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To Cut Taxes Now, Republicans Promise to Raise Them Later

Will Congress tackle entitlement spending and agree to raise taxes in the mid-2020s? If not, the deficit will get even bigger than some projections show.

Eric Boehm | 12.18.2017
We're Spending Too Much on Defense

You only need so many killy things.

Andrew Heaton & Sarah Rose Siskind | 12.18.2017
Conservative Snowflakes Get Protesting Nebraska Instructor Booted From Her Teaching Job

Will colleges sanction every educator with a provocative opinion?

Dan King | 12.18.2017
Reason's 2017 Gift Guide

The best books, movies, music, and TV of the year

Jesse Walker | 12.18.2017
Republicans Won't Win Unless They Start Electing Cannibal Dictators

Losses in Virginia and elsewhere aren't stopping some in the GOP from demanding ever-more cartoonish candidates.

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.18.2017
Tax Reform, Paul Ryan, and a New Death of Hope: Podcast

Reason editors point to the good stuff in tax reform, and the bad everything else

Matt Welch | 12.18.2017
What the GOP Tax Bill Means for Libertarians

"It's basically reassembling deck chairs on a really messy and horribly complex system": Q&A with Chris Edwards, CATO's Director of Tax Policy

Ian Keyser & Nick Gillespie | 12.15.2017

How Using Eminent Domain to Seize Land for a Border Wall Harms American Property Owners

A new study of border takings under the 2006 Secure Fence Act finds that many owners get inadequate compensation, and that the condemnation process is flawed in other ways.

Ilya Somin | 12.14.2017
Trump Used an FBI Graduation Ceremony to Call for Greater Police Militarization

"We are allowing our local police to access surplus military equipment, something the previous administration for some reason refused to do," Trump says. Wrong!

Eric Boehm | 12.18.2017
Justices Alito and Gorsuch Clash Over Cellphones, Privacy, and Property Rights

Oral arguments in Carpenter v. U.S. reveal a division between two conservative justices.

Damon Root | 12.15.2017

Trump and Associates Can't Stop Scapegoating Immigrants

The concern about radicalization by Muslims in the U.S. is a red herring intended to make Americans distrust foreigners and immigration in general.

Sheldon Richman | 12.17.2017
States Partner to Sue Massachusetts, California Over Costly Livestock Bans

Two states attempt to dictate how farmers outside their boundaries treat their animals.

Baylen Linnekin | 12.16.2017
Authoritarians to the Left and Right

Ronald Bailey | 12.16.2017
Bar on Registering 'Immoral or Scandalous' Trademarks Violates First Amendment

So a Federal Circuit panel held today, answering a question that the Supreme Court's Slants case left open.

Eugene Volokh | 12.15.2017

Movie Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

"Thank you, Star Wars factory."

Kurt Loder | 12.15.2017
Internet Goes WILD After FCC Net Neutrality Vote

Simmer down y'all.

Ed Krayewski | 12.14.2017
Vapid Cuban Documentarian Unwittingly Stumbles into Country’s Despairs

Jon Alpert spent decades asking incredibly dumb questions of Fidel Castro.

Glenn Garvin | 12.15.2017
Grover Norquist: GOP Tax Bill Is Good Enough For Now (He's Planning to 'Whine Later')

Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.

Mark McDaniel & Nick Gillespie | 12.13.2017
Why Cards Against Humanity Won't Stop the Border Wall

Eminent domain.

Steven Greenhut | 12.15.2017
Everything You Wanted To Know About The Volokh Conspiracy: Podcast

Eugene Volokh runs the most important legal blog in the country. Here's his take on gay wedding cakes, free speech, and President Trump's judicial appointments.

Nick Gillespie & Ian Keyser | 12.13.2017
The FCC Just Voted to Roll Back Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules

New rules would require internet providers to be transparent about their services.

Peter Suderman | 12.14.2017
Kill the Mortgage Interest Deduction Now!

It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.

Nick Gillespie & Todd Krainin | 12.11.2017
Our move to (paywall-free!) Reason from The Washington Post

Information may or may not want to be free -- but that's certainly what we want for our posts.

Eugene Volokh | 12.13.2017
Venezuelan Bitcoin Miners Must Register With the Government

Will a new regulatory framework help stop extortion and police abuse, or will it set the stage for a brutal crackdown?

Jim Epstein | 12.13.2017
Government Is the Cause of—Not the Solution to—Online Censorship

As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.

Scott Shackford | 12.14.2017
Air Travel Cronyism Falls Short in Senate

New taxes on foreign airlines is stripped from the Senate's tax reform package.

Veronique de Rugy | 12.14.2017
Doug Jones, Roy Moore, and the Politics of the Lesser Evil

No one earns a mandate by merely being less awful than the other guy.

Eric Boehm | 12.13.2017
Stossel: The Fight Against Food Trucks

Protectionism at play? Politicians say food trucks are "unfair competition" for restaurants.

John Stossel & Naomi Brockwell | 12.12.2017
Tis The Season for Christmas Lawsuits

Whether you've been naughty or nice.

Ed Krayewski | 12.13.2017
Doug Jones’ Election Probably Won’t Kill the GOP Tax Bill

Senate Republicans will probably vote before the new Democratic senator is sworn in.

Peter Suderman | 12.13.2017
Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Seat; Roy Moore Does Not Concede

Final tally: 49.9 to 48.4 percent.

Scott Shackford | 12.12.2017
There's No Such Thing as a Free Ride

Dynamic tolling is no more "price gouging" than any time prices go up because of a scarcity of supply.

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.13.2017
Prostitution Ad Ban Creeps Forward, Threatening Social Media and Sex Workers

The bill would gut Section 230 and make sex advertising a federal crime.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.12.2017
13 Non-Pedophile Reasons Why You Can Hate Roy Moore

Just when you thought you couldn't like Moore any less.

Andrew Heaton & Sarah Rose Siskind | 12.08.2017
Occupational Licensing Locks Workers in Place. Here's One Idea for Fixing That.

Workers in professions requiring state-issued licenses are 36 percent less likely to move across state lines than workers in other jobs.

Eric Boehm | 12.12.2017

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