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White Progressives in Pursuit of Racial Virtue
What two new books reveal about the moral limits of anti-racist self-help
The 9/11 Century
Twenty years on, how should we think about the worst terrorist attack in American history?
‘Going Against Trump Is the Death Knell'
Six months after the Capitol riot, the 10 GOP representatives who voted to Impeach Donald Trump are fighting for their political lives
Everyone In San Francisco Has Something To Say About Chesa
Chesa Boudin, the son of Weathermen radicals, is the nation’s most progressive prosecutor in one of the country’s most liberal cities. And now, 18 months into his term, many residents are trying to throw him out.
86 minutes with … Kathryn Garcia
The bureaucrat enters a new phase of life: political celebrity.
Daniel Everette Hale – Call Me a Traitor
Daniel Hale was an Air Force intelligence analyst who hated American empire, found Edward Snowden too compromising, and taught us almost everything we know about the drone war. The documents he leaked were published in 2015. Then he waited. Nothing changed.
Before, During, After, January 6
The Historical Perspective at Six Months
How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?
President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.
Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt
The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
Autonomous Mexico
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.
Are We Headed For A Cyber Pearl Harbor?
Digital attacks could push the U.S. and Russia into a Real War.
Still Fronting
How the George Floyd uprising was framed
Kyrsten Sinema – Shape Shifter
From Green Party rabble-rouser to Senate power broker, Kyrsten Sinema’s rise is a political fairy tale—and nightmare.
Geared Up Los Deliveristas
After work conditions deteriorated, New York’s immigrant bicycle couriers united to bring a revolution to the gig economy.
The Four Americas
Competing visions of the country’s purpose and meaning are tearing it apart. Is reconciliation possible?
Boris Johnson – Inside The Controlled Chaos Of Downing Street
Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing
71 minutes with … Andrew Giuliani
A failson sets his sights on Albany.
A Climate To Fear
Central America’s subsistence farmers are fleeing increasingly severe droughts and storms
A Superhero's New Mission
Chris Evans hung up his Captain America shield. Now he and his partners want to help Generation Z reshape the U.S. political landscape
2021 New York City mayoral election – Rank Me
Fifteen candidates for mayor, each selling a different vision of the city. Choose your top five.
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits
The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.
Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.
Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech
IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”
The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away
While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.
How To End Extreme Child Poverty
Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.
Purgatory At Sea
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the mediterranean.