Trump Is Quietly Expanding the U.S. Military Role in Syria and Gaza The U.S. government is reportedly looking to put boots on the ground in Damascus to guard the border with Israel. Reason · Nov 7, 2025
D.C. Jury Acquits 'Sandwich Guy' of Assaulting Federal Agent A jury found Sean Dunn, who went viral in August for throwing a Subway sandwich at a Border Patrol officer, not guilty. Reason · Nov 6, 2025
Mamdani's Socialist Mayorship Will Make New York a Worse Place To Live and Do Business His plans to offer "free" buses and daycare, freeze rents, and create city-owned grocery stores are expensive and proven failures. Reason · Nov 1, 2025
Britain's Prince Andrew Taken Down by Epstein and Chinese Spy Scandals The two scandals, which Reason helped link, proved too much for the British royal family. Reason · Oct 31, 2025
Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Tennessee Man Over Facebook Meme Larry Bushart was arrested on a $2 million bond for posting a meme on Facebook. He was released this week, after more than a month in jail. Reason · Oct 30, 2025
3 Reasons Why Zohran Mamdani's City-Run Grocery Stores Will Fail Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open government-run grocery stores would waste taxpayer money solving a problem NYC doesn’t have. Reason · Oct 30, 2025
Jake Tapper Called Out Obama and Biden for Free Speech Abuses. He Says Trump Is on a New Level. "I have not seen ever before a direct infringement on the right to free speech like that," CNN's Jake Tapper says of the Trump administration's actions in the Jimmy Kimmel saga. Reason · Oct 29, 2025
Jake Tapper on Censorship, Media Failings, and Presidential Power Jake Tapper examines the growing pressure on the news media to serve political interests, Donald Trump’s attacks on the press and peaceful protesters, as well as the lasting damage Joe Biden may have done to the Democratic Party. Reason · Oct 29, 2025
New Jersey Town Tentatively Agrees to Not Seize 175-Year-Old Family Farm After a nationwide uproar over Cranbury, New Jersey's plan to seize Andy Henry's farm, the township says it's found another site to place a planned affordable housing development. Reason · Oct 24, 2025
Is Oregon Proof That Drug Decriminalization Will Fail? The Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet debates Reason's Zach Weissmueller. Reason · Oct 21, 2025
How the Military Exposed the Tools That Let Authorities Break Into Phones The Marine Corps is trying to close a no-bid contract with Cellebrite, a company that helps police get into locked phones. The specs weren’t supposed to be public. Reason · Oct 16, 2025
What John Oliver Gets Wrong About Bari Weiss and CBS News The default in mainstream media isn't no opinion, it's his opinion. Reason · Oct 14, 2025
This Year's Nobel Winners for Economics Explained How Innovation Makes Us Rich Joel Mokyr has long made the case against technophobia, including in the pages of Reason. Reason · Oct 13, 2025
Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2 Million Bond for Posting Facebook Meme Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison. Reason · Oct 10, 2025
Reason · Oct 9, 2025 D.C. Will Arrest This CEO if His Rideshare Alternative Doesn't Shut Down by Friday Empower CEO Joshua Sear is guilty of providing a cheap, popular alternative to Uber in the nation's capital.
Reason · Oct 8, 2025 Reason Versus National Review: Is Mass Immigration Good for America? Katherine Mangu-Ward and Alex Nowrasteh squared off against Rich Lowry and Steven Camarota to debate immigration.
Reason · Oct 7, 2025 Americans Are Turning Against Sports Betting—But It's Not Going Anywhere Plus: World Cup ticket prices, Michael Jordan against NASCAR, and The Smashing Machine
Reason · Oct 1, 2025 How Oregon's Drug Experiment Backfired The lesson isn’t that decriminalization can’t work. It’s that Portland-style governance is broken.
The Guardian - US · Sep 27, 2025 ‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turn
Reason · Sep 26, 2025 Amazon Is Being Forced To Pay $2.5 Billion for Making It Easier To Sign Up for Prime The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Amazon in its yearslong lawsuit against the company for "dark patterns" in Prime sign up and cancellation.
Reason · Sep 25, 2025 After Deinstitutionalization, America's Mental Health System Struggles To Protect the Public Decades after closing state psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. still struggles to “find a middle ground—an institutional arrangement that recognizes both the dignity of the mentally ill and the public’s right to be safe.”
Reason · Sep 25, 2025 Why Did a Florida Sheriff Accuse a Group of Fishing Guides of Inciting Threats Against Public Officials? The Hendry County Sheriff accused Captains for Clean Water of "fuel[ing] hostility and provok[ng] violent rhetoric," but a free speech advocacy group says they were well within the First Amendment.
Reason · Sep 23, 2025 Brendan Carr Says Networks Must Serve the 'Public Interest.' What Does That Mean? Congress placed the term in the law but chose not to define it, leaving that task for future regulators.
Reason · Sep 23, 2025 The Ryder Cup Was a Cakewalk—Until America Let the Rest of Europe Play Plus: Fewer people are betting, and did ABC pick Jimmy Kimmel over the NFL?
Reason · Sep 22, 2025 These 2 Terrible Tech Bills Are on Gavin Newsom's Desk One limits children’s access to mental health services, the other mandates a black box warning, and both undermine users’ digital privacy.