The Next President Should Abolish Everything
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the Fed, the Army, Social Security, and everything else.
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the Fed, the Army, Social Security, and everything else.
We don't know how Kamala Harris would wield her awesome power, and we don't know how the rule of law would constrain Donald Trump.
Peanut the Squirrel charmed a large internet audience that helped fund an animal sanctuary. Then the government seized him.
The Institute for Justice partners with an independent eye doctor to challenge state regulations that protect hospital monopolies and restrict patient access.
Whether through policy or prosecution, the president's ability to punish his political enemies should be sharply constrained.
Sending user manuals, algorithms, and lines of code can be legally equivalent to exporting bombs.
In the heart of California Wine Country, rigid local rules are choking small businesses and stifling growth
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
The Jones Act makes the North Slope’s resources inaccessible to the state’s energy-starved residents.
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
But consumers will pay a price.
Americans are turning to home-cooked meals, but state regulators are making it harder for small food businesses to survive.
Many citizens of the land of the free are hooked on government checks.
The IRS fines hostages for taxes they couldn't pay while they were detained. A bill in Congress is trying to fix this.
Two brothers are asking the Supreme Court to stop their town from using eminent domain to steal their land for an empty field.
Politicians and partisan fanatics spur each other to extremes in what they see as a struggle against evil.
Neither Harris nor Trump has a plan to address national debt, but they dramatically differ on taxation.
The Court this year reversed Chevron, a decades-old precedent giving bureaucrats deference over judges when the law is ambiguous.
If the Republican Party's presidential candidate can't articulate a supply-side alternative to costly Democratic proposals, then government will get bigger.
Plus: Does the government own too much land in Utah? And the latest response to Friends star Matthew Perry’s drug overdose death.
Both campaigns represent variations on a theme of big, fiscally irresponsible, hyper-interventionist government.
Plus: RFK Jr.'s exit, anti-Israel protesters at the DNC, and more...
Harris has flip-flopped on many issues, but she's been consistent on her desire to spend more of your money.
Plus: Obama endorses building more housing, why CEOs are paid so much, and more...
The government needs a warrant to spy on you. So agencies are paying tech companies to do it instead.
As Britain grapples with riots, politicians shift focus to “holding tech accountable” by pushing for censorship and sidestepping the deeper issues fueling the chaos.
The self-described "GIS nerd" has boundless faith in the ability of maps to guide top-down government interventions.
It's good to hear a candidate actually talk about our spending problem. But his campaign promises would exacerbate it.
Nina Jankowicz finds out the truth may hurt, but it isn’t lawsuit bait.
It seems anything the government touches dies—today, it’s thousands of acres of once-productive vineyards.
Recent footage shows a federal agent attempting to search a citizen’s bag without their consent, despite precedent saying that’s illegal.
The Church of the Rock is suing, arguing that the zoning crackdown in Castle Rock violates the First Amendment.
This week left no doubt that the GOP's current leadership wants the government to do more, spend more, and meddle more.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
Subsidies for journalism will divorce reporters from the need to even try to win readers and viewers.
The Biden administration says its new Title IX interpretation is a legitimate reading of the statute, but opponents characterize it as arbitrary and capricious.
It’s impossible to reconcile big-government dreams with the reality of the clowns who rule us.
The national debt has become an alarm bell ringing in the distance that people are pretending not to hear, especially in the city that caused the problem.
Supporters say the measure will uphold “social justice,” but research shows licensing requirements don’t always work as intended.
The candidate who grasps the gravity of this situation and proposes concrete steps to address it will demonstrate the leadership our nation now desperately needs. The stakes couldn't be higher.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
A proposed USDA rule would require RFID tagging of all cattle and bison that move across state lines.
The bill would banish insurance companies from the state if they invest in companies profiting from oil and gas.
The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.
The first treasury secretary's plans would have created cartels that mainly benefited the wealthy at the expense of small competitors.