Backpage.com Founders Michael Lacey and James Larkin Were Accused of Sex Trafficking by the Senate. Now They Tell Their Story: Reason Roundup
Plus: Europe's terrifying new "terrorist content" rules and zoning reform goes federal.
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Surprise! The Ban on Digital Sex Ads Didn't Work
Plus: digital privacy concerns down 11 percent since 2015
Elizabeth Warren's 'Rules' for Markets Won't 'Make Capitalism Great Again' But May Help Her 2020 Chances: Reason Roundup
Plus: An epidemic of epidemics and "big beer pivots to big weed."
Newspapers Team Up to Tell Trump They Aren't Colluding Against Him: Reason Roundup
Plus: Mormons versus medical marijuana, bureaucrats are bad at protecting data, and cops tase 87-year-old woman for cutting flowers.
The FDA Declares War on Yet Another Drug: Reason Roundup
Plus: Vermont could get a transgender governor, Tim Pawlenty won't be Minnesota governor, and the FBI warns of cash-spewing ATMs.
Press Goes Wild Over President 'Snubbing' John McCain But Barely Blinks Over $82 Billion Boost to War Spending: Reason Roundup
Plus: Feminists fight fair application of Title IX and Bitcoin prices continue to plummet.
Too Much 'Cybersecurity' Is the Real Menace to the Internet: Reason Roundup
Plus: Parsing Kavanaugh's past work and how the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands may make weed history
'Unite the Right' Ralliers to Descend on D.C., With Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Other Counter-Protesters Waiting: Reason Roundup
Plus: TSA provides numbers on "Quiet Skies" spying and Marco Rubio's turn from Tea Party to nationalist
TSA No Longer Keeping 'Quiet' About Citizen Surveillance Program: Reason Roundup
Plus: Ron Paul decries Twitter moves against libertarians, and how Missouri cops enabled a "heroin ring."
Twitter Defends Decision to Keep Alex Jones. Nobody Is Happy: Reason Roundup
Plus: Missouri right-to-work law fails, Antiwar.com writers booted from Twitter, and the great anti-white racism debate continues.
FCC Fabricated DDoS Attack During Net-Neutrality Fight: Reason Roundup
Plus: Internet companies cancel Alex Jones and Trump is "asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!"
U.S.–Saudi Coalition Paid Al Qaeda Militants to Scram, Let Them Keep Weapons, Then Declared Wins Against Extremism in Yemen: Reason Roundup
Plus: No segregated subway cars for white nationalists and a new law-and-order centered series from Dick Wolf
Vegan-Milk Attack at FDA Gets Go-Ahead From Senate: Reason Roundup
Plus: "a remarkable and unusual temporary restraining order" against Google
'Bias Response Team' Not Necessarily a Threat to Student Speech Rights, Says Judge: Reason Roundup
Plus: NYC says no to $100 million from Uber and Lyft, and Amnesty International warns about WhatsApp-borne surveillance software.
At Trump Tampa Rally, QAnon Conspiracists Abound as President Claims You Need ID to Buy Groceries: Reason Roundup
Plus: A new kind of mining town comes to Texas and why "the 3D printed gun issue is a First Amendment issue."
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet
Plus: Testing telemedicine abortion and 3D printed guns.
Government Spying While You're Flying Is Getting Worse: Reason Roundup
Plus: Pennsylvania fights downloadable gun-printing plans and immigration detainees seek religious freedom.
FBI Love Among Republicans Slips Below 50 Percent: Reason Roundup
Plus: House OKs billions for undeclared wars, court keeps block of Pence ultrasound law, Senate quietly cuts tariffs, and new filings in FOSTA challenge
'Police Lied' About Stormy Daniels Sting, Says Whistleblower: Reason Roundup
Plus: Rod Rosenstein impeachment bid "embarrassing for everybody," says Napolitano, and more details about separation of migrant parents and kids by ICE
Homeland Security Seizes Another Sex Worker Website: Reason Roundup
Plus: Trump gets caught talking cash payoffs, Claire McCaskill's cronyism is uncovered, and the Outrage-Industrial Complex comes for Rick and Morty.
Who Deserves Custody of an Embryo?: Reason Roundup
Plus: Massachusetts legalizes sex outside marriage, judge punts on FOSTA ruling, and Trump goes tariff mad.
Marijuana Movement Gets New Anti-Hero in Oklahoma Health Agency Hoaxer Out to Stop Ban on Smokeable Weed: Reason Roundup
Plus: How blockchain is being used by students to circumvent government censorship
Fighting Back Against FOSTA: Reason Roundup
Plus: the FDA takes on nut milk and the IRS eases up on nonprofit donor rules.
Trump Apologies for America Ahead of Helsinki Summit With Putin: Reason Roundup
Plus: Judge censors story about crooked cop, cities get tough on home-based businesses.
Peter Strzok Gets Shouty at 10-Hour Grilling on FBI Agent's 2016 Texts: Reason Roundup
Plus: charges against Stormy Daniels dropped, U.S. loses millions minting pennies, and the perils of "a collective right to attention"
Stormy Daniels Arrested at Ohio Strip Club After Undercover Cop Claims Butt Was Touched: Reason Roundup
Plus: Is Trump spreading fake news about NATO? And a Kansas governor censors campus art
Still Fearing Antifa Supersoldiers, Republicans in Congress Declare War on Masks: Reason Roundup
Plus: "acting" is now hate speech (at least if your genitals don't define your roles), Trump thinks Germany is Russia's puppet.
Everyone Hates Brett Kavanaugh, Everyone Loves Brett Kavanaugh: Reason Roundup
Plus: D.C. wage law for tipped workers faces challenges, and Trump suggests kneecapping Pfizer.
Trump Supreme Court Pick Expected Today—On 14th Amendment Anniversary
Plus: Library group ditches Laura Ingalls Wilder, Trump takes on federal employee unions.
Conservatives Bid Scott Pruitt a Fond Farewell: Reason Roundup
Plus: a Cornell sexual misconduct case that proves Title IX is a catch-22
Trump Seriously Considered Invading Venezuela: Reason Roundup
Plus: prisons vs. the press, plastic-bag bans in Somalia, and trade war with China
Most Americans Want a Supreme Court Justice That Supports Legal Abortion: Reason Roundup
Plus: Americans getting less proud, Lyft buys bike-share company, and U.S. Postal Service can't tell real Statue of Liberty from Vegas version.
This Stuttering Prankster Just Poked a Big Hole in Trump's Claim to Secure Communications: Reason Roundup
Plus: Groups launch a constitutional challenge to FOSTA and a leaked draft bill "provides Trump a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will."
Capital Gazette Shooter Not Motivated by Milo or Maxine Waters, Had 'Long-Standing Grudge Against the Paper': Reason Roundup
Plus: conservatives feel more censored on social media, nearly 600 arrested at immigration sit-in
Justice Anthony Kennedy Retires, Everyone Flips Out: Reason Roundup
Plus: Vermont's GMO-labeling law backfires, Kansas kicks Vermin Supreme off the ballot.
Federal Judge Halts ICE Family Separations, Says Policy 'Cannot Satisfy the Requirements of Due Process': Reason Roundup
Plus: Oklahoma legalizes medical marijuana and Russian pop star linked to Trumps releases bizarre music video.
Civility, Culture War, and Cake Gives Way to Libertarian Squabbling: Reason Roundup
Plus: The FDA approves a cannabidiol-based drug and The Intercept explores the NSA's secret spy hubs.
Everyone Has an Opinion About Whether Restaurants Should Serve Trump Staffers: Reason Roundup
Plus: Parsing the Westworld season-two finale and how Trump's tariffs could be bad for good cheese.
Confusion Reigns as Government Contemplates What To Do With Immigrant Families: Reason Roundup
Plus: RIP Charles Krauthammer
Trump Rails Against Elites, Hecklers in Minnesota: Reason Roundup
Plus: White House wants Labor and Education to merge.
Trump, Congress Have No Idea Who Should Fix Immigrant Family Separation: Reason Roundup
PLUS: Initiative 77 passes, D.C.'s restaurant scene despairs.
I.G. Report Says Comey Was Insubordinate, Alleged FBI Efforts to Help Clinton Might Have Backfired: Reason Roundup
Plus: Steve Bannon believes in Bitcoin.
Mark Sanford Loses Primary, the Nightmares Continue for Trump's Republican Skeptics: Reason Roundup
Plus: a new survey of students' opinions on due process rights, and why it's wrong to reflexively hate all men
At Nuke Talks, Trump Says North Korea's Beaches Would Be Great Condo Spots: Reason Roundup
Plus: Dennis Rodman promotes cannabis cryptocurrency in North Korea, resisting "hate speech," and ruling expected today on AT&T/Time-Warner merger
Robert De Niro Has a Tony Tantrum Over Trump: Reason Roundup
Plus: Trump's trade-war antagonization continues, "depressing" European leaders, and Google is making salad emojis "more inclusive."
