Abolish Amtrak
Why should the federal government run a transportation corporation?
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the Fed, the Army, Social Security, and everything else.
Why should the federal government run a transportation corporation?
Having a large market share may just mean that a company is really good at what it does.
"Standing armies are dangerous to liberty," Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 29.
If government-drawn lines within your country don't possess some sort of moral magic that voids your rights, why would government-drawn lines between countries?
The DEA's attempts to enforce the nation's drug laws have been a resounding failure by pretty much any measure.
The federal government furnishes a relatively tiny amount of K-12 funding—but the feds need relatively little money to exert power.
When money comes down from the DOT, it has copious strings attached to it—strings that make infrastructure more expensive and less useful.
Climate change is a serious environmental concern, but it is not clear how the EPA helps.
Let the invisible hand regulate the invisible resource.
Many seriously ill people die waiting for the FDA to approve drugs that regulators in other advanced countries have already approved.
A central bank is not essential to a functioning economy.
There is a "virtual consensus" among economists that the minimum wage puts people out of work.
Easily accessible student loans give colleges an incentive to raise tuition.
FOIA has no teeth and bureaucrats abuse its exemptions. Just redact and release every federal workers' emails instead.
The federal immigration agency disrupts communities and families, for no good.
Americans spent an estimated $133 billion and 6.5 billion hours filing their tax returns in 2024.
Revising how America's most beautiful public lands are protected would create more ways for Americans to interact with some of the best parts of the country.
Ending these unaccountable agencies would safeguard civil liberties and improve intelligence gathering.
The Affordable Care Act has become a broken welfare program for people who don't need it.
Like all government perks, SBA lending creates unseen victims.
Stop robbing poor, hard-working Peter to pay well-off, retired Paul.
The agency has not made air travel safer but it has made it costlier and more time-consuming to fly.
The states already overregulate alcohol. There's no need for a federal layer of red tape.
FEMA has given Americans every reason to believe it is highly politicized, a poor steward of federal resources, bad at establishing priorities, and often unable to communicate clearly to people in distress.
Civilian astronauts on a SpaceX mission traveled more than 800 miles away from Earth.
When even most upper-income Republicans say they're working class, the term has become meaningless.
Making DOI and DOC Schedule I drugs would interfere with psychiatric research.
Knitting's evolution from necessity to leisure activity is a testament to economic progress.
After being arrested for doing journalism, Priscilla Villarreal has taken her fight to the courts.
The portion of college students who say it's OK to shout down campus speakers is rising, according to a new survey.
A recent study showed women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty" but their earnings rebound within a decade.
A rural Arkansas county files more than twice as many FCC complaints per resident than anywhere else in the United States.
A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.
Democrats tend to view the feds favorably but many agencies are under water among Republicans.
By prosecuting the website's founders, the government chilled free speech online and ruined lives.
Historian David Austin Walsh tries and fails to rebut Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism thesis.
The Extinction of Experience condemns digital technology but the book is full of contradictions and cherry-picked examples.
A documentary on Netflix follows a team of young musicians vying for competition wins in Texas.
Trippy author Ernesto Londoño points out that supposedly ancient psychedelic rituals don't always lead to great outcomes.
WWII correspondent William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich comes to life in this Netflix docuseries.
Netflix's Rebel Ridge is a thrilling tale about an ordinary man wronged by an unjust system.
A new podcast explores a mysterious case of teens developing Tourette syndrome–like tics and other cases of suspected mass psychogenic illness.
Season three of the In the Dark podcast divulges new details about U.S. Marines' killings of 24 Iraqis in 2005.
"Phrase a dishonest politician rarely says out loud"
"It is very smart to be the people who are like, 'We are normal moms and dads who love football, freedom, and faith, and we want to keep your freedoms intact,' " the New York Times contributor tells Reason.
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Waymo is expanding its autonomous taxi fleet that can carry passengers on public roads, no human driver required.