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Trump Takes Call From Taiwan President, Freak Out Ensues
Not quite an unprecedented break in protocol.
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When Everything Is 'Fake News'
Has the phrase reached its saturation point?
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Two Federal Courts Call BS on Banning Sex Offenders From 'Child Safety Zones'
Rulings deem Indiana and North Carolina laws unconstitutionally vague and unjustifiably wide.
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Time to End Discrimination Against Gays?
Many people believe it’s already against the law.
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Why Trump’s War on the Media Matters
Most presidents distrust the news media. Trump wants to undermine it as an institution.
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Donate to Reason! Because You Asked for Libertarian Party Coverage This Year, and We Delivered
From man-boobs to Rachel Maddow controversies to the best (and yet most disappointing!) vote total in history, we followed the party’s historic year.
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Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Save The World From Zika?
A look at several mosquito-modification projects and the political and cultural pushback they're facing.
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On the Lord’s Day, Watch Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward on MSNBC, Then Donate to Reason!
From Al Sharpton to Bill Maher, Michael Smerconish to our good friend Kennedy, Reason staffers are your voice in the broadcast media.
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HBO Documentaries Illuminate Castro’s Brutal Cuba
Two offerings coincide with strongman’s death.
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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.
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Will Donald Trump Be the Peacenik President? Was He Elected Dictator? And What's the Deal with Thanksgiving?
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Indian Prime Minister's Shake Down of Private Wealth
Modi restores a command economy, ends liberalization.
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Donald Trump Is a Greater Threat to Free Speech Than the Campus Left
Trump's flag-burning comments fit a pattern of disrespect for the First Amendment.
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Donate to Reason Because Our Journalism Helps Poor Venezuelans AND Teen Sexters
Stories that inspire others to generate bitcoins for the victims of socialism and legal representation for cellphone Romeos.
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Aging Is a Disease and It's Time to Cure It
After all, none of us is getting any younger.
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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...
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Movie Review: Jackie
Natalie Portman in a stillborn bio-snippet from the Kennedy years.
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Ohio State Knife Attacker Abdul Artan Was Taking a Class About Microaggressions
His group project was due later this week.
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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.
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House Republicans Want to Make the Wrong Change to the Corporate Tax
A holiday recipe for government growth.
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Free Staters Seem to Have Cost the Republicans a Senate Seat in New Hampshire
Former Free State Project chair Aaron Day is sure his over 17,000 votes as independent cost Kelly Ayotte her around 1,000 vote loss.
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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.
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Media Attacks on HGTV’s Gaines Family and Victoria’s Secret Might Make You Welcome Trump’s Apocalypse
Casually labeling too many as racist, sexist bigots—sometimes for good reason, other times not so much—had something to do with Trump's election in the first place.
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The U.S. Put at Least 67,000 People in Solitary Confinement Last Year
About 3,000 of those were in solitary for six years or longer.
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Is Partisan Gerrymandering Unconstitutional?
Lessons on how politicians stay in power.
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Flag Burning Might Be Offensive, But it is Protected Speech
President-elect Donald Trump reignites a long-settled argument.
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Broad Expansion of FBI’s Hacking Authority Begins Today
One warrant and one judge can lead to untold numbers of system intrusions.
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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.
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Proposed 'Anti-Semitism Awareness Act' is an Unconstitutional Mess
Bipartisan Senate bill would make "judging Israel by a double standard" a hate crime.
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California's New Cow Fart Regulations Totally Stink
New law aims to reduce bovine flatulance, but will the cows obey?
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On His Way Out the Door, Obama Suggests Marijuana Should Be Legal
The president plans to do something about it "as a private citizen."
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The Guy Who Subpoenaed Reason, Preet Bharara, Met With Donald Trump Today
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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.
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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.
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The Two-Party System Is a Shambling Zombie
It's time to breathe new life into America's undead political parties.
