Reason magazine - October 2022

In this issue

THE AUTHORITARIAN CONVERGENCE - The problem with American politics
isn’t polarization—it’s rising illiberalism. STEPHANIE SLADE

IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS THE FEDS - The FBI’s long history of using informants and manufactured plots to prosecute extremists. C.J. CIARAMELLA

THE UNSCIENTIFIC PANIC OVER SOLAR GEOENGINEERING - Why are activists trying to stop research into a promising backup plan to handle climate change? RONALD BAILEY

The New Abortion Prohibition Era

Americans disagree about abortion. This is the understatement of 2022, yet it bears repeating in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the June Supreme Court decision that returned abortion policy to state and federal legislatures. Ten states have already banned abortion and another four have prohibited abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which amounts to nearly the same thing.

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INTERNET SEARCH IS BETTER THAN EVER IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT

IN FEBRUARY, THE software engineer and blogger Dmitri Brereton wrote an essay titled “Google Search Is Dying” for his personal website.

3 mins

INFLATION WON’T WHIP ITSELF

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT GERALD Ford was simultaneously one of the luckiest and unluckiest presidents when he took office in 1974.

3 mins

Workers Are Consumers Too

Since Taking Office, President Joe Biden has sought to position himself as an ally of working Americans. His administration is enacting what it calls a “worker-centric” trade policy, and the president scarcely seems to give a public address without mentioning the importance of union jobs.

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THE AUTHORITARIAN CONVERGENCE

THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN POLITICS ISN'T POLARIZATIONIT'S RISING ILLIBERALISM.

10+ mins

IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS THE FEDS

THE FBI’S LONG HISTORY OF USING INFORMANTS AND MANUFACTURED PLOTS TO PROSECUTE EXTREMISTS

10+ mins

THE UNSCIENTIFIC PANIC OVER SOLAR GEOENGINEERING

WHY ARE ACTIVISTS TRYING TO STOP RESEARCH INTO A PROMISING BACKUP PLAN TO HANDLE CLIMATE CHANGE?

10+ mins

GOODBYE, GLOBALIZATION?

AS AMERICAN POLITICIANS TURN AGAINST ECONOMIC OPENNESS, HISTORY SUGGESTS THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DIRE.

10+ mins

What Wikipedia Can Teach the Rest of the Internet

Jimmy Wales talks about why his online encyclopedia works, how to improve social media, and why Section 230 isn’t the real problem with the internet.

10+ mins

Glenn Greenwald on Corporate Media and Identity Politics

LAWYER-TURNED-JOURNALIST Glenn Greenwald’s work with whistleblower Edward Snowden to reveal illegal government surveillance won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. That same year he helped launch The Intercept, but he abruptly resigned six years later after a disagreement over editorial policy. In July, Reason’s Nick Gillespie spoke with Greenwald at FreedomFest 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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