Europe's New Data Privacy Rules Will Make Facebook and Google More Powerful
The EU's GDPR should serve as a cautionary tale for Americans eager to reign in tech titans
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Carbon Dioxide: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up
Despite the E.U.'s carbon markets and vast renewable energy subsidies
Politics Is Not Pretty: Podcast
Reason editors rate the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump's nuclear politics, the optics of political summits, and the resuscitation of Zora Neale Hurston.
Report Warns EU Member State Food Regulations Could Stall Growth
Uncertainty over Brexit and meddlesome rules could harm the EU's leading exports and industry.
Canada's Food Laws Ban the Best Burgers
America's neighbor to the north also has a host of dumb regulations.
Europe's Anti-GMO Stance Is Killing Africans
The cost of Africa's refusal to grow GMO crops are incredible in human health and economic terms.
Emmanuel Macron an Intra-European Protectionist
The EU can be quite protectionist, particularly vis a vis its eastern members.
Matt Welch Interviews Sen. Mike Lee, Kmele Foster, James Kirchick and More from 9-12 AM ET
Listen to Sirius XM Insight channel 121 to hear the latest on Trump, Russia, Europe, media, and more
Trump's Wrong on Trade With Germany and a Liability to the Anti-NATO Argument
Both Trump and his mainstream critics are wrong about NATO.
The European Union Wants to Censor Hate Speech on Social Media
The rules would apply only to videos-for now.
Forget Marine Le Pen: The Very Idea of Europe Is Finished [Reason Podcast]
James Kirchick, author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age, warns that American freedom is threatened by the loss of liberalism abroad.
France Election Preview: Terrorism, Socialism, Nationalist Socialism, and the Prospects for Economic Liberalization
Voters go to the polls Sunday, where two candidates will advance to the final round.
Turkey Vote in Favor of More Authoritarianism Was Not Free or Fair, Natch
Country has been in a state of emergency since last June, while President Erdogan likened European leaders to Nazis.
It's Past Time to Dump the OECD
Let taxpayers in high-tax nations subsidize the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Brexit Negotiations Moving Forward
The two sides have until March 2019 to come up with a withdrawal agreement.
'Right to Be Forgotten' Legislation Attempts Foothold in New York
Is it about privacy or about government censorship? Maybe that's a false choice.
Makers of Blue Wine Thwarted by EU Regulations
EU wine rules consider anything not authorized specifically to be illegal.
Anti-Immigration, Pro-Big Government National Front's Le Pen Inching Up in Polls—At 44 Percent in Run-off Match-up
Both her center-left and center-right opponents are campaigning on much needed labor reforms, as well as tax and spending cuts, not popular with Socialists.
EU Doesn't Want to Pay Fair Share for NATO
EU Commission president says foreign aid is security spending-nice try.
Europe vs. Trump
European parliamentary leaders want rebuke of nomination they believe Trump will make for ambassador to the EU
Could Britain Become the New Singapore?
Brexit is creating the opportunity for a lot of progress in the United Kingdom.
The Neoliberal Era Is Over
Donald Trump's pro-tariff action yesterday underlines a reality long in the making: The post-Cold War neoliberal triumphalism is dead in the West.
Italy Rejects Constitutional Reform Referendum—A Victory for Democracy, or Russia, or Who Knows What
But not a victory for the establishment.
Brexit Process Getting More Complicated
High court rules government must get a vote from Parliament on a law before invoking Article 50.
Turkey's PM Rejects Europe's 'Red Line' On Freedom of the Press
Post-coup crackdown now hits one of Turkey's last remaining opposition news outlets.
Socialist Regional Government in Belgium Torpedoes EU-Canada Free Trade Deal
Would be the first EU trade deal with a G-7 country.
Euro Logic: We Must Kill Free Speech to Promote Free Speech
Americans must resist the delusional embrace of E.U.-style "hate speech" rules.
Can the European Union Survive?
Scholars debate the E.U.'s future but agree the answer is in the economy.
The Unbearable Triteness of Brexit Commentary
Does everything always have to be about America? Yes, pretty much, if you're an American.
Brexit is an Opportunity For Britain to Return its Classical Liberal Roots
How the U.K. can escape E.U. regulations and protectionism.
Elitist Rage With the Pro-Brexit Masses Echoes Longstanding British Suspicion of Democracy
Reptiles, insects, shit flowing from the busted sewer of bad ideas-this is how the media elite views the minds and actions of Brexit voters.
Friday A/V Club: The Brexit Video
How a Eurosceptic accidentally wrote an E.U. anthem, then gave it a video that today seems to anticipate Brexit.
Britain's Exit from the European Union Might Leave Both the U.K. and the E.U. Better Off
Brexit might spur U.K. reforms.
Do Robots Dream of Electric Retirement Savings Accounts?
Study uses technological advancement to call for expansion of the state.
Americans Should Welcome a Brexit
Britain leaving the EU isn't a choice for isolationism, it's a chance to embrace the world.
The Brexit Vote is a Referendum on the European Union's Thousands of Stifling Regulations
Stay or go, however, the UK's own regulatory burdens won't go away.
The European Union: Separating Myth from Reality
Despite its self-congratulations, the EU is not responsible for 60 years of peace and prosperity in Europe.
'Hate Speech Is the Secular Equivalent of Blasphemy' & Other Truths
As the EU tries to police offensive language, here's a better way to think about censorship: Screw off.
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft Agree to Hate-Speech Code of Conduct
The tech companies agree to review hate-speech notifications within 24 hours and report on their efforts to the E.U.'s "High Level Group on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and all forms of intolerance by the end of 2016."
The EU Should Be Focusing on Its Own Countries' Transgender Laws, Not North Carolina's Bathrooms
Several nations within the union require sterilization before gender-change recognition.
Obama Urges Britain to Remain in European Union, Says UK Could Go to Back of Trade Deal Line
London Mayor Boris Johnson blames Obama's position on "ancestral dislike" for British empire
At Least 130 Injured and 31 Dead In Brussels Airport, Metro Explosions
French prime minister says: "We are at war."
Open Borders, Open Markets, Low Taxes, Tiny Government: The Liechtenstein Model
The European microstate provides a prosperous example of governance in the third millennium.
