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What the backward-looking Democratic debate tells us about contemporary education policy and woke politics
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What the backward-looking Democratic debate tells us about contemporary education policy and woke politics
In a special xennial/millennial edition of the podcast, Reason editors take apart the first two nights of Democratic Party debate.
Parsing Trump's foreign policy, economic theories, and ideological relationship with the 2020 Democratic field
A discussion about the state of the party, as presidential debate season kicks off
When Tucker Carlson and Elizabeth Warren agree on trade, regulation, and social media, it's time to rethink a few things.
Pondering the right-commentariat's populist-nationalist vs. classical liberal split, on the latest Reason Podcast
Tariffs, tweets, and totalitarianism today in the Reason podcast
The latest bad idea from Bernie Sanders is depressingly popular, sayeth the podcast crew.
A pre-finale podcast about the HBO series that taught America to love death and dragons.
A conversation between Reason editors about Georgia's "heartbeat law," the future of Roe v. Wade, and how to be less shouty even when you disagree.
No more baseball fight-style standoffs in the abortion wars. Plus: so-called constitutional crises, Bernie's credit paternalism, and GoT redux on the Reason Podcast.
Private property rights, public squares, "dangerous" speech, and pre-regulatory suck-ups, all debated on the Reason Podcast.
Being a presidential candidate means never having to say sorry for heavy-handed proposals to limit choice and promise free stuff.
Reason editors discuss Russia, Biden, Moulton (?), and that television show with the dragons.
In a special episode of the Reason Podcast, we drink and we know things.
As Trump cracks down yet again, Reason's editors disagree over labeling in immigration policy.
A real American genius Joe is not.
Whose hysteria looks silliest in retrospect?
Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and most of the 2020 presidential field agree that tech companies have too power. But maybe they don't like the competition.
Democratic mega-proposals, GOP budgetary fictions, prostitution decriminalization surprises, and Zardoz moments galore
We live in desperate times when the brake on both Democratic socialism and Republican executive-branch abuse is a 78-year-old San Francisco Democrat.
The perils-and profits-of being identity-focused in business, content, and audience
How an independent helped shape the Democratic policy agenda.
Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian.
"The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican Agenda or a Democrat Agenda. It is the agenda of the American People."
What comes next in the Virginia governor scandal, why "Medicare for All" ain't happening, and how Baby Boomers are a fatberg clogging America's cultural sewers
Assessing Elizabeth Warren's "tippy-top" tax, Howard Schultz's presidential candidacy, Donald Trump's shutdown-shutdown, and more
Covingtongate, Buzzfeed's bomb, Baby Hitler, Kamalamentum…maybe it's time to pull the plug.
Rebutting Krugman, cracking on Graham, and searching in vain for "freedom" in a caucus.
What conservatives against "market fundamentalism" can tell you about libertarians without power
The #Resistance GOP mixes tonal civility with foreign-policy hawkishness and immigration amnesia.
Michael Shermer, Ron Bailey, and Jim Epstein talk poverty-eradication, genomics, and blockchain at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration
J.D. Tuccille, Lisa Snell, and Rob Long discuss the democratization of everything at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
Reason editors' best and worst moments of 2018, including the president's welcome and long-overdue drawdown from Afghanistan
Peter Suderman, Len Gilroy, and C. Boyden Gray diagnose the country's many fiscal woes, and offer some solutions, at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.
Also: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owns the cons while spouting policy B.S.
Jacob Sullum, Dana Rohrabacher, and Adrian Moore talk about the next steps in ending the war on drugs at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
Also: How much should we care that Trump & co. lied in 2016 about a Putin-proximate real estate deal in Russia?
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch take your questions.
Reason editors check their premises on immigration.
Nadine Strossen, Eugene Volokh, and Stephanie Slade discuss freedom of speech, assembly, and religion at Reason's 50th anniversary.
Assessing the import of presidential tantrums, media hyperbole, military complaints, and the near-arrival of federal sentencing reform
You have come to the right place for CBO death porn.
Before the news cycle spins forever into crazy-land, Reason editors pause to assess the deep meanings, and lack thereof, of this week's elections
Polling uncertainty and a surge in voter enthusiasm could make tomorrow an embarrassing day for many in the political class.
Are we all just living through Elon Musk's dystopian simulation?