist right over the H-1B visa program, which allows American employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields. When President-elect Donald Trump weighed in, he threw his support behind H-1B defenders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. “I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” he told the New York Post. “I've been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times.”
2 min |
January 2026
Reason magazine
Trump's Tariffs Fail Their Own Test
HOW SHOULD WE assess whether President Donald Trump's tariffs have been effective?
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January 2026
Reason magazine
A Taste of Capitalism in Warsaw
WARSAW, POLAND, IS a living museum of economic systems. It's a city where concrete reliefs of stoic factory workers decorate a building that now houses a Kentucky Fried Chicken, where a Soviet-era apartment block stands beside a glass tower filled with coworking spaces.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
MAHA Mandates Food Labels
BURDENSOME FOOD LABELING mandates were once the province of Democrats, who pushed for calorie count requirements on restaurant menus and insisted packaged food must feature warnings about genet- ically modified ingredients and trans fats. Now it's Republicans leading the charge- with equally foolish results.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
THE HOWARD ROARK OF COMICS
SPIDER-MAN CO-CREATOR STEVE DITKO WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF, AND DIRE WARNING TO, OBJECTIVIST POP ARTISTS.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
Q&A Jeff Flake
IN 2017, SEN. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced he wouldn't seek reelection. He told his colleagues that \"we must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal.\"
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January 2026
Reason magazine
Discord Revolution in the Himalayas
THEY MARCHED TO defend free speech online and ended up reshaping a nation. In September 2025, young protesters opposing Nepal's social media ban triggered a political upheaval that brought Sushila Karki to power as the country's first woman prime minister—with much of the organizing happening on the messaging platform Discord.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
Ayn Rand Denounced FCC Censorship 60 Years Ago
AFTER JIMMY KIMMEL delivered a misinformed monologue about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr pressured broadcast channels to take the comedian off the air. Carr faced immediate pushback: Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania all chastised Carr for trying to use his position to steer private companies' editorial decisions—a serious breach of free speech principles.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
Plastic Pollution to Practical Power
A RECENT INNOVATION could make it easier to transform plastic waste into usable products.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
What Would Bill Buckley Do?
THE NATIONAL REVIEW FOUNDER'S FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO POLITICS DEFINED CONSERVATISM AS WE KNOW IT.
7 min |
January 2026
Reason magazine
IS JAKE TAPPER DOOMED?
THE CNN ANCHOR ON THE WAR ON TERROR, THREATS TO FREE SPEECH, AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA
10+ min |
January 2026
Reason magazine
A Nostalgic Read for Foreign Policy Elites
IF YOU WERE looking for a human avatar of America's unipolar moment, you couldn't do better than Michael McFaul. Picture a youthful, energetic McFaul with a newly minted Ph.D. bounding into the suddenly post-Soviet space of the early 1990s, full of bright ideas about democracy and faith in the end of history. As McFaul himself puts it, 1991 \"was a glorious moment to be a democratic, liberal, capitalist, multilateralist, and American....I was treated like a rockstar.\"
4 min |
January 2026
Reason magazine
Robert Crumb's Roving Art and Life
IN THE SPRING of 1962, an 18-year-old Robert Crumb was beaned in the forehead by a solid glass ashtray. His mother, Bea, had hurled it at his father, Chuck, who ducked. Robert was bloodied and dazed, once again a silent and enraged witness to his family's chaos.”
5 min |
January 2026
Reason magazine
Bail Wars Are Back
THE LONG NATIONAL debate over cash bail reignited in summer 2025 after the White House issued an executive order in August threatening to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless bail.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
REPUBLICAN SOCIALISM
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS BUYING STAKES IN COMPANIES. THAT NEVER ENDS WELL.
10+ min |
January 2026
Reason magazine
DHS Brings an Ugly Past Back to the Surface
WHEN THE U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a single word—remigrate—on X in October 2025, it wasn't a vague message. A once neutral term dating back to the 17th century, meaning “to migrate back” or “to return,” remigration has evolved into a euphemism for forced deportation under the guise of policy. A government agency invoking it naturally sparked debate about this historically fraught concept.
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January 2026
Reason magazine
To the Socialists of All Parties
REASON HAS A rule against starting essays with quotes from Friedrich Hayek. After all, one could start nearly every essay in this magazine with a bon mot from the Austrian-born economist and classical liberal hero. But sometimes things get bad enough that only a Hayek quote will do.
4 min |
January 2026
Reason magazine
TRUMP IS DEPORTING ENTREPRENEURS
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S MASS DEPORTATION EFFORT IS ROBBING THE U.S. OF IMMIGRANT BUSINESS OWNERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.
9 min |
January 2026
Los Angeles Times
At a critical juncture, a trio of films uplift Palestinian voices
Amid war in Gaza, these movies that shine a light on the region's tumultuous history are vying for academy voters' attention
3 min |
November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
'Supreme' enthusiasm, tinge of doubt
Odessa A’zion is making her breakthrough starring opposite Timothée Chalamet in a Josh Safdie film. But she still doesn’t quite feel like she’s made it.
5 min |
November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Exposing the folly of 'stand your ground' laws
How the senseless killing of a family friend led Geeta Gandbhir to make 'The Perfect Neighbor'
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November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
ANIMATED FEATURE
THIS YEAR, “DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE” BECAME THE HIGHEST- grossing Japanese film ever and Chinese sequel “Ne Zha 2” became the highest-grossing animated film of all time — by a lot — but neither makes the top five from our panel. ¶ There is a cultural phenomenon at No. 1, though: “If you haven’t performed one song from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ at a karaoke bar, you know someone who has,” says Glenn Whipp, picking up his microphone and soju: “Resistance is futile.” It’s the first-ever Netflix film to hit No. 1 in theaters and three of its songs made the Billboard Top 10, and its 325 million streams are the most in Netflix original history.
2 min |
November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
A leading role in fighting for accessible movie sets
'Wicked's' Marissa Bode and Inevitable Foundation work behind the scenes for more inclusive film shoots
3 min |
November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Fire victims say a parks official blocked mop-up
State 'put plants over people' after Jan. 1 blaze in Palisades, lawyers allege.
6 min |
November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Horror auteur's latest is mostly a 'Keeper'
Osgood Perkins keeps us guessing but gives no depth to this cabin in the woods tale.
3 min |
November 20, 2025
Los Angeles Times
In The Studio ... ... with NINA HOSS
NIA DACOSTA'S VIVACIOUS NEW ADAPTATION OF “Hedda Gabler,” starring Tessa Thompson as Ibsen’s intriguing society maven, is anything but fusty — and perhaps “Hedda’s” most delicious twist sees Nina Hoss take on a character the Norwegian master originally wrote as a man.
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