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American Elections Are a Mess, and They Always Have Been

The long, weird history of partisan electoral shenanigans

Qatar's World Cup Cruelty

Qatar’s bid to boost its global standing by hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup is hardly unprecedented.

Finance for Teens

Our homeschooling family didn’t sign up for this class, but there’s lots to learn from economic turmoil.

'This is Bigger Than Basketball'

Enes Kanter Freedom on China, the NBA, and free speech

It's Been 50 Years Since Humans Walked on the Moon

We were supposed to go back to the moon last week. We were also supposed to go back five weeks before that in mid-September, and six months before that.

TERRAFORM THE GALAXY

SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHERS and environmentalist thinkers argue that terraforming Mars and other planets, making them suitable for humans and other Earth life, would be immoral. As we near a day when terraforming is actually possible, the arguments against it are worth reviewing and rebutting.

ARE WE STILL AWED BY THE HEAVENS?

IS SPACE MORE awesome than ever, now that we've walked on the moon and beheld the stunning photos transmitted by the James Webb telescope? Or is the night sky, thanks to modernity, more meh? In particular, do kids find the universe more meh than the metaverse?

THE FRACTAL, FRACTIOUS POLITICS OF THE EXPANSE

TAKING HUMANITY FROM EARTH TO THE STARS ISN'T EASY.

FROM SPACE REGULATOR TO ASTRONAUT

George Nield spent his government career thinking about space. Then he got to fly.

SPACE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETHINK PROPERTY RIGHTS

HERE'S WHAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN JOHN LOCKE AND HENRY GEORGE GO TO THE MOON.

THE MILITARY-UFO COMPLEX

HOW A MOTLEY CREW OF SAUCER HUNTERS GOT A PLACE AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH

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.

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.

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.

The Dangerous Lesson of Book Bans in Public School Libraries

An obscure Supreme Court case provides a roadmap through the curricular culture war.

We Have a Printing Paper Problem

A new supply chain parable for our times

Grow Your Own

Always a good hobby, gardening is also a hedge against supply disruptions.

Digital Immortality or Deathbot?

Would you want your persona to live forever in the metaverse after your physical body shuffles off this mortal coil? That is what the metaverse platform Somnium Space plans to offer its users, starting in the next year or so, with its Live Forever service.

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.

INFLATION WON’T WHIP ITSELF

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

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.

GOODBYE, GLOBALIZATION?

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

THE UNSCIENTIFIC PANIC OVER SOLAR GEOENGINEERING

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

IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS THE FEDS

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

THE AUTHORITARIAN CONVERGENCE

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

Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan

As Pop Culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.

Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue

You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries

Where there's demand for books, the Internet will supply them.

Biden Comforts the Comfortable

DURING HIS CAMPAIGN for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted that his primary goal as president would be to help the struggling American middle class.

Rise of the Sensitivity Reader

Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published or even written.