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Errol Morris Is Fascinated by and Terrified of Steve Bannon
Reason magazine

Errol Morris Is Fascinated by and Terrified of Steve Bannon

The decorated filmmaker didn’t expect the dramatic reaction to his “toxic” documentary about Trump’s former aide-de-camp.

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March 2020
How The War On Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women
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How The War On Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women

That prohibitionist laws are always, always, enforced more heavily upon the poor, the disadvantaged, and minorities is not, I think, controversial.

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March 2020
The Tear of Allah
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The Tear of Allah

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CONFISCATED A SACRED METEORITE FROM MUSLIM HERDERS. THEY’RE SUING TO GET IT BACK.

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March 2020
MASSAGE PARLOR-PANIC
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MASSAGE PARLOR-PANIC

A POTENT COMBINATION OF PURITANISM, RACISM, AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IS PUTTING ASIAN MASSEUSES AND THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THEM IN NEEDLESS DANGER.

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March 2020
The FBI Rebrands Its Sex Worker Harassment Campaign
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The FBI Rebrands Its Sex Worker Harassment Campaign

The FBI is once again aiding vice squad stings across the country and calling it an effort to stop child sex trafficking.

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November 2019
Privacy Is Over. We Must Fight Harder Than Ever To Protect Our Civil Liberties.
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Privacy Is Over. We Must Fight Harder Than Ever To Protect Our Civil Liberties.

Once upon a time, privacy was everyone’s default setting.

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November 2019
Kagan And Gorsuch Clash Over Judicial Deference To The Administrative State
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Kagan And Gorsuch Clash Over Judicial Deference To The Administrative State

A major conflict is now underway on the U.S. Supreme Court between Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch over the issue of judicial deference to the administrative state.

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November 2019
Cheap Meds From Canada, Eh?
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Cheap Meds From Canada, Eh?

“For the first time in HHS history, we are open to importation,” Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar told reporters in July.

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November 2019
How Two Seasteaders Wound Up Marked For Death
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How Two Seasteaders Wound Up Marked For Death

If a tiny floating cottage brought down the wrath of the thai navy, is there any hope for stateless life at sea?

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November 2019
A Florida Retiree's Uncut Lawn May Cost Him His House
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A Florida Retiree's Uncut Lawn May Cost Him His House

The city of Dunedin, Florida, really wants Jim Ficken’s house.

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November 2019
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5G Is The Future

If local nimbys and federal bureaucrats don’t mess it up

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November 2019
Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change?
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Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change?

Eating meat is bad for the climate—or at least that was one of the main conclusions highlighted in a flood of news reports based on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s August report, Climate Change and Land.

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November 2019
States Are Depriving Innocent People Of Their Second Amendment Rights
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States Are Depriving Innocent People Of Their Second Amendment Rights

“Red Flag” laws leave gun owners defenseless.

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November 2019
Will Justin Amash Run for President as a Libertarian in 2020?
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Will Justin Amash Run for President as a Libertarian in 2020?

Freedomfest, a largely libertarian gath­ ering in Las Vegas with a significant con­ servative presence, has been tacking in a noticeably Trumpian direction since the future president spoke there in 2015.

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October 2019
Hells Angels Meet Housewives on Harleys
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Hells Angels Meet Housewives on Harleys

How bikers turned into their parents and turned off their kids

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October 2019
Bernie Sanders Leads the Anti–charter School Charge
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Bernie Sanders Leads the Anti–charter School Charge

“I believe in public education, and I believe in public charter schools,” explained Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) at a CNN town hall in March. What the can­ didate for the Democratic presidential nomination doesn’t believe in, he said, are “privately controlled charter schools.”

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October 2019
Neal Stephens Wants to Tell Big Stories
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Neal Stephens Wants to Tell Big Stories

An Economist and a Science Fiction Author Discuss Cryogenics, Mythology, Philanthropy, Fragmentation, and Simulation.

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October 2019
Hard Lessons From the Russian Civil War
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Hard Lessons From the Russian Civil War

The official 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which birthed the world’s first Communist state, came and went two years ago.

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October 2019
Don't Just Do Something
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Don't Just Do Something

“I don't know what the answer is,” Kacey Musgraves shouted during her set at Lol­ lapalooza on August 7, “but obviously something has to be fucking done.”

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October 2019
The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech
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The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech

The companies that make your life better are under attack from left and right.

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October 2019
Jonathan Kaiman: ‘I'M Radioactive'
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Jonathan Kaiman: ‘I'M Radioactive'

Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #metoo movement. A year later, the fallout continues.

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October 2019
The Joyful Contrarianism of Gordon Tullock
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The Joyful Contrarianism of Gordon Tullock

Meet the Economist who understood Nascar Crashes, the Sale of Indulgences, and the Feeding Habits of Coal Tits.

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October 2019
Elizabeth Warren's Plans Don't Add Up
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Elizabeth Warren's Plans Don't Add Up

The Warren Worldview of Ill-founded Economic Pessimism is Both Bloodless and Moralizing.

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October 2019
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Booze, Profit & Prayer

When Europe’s beer-brewing, liquor-distilling monks combine catholicism and capitalism, the results are delicious.

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January 2019
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Can Algorithms Run Things Better Than Humans?

Welcome to the rise of the algocracy.

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January 2019
America Needs More Dentists
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America Needs More Dentists

Too bad we won’t let them come here from overseas.

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January 2019
Gorsuch Challenges Blank Check For The U.S. Attorney General
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Gorsuch Challenges Blank Check For The U.S. Attorney General

In October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an important case that asks whether Congress violated Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution by delegating its lawmaking authority to the executive branch.

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January 2019
Can't Afford A Vacation? Blame The State!
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Can't Afford A Vacation? Blame The State!

With temperatures rising, your sweet summer getaway is just around the corner—if you can afford one.

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August/September 2017
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Why Are Cops Putting Kids In Cuffs?

Federal funding, zero tolerance, and lack of choice encourage the creeping criminalization of student misbehavior.

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March 2017
Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville's Little Kurdistan
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Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville's Little Kurdistan

Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville’s Little Kurdistan

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October 2017