The Government Was Lying to You About Afghanistan. Dan Krauss Has the Receipts. Reason is sharing an exclusive clip from Bodyguard of Lies, an upcoming documentary about the failed war in Afghanistan. Reason · Sep 22, 2025
David Kopel Makes the Oxford English Dictionary Examples From the usage examples for the word Hitlerist; the quote is from David's post Data on Mass Murder by Government in the… The post David Kopel Makes the Oxford English Dictionary Examples appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Sep 20, 2025
J.D. Vance Is Among the Latest Conservatives to Turn Their Backs on Free Speech for Their Political Opponents Vice President J.D. Vance and Sen. Cynthia Lummis are among the latest conservatives to turn their backs on free speech when it comes to their ideological opponents. Reason · Sep 19, 2025
The Trump Administration Misses Key Deadlines for Imposing Restrictions on Gain-of-Function Research Biosafety advocates worry the administration is backtracking on its promise to implement meaningful restrictions on the type of research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Reason · Sep 18, 2025
Fact Check: Did Trump and RFK Jr. Hide the Link Between Alcohol and Cancer? No. Federal dietary guidelines have made that connection since the 1980s, but some anti-alcohol activists are mad they didn't get to rewrite the rules this year. Reason · Sep 16, 2025
Social Media Didn't Kill Charlie Kirk Plus: Trump says he "may let [TikTok] die," the SoHo Forum debates paying for sex, the administration calls birth control "abortifacients," and more... Reason · Sep 15, 2025
How We Criminalized Childhood Journalist and activist Lenore Skenazy explains how fear and over-parenting left kids more anxious and less independent, and and how a movement to restore that independence is gaining ground. Reason · Sep 10, 2025
Judge Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 'Cop City' Defendants Two years after the state attorney general charged dozens of protesters with racketeering, a judge found the case unconvincing. Reason · Sep 9, 2025
Americans Don't Actually Like Trump's Bad Guy Posturing on Immigration and the Military Shows of force and mass deportations play well to the base, but they’re falling flat with the public. Reason · Sep 9, 2025
Republicans Say Gmail Is Blocking Their Fundraising Emails. We Recreated Their Test To See If That's True. There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman. Reason · Sep 5, 2025
If You Don't Like Socialism or the Establishment, Curtis Sliwa Wants Your Vote The Guardian Angels founder and New York mayoral candidate talks about crime, drugs, zoning, and what the government could learn from squatters. Reason · Sep 5, 2025
FBI Spied on Libertarian Sci-Fi Author Vernor Vinge In 'Espionage' Case The late friend of Reason, who coined the term "technological singularity," landed on the feds' radar for his association with a foreign policy dissident. Reason · Sep 3, 2025
Federal Funding for Universities Comes With Strings. Now Trump Is Pulling Them. The potential nationalization and forced revenue sharing of university patents makes a strong case for the separation of economy and state. Reason · Aug 28, 2025
No, These New Studies Don't Show an AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Coming Economists at the Federal Reserve and Stanford University recently published studies investigating how AI affects employment in different industries. Reason · Aug 27, 2025
Reason · Aug 26, 2025 Closure of Tariff Loophole for Mail, Packages Puts Millions of Everyday Transactions at Risk European postal services are cutting off delivery to the United States, leaving entrepreneurs and consumers scrambling.
Reason · Aug 21, 2025 Georgia woman could lose $30,000 after local government denies her permit to open hair salon Despite meeting all the requirements, the Board of Commissioners in Clayton County made an arbitrary decision to deny Khalilah Few a conditional use permit to open her salon.
Reason · Aug 21, 2025 Socialism Just Imploded in Bolivia Is this the last gasp of Latin America's disastrous "pink tide"?
Reason · Aug 15, 2025 Checkpoints Like the Ones Federal Agents Are Running in D.C. Are Unconstitutional Checkpoints for general crime control are illegal and smack of a police state.
Reason · Aug 15, 2025 Trump's Tracking of AI Chip Shipments Exposes Flaws in His Export Control U.S. authorities are secretly tracking shipments of advanced AI chips from manufacturers such as Dell, Super Micro, Nvidia, and AMD to prevent their illegal diversion to China.
Reason · Aug 15, 2025 The Human Rights Crisis in ICE Detention Centers Reports of human rights abuses are piling up as the number of people in immigrant detention reaches all-time highs.
Reason · Aug 13, 2025 Trump Says 'People Are Feeling Safer Already,' but Federal Troops Won't Fix D.C.'s Crime Local government incompetence has crippled the city's criminal justice system.
Reason · Aug 13, 2025 Pentagon Draws Up Plans To Send Troops to American Cities The Trump administration is considering plans for a "Reaction Force" of National Guard troops to deploy quickly to American cities with signs of civil unrest.
Reason · Aug 6, 2025 The Libertarian Case for Postmodernism Political economist Mark Pennington draws on the ideas of Hayek and Foucault to show how expert rule and government surveillance are making it harder for people to think freely and live on their own terms.
Reason · Aug 5, 2025 Minnesota Town Denies Family Permission To Build Affordable Housing Unit on Their Property The Pepin family is suing the City of Blaine after the City Council used dubious reasoning to deny a permit for additional housing on their property.
Reason · Aug 5, 2025 Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass Declare NIMBY Martial Law To Stop Duplexes in the Palisades Plus: Oregon's radical YIMBY centralization, yet another challenge to inclusionary zoning, and DOGE's cuts to fair housing grants get overturned in court.