Marijuana Contracts Are Not Enforceable in Federal Court Just because marijuana is legal under state law does not mean marijuana is legal -- a useful reminder. Reason · Sep 11
Why Postliberalism Failed--And Is Likely to Fail Again Contemporary postliberalism may be a fitting ideology for the age—but that hardly makes its agenda a good one, let alone an American one. Reason · Sep 11
First Circuit Refuses to Stay District Court Injunction Against Trump's Executive Order on Mail-In Voting The Court rightly ruled the executive branch has no authority to restrict mail-in voting. Reason · Sep 10
Americans Have Learned Virtually No Lessons From 9/11 We still believe in the false promise of trading freedom for safety. Reason · Sep 10
The GOP Midterm Convention Is the Campiest Apocalypse I've Ever Seen Inside the first event of its kind, where the end of the world is coming, but the sequins are fabulous. Reason · Sep 10
Trump's Bribe, AI Doom Psyop, and the Rapture Trump's $5,000 bribe, stay-at-home moms, car insurance beefs, AI doom, 9/11 memories, Zelda rumors, rom-coms, and the Rapture—Freed Up somehow fits it all into one episode. Reason · Sep 10
A 50% Tariff on Pencil Parts? Welcome to the U.S.-Canada Trade War. Canada's retaliatory tariffs include the little metal band that holds an eraser onto a pencil. Reason · Sep 10
Trump and Vance's Plan To Bribe Voters With $5,000 Checks Shows MAGA Is Out of Ideas By quickly endorsing Trump's ridiculous plan to bribe voters in the midterms, J.D. Vance reveals something about the future of Trumpism. There isn't one. Reason · Sep 10
I Went Looking for a Libertarian Miracle in Argentina. I Found Something Messier. After a week in Buenos Aires, I found Milei’s economic revolution is real—and deeply divisive. Reason · Sep 10
Critics of AR-15 Bans Urge SCOTUS To Reject the 7th Circuit's Distinction Between Civilian and Military Arms Given the Second Amendment's history, several briefs argue, a gun's suitability for militia service suggests Americans have a right to possess it. Reason · Sep 10
There's No Market Failure in Choosing to Stay Home. So Why Subsidize It? J.D. Vance would like to give money to people for choices they're already making—without a workable plan to actually pay for it. Reason · Sep 10
Journal of Free Speech Law: "Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom," by Caroline Mala Corbin Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing. Reason · Sep 10
Principal's Threatening Critics with Defamation Lawsuit Can Be "Conduct Unbecoming" Govern yourself accordingly. Reason · Sep 10
A Remarkable 48 Hours In Missouri Justice Kavanaugh rules against Missouri twice, likely without even reading all the papers. Reason · Sep 10
Reason · Sep 10 How Charlie Kirk's Murder Chilled Speech at Utah Valley University One year after Kirk was assassinated on campus, Utah Valley students fear expressing themselves.
Reason · Sep 10 "The Emergency Presidency at Twenty-Five" A very interesting article by my colleague Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford Law, Hoover) in the City Journal; in addition to… The post "The Emergency Presidency at Twenty-Five" appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Sep 10 Some Bribes, as a Treat Plus: Data center backlash, Anthropic job-loss predictions, and more...
Reason · Sep 10 Court Blocks Investigation of AI-Generated Video About Vermont Political Candidates Because Video Is Obviously "Ridiculous" From Friday's decision by Judge William Sessions (D. Vt.) in Poitras v. Clark: This case concerns a video that plaintiff… The post Court Blocks Investigation of AI-Generated Video About Vermont Political Candidates Because Video Is Obviously "Ridiculous" appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Sep 10 Med School Didn't Violate Accuser's Title IX Rights by Imposing Only a 20-Month Suspension on Student Found Responsible for Sexual Assault An excerpt from yesterday's decision by Judge Andrew Carter (S.D.N.Y.) in Roe v. Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai:… The post Med School Didn't Violate Accuser's Title IX Rights by Imposing Only a 20-Month Suspension on Student Found Responsible for Sexual Assault appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Sep 10 Court Packing Is a Bad Idea. But It's Still Constitutional. Unwise policies are not always unlawful policies.
Reason · Sep 10 Can a New Weight Loss Treatment Escape the Legal and Regulatory Thicket? It’s Eli Lilly vs. RFK Jr. in a battle over the rules around retatrutide.
Reason · Sep 10 Brickbats: October 2026 News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
Reason · Sep 10 Brickbat: Clean Break The state of Washington is investigating We Heart Seattle, a private group of volunteers that cleans up used needles, drug… The post Brickbat: Clean Break appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Reason · Sep 10 Second Amendment Roundup: ATF's "Firearm" and "Frame or Receiver" Rules Invalid Supreme Court’s VanDerStok decision didn’t resolve the vagueness and Second Amendment challenges.
Reason · Sep 9 Correcting an Obnoxious Mischaracterization In the middle of an article that amounts to, among other things, a disgraceful apologia for the explosion in campus… The post Correcting an Obnoxious Mischaracterization appeared first on Reason Magazine.