The Best of Reason: Abolish the DEA, ICE, and the Small Business Administration
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the DEA, ICE, the SBA, and everything else.
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In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else.
A recent study shows that women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty," but their earnings rebound within a decade.
From 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis moments keep reshaping the political landscape.
Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
Harris is running away from her far-left past.
This Kentucky Republican won't stop until he finds a state willing to make legal room for ibogaine, a drug he calls "God's medicine."
Reason talked with pro-life Americans who are uncomfortable with the post–Roe v. Wade abortion policy landscape.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational.
Trump promised to hire "only the best people," yet his presidential plans were repeatedly thwarted by his staff. Will a second term be different?
Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.
Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.
The former California senator and prosecutor has a long record of pushing illiberal policies.
Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day
The lethal consequences of a common, obscure hospital licensing law.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That's why it's worth doing.
The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.
The number of job openings far exceeds the number of unemployed Americans. Seasonal businesses can't get the foreign labor they need.
As allegations of intellectual property theft swirl, a deeper look reveals a tale of phony numbers and twisted data.
Revolutionary AI technologies can't solve the "wicked problems" facing policy makers.
Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?
OnlyFans lets women distribute their own porn. Artificial intelligence will give them even more control.
Historical teaching and research are being revamped by AI.
AI developer Andrew Mayne explains why technology could create more jobs and lead to unprecedented economic growth.
Science can detect increasingly small particles of plastic in our air and water. That doesn't mean it's bad for you.
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
The U.S. is dispensing munitions to Ukraine and Israel faster than they can be replaced.
Some Democrats want to mimic Europe's policies on phone chargers and more.
Imported tea was required for decades to pass a literal taste test before it could be sold in the United States.
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
Maybe the problem for teens isn't screens, but what they are replacing.
Misled by a bad law, graduate students are drowning in debt.
Biden's economic policies gave us three years of excessive, wasteful, and poorly targeted federal spending.
As the party grows more populist, ethnically diverse, and working class, will Republicans abandon their libertarian economic principles?
Hasan Minhaj’s stand-up tests the boundaries of fact and fiction.
CEOs are beginning to wonder what to do when environmental, social, and governance factors are at odds with performance.
Rosy fiscal expectations based on eternally low interest rates have proven dangerously wrong.
Anyone advocating neoliberal policies is now persona non grata in Washington, D.C.
The colorful, mostly libertarian history of Key West.
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