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
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 18
'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. Reason · Sep 17
Reason · Sep 17 The Fed Can't Fight Inflation Alone. Will Congress Do Its Part? Lawmakers have to show they'll back the national debt with future fiscal surpluses, which means reining in government spending.
Reason · Sep 17 Memphis Task Force Caught on Video Arresting Activist Already Suing It for First Amendment Retaliation The ACLU says Hunter Demster's arrest shows a continuing campaign of intimidation and retaliation by the Memphis Safe Task Force.
Reason · Sep 17 ICE's Missing Miscarriage Data Leave Questions About Pregnancy Care in Detention The Trump administration has reached record-breaking levels of immigration arrests amid accusations of medical neglect, including among pregnant women.
Reason · Sep 17 Why the Right Should Celebrate the UT-Austin Football Photo For decades, conservative and libertarian legal activists worked to ban race preferences in admissions. They won.
Reason · Sep 17 New York Wants To Scrap Testing Requirements While School Spending Soars This week, the state's educational leaders moved to eliminate Regents exam requirements for high school students.
Reason · Sep 17 Not Using A Smartphone Burdens Others It is increasingly difficult to function in society without a phone. So I'll turn mine off.
Reason · Sep 17 Seven Federal Judges From Minnesota Talk To The N.Y. Times About Trump Administration “It’s the rule of law. If you don’t have it, you have either anarchy or you have authoritarianism. You have Russia or you have China or you have North Korea.”
Reason · Sep 17 A Russia Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Vast New Tariff Powers The bill, which passed the House and Senate, would let Trump impose tariffs up to 100 percent on certain countries, but it fails to properly define which.
Reason · Sep 17 Disability Accommodations "That Fundamentally Change Court Proceedings, Could Alter the Court's Substantive Decisions," … "or affect any other parties' due process rights ... are not reasonable."
Reason · Sep 17 Best Credit in the World Plus: Rent freeze setback, AI misalignment, Bolshevik ridiculousness, and more...
Reason · Sep 17 Strip Searches Generally Aren't Allowed as Searches Incident to Arrest, Third Circuit Holds, thus deepening a circuit split. (Note that strip searches are generally allowed when and if the arrestee is placed in the general population of the jail.)