Planned Obsolescence
Plus: New York (the adult playground), almost to Mars, Elon Musk's sins, and more...
Plus: New York (the adult playground), almost to Mars, Elon Musk's sins, and more...
Brendan Carr’s plans for "reining in Big Tech" are a threat to limited government, free speech, free markets, and the rule of law.
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else.
Civilian astronauts on a SpaceX mission traveled more than 800 miles away from Earth.
"Reining in Big Tech," Brendan Carr says, requires scrapping liability protections and restricting moderation decisions.
When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.
If advertisers don’t want to give data to Facebook Marketplace, they shouldn’t advertise on Facebook.
A recent study shows that women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty," but their earnings rebound within a decade.
Join Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe every Thursday as they uncover facts and expose realities that the government and the media would rather not talk about.
Federal regulators have rejected a proposal to increase electricity generation from a nuclear power plant to a large data center in Pennsylvania.
A new "inactivity reboot" protects data from thieves and helps preserve due process.
Copying information is not the same as copying content.
Supposedly targeted at immigrants and travelers, the program endangers everybody’s liberty.
Making DOI and DOC Schedule I drugs would interfere with psychiatric research.
Under this restrictive measure, there will be no exceptions, even for parental consent.
"It would help if we could regulate social media," said The View's Sara Haines.
From 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis moments keep reshaping the political landscape.
The decades-old regulation imposes burdens that no other media outlets are subject to.
No matter who wins, we can expect bad policies surrounding sex and especially surrounding technology.
The Trump campaign is all in on RFK Jr.'s debunked anti-vax crusade.
The country claims to be a leader in crypto transactions. But you can't force people to take a currency they don't want.
The groups are challenging a Florida law that bans some teens from social media.
Regulating AI could threaten free speech, just as earlier proposed regulations of other media once did.
In 2021 Trump called bitcoin a "scam" but he seems to have realized his political coalition includes cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
A trucker lost his job because he tested positive for marijuana after consuming a supposedly THC-free CBD tincture.
The Treasury's sweeping rule curtailing dual-use technology transactions with Chinese firms will reduce domestic growth, innovation, and security.
Decades of border surveillance programs have spent billions of dollars but achieved little.
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
The state's powerful coastal land-use regulator is arguing its awesome development-stopping powers applies to rocket launches as well as housing.
But consumers will pay a price.
Technology is neither inherently good or bad. Our friendbots—and our murderbots—are what we make of them.
A recent American Cancer Society study reports a negligible risk from passive smoking, shedding new light on the uproar over a 2003 paper.
Two Harvard undergrads give us a glimpse of the surveillance future.
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
Without a warrant and specific proof of incriminating evidence, police should never be allowed past your phone’s lock screen.
The Last Murder at the End of the World explores the dangers of absolute power.
A new study finds that conservatives are especially likely to share information from sources that a "politically balanced" sample of Republicans and Democrats deemed untrustworthy.
Reason's new documentary is now streaming on the video platform CiVL. I hope you'll watch.
Both presidential candidates (and their running mates) seem confused about the constraints imposed by the First Amendment.
Harris is running away from her far-left past.
Not only are microplastics essentially unavoidable, but the alleged harm they pose has been wildly overblown.
Her comments are a reminder that this free-speech protection is far from safe.
On Call, Anthony Fauci's new memoir, can't disguise the damage caused by his COVID-19 policies.
The medication shouldn't be this controversial.