Stossel: Departments Grow and Cherries Rot
Most folks have no idea what federal agencies do. John Stossel reports on wasteful programs like the Agriculture Department forcing farmers to let cherries rot.
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Why Trump's 'Buy American, Hire American' Is Un-American
How flag-waving nationalism provides cover for a destructive economic policy.
Greg Gutfeld: Trump Turned Liberals Into Dean Wormer [Podcast]
"What you're seeing now is a lot more fun on the libertarian and right side," says the Fox News host in an interview at Freedom Fest 2017.
Countdown To (Legalized) Ecstasy! Rick Doblin, MAPS, & the Psychedelic Renaissance [Podcast]
Serious researchers are about to do what Timothy Leary never managed: Get government approval for LSD, MDMA, and more.
Bassem Youssef Was 'Egypt's Jon Stewart.' Then He Was Forced To Flee.
How the Arab world's top satirist was censored, persecuted, and driven out.
Journalism Historian: CNN's Malpractice Is 'a Gift From Heaven for' Trump
W. Joseph Cambpell says, "It makes you wonder why these news organizations are not doing a more thorough job of...fact-checking...and being a bit wary of anonymous sources."
Meet the Doctor Who Refuses to Stop Prescribing Opioids to Pain Patients
"I take the Hippocratic oath seriously that my job is to relieve pain and suffering," says Dr. Forest Tennant, a California pain specialist who patients from across the nation are flocking to see.
Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage is Hurting the Workers It's Intending to Help
A new study reminds us that the law of supply and demand still applies to labor
Exclusive: Libertarian Activist Austin Petersen Is Running for U.S. Senate…as a Republican! [Reason Podcast]
Second-place finisher in 2016 LP presidential primary aims to take on Democrat Claire McCaskill in home state of Missouri.
Trumpcare Is Like Obamacare, but Even Worse
The GOP health plan tacitly accepts Obamacare's central premise: that governments should micromanage insurance markets.
Do Libertarian Voters Actually Exist? Yes, and in Droves [Reason Podcast]
Cato's polling director Emily Ekins says as many as one in five voters can be identified as libertarian.
How the CIA Turned Us onto LSD and Heroin: Secrets of America's War on Drugs
New History Channel series explores the dark corners of prohibition and takes viewers on great, freaky trip.
College Students No Longer Think 'Freedom Is a Big Deal'
Sociologist Frank Furedi on how to bring liberalism back to campus.
Tom Shillue Is a Mean Dad for a Better America [Reason Podcast]
The comedian and Fox News host celebrates his free-range childhood in the 1970s and what it means for his own kids.
5 Clichés Used to Attack Free Speech
Five terrible, perpetually recurring arguments, debunked.
The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock—and of Libertarianism [Reason Podcast]
"There's not a lot of space for libertarianism in politics right now," says Wash Post's David Weigel. Is he right?
The Huge Promise of Trump's 'Infrastructure Week' [Reason Podcast]
From reforming air-traffic control to expanding road capacity with private capital, the president's plan may really get America moving again.
The New Book Alyssa Milano Thinks Every Congressman Should Read [Reason Podcast]
Katherine Mangu-Ward interviews Cornell Law's Josh Chafetz about his new book, Congress's Constitution
This is Your Brain on Acid (Seriously)
Dr. David Nutt on what the first brain imaging study of humans on LSD reveals about mental health and human consciousness.
Silicon Valley Startup Lets Users Move Money Without Government Interference By Turning Their Phones Into Stand-Alone Banks [Reason Podcast]
Q&A with Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt on bitcoin as "regulatory arbitrage."
Is Nick Bilton's Book on Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road a 'Media Lynching'?
A review of American Kingpin and an interview with the author.
Are You Ready for the "Intimacy Economy"?
Glenn Platt of Miami University says technology is shrinking the distance between celebrity and audience, business and customer. Radical disruption ensues.
Cory Doctorow on Cyber Warfare, Lawbreaking, and His New Novel 'Walkaway'
The novelist, activist, and BoingBoing founder on cyber warfare, Uber-style reputation economics, and what he's likely to get arrested for someday.
How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone
The FCC is designed to protect incumbents, enrich politicians, and screw consumers, says economist Thomas Hazlett.
How Trump's Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan Could Succeed
Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith on the privatization revolution.
Psychedelic Drugs: The Future of Mental Health
LSD, mushrooms, and ecstasy are finally getting attention from serious medical researchers. And their findings are astounding.
30 Days a Black Man: How Ray Sprigle Exposed Jim Crow in 1940s America [Reason Podcast]
"I have such a deeper appreciation for the punishment that black people received from their government for so long and the crass politics that perpetuated it."
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.
Colleges Think Women Having Sex Is Dangerous. This Feminist Says They're Wrong.
Northwestern University's Laura Kipnis on feminism, witch trials, and sexual paranoia at American universities.
Why the GOP's "Repeal and Replace" Bill (AHCA) Is *Worse* than Obamacare [Reason Podcast]
It locks in many of the worst elements of Obamacare while making actual market-friendly reforms next-to-impossible.
Marijuana Policy in the Trump Era
Reason sat down with experts and advocates to discuss the state legalization, science, and the marijuana industry.
'Kratom Is the Cure for the Opioid Epidemic.' Q&A With Filmmaker Chris Bell
Yet the DEA wants to ban it.
Mostly Weekly: Why I'm Boycotting the White House Correspondents' Dinner
Journalists and politicians work best as frenemies.
Is the World Finally Ready for a Female-Orgasm Machine? [Reason Podcast]
Meet the father-daughter team behind the Yarlap, which promises to fix incontinence...and so much more.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Why He's Rejecting Net Neutrality Rules
"We were not living in a digital dystopia in the years leading up to 2015."
Are Kids Depressed Because They Don't Just Play Anymore?
Boston College psychologist Peter Gray says a cultural shift in child rearing is having dire consequences.
Forget Marine Le Pen: The Very Idea of Europe Is Finished [Reason Podcast]
James Kirchick, author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age, warns that American freedom is threatened by the loss of liberalism abroad.
James Altucher Found Himself by Losing Everything (and You Can Too!)
Q&A with this riches-to-rags evangelist for personal reinvention.
What Washington's Farewell Address Tells Us About Trump's America (Reason Podcast)
The nation's father warned against "hyper-partisanship, excessive debt and foreign wars" in 1796. Why aren't we paying attention, asks John Avlon.
Katherine Mangu-Ward and Tyler Cowen on Robots, Death, and Complacency [Reason Podcast]
A conversation about The Complacent Class.
How Payday Lenders and Check Cashers Help the Poor
An Ivy League professor went to work in the industry to figure out why so many Americans choose to remain "unbanked."
Why Disgraced Congressman Trey Radel Went Crazy (And America Will Too)
Democrazy, his new memoir, explores the hidden side of Washington, D.C. where it's all about money, power, and...finger food.
Dad Drops Son a Mile From Home, Goes to Jail.
Mike Tang spent a night in jail and faces a year of parenting classes and picking up trash for his choice of discipline.
Donald Trump, Neocon: Bombing People In Order to Save Them [Reason Podcast]
Thaddeus Russell, Katherine Mangu-Ward, & Nick Gillespie talk Syria, Wilsonian foreign policy, and whether PBS Kids makes good soldiers.
War Stories From the Charter School Movement
Reason's Lisa Snell interviews Gloria Romero and Dan Katzir about the state of charter schools in California.
Trump's Syria Strike Won't Solve Any Problems But Could Make Everything Worse
The real question is what happens next.
