Two Senators Want a Bipartisan Deal to Prop Up Obamacare
A new proposal from Sens. Murray and Alexander would fund the health law's insurance industry subsidies for two years.
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Feds Admit Their Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Users in Washington Was Illegal
After trying for years to imprison the Kettle Falls Five as drug dealers, prosecutors concede they are patients protected by federal law.
How to End the Fight Over Contraception
Birth control should be available over the counter.
Misdiagnosing Causes and Casualties in the Opioid War [Corrected]
Do the pain relief benefits of prescription opioids outweigh their addiction risks?
The Simpleminded Opioid Narrative That Doomed Tom Marino
The drug czar nominee withdrew his name after being portrayed as the henchman of villains who profit from addiction.
Harvey Weinstein and the End of Open Secrets: Podcast
This week's show covers the Iran nuclear deal, threats to the First Amendment, the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and Trump's latest moves on health care.
These Doctors Got Fed Up With Insurance. Now They Treat Their Patients Like Valued Customers.
The "direct primary care" movement is attracting physicians sick of red tape. And it's transforming the doctor-patient relationship.
Relax, Unlicensed Nurses Aren't Going to Roam Wisconsin Looking for Victims
And if they were, state licensing laws probably wouldn't be the best way to stop them.
By Cutting Off Obamacare's Insurer Subsidies, Trump Might Help More People Get Health Coverage
The president has finally brought the law into constitutional compliance.
Trump's New Executive Order Makes It Easier to Buy Insurance Outside of Obamacare
Trump's order reveals how Obamacare functions as a trap for policymakers.
Does Reproductive Freedom Mean Forcing People to Sin?
Defenders of Obamacare's contraceptive mandate give short shrift to religious liberty.
California Enacts Likely Ineffective Drug Price Transparency Law
What will really keep drug (and any other) prices lower? Competition.
Should You Be Able to Buy Birth Control—or a Tank—Over the Counter? [Podcast]
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on why government-mandated birth control and the NRA both suck.
Getting a Religious Exemption to Providing 'Free' Birth Control Just Got Easier
Department of Health and Human Services officials claim the rule will not change coverage for "99.9 percent of women."
The Real 'Modern Slavery'? Inside America's Court-Ordered Corporate Labor Camps
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
Congress Could Let All Patients Have the 'Right to Try' Without Going Through the FDA's Complicated Application Process
The FDA is slashing paperwork requirements for expanded access trials in response to state-level "right to try" laws. That's good, but it's not enough.
Katherine Mangu-Ward: Using Race to Drum up Criminal Justice Outrage Is A-OK
Reason editor in chief steps into The Fifth Column.
'Medicare Is a Bank Without Security Guards:' Media Executive David Goldhill Debates Princeton's Paul Starr
Watch or listen to the latest Soho Forum on expanding government-run health care.
Why Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Is a Bad Idea
If single-payer couldn't make it out of Sanders' home state, there's no reason to try it on all of America.
Screw Donald Trump—Go Ahead, Sit During the Anthem: Podcast
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Eric Boehm, and Andrew Heaton discuss the president's NFL feud, Graham-Cassidy, and tax reform.
Rand Paul and John McCain Might Have Killed the GOP's Obamacare Repeal Bill
Paul says he won't be swayed by Trump's threats. "I'm a big boy."
Don't Fall for Jimmy Kimmel's Cheap Zero-Sum Emotionalism
His political rants could be written by any liberal activist.
Graham-Cassidy Promises States More Flexibility; Leaves Washington Fully in Charge of Americans' Health Care
The limited amount of federalism in the Graham-Cassidy bill would come only with the expressed permission of the federal government.
Breaking Addicts in Order to Fix Them
How Synanon revolutionized drug treatment and poisoned the politics of prohibition.
Harvard's Spineless Administrators vs. Chelsea Manning: Podcast
Reason editors talk single-payer health care, Rand Paul's push to deauthorize foreign wars, and Chelsea Manning vs. Harvard.
Sanders' Medicare for All Delusion
Americans might love what Sanders offers in the way of more benefits for more people. What they would hate is paying for it.
Dave Weigel on the Democrats' Bernienomics, Trump's DACA Switcheroo, and Hillary's Surprising Book
The Fifth Column interviews the ex-Reasoner about this week's political controversies
Bikini Barista Lawsuit Defends Freedom to Espresso Oneself
A group of coffee industry workers sues Everett, Wash. over city's new anti-bikini ordinances.
Bullied By the State, Toledo Abortion Clinic Takes Its Fight to Remain Open to the Ohio Supreme Court
The Capital Care Network was ordered to close in 2014. Instead, it took the state to court.
Did Arizona Fund Medicaid Expansion With an Unconstitutional Tax? Supreme Court Will Decide.
The tax was passed in 2013, but did not receive a two-thirds majority from both chambers of the state legislature.
Bernie Sanders' New Single Payer Plan Is a Wild Legislative Fantasy
The new plan refuses to grapple with costs or tradeoffs.
Most Americans Want Government-Run Health Care Until They Find Out the Government Will Run Health Care
And when they find out it means higher taxes, support crumbles further.
Are You Sure You Want Medicare for All?
Expanding existing government healthcare systems would also spread the reach of their already messy problems.
Bikini Baristas Sue City in the Name of Free Speech and Women's Rights
City worries bikini hot dog stands could be next.
Obamacare Repeal Is Dead. Here Come the Bailouts.
New legislation would convert the health law into a series of flat payments to states.
Disjointed Coughs Out Some Tired Dope Humor
Cheech and Chong were decades ago, but Netflix show leans on the same old pot jokes.
Fixating on Adolescent Vaping Could Be Deadly for Adult Smokers
A new critique of the surgeon general's report on e-cigarettes puts underage use in perspective.
House Rules Committee Blocks Amendment Protecting Medical Marijuana
The rider could still be renewed if a conference committee decides to put it in the final bill.
Vaccines, Peter Thiel and the Fine Art of the Journalistic Hatchet Job
Never let the facts get in the way of a good agenda-driven story.
FDA Lies About Vaping While the CDC Inches Toward the Truth
Federal officials deny big reductions in adolescent tobacco use and obscure the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
Obamacare Remains Unstable, Even as Insurers Fill Bare Counties
Premiums are on the rise and competition remains weak in much of the country.
More Evidence That Everything the Government Teaches Us About Eating Is Wrong
Global study goes against the grain on fats, fruits, and dietary dogma
