Movie Review: Mary Queen of Scots
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie in an awkward royal history.
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Facebook Also Becoming a Sexuality-Free Zone: Reason Roundup
New rules ban erotic art, talk of shared sexual interests, kink groups, and anything that "encourages sexual encounters between adults."
Taxpayers Will Pay $1 Million to Tear Down $18 Million Baseball Stadium That Predictably Failed to Rejuvenate Camden
The stadium never turned a profit and the team skipped town when local officials decided to start charging rent.
Fallout 76 Will Trigger Your Existential Crisis
Unlike previous entries in the series, the new, online-only game never justifies its own existence.
America's Economic Health Has Improved
The U.S. rose four places in the International Tax Competitiveness Index, and this just the latest bit of good news.
Tumblr Says It's Banning Porn. This Will Not End Well.
Research shows a fifth of its users seek out sexual images. But the sharing site is now part of a massive media conglomerate.
In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Everyone Just Wants to Be Left the Fuck Alone
The series, which returns to Amazon Prime on December 5, depicts a burgeoning counterculture fighting for free speech.
Maine's Food Sovereignty Law Is a Hit
A year into their experiment with self-governance, the municipalities of Maine are embracing their new food freedoms
New Tracks From Meek Mill and Chance the Rapper Tackle Criminal Justice and Trump
Settle in with some headphones and get ready to nod.
Syfy's Adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers Mangles a Ghost Story in Space
The show's derivative mimickry of time-skipping ruins the tension.
D.C. Agency Is Sorry Its Staff Didn't Know New Mexico Is a State
For once, a government agency's gaffe didn't do any real harm.
Movie Review: The House That Jack Built
Lars von Trier's latest film is heavy on maiming, short on message.
Rejoice, Angelenos! Your Bacon Dogs Will Soon Be Street Legal
After years of conflict and erratic enforcement, Los Angeles finally passes a formal plan to allow street vending.
Dutch Church's Month-Long, 24/7 Service Is Saving a Family of Refugees From Deportation
The church faced a dilemma: "choosing between respect for the government and protecting the rights of a child."
How Star Trek Explains Donald Trump
Kirk, Spock, and Khan have much to teach us about contemporary politics.
Cheese Fight Ends With Court Declaring Producers Can't Copyright Taste
Taste is subjective and food producers have to deal with it
There's Not Much Truth Found in HBO's Lazy Robot Panic Documentary
If Skynet looms on the horizon, you won't find the evidence here.
No, Sex Wasn't Better for Women Under Socialism
It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
Is the First Amendment Flourishing or Floundering in the 21st Century?: Podcast
Nadine Strossen, Eugene Volokh, and Stephanie Slade discuss freedom of speech, assembly, and religion at Reason's 50th anniversary.
Movie Review: The Favourite
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman rule in a fabulously nasty historical comedy.
This Thanksgiving, Here Are 6 Ways the Government Suppresses Charity
Government has repaid acts of service with exorbitant fines and misdemeanor charges.
Director Jason Reitman on The Front Runner, Gary Hart, and the Private Lives of Politicians
Reitman and his co-writers, Matt Bai and Jay Carson, on what their new film reveals about today's politics.
Federal Female Genital Mutilation Ban Exceeds Congress's Power, Holds District Court
Policing such behavior, the court concludes, is a matter for the states, because it isn't authorized as a regulation of commerce or as necessary and proper to comply with treaties.
Californians Are Paying More in Taxes So LeBron James Can Play Basketball with Bugs Bunny
Hollywood, just like Amazon, shops around for massive deals from the government that the rest of us have to pay for.
Chinese Novelist Gets 10-Year Prison Sentence Because Her Homoerotic Books Sold Too Well
Yet under Chinese law, some rapists get only three years behind bars.
An Act of Congress Could Bring Hemp to the Shelves of Your Local Grocery Store
Grocery store trends look good for hemp farmers and entrepreneurs in 2019.
Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Odd wizarding couple of the year: Eddie Redmayne and Johnny Depp.
Proposed U.N. Test Ban on Gene Drives Is Idiotic
The good news is that anti-technology activists are unlikely to succeed in imposing a global moratorium.
The Backpage Scandal Isn't What You Think
How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
Comics Legend Stan Lee Was the Godfather of Shared World Storytelling
Without him, Hollywood as we know it might not exist.
Why Stan Lee's Flaws Were Part of His Virtues
Less creator than editor, pathetic company man, purveyor of childish nonsense? No amount of next-level quasi-sophisticated Stan Lee critique can avoid the proper conclusion: He was the Man.
'Mobile Brothels' Could Be Enabled by Self-Driving Cars, But That Doesn't Mean They Will: Reason Roundup
Plus: Amazon goes to Washington (for good) and Chicago cops shoot man who stopped bar shooting.
Anti-Porn Republicans Haven't Gone Anywhere
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
Reporters Become Participants in Tribal Political Warfare
Journalists, like other Americans, will have an easier time only when the struggle for control of government stops mattering so much.
Comics Giant Stan Lee Dead at 95
Marvel's former chief left behind a massive cultural legacy preaching tolerance and personal responsibility.
Kansas City Health Officials Bleached Food Meant for the Homeless; Volunteers Came Back with More
How is bleaching food better than letting homeless people eat it?
Navy Veteran Rep.-Elect Dan Crenshaw: 'Stop Looking for Reasons to Be Offended'
A culture of outrage doesn't help anyone.
The Wild Rise of Lyndon LaRouche
What a conspiracy theorist, a Vietnam War deserter, and a Trump adviser have in common
The Midterms Were a Mixed Bag for Food Freedom
We gained some food freedom, we lost some food freedom.
Big Changes for Birth Control Rules, but Not Big Enough
The Obamacare contraception mandate is getting a Trump-era overhaul.
