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This Is the School Choice Moment. Will the GOP Screw It Up?

REPUBLICANS ARE IN DANGER OF SQUANDERING A PROMISING OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION REFORM ON CULTURE WAR SQUABBLES.

THE PANDEMIC KILLED DISSENT IN HONG KONG

WHEN GREAT BRITAIN returned control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, a condition of the transfer was that Beijing would allow the territory to maintain its own government until 2047. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never liked this agreement, and the COVID-19 pandemic provided the excuse to all but erase the “one country, two systems” distinction.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OATH KEEPERS

How Stewart Rhodes went from denouncing authoritarianism to urging an authoritarian crackdown

MIKE SOLANA WANTS YOU TO COMMIT THOUGHT-CRIMES

The Hereticon organizer on deplatforming, tribalism, and why tech dudes and journalists are natural enemies

SAVING THE RAINFOREST, ONE PET FISH AT A TIME

DESPITE THE OBJECTIONS OF ANIMAL PROTECTION ORGANIZATIONS, CAREFUL COMMERCIAL FISHING MAY BE THE BEST BET FOR THE AMAZON AND THE WORLD’S AQUARIUMS.

Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism

The author of their eyes were watching god defies easy political categorization.

Privacy Isn't Dead

But who gets to keep a secret in hyperconnected world!

Sex for Art's Sake

Elif Batuman's curious experiment in fiction

The Abortion Underground

Inside the covert network of activists preparing for a post-Roe future

Change the Map, Change the Moral

A global view of World War II turns a battle for freedom into a battle for empire.

Better Call Saul Dared to Bore Us

Do we still have time for slow TV?

There Is No Liberal World Order

Unless democracies defend themselves the forces of autocracy will destroy them.

Tour Guides to a Tragedy

The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask.

Will China Attack Taiwan?

As a Chinese takeover of Taiwan looms, the United States is facing its greatest challenge in the Pacific since World War II.

5 Naturals Remedies for Seasonal Allergies

Breathe a little easier this spring - without taking medication

THE BIG LABOR PRESIDENT

SCORES OF MILLIONS of Americans have zero memory of living under a White House of, by, and for Big Labor. So we are going to have to make new memories to accurately assess President Joe Biden.

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES’ NEW BOOK SIDESTEPS SCHOLARLY CRITICS WHILE QUIETLY DELETING PREVIOUS FACTUAL ERRORS.

Why Do Legalizers Keep Blocking Pot Banking?

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer claims to favor repealing the federal ban on marijuana. The New York Democrat nevertheless helped sink legislation that would have removed federal obstacles to banking services for state-licensed marijuana businesses.

Canceling Putin, Canceling Russians

Reason works with a contractor who lives in small-town Siberia. As Vladimir Putin’s tank convoy rolled toward Kyiv in early March and a flurry of economic sanctions were imposed on Russia by public and private actors, I found myself asking if we could still pay our guy, whether we should do so in bitcoin, and what the consequences might be if we did.

Are News-letters the Future of Free Speech?

Substack’s Hamish McKenzie on censorship, discourse, and Joe Rogan

'They Just Took Me Away'

Adults declared “incapacitated” by the courts can lose everything— their homes, their savings, their freedom—to Florida’s sprawling guardianship system.

Welcome to the Nicotine Prohibition Era

Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there’s new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.

The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet

Sex, money, and the future of online free speech

The Money Game: Jen Wieczner

Crypto’s Moral Ledger For the big trading platforms, the war in Ukraine has turned borderlessness into a liability.

Cromer

In New Malden, they owned a corner shop together. It was the place where you could get the gossip magazines and newspapers from Seoul.

SCHOOL SHOULDN'T BE A BATTLEFIELD

There's a better way to educate our kids.

How Ireland Blundered Into the Modern World

The same forces that stalled a national transformation ended up fueling it.

The Man Who Told All

How the naked grief of John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud inaugurated an American genre

The Goon Squad Gets Old

Do Jennifer Egan's tricks still work?

A Good Man, at One Time

How a Mississippi inmate became an advocate for his own execution