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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.
If Manchester City Weren't (Basically) Owned by the UAE, Their Scandal Would Be a Lot Less Complicated
Plus: Nick Saban is wrong again, and could this be the last year of MLB’s playoff format?
The Energy Department Is Offering $4.2 Billion in Loans to Nuclear Projects in Ohio and Pennsylvania
Private investors are already pouring billions into America’s nuclear sector. The Trump administration wants a piece of the credit.
Alito Talks Retirement
Plus: The Supreme Court weighs a local government’s lawsuit against oil companies over global climate change.
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Sam Altman Says 'Some Bad Things' Will Happen With AI. That Doesn't Mean We Should Stop It.
Progress has always required accepting risk.
French Tantrum
Plus: Scavenging in NYC, Claude "solved" humor, the era of philanthropy, and more...
Are the Cornell 7 Being Tried on Social Media?
Plus: Tennessee botches the execution of Christa Pike, and Sam Altman says the benefits of AI are worth the risks.
The Rebirth of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama's new book tackles transhumanism, the urge to struggle, and what happens when people jump willingly back into the swamps of history.
A SCOTUS Petition Argues That Pot Growers, Like Pot Smokers, Cannot Be Categorically Disarmed
The case involves a federal law that criminalizes gun possession by people convicted of nonviolent felonies.
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Are the Cornell 7 Being Tried on Social Media?
Plus: Tennessee botches the execution of Christa Pike, and Sam Altman says the benefits of AI are worth the risks.
Who Will Own the Moon?
Property rights in space will attract investment, prevent space serfdom, and allow competition to flourish off-world.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen Trashes Facebook's Flawed Fact-Checkers
Frances Haugen, the woman whose Facebook revelations inspired The Social Reckoning, argues that the real danger of social media isn’t bad speech—it’s the way the platforms are designed.
What's Going To Happen in the Midterms?
Plus: Anthropic's Claude constitution, Letitia James to handle Cornell rape case, and more...
America Hits a New Debt Record at $40 Trillion and Counting
President Donald Trump has surpassed Barack Obama's record for most debt amassed by a president.
Police Allegedly Destroyed $37,000 of Legal Hemp. Georgia's Supreme Court Just Upended 60 Years of Precedent.
The ruling has major implications for property owners when the government ruins their possessions in the exercise of "police power."
The Millennial Internet Is Dead, and Politicians Killed It.
Social media use is declining, and what's left has shifted from conversation to passive scrolling.
Mamdani Promised To Freeze the Rent. Now His Rent Freeze Is in Court.
A lawsuit alleges New York City's Rent Guidelines Board broke the law by arbitrarily predetermining the outcome.
Minneapolis Activists Used Encrypted Group Chats To Outmaneuver ICE. Now the Feds Want To Prosecute Them.
"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.
2 Lawsuits Cast Further Doubt on the Claim That ICE Agent Jonathan Ross Killed Renée Good in Self-Defense
According to complaints filed by Good's family, Ross was not in any danger when he fired three shots into her car.
Rand Paul Was Right To Block the Senate's Attempt To Censor the Internet
The bill’s “duty of care” could pressure platforms to suppress lawful speech in the name of protecting children.
Would a Firing Squad Have Been More 'Humane' for Christa Pike?
Lethal injection dresses up the death penalty as something clinical and civilized. But the goal is the same: to kill someone.
A Court Rules That San Francisco's Empty Home Tax Is Illegal
San Francisco's tax on vacant homes is bad policy. Now it's also bad law.
Want To Stop the Iran War? Don't Pay the Bill
Congress can stop Trump's Iran war by failing to fund it.
Trump Criticizes Fox News for Daring To Show Clips of Democrats
The president sees even straight news coverage as an act of betrayal.
Letitia James Has Already Suggested the Cornell 7 Are Guilty
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor who has already implied that she sides with Jane Doe.
I Asked the White House's New AI Chatbot About Tariffs. It Told the Truth.
America.gov says that tariffs "can raise the price buyers pay. Domestic goods that compete with those imports can also become more expensive."
Tom Cruise's New Climate Disaster Movie, Digger, Is a Disaster
A high-concept misfire deliberately designed to test the patience of viewers.
November 2026
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J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions
