Tom Wolfe, RIP
The greatest of the New Journalists has died at 88. Take a look at some of Reason's past coverage of him.
The greatest of the New Journalists has died at 88. Take a look at some of Reason's past coverage of him.
Monday's Supreme Court ruling didn't legalize sports betting, but lots of states are eager to cash-in. Will they make a smart bet?
The Supreme Court's invalidation of a federal law preventing state legalization of sports gambling strengthens protection for state autonomy from the federal government.
"A more direct affront to state sovereignty is not easy to imagine."
A well-intentioned new policy threatens the violent, angry music we know and love.
Federal legislation may be the only solution to overreaching state laws.
The distance traveled from 2008's "I Kissed a Girl" to today's "Girls" can't be measured in years alone.
The CNN host and best-selling novelist comes clean about his politics, why Hillary Clinton lost, and how his training in alternative media gives him a leg up.
But the pizza place next door can have one.
Gabrielle Union in a surprise-free genre flick, Margot Robbie in a deeply muddled noir
Why can't we liberated moderns?
The Delaware Criminal Justice Council found it difficult to "justify the resources that have been expend on so few" participants with such a "low rate of success."
They are crying for baby Alfie in England but ignoring the plight of families being separated at the border
The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Act is a bad law, and bad laws make good regulations nearly impossible
In honor of Star Wars Day, a roundup of links to my writings and talks on the politics of one of the world's most popular science fiction franchises.
Herein of "Folsom Prison Blues" and criminal jurisdiction.
Charlize Theron great again in a movie about motherhood with a startling surprise.
Q&A with journalist Nina Teicholz
"Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found," says brothel worker and PhD student Christina Parreira.
Wolf's White House-focused hostility was a hell of a lot healthier than the smug chumminess that usually prevails at the annual journalist gathering.
The HBO series turns Facebook and Twitter into a theme park filled with sex, violence, and robots.
Reason editors rate the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump's nuclear politics, the optics of political summits, and the resuscitation of Zora Neale Hurston.
Officials should be thinking about harm reduction, not criminalization.
Michelle Wolf's jokes weren't particularly funny or offensive, but they-and the media's outraged reaction-belie an event whose best days were long ago.
After years of treating the city's richest cultural resource like contraband, L.A. flirts with sensible street food policy.
The musician and provocateur is spinning the heads of his fans, Trump's fans, and everyone who angrily overinterprets what affection for Trump has to mean.
The U.S. Cattlemen's Association petitioned the USDA to declare that "meat" and "beef" exclude products not "slaughtered in the traditional manner."
The federal charges against Mack highlight how human trafficking hysteria harms vulnerable women.
Special interests want the government to protect them from competition.
Heightened vigilance about sexual harassment has ushered in overdue changes and overreactions.
The justices' comments in the oral argument suggest this will be a close case that could easily go either way. The outcome could well turn on the views of that perennial swing voter, Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The White Slavery Panic of the late 19th/early 20th centuries caused Congress to pass the vaguely-worded Mann Act. It allowed the FBI and prosecutors broad discretion to go after individuals they didn't like.
But its illiberal tactics against liberal Muslim reformers remain extremely troubling.
Amy Schumer can't make this message-bearing comedy really work.
His fentanyl overdose came from counterfeit Vicodin, and he likely didn't know what he was ingesting.
A low-budget account of the Kelo case sells out a 1,400-seat theater and gets the Megyn Kelly treatment plus a love-letter from George Will.
But it's a great game for gringos and Mexicans alike.
A bill in the California senate could legalize street vending across the state.
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer turned over the company and seven other executives in exchange for leniency.
From One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to Black Peter, the Czech-born Oscar-winner championed eccentric individuals and artists over small-minded bureaucrats and a stifling state.