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Republicans Are Getting Grilled Over Trump's Tariffs
From Maine to Michigan, voters are fed up with tariffs and trade wars.
New York Is Fining Amish Schools Over Vaccines, So the Amish Are Asking the Supreme Court for Help
After $118,000 in fines for allowing unvaccinated students to attend Amish schools, the plaintiffs are pursuing a case that could reshape how the courts protect religious exercise.
DOGE Shut Down This Agency. Now Its Employees Are Back on the Payroll With Nothing To Do.
Shutting down the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness is the right thing to do, but the Trump administration's approach allowed a dozen federal employees to collect paychecks for a year.
How Drones Went From Tools of the Powerful to Weapons of the Masses
Two very different sorts of drone warfare
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Texas Looks Competitive
Plus: AI weirdness, Amazon algorithm data, bond markets, and more...
Ruben Gallego's Plan To Save America's Middle Class: Higher Taxes and More Unions
The senator wants to “triple union density by 2035” and pay for a host of social welfare programs with new taxes on data centers and AI companies.
Why Trillionaires Will Be Good for America
The problem isn't how rich someone is. It's how they got it.
NYC Officials Bizarrely Want To 'Save' an AMC Movie Theater From a Hospital Expansion
Who needs a bigger hospital when you can enjoy movie magic?
The Biggest Expansion of School Choice Yet Is Coming in January
Starting next year, a dollar-for-dollar tax credit of up to $1,700 will fund K–12 scholarships. Thirty states have opted in, but many Democratic governors are holding out.
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Live Reason Roundtable 10th Anniversary Show!
Join Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch as they celebrate a decade of the show with a special live taping.
Is Our Age of Mass Incarceration Collapsing?
Researchers say low crime rates by Gen Zers and millennials could keep driving down the prison population for the next two decades.
FCC Has 'Our Head on the Guillotine,' Disney Tells Federal Judge
Disney asked a federal court to end the FCC's investigation of its ABC broadcast licenses, which it has called "pretextual" and "retaliatory."
TSA Screeners Union Hopes Passengers Protest Petty Rule Change That Only Affects Screeners
The Trump administration has taken away TSA agents' chairs. Now the union wants the flying public to 'take a stand' for their return.
An App I'd Never Heard of Told My Patient I Was a Good Surgeon
Giving patients, and markets, more power in the healthcare system leads to better results.
Judge Says Warrantless Flock Search Violated Driver's Fourth Amendment Rights
The automated license plate reader system is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance," says a federal judge.
FTX Is Gone, but Its Memory Still Drives Federal Crypto Policy
One line in a user agreement could bring every trade on a crypto exchange under federal oversight.
Are Economists Measuring the Wrong Things?
Nobel Prize–winning economist James Heckman discusses what really drives economic mobility, the failures of universal preschool, and how AI is transforming his research.
AI Solutions in Search of Problems
Plus: Ketamine deep dive, failed Oura IPO, Ray Dalio's warning, and more...
10 Years of The Reason Roundtable
The good, the bad, and the ugly of our decade of just podcasting right through the crazy news
Federal Court Slaps Down Utah's VPN Restrictions
A judge blocked a rule that would have required adult sites to block VPNs or age-check the world.
Prettifying Executions Does Not Make Them Quicker or More Reliable
Lethal injection aims to disguise the brutal reality of capital punishment by dressing it in medical garb.
Trump Keeps Contradicting the 'National Security' Rationale for Banishing Disfavored Journalists
Attorney General Todd Blanche, who complains that CNN's coverage is "almost 100 percent negative towards the president," also has trouble keeping the story straight.
'I Never Lie': Audio Recordings Raise New Questions About Cornell 7 Allegations
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss updates in the Cornell 7 scandal.
The 'World's Oldest' Bartender's Very Illegal Basement Bar
A recent profile of 103-year-old Irv Koch's basement bar highlights all the ways that modern zoning codes crush novel and fun third places.
These Minnesota Parents Were Censored at a Public Meeting for Saying School Employees' Job Titles
"You can't talk about the superintendent," a Foley Public School Board official told Blake and Katy DeMarais when they tried to advocate for their disabled and nonverbal son.
Sam Altman Says 'Some Bad Things' Will Happen With AI. That Doesn't Mean We Should Stop It.
Progress has always required accepting risk.
The SEC Is Watching American Investors' Trades. That's a Privacy Nightmare.
The SEC should not keep a searchable record of Americans’ lawful trades, much less make them pay for it.
November 2026
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J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions
