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Rise of the Samurai Lawyers
Reason magazine

Rise of the Samurai Lawyers

HOW A STABLE AND RELATIVELY JUST LEGAL ORDER EMERGED IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN

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April 2025
How Sanctions Backfire
Reason magazine

How Sanctions Backfire

IF THERE’S ONE part of foreign policy where President Donald Trump has been consistent, it’s economic sanctions on Iran.

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April 2025
How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor
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How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor

TOO OFTEN, POLITICAL ADVOCACY TRUMPS RESEARCH IN SCIENCE.

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April 2025
TRUMP'S DRAMATIC CROSSROADS
Reason magazine

TRUMP'S DRAMATIC CROSSROADS

WILL PROTECTIONISM OR DYNAMISM SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?

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April 2025
AI Isn't Destabilizing Elections
Reason magazine

AI Isn't Destabilizing Elections

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PESSIMISTS, take note: New research suggests that fears about AI tools destabilizing elections through political misinformation may be overblown.

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April 2025
Trump Tests the Limits of Executive Orders
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Trump Tests the Limits of Executive Orders

WELL BEFORE PRESIDENT Donald Trump returned to office, his supporters boasted that he would start the second term with a flurry of executive actions.

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April 2025
The American Right Is Abandoning Mises
Reason magazine

The American Right Is Abandoning Mises

THE AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST’S PRINCIPLED THOUGHT ONCE SERVED AS A CHECK ON THE INTELLECTUAL RIGHT.

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April 2025
Trump's War on the Press
Reason magazine

Trump's War on the Press

A MONTH BEFORE last November’s presidential election, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris that was edited to make her response to a question about Israel “more succinct,” as the show’s producers put it.

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April 2025
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUTS WOLVES IN YOUR BACKYARD
Reason magazine

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUTS WOLVES IN YOUR BACKYARD

ENDANGERED RED WOLVES BECAME A SYMBOL OF FEDERAL OVERREACH-AND A TARGET FOR LOCAL IRE-IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

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April 2025
Biden Rushed Billions Out Before Trump Took Office
Reason magazine

Biden Rushed Billions Out Before Trump Took Office

ON PRESIDENT JOE Biden’s way out the door, officials in his administration were busy—not just packing up their offices, but shoveling as much money as possible before incoming President Donald Trump could get his hands on it.

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April 2025
Their Kids Said They Were Trans.Then CPS Came Knocking.
Reason magazine

Their Kids Said They Were Trans.Then CPS Came Knocking.

ACROSS THE COUNTRY, PARENTS OF GENDER-DYSPHORIC KIDS ARE CONFRONTING STATE INTRUSION.

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April 2025
Centuries of Trade Reflected in Ceramic Tiles
Reason magazine

Centuries of Trade Reflected in Ceramic Tiles

WANDER THROUGH THE streets of Seville or Porto, and you’ll find yourself immersed in a world of color and intricate patterns. Elaborately painted tiles, called azulejos, adorn churches, palaces, train stations, and sidewalks.

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April 2025
Malaria Vaccine Delivered Via Mosquito Bite
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Malaria Vaccine Delivered Via Mosquito Bite

“THE MOSQUITO IS one of the deadliest animals on the planet,” declared two South African researchers in a recent Nature article.

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April 2025
Google Is Big. Is That Bad?
Reason magazine

Google Is Big. Is That Bad?

NO ONE HAS A MONOPOLY ON THE DEFINITION OF A MONOPOLY.

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March 2025
CAN ULTIMATE FRISBEE HEAL THE MIDDLE EAST?
Reason magazine

CAN ULTIMATE FRISBEE HEAL THE MIDDLE EAST?

FOR TEENAGERS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN AND ELSEWHERE, IT'S MORE THAN JUST A GAME.

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March 2025
Florida Drug Deaths Surged on Pam Bondi's Watch
Reason magazine

Florida Drug Deaths Surged on Pam Bondi's Watch

WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD Trump announced his nomination of Pam Bondi as attorney general, he extolled her \"incredible job\" in \"work[ing] to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs and reduc[ing] the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths.\"

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March 2025
The Strange Case of The Immortality Key
Reason magazine

The Strange Case of The Immortality Key

THOUGH THE SCIENCE journalist Michael Pollan called the book \"groundbreaking,\" Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key is largely a rehash of others' work shaped into a Da Vinci Codestyle thriller.

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March 2025
LOVE, MONEY, AND SURROGACY
Reason magazine

LOVE, MONEY, AND SURROGACY

EVELYN AND WILL Clark met after college through mutual friends.

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March 2025
Trump vs. California: Round 2
Reason magazine

Trump vs. California: Round 2

CALIFORNIA WAS ONE of President Donald Trump's largest foes during his first term; the state sued his administration over 120 times.

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March 2025
The Future of AI in the Trump Administration
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The Future of AI in the Trump Administration

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S deregulatory impulses could be a boon to the AI industry, but his hostility to free trade threatens to undermine its progress. Policies from the first Trump administration and caustic campaign rhetoric caution against unqualified optimism.

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March 2025
Will We Get to the Bottom of COVID-19's Origin?
Reason magazine

Will We Get to the Bottom of COVID-19's Origin?

WILL THE INCOMING Trump administration and Republican Congress get to the bottom of how the COVID-19 pandemic began? There's every indication that they'll at least try.

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March 2025
you can't Evict Polly
Reason magazine

you can't Evict Polly

HOW THE FAIR HOUSING ACT ENABLED THE RISE OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PARROTS, FROGS, AND EMUS

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March 2025
Gay Penguins Face the Ban Hammer
Reason magazine

Gay Penguins Face the Ban Hammer

ONE FLORIDA SCHOOL district is facing a legal battle over its decision to ban a book about gay penguins.

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March 2025
THE END OF RENT CONTROL IN ARGENTINA
Reason magazine

THE END OF RENT CONTROL IN ARGENTINA

HOW JAVIER MILEI UNLEASHED THE MARKET AND BROUGHT BUENOS AIRES BACK TO LIFE

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March 2025
The Most Controversial Paper in the History of Psychedelic Research May Never See the wa Light of Day
Reason magazine

The Most Controversial Paper in the History of Psychedelic Research May Never See the wa Light of Day

WAS THE PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE LED BY SCIENCE OR FAITH?

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March 2025
THE REAL THREAT IS AN ISOLATED CHINA
Reason magazine

THE REAL THREAT IS AN ISOLATED CHINA

DECOUPLING FROM TRADE WILL MAKE THE U.S. POORER AND CHINA MORE TOTALITARIAN.

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February 2025
Against Our Own Best Souls'
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Against Our Own Best Souls'

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN ON HERLIFE ASA WITNESS ON DEATH ROW

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February 2025
'THE POLITICS HAVE COME TO US'
Reason magazine

'THE POLITICS HAVE COME TO US'

HOW A CHRISTIAN CHARITY IN EL PASO ENDED UP AT WAR WITH THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT FOR HELPING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS

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February 2025
MATERIEL LOSS
Reason magazine

MATERIEL LOSS

HOW THE U.S. MILITARY BUSTS ITS BUDGET ON WASTEFUL, CARELESS, AND UNNECESSARY 'SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONES'

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February 2025
'NOT A SUICIDE PACT'
Reason magazine

'NOT A SUICIDE PACT'

HOW A 1949 SUPREME COURT DISSENT GAVE BIRTH TO A MEME THAT SUBVERTS FREE SPEECH AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

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February 2025

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