Reason magazine - May 2022

In this issue

TECHNOLOGY - Running Bitcoin Miners Out of Town - CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI

LIFESTYLE - Driving Means Freedom Rising expenses and regulatory hurdles limit Americans’ mobility. - J.D. TUCCILLE

DRUGS - Why Do Legalizers Keep Blocking Pot Banking? - JACOB SULLUM

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.

6 mins

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.

5 mins

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.

2 mins

The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet

Sex, money, and the future of online free speech

10+ mins

Welcome to the Nicotine Prohibition Era

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

10+ mins

'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.

10+ mins

Bars Are Full of Good Ideas

Shutting them down—for prohibition or Covid—does more harm than you think.

10+ mins

Are News-letters the Future of Free Speech?

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

10+ mins

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