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‘The Only Crime of Most of Us Was That We Were Uyghur Muslims'
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‘The Only Crime of Most of Us Was That We Were Uyghur Muslims'

Concentration camp survivor Tursunay Ziyawudun on her imprisonment and torture in China

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February 2022
LIFE GETS BETTER FOR SPORTS BETTORS
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LIFE GETS BETTER FOR SPORTS BETTORS

BUT PLACING A WAGER ON YOUR FAVORITE TEAM IS STILL TOO COMPLICATED IN MANY STATES.

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March 2022
How To Talk About Racism
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How To Talk About Racism

Linguist John McWhorter on the ways social justice activists have betrayed black Americans

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March 2022
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Closing Schools to Protect Kids Made Them Sick

NOT LONG AGO, parents spent time and energy worrying about contagious diseases other than COVID-19: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); hand, foot, and mouth disease; strep throat; and even the boring old flu. But the default standards for “safety” haphazardly narrowed and heightened as COVID-19 burst onto the scene. Lockdowns, school closures, and other restrictions substantially limited people’s access to each other.

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February 2022
Andrew Yang Is Still Trying To Move Forward
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Andrew Yang Is Still Trying To Move Forward

For a politician who’s never won anything, Andrew Yang is pretty famous. Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign failed to earn any delegates to the Democratic National Convention after getting about 5 percent in the Iowa caucuses and 3 percent in the New Hampshire primary. He came in fourth in New York City’s 2021 ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor. Despite his political struggles, Yang is now launching a new political party, the Forward Party.

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February 2022
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Against Champagne Socialists

Why Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Elizabeth Warren should open their wallets before they open their mouths.

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February 2022
THE LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN
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THE LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN

ALARMED BY UNILATERAL COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, STATES ARE IMPOSING NEW LIMITS ON EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. ERIC BOEHM

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February 2022
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WE KEEP GOING BACK TO THE MATRIX

HOW A GENERATION WAS REDPILLED BY A NERD POWER FANTASY ABOUT DEFINING YOURSELF IN THE DIGITAL AGE

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February 2022
Everything is Infrastructure Now
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Everything is Infrastructure Now

How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning

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October 2021
DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'
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DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'

DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.

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October 2021
History – Walking the Delicate Line Between Reporter and Activist
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History – Walking the Delicate Line Between Reporter and Activist

I spent the second half of the 1990s hanging out with people who operate unlicensed radio stations. That was partly because I was covering them as a reporter, and it was partly because I was active in a movement to legalize their illicit transmissions.

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October 2021
Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?
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Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?

A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.

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October 2021
Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate
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Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate

The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.

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October 2021
Cashed Out
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Cashed Out

What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?

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October 2021
Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.
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Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.

After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.

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October 2021
Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt
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Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt

The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.

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August - September 2021
How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?
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How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?

President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.

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August - September 2021
Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster
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Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster

Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything

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August - September 2021
Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword
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Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword

Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.

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October 2021
LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY
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LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY

FUTURE

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October 2021
LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
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LEAVING AFGHANISTAN

WORLD

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October 2021
SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP
Reason magazine

SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP

A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE

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October 2021
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
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How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism

Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.

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August - September 2021
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
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America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics

A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.

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August - September 2021
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
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Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.

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August - September 2021
Post Apocalypse
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Post Apocalypse

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.

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August - September 2021
Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?
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Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?

“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”

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August - September 2021
Autonomous Mexico
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Autonomous Mexico

What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state

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August - September 2021
The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech
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The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech

Is Facebook a monopoly? Should Amazon be forced to do business with the new social media platform Parler? Is Apple harming its customers—and maybe democracy—by installing the Safari web browser on iPhones? Did Google bully people into using its search engine?

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July 2021
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
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The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary

Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.

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July 2021