The Trump Administration Paid Federal Workers $9.5 Billion To Skip Work How's that for efficiency? Reason · Sep 18
Resident Evil Is a Deeply Unhinged Send-Up of Video Games Zach Cregger's horror–video game adaptation is a pulpy comic delight. Reason · Sep 18
"AI Slop" Decried by Florida Appellate Court: "Counsel's Lengthy and Unfocused Filings Contain Gibberish" From Wednesday's decision by Florida Court of Appeal Justice Gross in Lisandrillo v. Palozzi, joined by Justice Robert Gross, joined… The post "AI Slop" Decried by Florida Appellate Court: "Counsel's Lengthy and Unfocused Filings Contain Gibberish" appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 18
Montana Is Trying To Break the FDA's Monopoly on Experimental Treatments Montana’s expanded right-to-try program has cleared its first therapy: a sound-and-antihistamine regimen to reverse hearing loss. Reason · Sep 18
New Article: Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections: Bringing Clarity To The Necessary and Proper Clause "This decision, which may be the “sleeper” case of the term, should come to be viewed as a landmark separation of powers decision on par with Lopez, Morrison, Printz, and NFIB." Reason · Sep 18
UC Ban on "Intentional or Repeated Use of a Name or Pronoun Inconsistent with the Individual's Gender Identity" … likely violates First Amendment, federal judge holds (and issues a preliminary injunction). Reason · Sep 18
Hate Speech and the Marketplace of Ideas in Postwar America After the Second World War, the nation grappled with tensions between protecting free speech and eliminating hate speech. Reason · Sep 18
Despite Nativist Outcry, Texas Shows the Melting Pot Works Incredibly Well The Lone Star State is a success because all sorts of people are moving there for a shot at the American dream. Reason · Sep 18
MAGA Loyalty in Iowa Plus: Warsh's relationship with Trump; Democrats' midterm prospects; pregnancy is apparently a spectrum; and more... Reason · Sep 18
SCOTUS May Soon Determine If California Can Force Doctors To Learn About 'Implicit Bias' A Supreme Court petition challenges California’s attempt to force private medical instructors to teach “implicit bias.” Reason · Sep 18
Selling Alcohol Isn't a Political Function From Okla. A.G. Opinion 2026-13, released Sept. 8: This office has received your request for an Attorney General Opinion in… The post Selling Alcohol Isn't a Political Function appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 18
No, Cutting Off Trade With Europe Would Not Make America Wealthier Trump's zero-sum trade talk is wrongheaded and authoritarian. Reason · Sep 18
Report: California's Proposed 'Billionaire Tax' Is Based on Bad Research The planned wealth tax leads slightly in the polls and is already driving capital flight. Reason · Sep 18
Review: Ben Franklin, Frankenstein, and the Wonders of Electricity Minnesota's Bakken Museum celebrates the spark of imagination that brings new ideas to life. Reason · Sep 18
Reason · Sep 18 Review: An Idealistic Young Attorney in Stalin's Soviet Union In Sergei Loznitsa's film Two Prosecutors, even a Bolshevik can believe a version of "Good czar, bad boyars."
Reason · Sep 18 Second Circuit Rejects Limits on Border Searches of Cell Phones And why I think they are wrong, and the Supreme Court should step in.
Reason · Sep 18 Brickbat: Testing Our Patience A lawsuit by Success Academy, New York City's largest charter-school network, alleges that the state Education Department improperly withheld advanced… The post Brickbat: Testing Our Patience appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Sep 18 Second Amendment Roundup: 5th Circuit En Banc to Rehear Felon Gun Ban Cases Two cases raise Commerce Clause and Second Amendment issues.
Reason · Sep 17 'They Kept Us Like Animals': Afghan Woman Deported to Africa By Trump Speaks Out Farzana’s fiancé was a U.S. partner in Afghanistan. She was loaded on a plane full of men and sent to another country with no papers or job prospects.
Reason · Sep 17 The 1940s: "A Systematic Avalanche of Falsehoods" During World War II, hate speech laws were proposed and passed across the country.
Reason · Sep 17 Influencer Haley Kalil's Remarks About Ex-Husband Matt Kalil's Penis Size Were "Newsworthy," and Thus Not Tortious Because her comments came in describing her marriage and her divorce, she "was discussing her life, not Matt's, and the law generally protects a person's speech about herself, even though such speech inevitably reveals details about others."
Reason · Sep 17 Trump's $1.4 Billion Crypto Haul Sinks the Senate's Crypto Bill The Clarity Act's ethics provisions leave plenty of room for the president to keep profiting, and its regulatory framework hands bureaucrats too much discretion.
Reason · Sep 17 Canada Is Moving Closer to Europe. Trump's Tariffs Help Explain Why. As Ottawa’s trade war with the U.S. worsens, Brussels proposes closer trade, security, and technology ties, including an unprecedented "associate member” status.
Reason · Sep 17 Border Officer Convicted of Raping and Robbing Chinese Sex Workers Jurors didn't buy Luis Uribe's defense: that he was targeted by "hustlers" for being an immigration officer.
Reason · Sep 17 Iran's Expanding Campaign Against Jewish Targets Outside Israel One disturbing aspect of the surge in antisemitic violence since October 7 has received relatively little attention: Western governments say… The post Iran's Expanding Campaign Against Jewish Targets Outside Israel appeared first on Reason Magazine.