"I know either way he will use it against me.... And after the fact, I know he will try to act like he has some right to the decision," said the woman in text messages to her friends named as defendants in the suit.
During the pandemic, the U.S. mortgage market avoided collapse without any bailouts. Here's how.
Each year, the DEA sets production limits for certain drugs, including some ingredients in common amphetamine pills like Adderall.
Plus: The editors recommend the best books for sparking interest in free market principles.
The law allows abortions when there is a "medical emergency"—but what qualifies as an emergency?
The advent of effective new weight loss drugs offers hope for millions of overweight people.
Handouts for tourist-trap museums will be part of the federal funding battleground in the next two years.
Mayor Eric Adams frets that COVID-19 masks are making it too easy for shoplifters to evade facial recognition.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
"If I would have gone to college after school, I would be dead broke," one high school graduate told the A.P.
And now the state thinks it needs to crack down even more.
Biden is set to propose a new tax on unrealized investment gains and to quadruple a recently imposed tax on stock buybacks.
The outspoken critic of the CDC and FDA explains what went wrong—and what went right—with COVID policy.
A ballot initiative that would have allowed recreational use was defeated by a large margin in a special election.
Plus: San Francisco claims to have "significantly disrupted" sex trafficking, a nationwide injunction on abortion pills, and more...
The Ohio train accident was frightening enough. Spreading inaccurate information won’t help the citizens of East Palestine.
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
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