Immigrants start businesses at a higher rate than native-born Americans, benefitting not only themselves but also their American workers and customers.
Increased hourly rates corresponded with lower tips and fewer orders to share between drivers, leaving gig workers no better off than they were before the law passed.
"Once a president establishes for himself that he has a shiny toy, good luck getting that toy ever wrested away from whoever the president is," the CNN anchor tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
In Compact, Jacob Savage exhaustively documents discrimination in the name of equity.
The self-made tycoon was convicted this week of violating Hong Kong's "national security" law. But he could have escaped it.
The executive order does not accomplish much in practical terms, but it jibes with the president's conflation of drug trafficking with violent aggression.
The Trump administration has not made a convincing case for why it is buying stakes in these companies—and why these companies in particular, rather than others.
The city has removed tens of thousands of rooms from the stock of short-term housing available to tourists while making it significantly harder to build and expand hotels.
Keonne Rodriguez explains why he built a bitcoin privacy tool, discusses the federal charges that sent him to prison this week, and warns that his case could redefine the legal boundaries of financial privacy.
Matt Stoller and Geoffrey A. Manne debate antitrust law and Big Tech.
An eco-action film that covers too much familiar ground.
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A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is the Trump administration's latest excuse for demonizing immigrants and refugees.
The public wants violent criminals deported, not workers and their families.
It's the humans who develop and use AI for malicious ends, not the tech itself, who should worry us.
The 65-year-old musical's depiction of an us-vs.-them mentality remains poignant.
The long-awaited move will facilitate medical research and provide tax relief to the cannabis industry, but it falls far short of legalization.
From immigration crackdowns to trade policy, the Trump administration is increasingly centralizing power in Washington, D.C.
Larry Bushart's lawyers argue that his arrest for constitutionally protected speech violated the First and Fourth amendments.
The SPEED Act is unlikely to pass the Senate, but hopefully it will initiate sorely needed bipartisan reforms.
Social insurance programs are compatible with a basic safety net. But what we have now is a slow-motion generational fleecing.
The administration doesn't want to win these cases. It wants to intimidate Americans who oppose its immigration policies.
Low-skilled immigrants would expand the supply of housing more than they increase demand, if local governments would just allow new construction.
The union isn't pro-growth or pro-consumer. It's a lobby for workers.
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A conservative federal judge questions the reach of free speech.
"If we're gonna put up immigration barriers, we better do a lot more in terms of trade barriers to make it more free trade, or we will decline," the former Arizona senator tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
Trump announced neither stimulus checks nor war in Venezuela.
The socialist senator wants a moratorium on new data centers to slow the AI and robotics industries down.
These metrics are bad proxies for prosperity, but they reveal just how flawed the president's arguments have been.
U.S. immigration authorities should not do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.
The defense secretary claims the video, which shows a second strike that killed two floundering survivors, would compromise "sources and methods."
Proponents say such IDs will make life easier and protect kids from dangerous content. But opponents worry they will make you much easier to target.
It's an insane—and frighteningly dystopian—interpretation of the law.
The only thing the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission succeeded in doing was transferring ownership of iRobot from an American company to a Chinese one.
Katherine Dee examines how living online reshapes attention and behavior and makes the case for a more grounded, realistic way of using digital tools.
The proposed bills aim to revive and codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.
Plus: Child care affordability, Venezuela blockade, Israel's plans, and more...
Reason's Robby Soave and Elizabeth Nolan Brown go head to head with Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim from Breaking Points in a thought-provoking debate about Big Tech.
Individuals and communities must take responsibility for their own safety.
This is Priscilla Villarreal’s second trip to the Supreme Court, which last year revived her First Amendment lawsuit.
The president failed a not particularly challenging moral test.
When the perceived emotional harm from new development becomes a justification for state intervention, the law gets really arbitrary really quickly.
It's also not the whole story. Federal spending isn't falling and the private sector job market is stagnant.
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