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GOODBYE, GLOBALIZATION?

AS AMERICAN POLITICIANS TURN AGAINST ECONOMIC OPENNESS, HISTORY SUGGESTS THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DIRE.

THE UNSCIENTIFIC PANIC OVER SOLAR GEOENGINEERING

WHY ARE ACTIVISTS TRYING TO STOP RESEARCH INTO A PROMISING BACKUP PLAN TO HANDLE CLIMATE CHANGE?

IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS THE FEDS

THE FBI’S LONG HISTORY OF USING INFORMANTS AND MANUFACTURED PLOTS TO PROSECUTE EXTREMISTS

THE AUTHORITARIAN CONVERGENCE

THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN POLITICS ISN'T POLARIZATIONIT'S RISING ILLIBERALISM.

Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan

As Pop Culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.

Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue

You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries

Where there's demand for books, the Internet will supply them.

Biden Comforts the Comfortable

DURING HIS CAMPAIGN for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted that his primary goal as president would be to help the struggling American middle class.

Rise of the Sensitivity Reader

Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published or even written.

Desantis Vs. Disney

Ron Desantis, Florida's Republican governor, has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.

After Uvalde, Irrelevant Gun Control Proposals

The horrifying May 24 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults, happened just 10 days after a gunman murdered 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

The Weird World of Watergate

Fifty years later, the motive behind the mother of all modern political scandals remains clouded.

Medieval Geopolitics Help Explain Modern Russia and Ukraine

Explanations for Russia's 2022 war in Ukraine often go back to 2014, when the Revolution of Dignity replaced Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western government and Vladimir Putin responded by annexing Crimea and sponsoring separatist enclaves in Eastern Ukraine.

CIVIL LIBERTIES: A JUDGE SAYS SHAKEN-BABY CASES RELY ON 'JUNK SCIENCE'

AFTER HIS 11-MONTH-OLD son showed signs of neurological damage in 2017, Darryl Nieves was charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

IMMIGRATION: THE BORDER LEGACY OF TITLE 42 EXPULSIONS

WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden announced in April that he would not extend a controversial public health order that allowed U.S. immigration officials to expel migrants, many on the right criticized the move as premature or misguided. But the order has actually made the border less secure.

London Libel Lawsuits Punish Truth Tellers

THE U.S. SHOULDN'T IMPORT BRITISH DEFAMATION LAW, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DONALD TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO.

Little Libraries, Free at Last?

GOOD NEWS FOR FANS OF LITERACY AND OPPONENTS OF RESTRICTIVE ZONING CODES

Christopher Alexander's Utopian Blueprint

Imagine a Federation of independent regions. Each of its cities is a mosaic of distinctive, self-governing neighborhoods, where "people can choose the kind of subculture they wish to live in, and can still experience many ways of life different from their own."

Zoning vs. the Good Samaritan

How labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic

Biden Can't Pin Inflation on Putin

If Biden is looking to spread the blame for inflation evenly, he should look in the mirror.

Zap Comix Were Never for Kids!

Disreputable and censored COMIX improbably brought the art form from the gutter to the museums.

Kids Can Learn Without Instruction

Don’t show this to your kids, because they might cry. But guess how much time children in “traditional societies”— indigenous groups pretty much off the grid—spend in direct instruction, the way American kids do in school?

Why a Wealth Tax Is a Bad Idea

Billionaires are better at figuring out what to do with their money than the government will ever be.

Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?

WE’RE NOT JUST fighting an epidemic,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, declared at the Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2020. “We’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus and is just as dangerous.”

Ukrainians Find Refuge in Previously Unwelcoming Places

Immigration

America's Nuclear Reluctance

ON FEBRUARY 14, 2022, Oregon’s NuScale Power signed an agreement with the Polish mining and processing firm KGHM to deploy NuScale’s innovative small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in Poland by 2029.

William Ruger on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

William Ruger, who holds a Ph.D. in politics specializing in foreign policy, is the newly appointed president of the American Institute for Economic Research. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he was a prominent voice in calling for U.S. withdrawal from that country. He was picked by former President Donald Trump to be ambassador to Afghanistan, but his nomination was never voted on.

After the War

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

Jared Polis Wants To Leave You Alone

The Democratic Colorado governor on pandemics, parenting, and partisanship

Surveillance Through the Centuries

A MERICA'S FIRST WIRETAPPING conviction happened in 1864.