Arkansas' New Food-Labeling Law Is Veg-on-Veg Crime
As the behest of agricultural lobbies, regulators around the world are making food marketing way more complicated than it needs to be.
Culture
What Game of Thrones Can Teach Us About Political Power
In a special episode of the Reason Podcast, we drink and we know things.
Punishing Assange Isn't Worth Killing a Free Press: Reason Roundup
Plus: Christians and bureaucrats versus Tarot in Virginia, and Democratic candidates on restoring voting rights to prisoners
What If Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Had Been a Maoist Revolutionary Epic?
Friday A/V Club: Springtime for Mao
The Hellboy Reboot Is a Damned Awful Movie
Director Neil Marshall's revival is a sad imitation of Guillermo del Toro's comic-book movie masterpiece.
Movie Review: High Life
Robert Pattinson in Claire Denis's slow-going sci-fi exercise.
Google Launches a Drone Delivery Service in Australia
Get food, coffee, medicine, and golf balls (if your aim is just that bad).
The Politics of Game of Thrones Revisited
The imminent start of the final season of Game of Thrones is a good time to consider the series' political message, and reprise some of my work on that subject. Plus, a discussion of the political economy portrayed in George R.R. Martin's recently published prequel to the series.
Trump Is Forcing Cuban Ballplayers To Suffer for the Sins of Their Government
Administration appears to value hardline Cuba stance over ballplayer safety.
Nylon Says Please Stop Sharing Those Hilarious Alien Cartoons—the Artist Is Pro-Life
The online fashion magazine warns readers that Strange Planet's Nathan Pyle is maybe pro-life and "we should be more careful with what we're sharing."
'Music City' Doesn't Want You Making Music at Home
A Nashville producer challenges the city's crazy ban on commercial home recording studios.
Complicated Rules For Foraging Aren't Helping Our National Parks
Let the people pick berries!
Prince Harry Blames Fortnite Addiction, Social Media for the World's Ills
Maybe people are just playing to escape all the Brexit news?
Before Lil Nas X Cut a Track with Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Rodgers Was Recording with Louis Armstrong
Friday A/V Club: There's no such thing as "pure country music," because country music has always been a mix.
Shazam! Is a Captain Marvel Movie Worth Seeing
A charming, lightweight superhero movie that works hard to please.
White Plains, New York, Will Finally End Its Ban on Amusement Arcades
Pinball and Pac-Man: no longer illegal.
Nation's First Vegan Charter School Hits Roadblocks
The Florida school is running into trouble with the USDA and the school district over anti-milk marketing and school choice politics.
Texas Would Rather Ban All Chaplains from Execution Chambers Than Placate One Buddhist Inmate in His Final Moments
Equal treatment under the law can mean everyone is treated equally poorly
DOJ Lawyers Now Want to Be Involved in Oscar Nominations
The Department of Justice is threatening antitrust action if the Academy keeps out streaming services like Netflix.
What Brothels Can Teach All of Us About Risk
Allison Schrager's An Economist Walks Into a Brothel demystifies sex work, big-wave surfing, horse-breeding, and other high-risk professions.
An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: What Prostitutes and Big-Wave Surfers Can Teach Us About Risk
Allison Schrager wants to change the way you take chances.
Bad Math and Worse Policy Ideas on Equal Pay Day
Plus: closing the border is bad for U.S. "profits" and Jesse Singal on left-wing identitarianism.
District Court Allows Challenge to School's Locker-Room-of-Your-Choice Policy
The court held that plaintiffs' sexual harassment claims (under Title IX) and religious objection claims (under the Illinois RFRA and under the Free Exercise Clause) could go forward, at least for now.
These Three Cities Spent $70 Million on Stadiums to Lure Minor League Baseball Teams. They All Struck Out.
Across the country, minor league teams are exploiting civic enthusiasm for small town sports.
'Sex Recession' Skepticism
Plus: school choice in court in Wisconsin and a win against eminent domain in New Jersey
Medical Groups Endorse New Taxes and Marketing Restrictions on Soda
For the children, of course
Does Middle East Peace Require a Two-State Solution or a Palestinian Defeat? A Debate
Should Israel negotiate with Hamas and Fatah, or are they unwavering enemies in a protracted struggle?
Arkansas Legislature Saves Residents From Accidentally Eating Rice Made From Cauliflower
Or maybe they're just protecting the Arkansas rice industry.
Brett Kavanaugh Explains Why He Voted to Grant Buddhist Inmate's Stay of Execution
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 last night to grant Patrick Murphy's petition for a stay.
Supreme Court Stays Execution in Death Penalty/Religious Liberty Case
The facts of this case are very similar to those of Dunn v. Ray, a recent ruling in which the Justice let the execution proceed, and thereby attracted a firestorm of criticism.
TV Review: The Twilight Zone
Jordan Peele puts his nerdcore imprimatur on a classy reboot.
Artist's Cheesy Border Wall Troll Will 'Make America Grate Again'
Cosimo Cavallaro tackles a wedge issue.
Arthur Brooks Wants You To Love Your Enemies: Podcast
The president of the American Enterprise Institute says we need to reboot politics and that libertarians may hold the key.
Squawking NIMBYs Fail To Doom Halal Chicken Slaughterhouse
The Alexandria City Council voted to approve the butchery's special-use permit.
Baltimore Tries to Use Eminent Domain to Condemn the Preakness Stakes Horse Race
The condemnation is legally dubious. And even if the city prevails in court, it is likely to come out a loser. Baltimore should listen to naysayers who advise letting the neighsayers move to another location.
Modern Art Critic Assumes 1939 Painting Is All About Homophobia. It's About Murderous Union Thugs.
Paul Cadmus's Herrin Massacre is "The Painting Our Art Critic Can't Stop Thinking About." If only he'd thought harder.
PETA Sics Cops on California Foie Gras Dinner
Radicals team up with the food police to infringe on our right to eat.
