Trump Doubled Down on Authoritarianism by Selecting J.D. Vance
The Ohio senator doesn't want to limit government power. He wants to use it against his political enemies.
Trump promised to hire "only the best people," yet his presidential plans were repeatedly thwarted by his staff. Will a second term be different?
The Ohio senator doesn't want to limit government power. He wants to use it against his political enemies.
From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
This Kentucky Republican won't stop until he finds a state willing to make legal room for ibogaine, a drug he calls "God's medicine."
Reason talked with pro-life Americans who are uncomfortable with the post–Roe v. Wade abortion policy landscape.
Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
The city of Seaside, California, ordered a man to cover the boat parked in his driveway. He offered a lesson in malicious compliance.
Will the liars and hacks who covered up Biden's cognitive decline face any consequences?
This company made a product to serve victims who don't want to go to police right after a sexual assault. Some politicians want to ban it.
Organ donations in the U.S. are controlled by a network of federally sanctioned nonprofits, and many of them are failing.
For hundreds of years, a felony has been defined not by the action itself but by how we punish it.
“The separation of church and state appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution," a top Oklahoma education official said in defense of the state's Ten Commandments decree.
In the Netherlands, kids grow up with more independence than in the United States.
The Olomouc clock's changing design reflects history's victors and their legacies.
An FDA advisory committee concluded that MDMA's benefits had not been shown to outweigh its risks.
The Supreme Court this year reversed Chevron, a decades-old precedent giving bureaucrats deference over judges when the law is ambiguous.
Absolute immunity protects prosecutors even when they commit serious misconduct on the job.
Coal and natural gas are more reliable but they can't compete with massively subsidized wind and solar. That's a problem.
Liberals spent the last decade moving leftward on questions of race and sexual orientation—and so did conservatives.
To Rose Wilder Lane, African Americans' achievements were all the more amazing given their disadvantaged starting point.
In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen chronicles the left-wing history of free trade.
Empires with more room for cultural difference were more successful, anthropologist Thomas Barfield argues.
The hosts of the popular TrueAnon podcast made a board game that doesn't take the presidential transition crisis too seriously.
Author Christa Brown shares her story of abuse and exposes the hypocrisy inherent in the Southern Baptist Convention's cover-up.
An aging comedian wrestles with woke campus culture in the new season of the Max series.
Much like in nuclear war, there’s no way to win when both sides have dragons.
Randy Barnett developed an influential form of constitutional originalism.
The show Life and Trust is an immersive performance that unfolds over three hours across six floors inside what was once a Wall Street office building.
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in a movie about government incompetence.
"We're never going to be finished. Our country is a work in progress," says the producer of the new Something to Stand For documentary.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.
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