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How has the fight for freedom changed from January 2017 to December, whether vis-a-vis Trump, Congress, or music? Well for one thing, Star Wars-spoiler norms have gone out the window in the Suderman household....
"It's basically reassembling deck chairs on a really messy and horribly complex system": Q&A with Chris Edwards, CATO's Director of Tax Policy
Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Eugene Volokh runs the most important legal blog in the country. Here's his take on gay wedding cakes, free speech, and President Trump's judicial appointments.
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
How to think about gay wedding cakes, Fourth Amendment rights, and whether the federal government can ban sports betting. Plus: How will Neil Gorsuch vote?
Andrew Heaton and Sarah Rose Siskind are the creators of Reason TV's Mostly Weekly, a libertarian answer to The Daily Show and Last Week with John Oliver.
Nick Gillespie chats with Reason TV's Meredith Bragg and Jim Epstein about the past and future of our video journalism platform.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
Weir's new book Artemis imagines life in a lunar settlement.
Promises that "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before.
Law-abiding residents and business owners are among the biggest casualties in the war on illegal immigrants.
Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward make the case for "free minds and free markets" as the best way to improve the world.
Journalist Cathy Young talks frankly about sexual harassment in the workplace.
She started the first secular, pro-market party in Egypt. Then the government sent the secret police after her.
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks to libertarian economist Gene Epstein about Trump, free trade, and his monthly debates at the Soho Forum.
Nick Gillespie talks with National Review's Robert VerBruggen about the Texas church shooting.
Q&A with Caitlin Long, a former Morgan Stanley managing director, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and recent convert to Austrian economics.
Despite big promises, it fails in its primary mission: paying for the actual cost of government
Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman launch, Let Grow, a non-profit devoted to promoting better policies for raising children.
The Harvey Weinstein story is not just about the end of a career. It's about the end of an era.
Q&A with economist Gabriel Calzada Alvarez on trade barriers, higher education, and bringing free markets to the region.
Ryan Neuhofel is part of a movement of "direct primary care" physicians who deal directly with patients.
Columbia's Philip Hamburger says this "monarchical" system of government grew in power just as blacks and women saw an expansion of their voting rights.
The famed artist has a new public art project going up in New York City, which coincides with his debut feature film, Human Flow.
Is rape culture out of control, or have we entered a new era of "sexual McCarthyism?"
Reason's Jacob Sullum talks about making effective policy in the wake of tragedy.
The former fast food restaurant CEO says a $15 wage floor steals opportunities from entry-level workers.
They "have their own language, leaders, and ways of talking to each other," says Reason's Paul Detrick.
Eighty-nine-year-old first-time filmmaker and journalism legend Joan Kron on her new film, Take My Nose...Please!
Nick Gillespie interviews Lisa De Pasquale about her new parody book on outrage culture.
Their 18-hour miniseries looks at one of the most divisive, painful, and poorly understood episodes in American history.
Trump is 'the best recruiting tool for the Libertarian Party we've ever had.'
Bernie Sanders vs. Ron Paul is "the difference between a propagandist and a truth teller."
The "California Dream of Transhumanism" on why he's pro-robot, running for governor of California, and still angry about getting busted at 18 for selling pot.
The president is doing everything he can do to alienate libertarians who believe in shrinking the size, scope, and spending of government.
As greens rush to blame Harvey's devastation on global warming, the real culprit - subsidizing coastal development - goes unmentioned.
Paradoxically, government grows because of our lack of confidence in it.
"I plan to live forever," says futurist José Cordeiro.
Nick Gillespie talks with Peter Suderman about Prohibition's lingering effects on booze.
Brazil, Russia, Greece, and China were all suckers in one of the oldest scams in sports
Also: GOP Congress should fix health care, taxes, and easy money.
Did the president really need a teachable moment to denounce neo-Nazis?
Make no mistake, says Cato Institute's Walter Olson, the government is playing a role in policing speech at your job.
A vital lesson, as we confront calls for more regulation and government control in all aspects of our lives.
Economist Deirdre McCloskey explains the roots of "The Great Enrichment" of the last 200 years.
New York City arrests people who travel with guns-even when they notify and follow all TSA rules and have a valid gun license from their home state.
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