Archives: February 2025
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Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?
Isodope founder Isabelle Boemeke discusses the ongoing potential renaissance of nuclear energy.
A local government gave ownership of Kevin Fair's Nebraska house—and all of its value—to a private investor, in a practice known as home equity theft.
The Vermont senator criticized the H-1B guest worker program, drawing praise from the most toxic elements of the MAGA movement.
Civil liberty groups and press advocates worry that excessive fees could stifle police oversight.
After a delay, Johnson secured the slimmest of majorities.
It's a disgraceful decision that serves as a perfect epitaph for Biden's political career.
Trump was considered reckless for wanting to start a war at the end of his term. Now, Biden is doing the same.
Plus: Subway system crime by the numbers, Bernie Sanders' H-1B visa hate, surgeon general still stupid, and more...
Long before Wicked came along, America's homegrown fairyland was filled with politics.
Rule by incompetent, power-hungry fools is a bipartisan problem.
An HBO series set in the Batman universe reminds us that when a substance is outlawed, the market will provide one way or another.
Playing this digital collection of new retro-style games is like rediscovering a box of old cartridges.
Nick Flannery faces 12 years in prison for allegedly shaking his 2-month-old son. Child protective services are ignoring the other possible causes of his son's medical problem.
The state is asking that $9 congestion tolls that will be charged to drivers entering lower Manhattan starting Sunday be stopped while its legal challenge to them is ongoing.
The libertarian-adjacent congressman says he "definitely has no Fs to give now" and promises to vote against Mike Johnson.
Media investigations found over 3 million active license suspensions in the state.
Reselling restaurant reservations helps allocate seats to those who most want them.
Voters overwhelmingly favored the new policy, which a former state legislator unsuccessfully tried to block.
The high cost of complying with our tax code encourages wasteful tax avoidance strategies and distorts work and investment decisions.
Product differentiation is instrumental to technological innovation.
It was the greatest cover up of presidential ability since FDR.
An Italian bitcoin enthusiast pays homage to the person or people who started the cryptocurrency revolution.
Billy Binion speaks to Sister Helen Prejean about her activism to end the death penalty, as depicted in her book Dead Man Walking.
Movies like Wicked draw on classic works no longer under copyright protection.
Here's hoping for a free-range 2025!
"Jesus said, 'Love your enemy.' Jesus didn't say, 'Execute the hell out of the enemy,'" the Catholic nun and anti–death penalty activist tells Reason.
Measures restricting gun ownership still disproportionately harm black and brown people, says Maj Toure, founder of "Black Guns Matter."
A Utica, New York, land grab offers the justices an opportunity to revisit a widely criticized precedent.
There's a good reason Biden eventually stopped saying Bidenomics. Americans didn't like the results of his economic policies.
Western New Mexico University's Board of Regents approved the severance package for Joseph Shepard after a state audit highlighted $364,000 in "wasteful" and "improper" spending.
Residents of California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin will get hit with the higher taxes.
Progressives and environmental groups have teamed up with a rival steelmaker to lobby against the U.S. Steel deal.
Some IRS offices routinely threw away sensitive material with regular trash, while others used unlocked or damaged storage bins.
The latest federal homelessness survey finds an 18 percent annual rise in the number of people living without permanent shelter.
Canyon Independent School District pulled sections of the Bible from its library shelves over concerns that its "sexually explicit" material violated Texas law.
Plus: Biden's last-minute Ukraine cash surge, Tennessee age-verification law blocked, Kentucky man killed by cop who showed up at wrong house, and more…
So let's all enjoy a moderate toast to a Happy New Year!
Historian Anthony Gregory explains how liberalism can be used to build an apparatus of repression.
Surely 2025 will be a freewheeling romp, right?…Right? Happy New Year!
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