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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
The High Price of Security Theater
The $4 trillion war on terror: Where did the money go?
Let's Ruin Cuba!
A look at Cuba's failed communist experiment.
The Man J. Edgar Hoover Blamed for Pearl Harbor
Larry Fly, the forgotten hero who refused to illegally wiretap Americans
Another Budget Deal That's Good for Washington and Bad for America
Congress pisses down our backs and tells us it's raining.
What You Think You Know Is Wrong
Adam Conover of Adam Ruins Everything on engagement rings, the TSA, and bathing every day
Barcelona's Pot Boom and Bust
The uncertain fate of cannabis clubs in "the Amsterdam of southern Europe"
'The Chinese Must Go!'
A look back at America's first major exclusionary immigration law
Americans Love Pot Taxes
But hyping cannabis cash as a source of government revenue is a bad idea.
Broken Science
What happens when cancer doctors, psychologists, and drug developers can't rely on each other's research?
