“The fact that it hasn't ended in the past 230 years suggests that maybe [it will] last a good deal longer,” says historian Dennis C. Rasmussen, author of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maybe their self-proclaimed inventor, Richard Montañez, did lie about his role. What matters most is how this fiery snack has been repurposed and reinterpreted by legions of fans.
Why the Golden State is losing people, business, and a congressional seat
Ignore the hype: Latin American immigration is (still) the city’s greatest strength.
Growing criticism of big-city progressive D.A.s George Gascón and Chesa Boudin underscores the importance of distinguishing necessary reform from simply failing to enforce the rule of law.
Police were finally able to catch the serial killer using DNA genealogy databases—violating many innocent people's constitutional right to privacy.
Medical breakthroughs mean we will never again suffer through diseases like the novel coronavirus—if politicians will get out of the way.
The data behind apocalypse 2030 is based on placing blame, not predicting the future.
"There's this growing gap between what's on paper and what is enforceable in law," says Kareem Shaya, the co-founder of Open Source Defense.
Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement.
Fiscal hawks have been sounding the alarm about rising debt levels for decades, but their nightmare scenario of runaway inflation hasn't come to pass. How do we know if this time is different?
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says we should be "dreaming big." But the Golden State's vaunted high-speed rail project is turning out to be a train to nowhere.
"We don't need to use a faulty model and apply it to the very real terrorism problem that we have at home," says terrorism expert Max Abrahms.
Reason was the anti-establishment brainchild of a brilliant but erratic 20-year-old student who lived with his mother and drove a delivery van for a living.
Despite billions in additional funding and assurances from the CDC and Anthony Fauci that schools can operate safely in person, the unions are holding out for 100 percent vaccination and lower transmission rates.
"Direct primary care is about as close to a free market in health care as you've ever seen in our country," says Dr. Lee Gross.
A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent.
Meet the visionaries building a new, un-censorable, peer-to-peer web using the tools of encryption and cryptocurrency.
Two states and two Disneys—California vs. Florida—and their radically different approaches to dealing with the pandemic.
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. It's out of gasoline.
The pandemic showed me how many choices I have about my kids’ education. Everyone should have the same options.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel fought Saudi censorship to make his new documentary, The Dissident.
Government grows in response to a crisis.
"Let's do the thing, which saves the most lives," says economist Alex Tabarrok: Instead of holding back second doses, use them all right away.
We need an open digital commons, where individuals maintain ownership of their own identities and where speech is highly resistant to political pressure.
"The question of whether incitement to riot is an impeachable offense is pretty easy," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy. "Clearly, yes."
Small business owners and sheriffs are leading the revolt against Governor Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home orders, which they say are unscientific and ineffective.
"When I started my blog," says journalist Yoani Sánchez, "it was like an exorcism of something that was inside of me."
The original formulation of OxyContin didn’t create the opioid crisis, argues psychiatrist Sally Satel, and removing it from the market didn’t make the problem go away.
Aaron Reynolds is just trying to make people laugh, but his content may have been flagged on Instagram for interfering with the election.
The Silk Road’s creator has a lot to teach drug prohibitionists.
A new book explicates the escaped slave and renowned orator's argument that the Constitution is "a glorious liberty document" that justified ending slavery.
Though journalists tend to despise the WikiLeaks founder, his fate could impact the future of their profession.
Restaurant owners speak out about the "crippling" order, which will last at least three weeks.
Virginia Postrel's new book explores economics, politics, and technology through textiles.
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is promoting a more restrained foreign policy from inside the Beltway. But will the Biden administration listen?
In a new documentary, Steele argues that the "story of victimization" was an attempt to "win power."
It's unclear what Biden will ultimately be able to accomplish as president, but he has been trying to bring transformative change since the 1970s.
The president-elect promised record levels of spending and taxes on the campaign trail. Will he succeed?
What went right and wrong in 2020, the L.P.’s internal divisions, and the party’s strategy for the future.
Nearly 60 percent of Californians approved a proposition to exempt Uber and Lyft from most of Assembly Bill 5.
There are at least 11 trillion reasons to be very scared about what comes next.
Voters came out for legalizing marijuana, removing criminal penalties for psychedelic use, and treating drug addiction as a public health concern.
The Taiwanese manufacturer promised Trump and then–Governor Scott Walker 13,000 new jobs and a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. They've delivered a mostly empty building that's one-twentieth the promised size.
The final installment in a four-part documentary series "Cypherpunks Write Code"
It might be better to find something else you'd rather do on Election Day.
Part three in Reason's documentary series, "Cypherpunks Write Code," tells the story of the U.S. government's long battle to keep strong cryptography out of the hands of its citizens
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