Us Lawyers Appeal UK Decision To Block Assange Extradition

Lawyers acting on behalf of the U.S. government this week challenged a British judge’s decision to block the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the United States, arguing that assessments of Assange’s mental health should be reviewed.

White Progressives in Pursuit of Racial Virtue

What two new books reveal about the moral limits of anti-racist self-help

The 9/11 Century

Twenty years on, how should we think about the worst terrorist attack in American history?

‘Going Against Trump Is the Death Knell'

Six months after the Capitol riot, the 10 GOP representatives who voted to Impeach Donald Trump are fighting for their political lives

Everyone In San Francisco Has Something To Say About Chesa

Chesa Boudin, the son of Weathermen radicals, is the nation’s most progressive prosecutor in one of the country’s most liberal cities. And now, 18 months into his term, many residents are trying to throw him out.

86 minutes with … Kathryn Garcia

The bureaucrat enters a new phase of life: political celebrity.

Daniel Everette Hale – Call Me a Traitor

Daniel Hale was an Air Force intelligence analyst who hated American empire, found Edward Snowden too compromising, and taught us almost everything we know about the drone war. The documents he leaked were published in 2015. Then he waited. Nothing changed.

Before, During, After, January 6

The Historical Perspective at Six Months

How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?

President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.

Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt

The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.

America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics

A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.

Autonomous Mexico

What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.

How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism

Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.

Are We Headed For A Cyber Pearl Harbor?

Digital attacks could push the U.S. and Russia into a Real War.

Still Fronting

How the George Floyd uprising was framed

Kyrsten Sinema – Shape Shifter

From Green Party rabble-rouser to Senate power broker, Kyrsten Sinema’s rise is a political fairy tale—and nightmare.

Geared Up Los Deliveristas

After work conditions deteriorated, New York’s immigrant bicycle couriers united to bring a revolution to the gig economy.

The Four Americas

Competing visions of the country’s purpose and meaning are tearing it apart. Is reconciliation possible?

Boris Johnson – Inside The Controlled Chaos Of Downing Street

Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing

71 minutes with … Andrew Giuliani

A failson sets his sights on Albany.

A Climate To Fear

Central America’s subsistence farmers are fleeing increasingly severe droughts and storms

A Superhero's New Mission

Chris Evans hung up his Captain America shield. Now he and his partners want to help Generation Z reshape the U.S. political landscape

2021 New York City mayoral election – Rank Me

Fifteen candidates for mayor, each selling a different vision of the city. Choose your top five.

Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits

The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.

Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke

A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.

The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary

Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.

Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech

IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”

The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away

While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.

How To End Extreme Child Poverty

Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.