Google, SpaceX, and Blue Origin Plan To Put AI in Space. Will It Produce Skynet or Untold Economic Abundance?
NIMBY opposition is forcing some Big Tech companies to consider locating their data centers in space.
The Bipartisan War on Prices Is Coming for Your Credit Card
The strange new alliance between democratic socialists and nationalist populists isn't a sign of political healing. It's a sign that people have lost their grip on basic economics.
Trump Administration Claims That Spending $140 Million on Jets for Deportations Will Save Money
But the real goal is to speed up removals, despite ongoing due process violations.
Netflix and Paramount Will Fight for Trump's Favor
Which is what progressive fans of antitrust want, no?
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Want To Vacation In America? Trump Wants To See Your Social Media Posts First.
The move is bad for free speech and bad for American businesses that depend on tourism.
A Divided Fed
Plus: Cocaine and mustard gas, U.S. seizes oil tanker, billionaires in the White House, and more...
These Researchers Are Turning Plastic Waste Into Fuel
Recent innovations could help address plastic pollution.
Federal Reserve Defers to Donald Trump by Cutting Interest Rates by 25 Points
The Federal Open Market Committee lowered the federal funds rate for the third meeting in a row despite elevated inflation.
The MAHA Administration Bails Out Big Seed Oil
The Trump administration continues a long tradition of subsidizing the things it tells Americans to eat less of.
Podcast
How Foreign Governments Police U.S. Speech
Sarah McLaughlin reveals how foreign governments pressure American universities through speech codes and satellite campuses, and examines the broader threat international authoritarianism poses to free expression.
Trump Says China Didn't Buy Soybeans While Biden Was President. Here's What the Data Show.
American farmers exported more than 26 million metric tons of soybeans to China annually during Biden's term. Trump's deal with China would cover less than half that amount.
Trump Will Let Nvidia Sell Chips to China—but the Feds Will Get 25 Percent of the Profits
Why make the government a middleman in the chip war?
Massachusetts Church's 'ICE Was Here' Nativity Scene Is Protected Speech, Even if ICE Doesn't Like It
Rev. Stephen Josoma of St. Susanna Parish defended the message against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.
How Foreign Governments Police U.S. Speech
Sarah McLaughlin reveals how foreign governments pressure American universities through speech codes and satellite campuses, and examines the broader threat international authoritarianism poses to free expression.
French Far-Right Politicians Want To Reopen Brothels as Sex-Worker Cooperatives
The current system, in which paying for sex is illegal, doesn't work, said Jean-Philippe Tanguy, a National Assembly member.
MAGA Asceticism
Plus: Social media surveillance from the CBP, SpaceX IPO, assisted dying in the Netherlands, and more...
Court Blocks Trump's Ban on Wind Power, but Other Anti-Renewable Policies Remain
Trump isn’t the first president to pick energy winners and losers, but he should be the last.
Survey: 91 Percent of College Students Think 'Words Can Be Violence.' That Could Feed Real Violence.
But there's a silver lining—sort of.
The 2025 Libertarian Gift Guide: 28 Great Ideas for Apocalypse Preppers, Boozers, Self-Improvers—and More
Panicked about holiday shopping? Reason staffers and contributors are here to save the day.
Trump's Word Games Can't Conceal the Murderous Reality of His Anti-Drug Strategy
Calling suspected cocaine smugglers "combatants" does not justify summarily executing them.
Trump Is Still Claiming He Saves '25,000 American Lives' When He Blows Up a Suspected Drug Boat
So far, by the president's reckoning, he has prevented 650,000 U.S. drug deaths—eight times the number recorded last year.
Sweating the Little Things
The freedom to build in-law suites and home additions is crucial, even if it doesn't get us all the way to housing "abundance."
The Free Market Can Connect Rural America Faster Than the Government
Private innovation is connecting rural America faster than Washington’s $42 billion broadband program.
Department of Homeland Security
Trump Is Using the 'Misinformation' Censorship Playbook Republicans Attacked Biden For
The party in power changes. The pressure to silence critics doesn’t.
If FIFA Doesn't Want People To Think It's Corrupt, It Should Stop Doing Things That Look Corrupt
Plus: Are college football bowl games dead, and can the playoff be fixed?
Ignore the Entertainment Companies
Plus: Lost Vegas, Gen Z listlessness, Kushner mystique, Nvidia goes to China, and more...
January 2026
Magazine
Republican Socialism
The Trump administration's pivot toward socialism did not come without warning.
