The Case Against Biden: Joe Biden's Politics of Panic
The former vice president has a long history of reckless responses to the menaces du jour.
November 2020
Cover Story
The Case Against Trump: Donald Trump Is an Enemy of Freedom
When it comes to limiting the size and scope of government and protecting individual liberties, America's 45th president has been actively malign.
Features
Political Ignorance Is Bliss
Could paying less attention to politics be better for you, your relationships, and society?
Debt Reckoning
After years of federal fiscal recklessness, is Washington's bill finally coming due?
Interview
'This Building Has Caused More Problems Than It Solved'
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on schooling during COVID-19, the future of higher ed, and why her cabinet department probably shouldn't exist at all
Topics
A Plague of Pandemic Restrictions Builds Herd Immunity to Arbitrary Rules
Rapid Home COVID-19 Tests Are the Best Path to a New Normal. They're Illegal.
Shrooms Are on the D.C. Ballot
The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they're optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending.
This Judge Is Wrong About Economic Liberty and the Constitution
Perhaps Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht ought to read more history, starting with the speeches of the late Rep. John Bingham.
The Federal Death Penalty Returns
State-level executions have been on the decline since 2000, but the federal government recently got back in the business of executing prisoners.
Why Can't They Both Lose?
They say if you don't vote you can't complain. They're wrong.
Trump's Student Visa Disaster
There are 1.2 million foreign students in the United States, and ICE keeps leaving them in the lurch, threatening to kick them out (and then rescinding that guidance).
Culture
The Games Must Go On
COVID-19 upended the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, and MLB. How the professional sports leagues responded offers a glimpse into our future.
Books
The Long, Dark History of Family Separations
How politicians used the drug war and the welfare state to break up black and Native American families
Reviews
Hamilton
When a filmed version of the stage show debuted on Disney+, it quickly became the most-streamed program of any month this year.
ETC.
The New York Times' Jia Lynn Yang on the Ebb and Flow of Immigration
Brickbats: November 2020
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
From the Archives: November 2020
Excerpt's from Reason's vaults
