Features
Are Robots Going to Steal Our Jobs?
Many technologists think so, but economists aren't so easily convinced.
The Indestructible Idea of the Basic Income
Is this the only policy proposal Tom Paine, Huey Long, Milton Friedman, Timothy Leary, and Sam Altman can agree on?
Seasteading in Paradise
New promise for floating free communities in a Polynesian lagoon—but is the movement leaving libertarianism behind?
The Deregulator?
Wary libertarian enthusiasm greets Donald Trump's ambitious regulatory reform agenda
Here's What It's Like To Be a Refugee
Refugees' full energies are devoted to earning money and absent family members overseas.
A Baby Dies in Virginia
The lethal consequences of a common, obscure hospital licensing law
Why the Wall Won't Work
The legal, practical, economic, and moral case against Trump's border barrier.
The Unjust, Irrational, and Unconstitutional Consequences of Pedophilia Panic
The fear and disgust triggered by this subject help explain why laws dealing with sex offenses involving minors frequently lead to bizarre results.
American Sex Police
With sweeping "sex trafficking stings," the FBI returns to its roots as the nation's vice squad.
Bribe Bully Beg Borrow Steal
Is Donald Trump a crony capitalist? Or is he something worse?
Why Are Cops Putting Kids in Cuffs?
Federal funding, zero tolerance, and lack of choice encourage the creeping criminalization of student misbehavior.
Presidential Portraits
Artists take on the legacy of Barack Obama
Democrats Defect from Obamacare
Meanwhile, the GOP learns to stop worrying and love Obama's signature legislative victory.
Can't Afford a Lawyer? No Free Speech for You.
Colorado campaign finance regulations censor ordinary citizens.
Why Don't People Who Are Stuck in Depressed Appalachian Towns Just Leave?
A Reason writer returns to his family's home to investigate
The Secret, Dangerous World of Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining
How cryptocurrency is turning socialism against itself
Two Immigrants Debate Immigration
A conversation about who wins and who loses when America opens its golden door.
How Not to Build a Jail
The D.C. jail has been a disaster for more than 100 years. Can a new jail avoid the mistakes of the past?
Seeing Trump on the Silver Screen
What A Face in the Crowd and Meet John Doe tell us about populism, pop culture, and fear.
Captured, Tortured, and Left to Rot at Gitmo
Sanad al-Kazimi hoped for justice. Twelve years later he's still waiting.
What It's Like To Be in Debt to the State
Inside the lives of five people who have served their time, but are still paying for their crimes
Who Paid for the Conventions?
Following the money to the Democrats' and Republicans' quadrennial dog-and-pony shows
Prairie State Plunder
What Illinois got when law enforcement grabbed $72 million in property using asset forfeiture
Disaster Déjà Vu in Venezuela
Planning a recovery is tough in a country where an awful lot of guys with guns aren't ready to admit that socialism has failed again.
Could the IRS Empty Your Bank Account?
A little-known rule lets feds steal money from people who haven't been convicted-or even accused-of a crime.
Why Hillary Hates Uber
Democrats think attacking the "gig economy" is a winning strategy. They're wrong.
Will Politicians Block Our Driverless Future?
Autopia is within our grasp-if government doesn't screw it up.
Minimum Wage vs. the Carwasheros
New York's new $15 wage floor pits man against machine.
Who Will Be the Third Man?
The Libertarian Party wrangles over a presidential candidate in a weird election year
