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The governors of New York and California have botched major aspects of the pandemic response.
Preserving the country's greatest restaurant scene in the midst of a pandemic feels like an afterthought.
A person you know might be having an online conversation without a transcriptionist and a fact-checker right now, and we have to stop it.
Why didn't Cuomo and De Blasio build a decent, user-friendly website?
Some doable libertarian ideas for the new president
At a time when supply is constrained and time is of the essence, medical providers in many states are throwing precious doses away.
If the aim is to reduce COVID-19 deaths, Oregon's plan is a failure.
President Biden should also provide refuge for democracy lovers who want to escape authoritarian Chinese rule.
More than 4,100 people died of COVID-19 yesterday across the country, but some New York medical providers are dumping vaccines instead of putting them in people's arms.
China accused the activists and former legislators of "subverting state power."
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
For too long, our northern neighbors have depended on plasma imported from the U.S. to meet demand. With the passage of new legislation in Alberta, this may change.
As the coronavirus reshapes daily life, two Reason editors crisscross the country and describe what they’ve seen.
A look at how Hollywood functioned prior to contracts detailing how much breast or cheek an actress must show to earn her paycheck
A survey of presidential preferences and regrets
Regina Ip spins a fantasy of a just government restoring order to Hong Kong.
Imagine skies filled with drones carrying kidneys and livers, on their way to save the lives of people awaiting transplants. The future is here!
Occultists, social justice warriors, and techno-utopians may not look like the Christians of yore, but they're more religious than they realize.
Mears' effort to take readers behind the velvet rope and explore the world of clubbing proves both fun and sobering.
"In China, expressing beliefs or ideas not approved by the CCP—religion, democracy, human rights—can lead to prison."
"Academic staff...are no longer free to make controversial statements to the general public about politically or socially controversial matters," one of them writes.
The show smartly grasps that there will always be competing visions for the future of feminism.
Thirty-one years ago, an unidentified man held off Chinese military tanks in Tiananmen Square. Protesters facing down state violence today have big shoes to fill.
New legislation proposed in Beijing signals the likely end of the "one country, two systems" policy that has allowed Hong Kong to flourish.
"You can't exactly eat with a mask on, and I have a small space where people would be in close proximity to each other."
Is tahini salsa verde an insidious form of cultural appropriation or two immigrants from Oaxaca riffing on food traditions they love?
"It's unconscionable that the Trump administration would do the bidding of the potato and junk food industries," noted one critic. But Trump's changes are relatively minor.
The relics of terrible segregationist government policies are still felt in East Austin, an area that's quickly gentrifying
The Trump administration is trying to make it harder for pregnant women to enter the country as tourists since they might give birth while here.
What is the correct reward for the person who creates something that millions of people want badly enough to pay for it?
Protesters say the cost of living is too high and wealth is distributed too unequally.
It's the end of the decade, and groceries, birth control, and weed can all be delivered straight to your door.
Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have taken to the streets, smashed lamp posts, and stormed government buildings to keep China from encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms prematurely.
The film flounders when Handler visits a spoken-word night to see college kids talk about microaggressions, but the film gets better when it shifts focus to more grave issues.
The president takes credit for the fact that Beijing hasn't sent tanks into Hong Kong.
Escalating violence in Hong Kong
The protester, Chow Tsz-lok, was only 22.
But it's just health insurance, not cash
The video Abbott shared was not of a homeless person—it was a mentally ill person having a serious episode. Whoops.
Of those who reported a negative view of capitalism, 20 percent say it's exploitative or corrupt.
Among other things, it would end Uber as we know it.
Under Chinese authoritarianism, they'll have neither.