The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the enduring roots of Middle Eastern conflict, the rise and fall of cultural panics, and why Texas may be the blueprint—and battleground—for America's future.
Giving the Defense Department even more taxpayer money is a recipe for waste, not security.
Diplomacy is better than war in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran. But that doesn't mean it's easy.
Lifting TPS status would make them eligible for deportation to Afghanistan, where the Taliban is likely to persecute and punish them.
The debate over free trade should include more than the costs of Trump's tariffs versus the value of cheaper stuff.
Legal scholar Rebecca Ingber offers some strong arguments against deference in this context.
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To protect America, maybe what we really need to fund is more Tom Cruise.
Reason heard from a minister in the new Syrian government about the Trump administration's outreach.
In a 2-1 ruling, the Court ruled Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act cannot supersede a settlement barring deportation of a group of migrants. One judge also held the AEA was invoked illegally.
"We did a lot of field studies and got nothing to show for it," said one U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory researcher.
The Administration isn't wrong to admit white South African migrants. But it is wrong to exclude all other refugees, including many fleeing far worse discrimination and oppression.
In a badly flawed decision, a federal district court ruled that Trump can invoke the AEA because the Tren de Aragua drug gang's activities amount to a "predatory incursion."
The president’s speech in Saudi Arabia promised a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Can he deliver?
Afghans who fled Taliban rule with hopes of U.S. resettlement now face detention, extortion, and forced return.
The site of George Washington's famed winter encampment might not have existed without colonial-era iron regulations.
Sitting on the sidelines let America play neutral mediator and talk down both sides.
Some players like the game to mimic the real world. Others like to play as Gandhi but nuke their enemies into oblivion.
Residents of the United Kingdom will get lower tariffs, while Americans are stuck paying higher ones.
The right number of dolls? As many as your kid wants.
We don't need more of the same. We need evidence of a serious turnaround.
The pendulum within Trump’s Middle East policy has swung back toward deal making, for now.
Tariffs on creative media are barriers not just to goods, but also to ideas.
The Southern District of New York rules Trump invoked the Act illegally, because there is no "invasion" or "predatory incursion."
"I've been very vocal about congressional authority under a Democratic president or now under a Republican president," the Washington state congresswoman tells Reason.
The president wants to develop the F-47 fighter jet 60 years before the F-35 is scheduled to retire.
Sex toys, blenders, baby strollers, microwaves, hair dryers, and other affordable goods that Americans take for granted could soon be in short supply.
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Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.
A training slideshow reveals how deluded American leaders continue to be about the Iraq War, more than two decades later.
Trump has hired a notorious hawk as his national security adviser—and fired that adviser after getting in the way of delicate diplomatic talks—in each of his two terms.
Federal district court Judge Fernando Rodriguez ruled that Trump invoked the AEA illegally, and that migrants threatened with deportation under the Act can file class action habeas petitions.
Export controls on advanced chips and AI models hold back innovation and hurt American businesses.
Washington is dumping valuable resources—literally—into a Middle Eastern war of choice.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker says Upside Foods has plausibly alleged that the law's protectionism violates the "dormant" Commerce Clause.
A sharp decline in ocean freight from China during April is a sign of the supply chain issues that will begin hitting in May.
But volunteers are stepping up even as Congress fails to act.
Reason interviewed five signatories of the Anti-Tariff Declaration to learn why they oppose tariffs and support free trade.
The court ruled that Trump invoked the AEA illegally, blocks deportation of Venezuelan migrants who filed the case, and sets out standards for notifying them of their rights to challenge their deportation.
The order temporarily blocks AEA deportations. It likely also reflects the Court's growing frustration with the Trump Administration.
The secretary of state, who aims to "liberate American speech," nevertheless wants to deport U.S. residents for expressing opinions that offend him.
Only time will tell if America heeds their clarion call.
In the chaotic early days of Poland's "shock therapy," free market reformers measured their success by the falling price of this one basic commodity.
Just a quarter of respondents said they favored deporting students for "expressing pro-Palestine views."
The Danger Zone co-author joins the show to discuss China's peaking power, and why that actually makes them more dangerous.
Using the military to wage the drug war in Mexico raises practical and constitutional issues.
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