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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate

Plus: A listener asks if rebranding tariffs as taxes would make any difference in reducing their appeal to politicians and voters.

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Wait, Democrats Now Say They Love Freedom?

Plus: Does the government own too much land in Utah? And the latest response to Friends star Matthew Perry’s drug overdose death.

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Why Libertarians Hate Kamala Harris' Economic Platform

Plus: Special guest Ben Dreyfuss joins the editors this week.

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What Kamala Harris' Coronation Says About the Democratic Party

Plus: A listener asks the editors about Project 2025.

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Eating Doritos While Drowning in Debt

Plus: A listener asks if there are any libertarian solutions to rising obesity rates.

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Abortion, Guns, and Hunter Biden.

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the Selective Service.

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Partisan Border Wars

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the Constitution and trains.

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Should Donald Trump Have Been Convicted?

Plus: A single-issue voter asks the editors for some voting advice in the 2024 presidential election.

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Campaigns Can't Get Worse, Can They?

Plus: A listener asks the editors about President Joe Biden holding up arms shipments to Israel.

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Americans Care About Inflation, but Politicians Don't

Plus: A listener asks the editors about cancelling student loan debt.

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Where Do Libertarians Stand on the Campus Wars?

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the magical thinking behind the economic ideas of Modern Monetary Theory.

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Congress Does Not Come Back With a Warrant

Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).

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Be Skeptical of That 60 Minutes Report on Havana Syndrome

Russiagate 2.0?

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Biden's Antitrust Case Against Apple Is Truly Stupid

Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.

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The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok.

Plus: A listener asks about Republicans and Democrats monopolizing political power in the United States.

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Rank Choices

Plus: A listener asks the editors for short quotes from fictional works that are representative of libertarian ideas.

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Nikki Haley's Primary Math Isn't Mathing

Plus: A listener asks the editors for big picture thoughts on United States foreign policy interventions in other nation states.

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Biden's Cognitive Shrinkflation

Plus: A listener asks if the state of Oregon’s policy on drug decriminalization should be viewed as a success.

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Trump's Terrible, Popular Tariffs

Plus: A listener asks if it should become the norm for all news outlets to require journalists to disclose their voting records.

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DeSantis Down and Out

Plus: Javier Milei’s powerful speech on economic prosperity in Davos

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The Trump Train Rolls Through Iowa

Plus: A listener asks the editors if there are any bad laws that might discourage people from having kids.

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2023's Most Under-Covered Stories

So long, 2023! What fresh hell awaits us all in 2024?

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Welcome to the Hyperbole Factory

Plus: A listener asks the editors to consider the libertarian argument against shopping local.

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Goodbye to George Santos and Henry Kissinger

Plus: an unexpected digression into the world of Little Debbie dessert snack cakes.

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Ask Reason Magazine's Editors Anything: Webathon 2023!

Please enjoy our special webathon video episode, where we answer a wide-ranging batch of listener questions!

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