TikTok and How Congress Treats Americans Like 'Unruly Children'
Plus: The editors puzzle over Donald Trump’s latest list describing his vision for America.
Plus: The editors puzzle over Donald Trump’s latest list describing his vision for America.
A new 60-minute screen time warning on TikTok won’t stop kids from scrolling.
The basics of middle-class life are too expensive. But more subsidies won't help.
Plus: Liberal teens are more depressed than conservative ones, the outsize role of immigrants in U.S. innovation, and more...
Join Reason on YouTube at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of mRNA vaccines and America's public health establishment with UCSF's Vinay Prasad.
D.C. is destroying its thriving cannabis industry with bureaucracy and red tape.
Time and time again, so-called disinformation watchdogs fail their own tests—the lab leak is just the latest example.
Plus: ACLU urges Congress not to bank TikTok, a backdoor way to subsidize childcare, and more...
Plus: The editors reveal their favorite issues and articles from the Reason magazine catalog.
On Friday, the DEA unveiled a plan to restrict doctors' ability to prescribe controlled drugs over telehealth.
The push to label the lab leak thesis a racist conspiracy theory now looks even more foolish.
The raw milk restoration is underway.
A new entrant in the anti-neoliberalism genre fails to land any blows.
When society criminalizes outdoor independence, it makes smart phone addiction more likely.
Immigrants have a proven ability to address a mounting need for the aging American population. Politicians crafting immigration policy ignore this at their own peril.
Krugman sees benefit cuts as "a choice" but believes that implementing a massive tax increase on American employers and workers would be "of course" no big deal.
Since the Federal Trade Commission didn't sue in time, the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
The article explains the broader issues at stake in these cases, and why the Court would do well to rule against the administration.
The social media site slapped a warning on a column in which I criticized the CDC for exaggerating the evidence supporting mask mandates.
The L.A. City Council saw a good thing happening and decided government wasn't involved enough.
The move makes it more likely that Title 42 expulsions of migrants will end in the near future.
Reason talks with the transgender historian who used the term to describe a revolutionary gender-affirming treatment for teens.
Reason reported in 2020 on allegations of fatal medical neglect inside two federal women's prisons. The Bureau of Prisons heavily redacted reports that would show if women died of inadequate care.
As legislators refuse to act, benefits will be cut without any possibility of sheltering those seniors who are poor.
Plus: Age verification for social media, a bill to ban cannabis "gatherings," and more...
Is it just to punish the many for the excesses of the few?
The CDC’s revised prescribing guidelines retain an anti-opioid bias and do nothing to reverse the harmful policies inspired by the 2016 version.
Plus: a listener question on prohibition and a lightning round on the editors' favorite Super Bowl moments
By restricting private health care choices, the NHS and other beloved single-payer systems were doomed from the start.
Over 88 percent of opioid overdose deaths now involve either heroin or fentanyl. Targeting prescriptions is not an efficient way to address mortality.
The paper is unfazed by First Amendment objections to the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation" on social media.
And increase total health care costs to boot.
Fifty years ago, dozens of people gathered in Ossineke, Michigan, for one of the strangest funerals in American history
Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
If so, Title 42 expulsions might finally end. But it's not a done deal yet.
To reduce cancer deaths, Biden should stop restricting safer nicotine alternatives.
"On its face, the CARE Act violates essential constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection while needlessly burdening fundamental rights to privacy, autonomy and liberty," the petition states.
The venture capitalist and prognosticator on his hopes for the future and his fears about the present.
There are many reasons people move, but overburdening your citizens is a good way to lose them.
The analysis found that wearing masks in public "probably makes little or no difference."
More than four months after President Joe Biden declared the pandemic to be over, the White House is fighting efforts to lift lingering and nonsensical COVID rules.
The Cochrane Library's review of masking trials should sound the death knell for mask mandates everywhere.
The government argued that marijuana users have no Second Amendment rights because they are dangerous, unvirtuous, and untrustworthy.
Gov. Andy Beshear issued a conditional pardon aimed at protecting people who use marijuana for medical purposes from criminal prosecution.
"The COVID-19 learning deficit is likely to affect children's life chances through their education and labour market prospects," the analysis' authors argue.