Libertarianism in a Rapidly Diversifying America: Reason Debate on 12/8 in DC
Nick Gillespie, Shikha Dalmia, Avik Roy, and Charles C.W. Cooke talk about immmigration, limited government, and cosmopolitanism.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump Is Time's Person of the Year!?!? New Reason Podcast
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss how Democrats will (or won't) cope, why Republicans are turning against free trade, and whether millennials will go libertarian in 2017.
Trump Has Little Latitude to Change Trade Policies…So Far
Bush and Obama tried tariffs, and got smacked down. But will a more determined protectionist rally legislators and public opinion to his side?
Environmental Protection Agency
Trump EPA Nominee: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt
Lots of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending by progressives soon to follow
Trump and McAuliffe Share a Lot
They both see politics as just another side of business.
Philippine President Says Trump Supports His Murderous Antidrug Campaign
The president-elect "understood the way we are handling it," says Rodrigo Duterte.
Trump's Problem With Free Speech
The billionaire bully chafes at the restrictions imposed by the First Amendment.
The Most Potent Federal Regulatory Agency Will Answer Solely to Donald Trump
And the potential for Trump to abuse the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is huuge.
Outrage Over Children's Book Parody Will Simply Feed Culture War Further
The cure for bad speech is more speech. The cure for bad jokes is … maybe better jokes?
Trump-Schumer Bromance Is Bad News
Trump ran as a change candidate. Now he's taking personnel recommendations from Sen. Schumer, who has been serving in Congress since 1981.
The 5-Step Process for Playing Defense Against Trump's Bad Ideas
What could President Trump really do to punish American companies for moving abroad? Well, Congress might try to replace global corporate taxation with a 20% VAT-style levy on everything sold inside the U.S.
Trump Takes Call From Taiwan President, Freak Out Ensues
Not quite an unprecedented break in protocol.
Why Trump's War on the Media Matters
Most presidents distrust the news media. Trump wants to undermine it as an institution.
Will Donald Trump Be the Peacenik President? Was He Elected Dictator? And What's the Deal with Thanksgiving?
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Trump on Energy: 'The Best of Any President Since Reagan'? Q/A With Alex Epstein
The author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels on global warming, fracking, Ayn Rand, and the president-elect.
Al Gore Wouldn't Have Invaded Iraq, Third Parties are a Threat to Democracy, and Other New York Times Delusions
Incorrect conventional wisdom never dies.
Vice President-Elect Mike Pence on the Carrier Deal: 'The Free Market Has Been Sorting It Out and America's Been Losing.'
The GOP drops the pretense of being a free-market party.
Can Free Speech Flourish in the Age of Trump? Nick Gillespie, Flemming Rose at Cato, 12/6
The publisher of the "Mohammed cartoons" and editor of Reason.com talk about threats to expression in politics, culture, and social media.
You Opposed Donald Trump, So Why Aren't You Freaking Out?
President-Elect Trump hasn't really done anything out of the ordinary-not yet.
Trump to Nominate Gen. James Mattis Secretary of Defense
Will need special permission from Congress because he only retired from the armed forces in 2013.
Trump's Carrier Cronyism, Goldman Sachs' Revolving Door, and Obama's Late-Breaking Reefer Sanity
Matt Welch discusses these issues plus fake news and Thanksgiving poisonings on FBN's Kennedy tonight at 9 pm ET
Reason's Secret Recipe for Nutrient-Rich Coverage of the Trump Era
Combine investigative reporting, interviews & exposes, a brand-new daily podcast, and award-winning videos that get copied by other outfits...
President Obama Just Made it Easier For Donald Trump to Wage War
Obama's legacy of expanding executive branch power now includes "limitless targeting" anywhere in the world.
How Should Reason Cover The Trump Era? Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Matt Welch Debate
Reason webathon podcast all about the opportunities and disasters awaiting libertarians and the rest of us under President Trump.
Flag Burning Might Be Offensive, But it is Protected Speech
President-elect Donald Trump reignites a long-settled argument.
The Guy Who Subpoenaed Reason, Preet Bharara, Met With Donald Trump Today
Would now be a good time for you to chip in a few bucks to our webathon?
Yes, We Should Worry About Donald Trump's Business Conflicts of Interests—and His Whole Approach to the Interaction Between Government and Business
The president-elect was a crony capitalist businessman. Now he's set to become a crony capitalist politician.
Has Donald Trump's Election Really Caused a Staggering Increase in Schoolyard Bullying?
The Southern Poverty Law Center says yes, predictably.
Challenge Grant Time in the Reason Webathon! Because We Still Treat Presidential Politics as if (Bad) Ideas Matter
From Bernie to Hillary, from Trump to the chumps in Congress, we used the spectacle of politics to argue about the substance of policy.
Drain the Swamp!
Government spending and crony capitalism are out of control, and few people bother to go to Washington to ask for spending cuts.
Rep. Massie Hasn't Heard From Trump Transition About Any Possible Administration Role
Massie hasn't met with anyone from the Trump transition team.
Conservative Criminal Justice Groups Hope They Can Sway a Skeptical Trump Administration
"The very worst thing reform advocates can do is take their ball and go home."
If Charter Schools Are 'Unregulated,' Why Is This Successful California School Facing a Shutdown?
Trump's choice of education secretary will prompt a fight over who has control.
National Police Union is Not Happy With Donald Trump's Proposed Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities
The union may have loved Trump's law-and-order rhetoric, but they don't want to lose funding over cities' refusal to comply with immigration crackdown.
Why It's a Mistake to Describe the Alt-Right as 'Neo-Nazis'
Backwards-looking attitudes about race, religion, and sex have been a hallmark of the Republican coalition for decades, and are hardly grounds for Hitler Youth comparisons.
The Trouble With Trump SCOTUS Contender William H. Pryor
There are reasons to worry about the 11th Circuit judge on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist.
Trump Picks Tom Price For HHS Secretary. Does This Really Mean He Wants to Repeal Obamacare?
Ultimately, legislation to repeal and replace the health care law will have to be driven by Congress.
On Flag Burning, Trump Differs With Scalia but Agrees With Clinton
The justice Trump admires twice voted to overturn criminal penalties for flag burning, which Clinton later tried to reinstate.
Donald Trump Suggests Flag-Burners Should Lose Their Citizenship
Or maybe spend a year in jail.
Trump Says Millions Voted Illegally but Any Recount Would Be Pointless
The president-elect claims he would have won the popular vote if Clinton had not benefited from widespread fraud.
Donald Trump Seems Likely to Throw Cold Water on the Thaw in U.S.-Cuba Relations
Following Fidel Castro's death, Republicans want to revert to a policy that failed for half a century.
Putin's Biggest Fan
The GOP nominee can't stop praising the Russian leader's authoritarianism.
