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'Blue Power' and the Rise of Police Union Politics

Stuart Schrader's new book details how police unions became a dominant force in U.S. politics.

Reason · Apr 16

In 2026, Republicans Will Have To Decide What Comes After Trump

Is the party heading deeper into the right wing fever swamps?

Reason · Jan 2

Deplatforming Backfired

Progressive censors failed to suppress our political demons. It's finally time to confront them.

Reason · Dec 22, 2025

'The Tension Between Tradition and Individualism'

Conservative founding father Frank Meyer and libertarian founding mother Rose Wilder Lane had rich, friendly debates on how much American liberty relied on old European traditions.

Reason · Aug 19, 2025

August is here. What will you read? - Roll Call

From political science to political thrillers, here are some picks to transport you far from the Capitol — but not too far.

Roll Call · Aug 5, 2025

Donald Trump, The Transformational President

The New York Times admits that Trump is going further than Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and Taft "might have imagined possible"

Reason · Jul 13, 2025

The genteel, silver-tongued thinker who fathered US conservatism – and paved the way for Trump

A new biography digs into the life of William F Buckley Jr. Its author thinks the rightwing intellectual has some lessons for the left

The Guardian - US · Jun 4, 2025

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began

The Guardian - US · May 6, 2025

Supreme Court could soon dramatically change the future of porn

Invoking older examples of accessing pornographic materials, justices grappled with the constitutionality of a law that requires adults to input their age into explicit websites

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025

Nixon’s official acts against his enemies list led to a bipartisan impeachment effort

The Nixon administration’s enemies list inspired bipartisan revulsion. Its purpose was, in the immortal words of President Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, to “use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.”

The Conversation · Dec 18, 2024