Corn Belt Politicians Are Using High Gas Prices To Push Even More Carveouts for Ethanol “The sale of E15 year-round would help the ethanol industry and no one else,” says one agricultural policy expert. Reason · Apr 29
Sabastian Sawe's Sub-2 Marathon Is What Human Progress Looks Like—and Capitalism Helped Build It Plus: governments get deeper and deeper into horse racing, fiscally conservative Republicans keep subsidizing stadiums, and Full Swing is in a doom spiral Reason · Apr 28
The Trump Administration Might Send Afghan Refugees to Danger in Congo About 1,100 Afghans currently stranded at a military base in Qatar could be relocated to the crisis-addled African country. Reason · Apr 23
The Least Psychedelic President in History Supports Psychedelic Research More Than Any of His Predecessors Donald Trump is an unlikely but powerful champion of drug reform. Reason · Apr 21
ICE Is on a $45 Billion Building Spree. Can Small Towns Support These New Migrant Warehouses? The government is selling the policy with the same arguments you’d expect for subsidized factories or sports stadiums. Reason · Apr 21
Trump's Pro-Union Labor Secretary Out Plus: Scandal at the Department of Labor, the real reasons people use psychedelics, more problems with Trump's triumphal arch, and more... Reason · Apr 21
3 Disasters That Legal Weed Didn't Unleash—Despite the Forecasts From higher crime to teenage stoners, here are things that the weed debate got wrong. Reason · Apr 20
Federal Judge Delivers Due Process Win Against DOJ Registry Overreach The Justice Department is permanently blocked from prosecuting Californians who fail to register when the state no longer requires it. Reason · Apr 16
Another Drug Boat Bombing Plus: The U.S. blockade widens, Los Angeles teachers get a pay bump, the sunny side of a treeless national mall, and more... Reason · Apr 16
Trump Says He's Willing To 'Risk' Your Rights for His Surveillance Powers The president once said he wanted to kill warrantless electronic spying. So much for that. Reason · Apr 15
Sen. Mike Lee Says Federal Prison Hung Up on Him When He Tried To Check on Inmate Families have complained for years that the Bureau of Prisons fails to notify them when their incarcerated loved ones are seriously ill or even dying. Reason · Apr 15
60% of Americans Agree Taxes Are Too High. Here Are 4 Other Reasons To Hate the Tax System. A noncomprehensive list Reason · Apr 15
Keonne Rodriguez on Bitcoin, Privacy, and Going to Prison "We thought we were on the right side of the law," the Samourai Wallet co-founder tells Reason. Reason · Apr 12
You Don't Have To Like Kanye West To Hate His Ban From Britain The British government has stopped the rapper from headlining at the London Wireless music festival. Why is that the British government's business? Reason · Apr 8
Reason · Apr 6 Trump's College Sports Executive Order Adds Chaos to an Already Wild Legal War Plus: Fox and Sinclair go crying to the FCC over sports streaming, and the Masters ticket lottery makes it too hard to get in
Reason · Apr 6 Ro Khanna: Congress Has Surrendered on War The California congressman discusses the Iran war, unchecked executive power, California’s wealth tax debate, and the search for a shared American identity.
Reason · Apr 3 Maine Bill Proves States Are Capable of Adopting Bad Data Center Policies Without Federal Intervention A week after Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to pause AI data center construction indefinitely, Maine is poised to institute the first statewide ban.
Reason · Apr 2 Florida Cop Punished With 'Training/Counseling' for Farting in Colleague's Face Police often call their profession a brotherhood, but two Palm Beach sheriff's deputies took the analogy too far.
Reason · Apr 2 On 'Liberation Day,' Trump Promised a Manufacturing Boom. The Data Tell a Different Story. More than 89,000 manufacturing workers lost their jobs in the past year as tariffs caused input prices to rise and squeezed blue-collar industries.
Reason · Apr 1 How Capitalism Lost the Working Class Brink Lindsey discusses the gap between mass prosperity and mass flourishing, capitalism’s crisis of inclusion, and the implications of falling fertility.
Reason · Apr 1 What If the U.K. Had Free Speech Like the U.S.? The U.K. said it would stop investigating "legal" social media posts, but free speech advocates demand more change.
Reason · Apr 1 Illegal To Defund NPR? Plus: Judge stops Trump's ballroom, Iran announcement incoming, NASA takes steps to go back to the moon, and more...
Reason · Mar 31 Live Free or Ban Data Centers Plus: D.C. considers single-stair reform, Idaho legalizes starter homes, and Florida bans discrimination against manufactured housing.
Reason · Mar 27 Why Democrats Should Talk About Trump's Tariffs as a 'Threat to the Rule of Law' Rep. Jimmy Panetta says Democrats have "learned the hard way" that handing over so much tariff authority to the executive branch is a bad idea.
Reason · Mar 26 AI Relies on Data Centers. Bernie Sanders and AOC Want To Freeze Their Construction. This heavy-handed legislation would harm Americans, not protect them.