The Future of Energy? Brooklyn's Bitcoin-Heated Bathhouse
A new Reason documentary explores why, for some, bitcoin is the 'real Green New Deal.'
A new Reason documentary explores why, for some, bitcoin is the 'real Green New Deal.'
The government has doubled down on failed policies, citing deeply flawed studies and misrepresenting data.
Despite their popularity, food trucks at the National Mall are paying a hefty price to operate.
One company is betting that it can run a commercially viable passenger rail service without massive federal subsidies.
Inside the gathering of the scientists, psychonauts, capitalists, and comedians committed to mainstreaming psychedelics without repeating the errors of the 1960s.
Próspera Inc. is creating a voluntary free market mini-state inside one of Latin America's poorest nations.
Golden State municipalities are finally overturning their anti-cruising ordinances.
The FTX meltdown, "Operation Chokepoint 2.0," and a "crypto winter" have only strengthened the resolve of the enthusiasts Reason spoke with at the annual National Bitcoin Conference in Miami.
Today, the Lone Star state counts 90 homeless people per every 100,000 residents. In California, the problem is almost five times as bad.
Even the best studies haven't surmounted a key statistical issue, and they tend to distort the evidence to make e-cigarettes look dangerous.
A new Netflix documentary shows how the seeds of political polarization that roil our culture today were planted at Waco.
Vince Cantu says the eminent domain threats to seize his property are "stupidly ironic" and "completely un-Texan."
A Netflix documentary series blames the SEC for missing the Ponzi scheme and then calls for giving the SEC more power.
A documentary short about a woman who takes ayahuasca to alleviate the pain caused by addiction
If SCOTUS finds in favor of a small-town Idaho couple in Sackett v. EPA, it could end the federal government's jurisdiction over millions of acres of land.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of America's continued funding of Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion.
"It's stories and songs and films cut apart and written over, leaving no trace and no remnant of whatever used to be," writes novelist and cultural critic Kat Rosenfield.
"We can—and should—develop space without government help," says Reason Foundation's Robert W. Poole.
“I think the Chestnut is an example of an interventionist approach,” says scientist Jared Westbrook. “We might have some capabilities and responsibilities to correct some of the problems that we created.”
"You have this looming power over you that essentially can end your career," says Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya.
The Human Rights Foundation is mobilizing a global band of activists to fight authoritarianism in China, Iran, Russia, and beyond.
Ironically, the FTX meltdown is the best illustration yet of why the world needs bitcoin.
The president has touted a factory jobs boom. In practice, that means forcing people out of their homes to benefit corporate projects that rely on billions of dollars of subsidies.
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and former Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis warn about the grave danger of escalating the war in Ukraine
The state can't really banish ideas, and it's dangerous to try.
A deeply flawed documentary by the gray lady unwittingly makes the case for why the CDC shouldn't be studying gun violence.
Transit ridership, especially rail, has collapsed post-pandemic, but the Atlanta BeltLine Coalition says now is the time to take federal dollars and build a $2.5 billion streetcar.
Green Beret Scott Mann suffered severe trauma following his three tours in Afghanistan. He never wanted to have anything to do with country again. Then his friend Nezam called to say that his life was in danger.
Bitcoin's creator designed it to be radically transparent, but the tools exist to make it as hard to trace as cash.
Though morally responsible for the attack on the Capitol and unfit for office, he’s protected by the First Amendment from legal liability.
Dissecting the president's misleading claims about falling deficits
Are “extremely over-sensitive, Twitter activist people" ruining literature?
The agency will never be controlled by fact-driven experts shielded from politics.
"[Libertarians] need to push forward our own culture, our own vision, our own language, our own narrative" and change "the way people think," says Mises Caucus founder Michael Heise.
Supporters say they want to "make the Libertarian Party libertarian again." Critics say they’re shitposting edgelords who will destroy the LP from within.
This crisis is the result of protectionism, regulation, and central planning.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to end a wildly successful half-century experiment in municipal governance.
The Georgetown professor isn't a toy lover—he's trying to convey a philosophical idea about the nature of free will and the capacity of humans to remake the world around them.
Comparing Elon Musk and Barack Obama underscores why entrepreneurs, not politicians, are the more effective agents of social change.
A major lesson of the pandemic is that science is "not a priesthood," says Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, a general surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
How did something so at odds with reality persist for so long? And why is it finally crumbling?
Out of 27,900 research publications on gun laws, only 123 tested their effects rigorously.
Inside the volunteer effort to save the stranded men and women who worked with the U.S. military
Martha Bueno's organization, People 4 Cuba, smuggles food and medicine directly into the hands of suffering Cubans to help undermine an oppressive dictatorship.
Honk Honk HODL raised more than $1 million of bitcoin for the Canadian truckers. About two-thirds of it got to them.