Meredith Bragg

Director of Special Projects, Reason TV

Meredith Bragg is the director of special projects at Reason TV. Prior to joining Reason, he worked at C-SPAN, The Washington Post, and ABC News. As a freelancer, Meredith has produced projects for Turner Broadcasting, Visa, AT&T, The Smithsonian, The Corning Museum of Glass, Atlas Obscura, and Warner Brothers Television.

Bragg won a documentary award from George Lucas, has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, and won Best Film at the 2016 Masters of Short Film competition at the Cannes Film Festival. His latest short film was accepted into the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.

Latest from Meredith Bragg

Coronavirus

Let Us Drink Outside! Relaxing Liquor Laws Could Save Bars and Restaurants

Allowing cocktails-to-go and outdoor drinking can help bartenders and restaurant staff survive the COVID-19 shutdowns.

Meredith Bragg | 7.6.2020 1:15 PM

Qualified Immunity

Why Bad Cops Aren't Punished: The Case Against Qualified Immunity

Police officers shouldn't be above the law.

Meredith Bragg | 6.19.2020 1:10 PM

Comedy

Desperate Mayors React to Coronavirus: A Timeline

When social distancing means no gatherings larger than a reelection donor dinner.

Austin Bragg, Andrew Heaton, and Meredith Bragg | 4.29.2020 10:29 AM

Space

Billionaires in Space: How Musk, Bezos, and Branson Could Save Humanity

Aerospace pioneer and SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan on the dawn of private space travel.

Katherine Mangu-Ward and Meredith Bragg | 4.27.2020 1:50 PM

Coronavirus

Sketch: Watch a Libertarian Make a DIY Face Mask

Politicians aren't the only crafty ones.

Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg | 4.17.2020 10:15 AM

Remy

Remy: Savage (Megan Thee Stallion Coronavirus Bailout Parody)

The last time we sent this much money to the Kennedy Center, it was for a pair of Hamilton tickets.

Remy, Austin Bragg, and Meredith Bragg | 4.7.2020 9:20 AM

Impeachment

More Impeachments! Dumping Bad Presidents Should Be No Big Deal

"Somehow we've decided that the one job in America that gets the most job protection is the one where you actually get nuclear weapons," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy.

Meredith Bragg | 12.20.2019 12:06 PM

School Choice

The Movie Miss Virginia Powerfully Dramatizes the Urgent Need for School Choice

Virginia Walden Ford talks about her role in integrating schools in the 1960s and leading a movement to escape failing public schools four decades later.

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.18.2019 12:45 PM

Donald Trump

Judge Andrew Napolitano: President Trump Obstructed

The libertarian legal analyst says Trump, like his White House predecessors, has abused executive power in all sorts of ways.

Nick Gillespie, Ian Keyser, and Meredith Bragg | 5.3.2019 1:54 PM

Clint Bolick

A Tattooed Libertarian on the Arizona Supreme Court: Clint Bolick's Long Fight for Freedom

Q&A with the co-founder of Institute for Justice about immigration, his legal philosophy, his battles with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and that tattoo.

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 3.15.2019 12:10 PM

Christmas

A Very Libertarian Christmas

Deck the halls and spread some Yuletide cheer. Or don't. You're your own person.

Andrew Heaton, Austin Bragg, and Meredith Bragg | 12.21.2018 3:10 PM

Film

Director Jason Reitman on The Front Runner, Gary Hart, and the Private Lives of Politicians

Reitman and his co-writers, Matt Bai and Jay Carson, on what their new film reveals about today's politics.

Meredith Bragg | 11.21.2018 3:23 PM

Remy

Remy: The Legend of Stan Lee

A ballad to the man who stood up to the Comics Code

Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg | 11.19.2018 10:30 AM

Puppycide

This Simulator Was Built to Stop Cops From Shooting Dogs

Meredith Bragg | 9.14.2018 1:00 PM

Drug War

This is Your Brain Thinking About the Drug War

Trump wants to spend "a lot of money" on a new round of anti-drug commercials.

Meredith Bragg and Austin Bragg | 4.25.2018 10:39 AM

Television

How Will The Americans' Final Season End? Q&A With the Creators Behind the Cold War Spy Drama

Executive Producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields discuss their critically acclaimed show, ideology, and how technology is ushering in the golden era of television.

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 3.26.2018 2:50 PM

Libertarianism

Libertarian Dad Jokes

It's all fun and games until somebody gets droned.

Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton | 3.21.2018 1:10 PM

Spending

In Memoriam: The GOP Pretending to Care About Fiscal Restraint

The new two-year budget deal will result in a $1 trillion deficit.

Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg | 2.9.2018 5:10 PM

Movies

Groundhog Day: 2018

Does the news ever feel like the same thing over and over and over again?

Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton | 2.2.2018 11:20 AM

Remy

Remy Goes to Hawaii

The classic Hawaiian-themed song 'Mele Kalikimaka' gets a government makeover.

Meredith Bragg | 1.26.2018 1:05 PM

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei Wants You to Think About the Refugee Crisis

Meredith Bragg | 1.1.2018 12:00 PM

Prohibition

Celebrate Repeal Day With an Old Fashioned Old Fashioned

How government almost killed the cocktail.

Peter Suderman, Austin Bragg, and Meredith Bragg | 12.5.2017 4:45 PM

Immigration

Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Explores the Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis

The famed artist has a new public art project going up in New York City, which coincides with his debut feature film, Human Flow.

Meredith Bragg | 10.11.2017 2:15 PM

Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Explores the Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis

The famed artist has a new public art project going up in New York City, which coincides with his debut feature film, Human Flow.

Meredith Bragg | 10.11.2017 2:15 PM

Debt

Our Amazing Debt (Cosmos Parody)

Join us as we explore the enormity of our fiscal black hole, which now surpasses $20 trillion.

Andrew Heaton, Austin Bragg, and Meredith Bragg | 9.12.2017 4:45 PM

Remy

Remy: $20 Trillion Reasons (Lady Gaga Parody)

There are 20 trillion reasons we should rein in government spending.

Meredith Bragg | 8.3.2017 1:12 PM

ISIS

City of Ghosts Tells the Story of the Citizen Journalists Fighting ISIS Propaganda

A new film tells the story behind the website Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

Meredith Bragg | 7.17.2017 3:00 PM

Libertarianism

Game of Thrones: Libertarian Edition

Give me liberty or give me dragons.

Austin Bragg, Andrew Heaton, and Meredith Bragg | 7.13.2017 2:20 PM

Remy

Remy: People Will Die!

Meredith Bragg | 6.28.2017 3:05 PM

Film

Long Strange Trip: The Grateful Dead's Radical Anti-Authoritarian Streak

Director Amir Bar-Lev discusses his new 4-hour documentary on Jerry Garcia, the band, and their relationship with fans.

Meredith Bragg | 5.27.2017 10:45 AM

Republican Party

A Brief History of Politicians Body-Slamming Journalists

Greg Gianforte joins a pantheon of violent politicians who don't want to answer questions from journalists

Austin Bragg, Andrew Heaton, and Meredith Bragg | 5.25.2017 7:07 PM

Venezuela

Remy: The Venezuela Diet!

Socialism works... for weight loss.

Meredith Bragg and Austin Bragg | 5.11.2017 2:45 PM

Beer

Raging Bitch, Good Shit, and Flying Dog Beer's Fight for Free Speech

Flying Dog Brewery's Jim Caruso took on government censors and won.

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 5.10.2017 3:54 PM

Taxes

23 Tax Facts and Tips

Austin Bragg, Andrew Heaton, and Meredith Bragg | 4.17.2017 1:25 PM

Authoritarianism

#SXSW: How Activists Are Using Technology to Fight Dictators

Dissidents are using USB drives to smuggle information into authoritarian regimes.

Meredith Bragg, Paul Detrick, and Austin Bragg | 3.15.2017 3:31 PM

#SXSW: How Activists Are Using Technology to Fight Dictators

Dissidents are using USB drives to smuggle information into authoritarian regimes.

Meredith Bragg | 3.15.2017 3:31 PM

The Slants

The Slants: The Band Who Must Not Be Named

Bassist Simon Tam talks about his band's Supreme Court fight to trademark its controversial name.

Meredith Bragg | 3.11.2017 6:00 AM

Donald Trump

Hey Donald: You Can Be a Citizen of America and a Citizen of the World!

Trump's CPAC speech married the worst tendencies of Republicans and Democrats to tell us all where we can live and what we can buy.

Nick Gillespie, Meredith Bragg, and Joshua Swain | 2.24.2017 5:58 PM

Libertarianism

Libertarian Valentine's Day Cards

Free Minds. Free Markets. Free Love.

Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg | 2.14.2017 9:45 AM

Donald Trump

3 Reasons Trump Is Wrong to Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform

Civil asset forfeiture reform is an idea that's time has come, in Texas and elsewhere, whether Donald Trump is ready or not.

Nick Gillespie, Meredith Bragg, and Joshua Swain | 2.9.2017 5:37 PM

Supreme Court

'The Slants': The Asian-American Band Name the Government Says Is Too Racist to Trademark!

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case about "offensive" speech & the First Amendment.

Mark McDaniel and Meredith Bragg | 1.18.2017 4:16 PM

Libertarianism

The Libertarian Holiday Gift Guide

Don't know what to get the libertarians on your holiday list? We've got you covered!

Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton | 12.20.2016 12:30 AM

Election 2016

Economic Growth, Coherent Foreign Policy, Trust in Govt: What WON'T Be Settled Today

Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump wins the election, massive challenges face the next president of the United States.

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 11.8.2016 10:39 AM

Nobel Prize

'Bob Dylan Is the Shakespeare of Our Time'—Penn Jillette on the Nobel Prize Winner

Dylan has constantly changed, not out of some sense of desperate need to stay current or hip but out of a deep urge to explore himself and the world around him.

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.13.2016 11:18 AM