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The Federal Government Just Posted the Largest Annual Budget Deficit Since COVID
Tax revenue increased by about 3 percent last year, but spending increased twice as fast. And interest payments on the debt cost more than $1.1 trillion.
Treasury Backs Down on Biden-Era Cryptocurrency Surveillance Proposal
It’s a small victory for financial privacy against escalating surveillance.
The NIH Plan To Strengthen 'Replication and Reproducibility' Will Not Check Anything
The world’s largest research funder asked its grantees whether it should audit them. Guess what they said.
The Midterm Winner Will Be Whichever Party Americans Hate Less
U.S. voters continue to be motivated more by whom they loathe than whom they like.
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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.
Livestreaming an Execution
Plus: Tariffs and Michigan, LGBT teens, Stewart Brand fanfare, and more...
Trump's 'Free Speech Agenda: Siccing the FBI on Critics, Barring Reporters, and Threatening Broadcasters
GOP's new mantra: "Free speech for me, but not for thee."
Review: These Talking Dogs Give Children the Wrong Idea About Government
Shmoo & Ozzie Go to Washington is supposed to be about bipartisanship, but it's really about wasteful spending.
Review: Magic Lantern Shows Were Cinema Before Movies
Some lanternists believed that film was a fad their medium would easily survive.
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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.
The NFL Chooses States, Not the CFTC, in Fight Over Prediction Market Regulation
The league's amicus brief warns about game integrity and underage betting, but the NFL has a financial stake in keeping prediction markets under state control.
Russian Plague, Superintelligence, and Tucker Carlson
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi weigh in on the Russian plague, whether superintelligence is sentient, and Tucker Carlson's shaky grasp of history.
D.C. Wants To Protect Ride-Share Jobs. Riders Could Pay the Price.
Unions rallied against a D.C. robotaxi bill that already favors them. Riders would pay for their win in higher fares and more dangerous roads.
Kimberly Guilfoyle's Grift Is at Least as Offensive as Hunter Biden's
The ex-girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. asked a Republican fundraiser to pay off her credit card debt.
The Pentagon Is Eating Silicon Valley
An influx of military spending has been moving tech companies away from serving consumers and back toward chasing government contracts.
A Missouri School District Censored a Parent's Negative Facebook Emoji Because It Was 'Upsetting'
Annie Palmer was banned from the district's Facebook page for expressing her displeasure at the hiring of a new elementary school principal.
Republicans Are Getting Grilled Over Trump's Tariffs
From Maine to Michigan, voters are fed up with tariffs and trade wars.
Price Controls Don't Work. So Why Do So Many Democrats and Republicans Love Them?
Price controls are seductive because any benefits are highly and immediately visible, while their grave costs are often harder to spot.
How Drones Went From Tools of the Powerful to Weapons of the Masses
Two very different sorts of drone warfare
Texas Looks Competitive
Plus: AI weirdness, Amazon algorithm data, bond markets, and more...
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.
Alito's 'Practical Originalism' Doesn't Sound Very Originalist
The conservative justice seems to favor the kind of results-oriented judging that originalists are supposed to oppose.
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.
A Survey of Crime Experts Deflates the 'Trump Effect' That Supposedly Reduced Homicides
The respondents did not think much of the policies that the president says produced "the largest drop in violent crime in American history."
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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J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions
