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How To Win Friends and Influence Politics Through Libertarian Comedy
Nick Gillespie debates how to win hearts and minds to libertarianism with Jeremy McLellan, Lou Perez, and Michael Munger at Cato Unbound.
CalExit Secession Movement Dies the Way It Lived: Stupidly
Organizer decides he wants to continue to live in Russia.
Appeals Court Rejects 'Shockingly High' 19-Year Sentence for Child Porn Collection
The 2nd Circuit says the recommended prison term was "substantively unreasonable."
Can Public Workers Get Pension Benefits Without Actually Working? California Supreme Court Will Decide
California Supreme Court accepts appeal to lower court ruling that stopped workers from padding their pensions by an extra five years of service time.
The Great Charles Manson Conspiracy
A helter-skelter podcast with The Daily Beast
Undocumented Workers Do Indeed Pay State Taxes
An Oregon think-tank's study finds undocumented workers contributes $81 million to state and local government coffers.
How Florida Entraps Pain Patients, Forces Them to Snitch, Then Locks Them Up for Decades
Florida's anti-opioid laws were supposed to take high-level traffickers off the streets. Instead, they put low-level users in prison for most of their lives.
Drupal Developer Larry Garfield Ostracized Over Involvement in Sci-Fi Based Kink Community
The scandal has exposed odd taboos in the liberal-leaning Drupal community and how hypocritical their talk of tolerance can be.
Happy Taxation-Is-Theft Day!
Listen to Matt Welch interview Grover Norquist, David Cay Johnston and more on Sirius XM Insight from 9-12 am ET
100 Years After the Russian Revolution, Russians Are Still Paying
How much more developed would Russia be if it didn't suffer from nearly a century of communism?
United and the Cops Are Just the Latest Violent Partners in a Long History of Dysfunction
Government officials have often deployed force on behalf of their business and labor friends. That will change only when the consequences outweigh the gains.
Turkey Vote in Favor of More Authoritarianism Was Not Free or Fair, Natch
Country has been in a state of emergency since last June, while President Erdogan likened European leaders to Nazis.
Taxes, Testosterone, and the Virtues of Overbooking [Reason Podcast]
Reason editors Brian Doherty, Nick Gillespie, and Katherine Mangu-Ward discuss the week's news.
Arkansas Supreme Court Stays Tonight's Executions in Deference to U.S. Supreme Court
Other challenges also delaying state's attempt at an April death penalty spree.
Is Comedy a Form of Political Resistance? Nick Gillespie at Cato Unbound
Political scientist Michael Munger and comedians Jeremy McLellan and Lou Perez explain how serious comedy works.
Pomona College Students Say There's No Such Thing as Truth, 'Truth' Is a Tool of White Supremacy
Demand expulsion of conservative journalists for reporting on campus illiberalism at Claremont
Cuomo Scholarship Turns Golden Door Into Golden Handcuffs
It's not clear that Cuomo's plan for a scholarship clawback is even constitutional.
Joe Biden Says All Drunk Sex Is Rape: 'It's Rape. It's Rape. It's Rape.' It's Not, Though.
The former vice president doesn't even know what the Department of Justice's definition of rape is.
Now That Gorsuch Is Seated, Will Supreme Court Take Up Gay Wedding Cake Case?
SCOTUS has delayed making a decision whether to tackle religious freedom claim.
Free Housing for Hot Girls? That's Slavery!, Say Progressives
Activists are calling for Craigslist ads offering housing in exchange for domestic labor or sexual companionship to be banned.
Lawsuit Says Miami's Airbnb Ban Violates Fundamental Rights
The city says it will target homeowners who opposed the new rules, but some of those homeowners are fighting back.
Publicly-Funded Ballparks Are for Suckers
The cases of Hartford, Ct., Richmond, Va., and Gwinnett, Ga.
'These Institutions Are Betraying Their Own Values'—Here's How Offended Students Seized Power on Campus
At Middlebury, Claremont, Wellesley, and elsewhere, censorship is winning because faculty and administrators won't fight it.
Bob Poole, Kmele Foster, Kyle Smith, Matt Welch: Sirius XM Insight, Channel 121, 9-12 am ET
The North Korea missile crisis, Trump's transportation bill, the new Star Wars, bad baseball uniforms, and more
Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
Future generations will look back on the recent upheavals in sexual culture on American campuses and see officially sanctioned hysteria.
What Washington's Farewell Address Tells Us About Trump's America (Reason Podcast)
The nation's father warned against "hyper-partisanship, excessive debt and foreign wars" in 1796. Why aren't we paying attention, asks John Avlon.
Video: Mike Tang, The Dad Convicted for Making Son Walk a Mile, Responds to Critics
Who decides how we parent?
Atlanta Braves' New Stadium Is a Disaster for Taxpayers and Fans
It's an economic albatross, built because of an ethically questionable deal, and fans can't even get to the stadium without playing a human version of Frogger.
Future of Flight: NYC to London in 3 Hours
A Colorado-based tech firm is bringing back supersonic air travel.
