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Taylor Swift

Rent control protesters | MARILYN HUMPHRIES/� 2023 Marilyn Humphries/Newscom

Rent control

The Year's Most Important Housing Vote

Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.

Christian Britschgi | 10.29.2024 1:40 PM

Taylor Swift performing on stage | ANTONI BYSZEWSKIFOTONEWS/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Free Markets

What's More Popular Than Taylor Swift? Capitalism.

Other things less popular with American voters than capitalism: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, J.D. Vance, and socialism.

Eric Boehm | 9.23.2024 11:45 AM

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Taylor Swift

The Housing Policy Implications of Taylor Swift

Plus: An interview with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis about the state's blockbuster year for housing reform.

Christian Britschgi | 6.4.2024 10:30 AM

Remy in a bathtub working from home in a Taylor Swift parody for Fortnight | Reason TV

Comedy

Remy: Fortnight (Federal Employee Version)

A tale from the Tortured Public Servants Department.

Remy | 5.10.2024 10:45 AM

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Reason

Reason Is a Finalist for 14 Southern California Journalism Awards

Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.

Billy Binion | 5.9.2024 5:09 PM

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifying to Congress | Annabelle Gordon - CNP/CNP / Polaris/Newscom

Immigration

Impending Impeachment

Plus: a shaky bipartisan border deal, the looming Taylor Swift PSYOP, and the disappearance of the D.C. area's greatest landmark...

Christian Britschgi | 1.31.2024 9:30 AM

Taylor Swift in concert | Amy McKeon/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Antitrust

Is It Time To Trust-Bust Taylor Swift? 

The pop singer's new concert film inadvertently makes the case for big businesses with sweeping market power.

Peter Suderman | 10.17.2023 1:41 PM

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Entertainment

Taylor Swift, Junk Fees, and the 'Happy Meal Fallacy'

Thank Swifties, not Joe Biden, for Ticketmaster's consumer-friendly pricing policy.

Eric Boehm | 9.28.2023 6:00 AM

Taylor Swift | Illustration: Lex Villena; Michel Bussieres, Lumeimages / Avalon/Newscom

Congress

Ticketmaster's Taylor Swift Glitch Doesn't Require a Congressional Hearing

The site crashed because Swift is very popular, not because antitrust enforcement is too weak.

Liz Wolfe | 1.26.2023 11:05 AM

Lizzo, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce

Music

Beyoncé, Lizzo, and Taylor Swift Give In To the Speech Police

"It's stories and songs and films cut apart and written over, leaving no trace and no remnant of whatever used to be," writes novelist and cultural critic Kat Rosenfield.

Natalie Dowzicky and Regan Taylor | 12.27.2022 12:15 PM

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Kanye West

Taylor Swift and Kanye West Divide American Politics Again

Imma let you finish, but the Tay and Ye beef is the best political lesson of all time.

Zuri Davis | 10.8.2018 3:15 PM

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Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Should Apologize for Being Apolitical: Fashion Mag

The world is grim enough without insisting every pop star become a revolutionary.

Nick Gillespie | 11.15.2017 10:40 AM

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Culture

Copyright Expert Pans Plagiarism Suit Against Taylor Swift

Swift is accused of ripping-off the lyrics to her hit song "Shake It Off," but lawyer Mike Godwin says the case is "almost certainly meritless."

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.5.2015 3:05 PM

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Politics

Taylor Swift, The West Wing, James Taylor: Politics is So Hip These Days I Can Barely Stand It

Peter Suderman | 1.16.2015 1:22 PM

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