From Katy Perry To Rita Ora: A Very Short History of Pop-Music Lesbianism and What It Says About Social Progress
The distance traveled from 2008's "I Kissed a Girl" to today's "Girls" can't be measured in years alone.
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John McCain: Iraq War 'Can't Be Judged as Anything Other Than a Mistake'
"I have to accept my share of the blame for it," the ailing senator writes in a new book, even while defending several other interventions and surges.
Libel and Antimatter
"[Defendant's] posts inspired viewers' comments, which read like a nerd's version of a fist fight." More substantively, "In this context, and considering the cutting-edge nature of [plaintiff's] research into antimatter's theoretical applications [which defendant was sharply criticizing], a reasonable reader would expect zealous debate."
President Trump: Competition Is the Solution to High Drug Prices
Change drug prices by changing the market.
Male Student Accuses Female Student of Sexual Assault. She Says He Wanted Revenge.
Title IX creates a prisoner's dilemma: students have to file sexual misconduct complaints to avoid becoming the accused.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
House Republicans Decide Some Dodd-Frank Reform Is Better Than None
After a monthslong showdown with the Senate, House leaders have agreed to pass a modest set of financial regulation reforms.
Let's Not Blame Tech Tools if This Sheriff Illegally Violated People's Privacy
Government, not private companies, is supposed to provide oversight over police behavior.
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions
Border searches, violent career offenders, and the lost keepsakes of Simón Bolívar.
Adam Parfrey, RIP
The Feral House publisher exposes American minds to wide variety of fascinating and often disturbing culture.
Showtime's Cumberbatch-led Miniseries Is Pure Misery Porn
Based on a series of books, Patrick Melrose is a misadventure into tiresome despair.
Enter the 2018 Reason Video Prize and Win $5,000!
We're honoring online videos that celebrate individual rights, limited government, and human possibilities.
Environmental Protection Agency
Activists Decry Effort to Bring Economic Rationality to Clean Air Regulation
"A standard demanding the return of the Stone Age would not prove 'requisite to protect the public health.'"
Trump's Official Policy: If You Cross the Border, We'll Kidnap Your Children
The president hopes that forcibly separating parents from their kids will deter illegal entry.
Jake Tapper on The Hellfire Club, Donald Trump's Big Lies, and D.C.'s 'Bullshit Waterfall'
The CNN host and best-selling novelist comes clean about his politics, why Hillary Clinton lost, and how his training in alternative media gives him a leg up.
Jake Tapper on The Hellfire Club, Donald Trump's Big Lies, and D.C.'s 'Bullshit Waterfall'
The CNN host and best-selling novelist comes clean about his politics, why Hillary Clinton lost, and how his training in alternative media gives him a leg up.
This Taco Bell Can't Get a Liquor License Because City Officials Don't Like Taco Bell
But the pizza place next door can have one.
Fuddy-Duddy Functionaries Are Determined to Make Graduation As Joyless As Possible
School officials drag dancing graduates off stage and threaten cheering relatives with fines.
Where Have All the Protestants Gone? Poll Shows Dramatic Drop in U.S. Christians: Reason Roundup
Plus: Pregnancy center and union fee cases both hinge on "right to stay silent," and states start to redefine "independent contractor."
Conservative Student Accuses Liberals of 'Emotional Attacks,' Liberals File Retaliatory Complaints
A pox on all the snowflakes
Will McCain-Style Conservatism Live On?
In the Arizona senator's waning days, it's an open question whether his familiar vision of a robustly interventionist America idealistically leading the international trading order will survive in Donald Trump's GOP.
Rent-Control Initiative Could Obliterate California's Housing Markets
San Francisco is facing a housing crisis, but overturning current limits on rent-controlled apartments threaten to make the problem worse, not better.
Movie Reviews: Breaking In and Terminal
Gabrielle Union in a surprise-free genre flick, Margot Robbie in a deeply muddled noir
Afghanistan Reconstruction: Huge Cost, Meager Benefits
A hearing chaired by Sen. Rand Paul exposes wasteful and counterproductive spending of U.S. money.
2 New Court Decisions Are Quietly Eliminating Californians' Second Amendment Rights
Golden State gun owners may soon be an endangered species, and no one is talking about why.
'All Gov't Support of Higher Ed Should Be Abolished': Live Debate in NYC, 5/14
Soho Forum and Reason present George Mason's Bryan Caplan vs. Harvard's Edward Glaeser on whether taxpayers should fund college.
Labor Group Demands Felony Charges Against Amazon for Opposing Seattle's Job Tax
The city's leftists are becoming increasingly unhinged in the face of broad resistance to a tax on hours worked.
Man Protests Police Department's Violation of Speech Rights, So Cops Arrest Him
Stamford, Connecticut, police chief objects to salty language on a sign. That's not a crime.
Walmart's 7-Day Opioid Prescription Limit Is Medically Unsound and Could Backfire
Like state legislators, the chain is taking its cue from the CDC's guidelines.
In Push to Legislate Net Neutrality, Chuck Schumer Invokes Bad Traffic Metaphor
"Let the free market prevail," says the Senate minority leader. "We don't do that for highways." Which explains traffic jams and failing infrastructure...
Extra Punishment in Texas for Rape if You're Married -- and for Rape of Married People
This isn't an enhancement for assaults on your spouse -- it's an enhancement for assaults on anyone, if you happen to be married.
Unions Could Lose 726,000 Members if Mark Janus Wins His Supreme Court Case
Union-backed report finds unions could be screwed.
Our Greek Ancestors Took Sexual Inequality Seriously
Why can't we liberated moderns?
Seattle's Proposed Employment Tax is Just the City's Latest Self-Inflicted Wound
City officials seem dedicated to driving away the businesses that create prosperity.
To Fight Patriarchy, Female Cornell Student Presents Thesis in Her Underwear
Does this really not violate Title IX?
Under Trump, Republicans Have Become the Party of No Ideas
The GOP is abandoning policy goals that used to define the party, and replacing them with raw Trumpism.
Can We Help Save Democracy by Requiring Voters to Pass a Test of Political Knowledge?
Economist Dambisa Moyo is right to worry about the dangers of political ignorance. But her proposed solution for the problem falls short.
Mueller Indicted Concord Catering for Conspiring in the 2016 U.S. Election. But Its Lawyer Says the Company Didn't Exist Then: Reason Roundup
Plus: Judge dismisses lawsuit to legalize prostitution in Utah and tech leaders talk artificial intelligence at the White House.
Colorado's Governor Will Decide Whether Cannabis Consumers Get 'Tasting Rooms'
A bill on John Hickenlooper's desk would begin to address the problem of finding legal places to use legal marijuana.
Taking Stock of the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and Other Aspects of the Federal Approach to Hate Crimes
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will conduct a hearing on Friday.
From Washington to Wisconsin, States Are Punishing Dissent
Faced with the possibility of fines or legal battles, many will choose not to speak at all.
The Tyranny of the Administrative State
Unelected bureaucrats should not wield legislative power.
Undocumented Immigrants Make America Safer
Don't believe the falsehoods peddled by Trump and Sessions.
'Working Washington' Calls for Prosecution of Amazon.com—for Amazon's Use of Ordinary Political Tactics
According to the group's theory, a vast range of political hardball is a crime.
Important Fourth Circuit Ruling on Cell Phone Border Searches
The court requires some level of cause and also adds a nexus requirement.
