Future Tense Fiction
"A good science fiction story can help re-sensitize us" to the peril and promise of the new.
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The War on Porn Is Back
Conservatives hope to renew their old alliance with radical feminists.
The New Normal and the Prospects for a Post-Political Future
When things were normal—whether you benchmark to the Republican version or the Democratic version—politicians were still venal and governance shoddy.
Don't Trade Stock Tips or Obsess About the Fed, Read Moby Dick Instead
You need to be inoculated from some strange but popular notions about the economy.
What Do We Owe to People Whose Countries We Have Broken?
The case for offering victims of our foreign policy a chance to get out and start over.
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Impeachment Is Both the Cause and the Effect of a Too-Powerful Presidency
If, at the end of all this, President Mike Pence sits behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, what has been accomplished?
Bitcoin at 10
A new book aims to chronicle the digital currency's ideological origins.
Bad Ideas Are Spreading Like the Plague
From socialism to nationalism, debunked ideologies are making a return.
If We Told You Neal Stephenson Invented Bitcoin, Would You Be Surprised?
In his new book, Fall, the author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Diamond Age, looks to the digital afterlife, and beyond.
Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Is Wrong About the Future of Work
If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.
Gene-Edited Kids Can Be Safely Released into the Wild Human Gene Pool
Despite bioethical handwringing, they pose no special risks to future generations
Trouble in Paradise
Naomi Klein misses the meaning of "the miracles Puerto Ricans have been quietly pulling off while their government fails them."
'Mobile Brothels' Could Be Enabled by Self-Driving Cars, But That Doesn't Mean They Will: Reason Roundup
Plus: Amazon goes to Washington (for good) and Chicago cops shoot man who stopped bar shooting.
Reason Once Tried To Predict the Future. How Did We Do?
A generation later, three major themes still resonate.
Publicly Traded Companies Are Still Private Property
No matter what California legislators or Elizabeth Warren think
Welcome to Reason's Debate Issue: 'You're All a Bunch of Socialists!'
How to disagree with other libertarians
Will the Future Have No Work or Just Less Work?: Podcast
Economist Michael C. Munger argues the sharing economy is the next great economic revolution-and it's already underway.
Black Bodies, Radical Politics, and Rebellious Robots
Reading Zora Neale Hurston's study of the life of the last "black cargo" and watching Westworld
'I Am Absolutely a Product of the Libertarian-Industrial Complex': Podcast
Katherine Mangu-Ward talks about politics, culture, and Reason's next 50 years.
Tariffs Are Self-Imposed Sanctions
We restrict trade to punish our enemies. Why would we do the same to ourselves?
Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming to Your Supermarket. Ranchers Are Fighting Back.
The U.S. Cattlemen's Association petitioned the USDA to declare that "meat" and "beef" exclude products not "slaughtered in the traditional manner."
The Amazing and Abundant Future
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
When Fixing the Problem Makes It Worse
Our best hope is that commercial and cultural change will overcome the tendency to force top-down, one-size-fits-all solutions onto complicated problems.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Guns
Hint: It's the same way you should talk to them about kidnapping.
Trump Wants to Win at Trade. He's Missing the Point.
The ultimatum game, the double thank-you, and the politics of global commerce
Armless Droid Calls Cops After Being Assaulted by Drunken Man
The future of human-robot relations is silly and sensible, not sinister.
A Big Fat Freak-Out Over Donald Trump's 'Skinny' Budget
Presidential budgets have all the legal force of a letter to Santa-they're essentially the White House asking Congress for a pony.
Good Neighbors Can Make Good Fences
But when it comes to Mexico, the United States isn't being very neighborly.
The Carrot, the Stick, and the Buggy Whip
Is it time to dust off the word fascist to describe Donald Trump?
