Voting Laws, High-Speed Rails, and Vaccine Passports
It's a regulation-heavy Monday.
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It's a regulation-heavy Monday.
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
The Reason Roundtable tackles COVID, Cuomo, and more.
On the largest spending bill in U.S. history and the one year anniversary of life under coronavirus.
The Reason Roundtable takes on the FDA, Andrew Cuomo, and more.
Also: What we learned from impeachment.
After critiquing the COVID-19 relief bill and denouncing the latest Biden policies, the Roundtabler's find some reprieve in imagining legalized opioids for all.
We literally can't afford it.
Out with the CDC and teachers unions, in with school choice for everyone.
Impeachment, 25th Amendment, or censure? Deplatforming, Section 230, or inclusion? The Reason Roundtable debates.
You won't have the first Libertarian congressman to kick around anymore.
Pandemics are like margin calls, exposing in a moment the pre-existing weakness of various positions and institutions.
From pandemic relief to public schools, wealth taxes to COVID vaccines, politicians are finding bad ways to redistribute the pie.
What to say to a political party that keeps trying to overturn the results of an election?
Yes, taxes and regulation are bad. No, they're not worse than locking people up.
From COVID-19 to "cocktail parties," anarchism to A.I., baseball to D&D, the podcast tackles your queries in a special webathon video episode!
How pandemics joined war, terrorism, crime, and economic depression in the toolbox for ratcheting up government
Also: Thanksgiving tips and reasons for gratitude, from The Reason Roundtable
This is not your older brother's "Libertarian Moment," caution Reason Roundtable podcasters.
Also, maybe not! Previewing divided government and incoming vaccines on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
An election-eve primer on The Reason Roundtable
The Reason Roundtable war-games the domestic policies of the likeliest next administration.
The Reason Roundtable argues over what to do when Twitter prematurely suppresses oppo-dump journalism unfavorable to Democrats, and when politicians respond with retaliatory regulation.
But on big-picture fiscal issues, are Democrats and Republicans really so far apart?
A vigorous disagreement on The Reason Roundtable
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals a long-degraded political culture.
The Reason Roundtable reads Bob Woodward, goes to the Oscars, weighs in on the NFL, and more.
Sadly for the president, 2016 Libertarians are not "all Republican voters." Sadly for us, his opposition to "endless wars" doesn't translate into ending them.
The Reason Roundtable spits fire at street violence, poison politics, and the nationalization of every local story.
The Reason Roundtable assesses one convention, previews another, and pleads with everyone to get their kids out of politics.
Democrats prepare to hold their first virtual convention, while Republicans are poised to elect a Q fan to Congress.
The next Democratic president will be all too happy to govern by pen and phone too, say the Reason Roundtable podcasters.
Unpacking TikTok freakouts, mail-in voting controversies, and money printers going brrr, on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
The summer of 2020 got a lot crappier over the weekend, according to the Reason Roundtable podcast.
The Reason Roundtable talks Portland, policing, federalism, coronavirus, and the perennially dumb discourse.
The Reason Roundtable weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
The Reason Roundtable podcast has some helpful suggestions for the summer of 2020.
As COVID-19 case numbers surge, governors are rolling back re-openings, and Democratic leaders are backing national mask bans.
From Forrest to Roosevelt, Confederates to Cervantes, Washington to Whittier, a discussion of iconography politics on The Reason Roundtable.
Sifting through some positive criminal justice developments on the Reason Roundtable.
Elite journalism's bizarre week, analyzed on The Reason Roundtable.
The Reason Roundtable talks riots, police, protesters, policies, and more.
The Reason Roundtable grapples with virus-swapping, policy-bungling, and Libertarian politics.
The Reason Roundtable discusses Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's 60 Minutes admission, as well as the Libertarian Party presidential race post-Justin Amash