What if the President Tries to Annex Greenland and Canada?
Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.
Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.
Impoundment, line-item vetoes, and the tricky problem of cutting spending through the executive branch
Sentencing defendants based on acquitted conduct violates basic notions of justice.
How John McClaughry and Karl Hess fought to decentralize power—one from inside the system, one ever further from it
We don't just crave being on a team; we also crave a rival. We want to be in a club, and we want a nemesis to motivate us.
The campaign to make America dry is as dubious as the campaign for the food pyramid.
Challenging the common knowledge of urban planning
Across the country, parents of gender-dysphoric kids are confronting state intrusion.
Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina.
The Austrian economist's principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right.
"Officially, it was a voluntary departure. But I sure felt like I'd been pushed out."
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.
To understand the federal government's case against Google Search, you need to understand the different visions over monopoly and government power.
Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated.
Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.
Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?
"The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
DOGE won't necessarily have to kill any of Republicans’ sacred cows—but they will have to be put on a diet.
Decades after his death, the English philosopher's ideas helped shape the American republic.
Politicians in both major parties see the People's Republic as an economic and military threat. But the real threat is an isolated China.
How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary 'self-licking ice cream cones.'
How a 1949 Supreme Court dissent gave birth to a meme that subverts free speech and civil liberties
Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?
How much should a Wendy's Baconator cost? Elizabeth Warren thinks the government should help decide.
Annunciation House feeds, shelters, and clothes immigrants. State officials say it's "systemic criminal conduct."
Despite campaigning against Donald Trump's tariff hikes, Biden left many of them in place.
The Biden administration's war on "junk fees" is emblematic of its nanny state instincts.
The Biden administration continued many of the same immigration enforcement measures he lambasted Trump for using.
From Afghanistan to Ukraine to Israel, Biden's was a presidency defined by contradictions on peace and interventionism.
While the administration was fighting for debt forgiveness in court, it was also rolling out a broken FAFSA application form.
There's a good reason Biden eventually stopped saying Bidenomics. Americans didn't like the results of his economic policies.
Mandates, school closures, and overreach defined an administration that doubled down on failed policies.
Though he commuted some drug offenders' sentences, Biden never delivered on the rest of his drug reform promises.
Joe Biden ran on some good ideas to reform policing and incarceration, which he mostly failed to deliver.
From the war in Afghanistan to the war on drugs, Reason writers offer performance reviews of Joe Biden's single term as president.
American history is often a story of people leaving to try to build their voluntary utopias.
Many seriously ill people die waiting for the FDA to approve drugs that regulators in other advanced countries have already approved.
The agency has not made air travel safer but it has made it costlier and more time-consuming to fly.
Ending these unaccountable agencies would safeguard civil liberties and improve intelligence gathering.
The states already overregulate alcohol. There's no need for a federal layer of red tape.
The federal government furnishes a relatively tiny amount of K-12 funding—but the feds need relatively little money to exert power.
The Affordable Care Act has become a broken welfare program for people who don't need it.
Like all government perks, SBA lending creates unseen victims.
Having a large market share may just mean that a company is really good at what it does.
FOIA has no teeth and bureaucrats abuse its exemptions. Just redact and release every federal workers' emails instead.
Why should the federal government run a transportation corporation?
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