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Republican Party

Arizona's GOP Has Become a Trump Cult

The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.

J.D. Tuccille | 1.13.2021 9:10 AM

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TV

Lovecraft Country

Scott Shackford | 11.13.2020 6:00 AM

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Movies

Reviews: Love and Monsters and J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius

A good teens-and-creatures movie, and a deep dive into a glorious fake cult

Kurt Loder | 10.16.2020 7:00 AM

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Movies

Midsommar

Liz Wolfe | 10.4.2019 6:00 AM

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Reason Interviews

Paul Krassner: The Lost Interview

A previously unpublished conversation with “investigative satirist” Paul Krassner, who just died at age 87.

Jesse Walker | 7.22.2019 4:55 PM

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Cults

Multiple Sex-Trafficking Charges Against Allison Mack to be Dropped As Actress Pleads to Extortion

Plus: "content moderation laws are...not about punishing tech companies" and union fees have taken an astonishing hit.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.9.2019 9:30 AM

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Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche, 1922–2019

Friday A/V Club: The death of a charmless kook

Jesse Walker | 2.15.2019 8:30 AM

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Prisons

How Scientology Recruits Inside Florida Prisons

Criminon says it's a secular program to rehabilitate inmates, but critics say it's a recruiting pitch for Scientology.

C.J. Ciaramella | 1.16.2019 8:30 AM

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Lyndon LaRouche

The Wild Rise of Lyndon LaRouche

What a conspiracy theorist, a Vietnam War deserter, and a Trump adviser have in common

Paul Krassner | 11.11.2018 6:00 AM

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Cults

The Sex Trafficking Charges Against Smallville Actress Allison Mack Are Totally Bogus

The federal charges against Mack highlight how human trafficking hysteria harms vulnerable women.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.26.2018 12:30 PM

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Cults

The Man Who Turned Beauty into an Actual Cult

Documentary takes viewers inside the place called Buddhafield.

Glenn Garvin | 8.26.2016 3:00 PM

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Music

Friday A/V Club: Jonestown's In-House R&B Band Performs 'The Greatest Love of All'

Recorded seven months before the massacre

Jesse Walker | 5.13.2016 11:01 AM

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Advertising

The Cola Cult

A short note on the end of Mad Men, by a guy who has never actually watched Mad Men

Jesse Walker | 5.18.2015 9:32 AM

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Conspiracy Theories

What We Mean When We Say 'Conspiracy Theory'

The assumptions baked into a familiar phrase

Jesse Walker | 3.15.2015 10:00 AM

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History

Suspicious Minds

The '70s saw a strange interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.

Jesse Walker | 11.27.2014 3:00 PM

Television

Jack Parsons: Didn't Make it To Outer Space, Will Make it to Cool TV Channel AMC

Brian Doherty | 10.28.2014 9:20 PM

Cults

Louis Farrakhan: Ebola and AIDS are "race targeting weapons"

Nick Gillespie | 10.1.2014 11:33 AM

Cults

The Decline of Cults and the Rise of Subcultures

Peter Suderman | 9.30.2014 12:17 PM

History

Suspicious Minds in the 1970s

Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.

Jesse Walker | 8.24.2014 10:00 AM

Religion

Jonestown 35 Years Later

The Jonestown/JFK connection

Jesse Walker | 11.18.2013 11:25 AM

Crime

Leader of "Black Jesus" Cult Hacked to Death in Papua New Guinea

The convicted rapists and suspected cannibal as well as one of his followers were killed while attacking a woman

Reason Staff | 8.30.2013 1:56 PM

Religion

Fear of a Skeleton Saint

A form of worship crosses the Mexican border-and so does a moral panic.

Jesse Walker | 3.13.2013 12:01 PM

Election 2012

Today in Awful Celebrity Pro-Obama Agitprop: "Forward" (the Song)

Mike Riggs | 10.26.2012 1:31 PM

Election 2012

Obama Has Taken the Cult of the Presidency to a Whole New Level

And it doesn't seem he's losing any sleep over what his successors may do with those new powers.

Gene Healy | 10.23.2012 12:00 PM

Mormonism

Billy Graham's Group Removes Mormonism from List of Cults

Change happens after meeting with Mitt Romney

Reason Staff | 10.16.2012 6:15 PM

Election 2012

Barack Obama for Student Body President

Mike Riggs | 10.8.2012 3:28 PM

Election 2012

Obama Campaign Unveils Another Creepy Get-Out-The-Vote Initiative

Mike Riggs | 9.20.2012 9:48 AM

North Korea

Asia's Underground Railroad

Helping refugees escape totalitarian North Korea.

John Gorenfeld | 9.15.2012 1:00 PM

Election 2012

Dave Eggers' Crappy "90 Days, 90 Reasons" Site Strikes Again

Mike Riggs | 8.17.2012 11:28 AM

Cults

Surprise: Stories of Underground Russian Cult May Have Been Grossly Exaggerated

We've seen this story before

Reason Staff | 8.14.2012 1:40 PM

Russia

Russian Underground (Literally) Muslim Sect Charged with Child Abuse

83-year-old leader had declared himself a prophet, kept children in subterranean network.

Reason Staff | 8.8.2012 4:30 PM

Economics

The Audacity of Cynicism

Matt Welch | 1.25.2011 10:21 AM

Censorship

Reason Morning Links: Two Elections and a Diaspora

Jesse Walker | 9.20.2010 8:20 AM

Sports

The Only American Male With Less Athletic Skill Than I Have Shows He Can Catch a Ball

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.20.2009 2:13 PM

Politics

The Politics of Memory

What's too painful to remember we simply choose to repeat.

Matt Welch | 9.15.2009 7:00 AM

Religion

Live from the YFZ Ranch: Fashion Week

Mike Riggs | 6.30.2008 4:45 PM

Censorship

Thursday Morning Links

Jesse Walker | 6.5.2008 8:15 AM

Radical Right

The Latest from LaRoucheland

Jesse Walker | 5.21.2008 9:32 AM

Religion

Another Strike for the Chosen One!

Jesse Walker | 12.19.2007 9:53 AM

Third Parties

Beware the Leesburg Garden Club!

Jesse Walker | 11.2.2007 4:24 PM

Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche: Steady Leadership in Times of Change

David Weigel | 6.29.2007 10:10 AM

Lyndon LaRouche

You Can Run, but You Can't Hide…from LaRouche!

David Weigel | 6.12.2006 3:56 PM

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