Cashed Out

What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?

Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.

After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.

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.

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.

Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster

Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything

Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword

Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.

LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY

FUTURE

LEAVING AFGHANISTAN

WORLD

SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP

A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE

How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism

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

America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics

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

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

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

Post Apocalypse

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.

Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?

“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”

Autonomous Mexico

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

The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech

Is Facebook a monopoly? Should Amazon be forced to do business with the new social media platform Parler? Is Apple harming its customers—and maybe democracy—by installing the Safari web browser on iPhones? Did Google bully people into using its search engine?

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.

What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like

Dr. Lee Gross’ direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.

Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke

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

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.

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.”

Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?

WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.

There's Nothing Modern About MMT

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) tells us that governments should finance public spending by creating money.

When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse

Federal policies are subsidizing people’s choices to build homes in harm’s way.

The Era of Small Government Is Over

Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?

An $86 Billion Moral Hazard

The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.

The Pandemic Will Make Kids Or Break Them

The COVID-19 era has worked as a stress test for parents and kids alike, breaking some while bringing out reserves of strength and resilience in others.

Cult Country

Is this a new age of cultism— or a new cult panic?

‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers

“Hero Pay” Laws, which require big wage increases for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, are sweeping the West Coast. Store closures, unemployment, and lawsuits have followed in their wake.

The Last Pandemic

Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like Covid-19.