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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – September 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (August 22, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘Only The Best People’ – Project 2025 is no match for MAGA dysfunction…

An Over-Orchestrated Rebellion: Dispatch From the DNC

An anticlimactic protest in Chicago reveals a tired approach to modern activism.

Nancy Rommelmann

How Does the Democratic Party Actually Feel About Billionaires?

Sen. Bernie Sanders calls them “oligarchs,” while Gov. J.B. Pritzker gets cheers when touting his own billionaire status.

Joe Lancaster

Economic Liberty Now Has No Place In Either Party

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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – August 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (June 22, 2024) – The latest issue features The Debt Lies We Tell Ourselves….

The Debt Lies We Tell Ourselves

Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.

Child Welfare Systems Are Trapping Innocent Families

Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state’s story add up?

EMMA CAMP

Congress ‘Can Regulate Virtually Anything’

How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause

JACOB SULLUM

The Afghan Allies Left Behind in the Graveyard of Empires

U.S. soldiers speak with Afghan locals | Photo: An Afghan interpreter translates a conversation between an American colonel and a local in Ghazni, Afghanistan; Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty

Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.

FIONA HARRIGAN

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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – July 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (May 23, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘It Was A Very Safe City’ – Crime and homelessness in America...

Gimme Shelter

The U.S. confronts a growing homelessness problem. Does Miami have the answer?

What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave?

DC | Photo: Al Drago/The Washington Post/Getty

Government mismanagement, not sentencing reform or sparse social spending, deserves the blame.

JOE BISHOP-HENCHMAN

American Small Businesses Are Desperate for Foreign Workers

Seasonal businesses can’t get the short-term labor from abroad that they need.

FIONA HARRIGAN

Cutting Off Israel

Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That’s why it’s worth doing.

MATT WELCH

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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – June 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (March 21, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘The AI Issue’…

In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

AI developer Andrew Mayne explains why technology could create more jobs and lead to unprecedented economic growth.

The Future of AI Is Helping Us Discover the Past

An AI-generated image using the prompt, “Illustration of AI helping the study of history in the style of Da Vinci." | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson/Midjourney

Historical teaching and research are being revamped by AI.

VIRGINIA POSTREL

Will Antitrust Policy Smother the Power of AI?

An AI-generated image using the prompt, “Illustration of antitrust smothering the power of AI." | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson/Midjourney

Left alone, artificial intelligence could actually help small firms compete with tech giants.

PATRICK HEDGER

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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – May 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (March 21, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘What If America Runs Out Of Bombs?’ – Due to overzealous interventionism, the U.S. is dispensing munitions faster than they can be replaced…

What if America Runs Out of Bombs?

An illustration of Uncle Sam as a PEZ dispenser, dispensing bombs | Photo: Julian Dufort; Wikimedia

The U.S. is dispensing munitions to Ukraine and Israel faster than they can be replaced.

By MATTHEW PETTI

How Capitalism Beat Communism in Vietnam

Two photos illustrate Vietnam's progress over time | Photo: Hanoi, Vietnam, 1985; Christopher Pillitz/Gettya; Photo: Hanoi, Vietnam, 2020; Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty

It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics.

RAINER ZITELMANN

Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America’s First Drug War

opium | Photo: An opium den in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, in 1898; REASON 31 Strohmeyer & Wyman/Library of Congress

Opium dens in San Francisco were patronized “by the vicious and the depraved,” politicians of the 1800s claimed.

JACOB SULLUM

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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – April 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (February 23, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘Commander In Chains?’ – What if a Presidential Candidate ends up in jail, incapacitated, or worse – in office?…

Commander in Chains: 7 Scenarios If Trump Is Jailed and Wins the Election

An illustration of a person wearing handcuffs in an orange prison jumpsuit with a presidential seal | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source image: Peter Dazeley/Getty

There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.

KEITH E. WHITTINGTON

Don’t Let E.U. Bureaucrats Design Americans’ Tech

An illustration of the European Union flag mangled by a frayed phone charging cord | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

Some Democrats want to mimic the Europe’s policies on phone chargers and more.

JENNIFER HUDDLESTON

The Future of Immigration Is Privatization

featurefionaimmigrants | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: Clay Banks/Unsplash, PinkBadger/iStock

New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.

FIONA HARRIGAN

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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – February 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (December 21, 2023) – The latest issue features ‘The Conformity Gauntlet’ – How Universities use DEI Statements to Enforce Groupthink; The Post-Neoliberalism Moment; We Absolutely Do Not Need an FDA for AI, and more…

Universities Use DEI Statements To Enforce Groupthink

An illustration showing college graduates navigating a maze | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

DEI statements are political litmus tests, write Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott.

The Post-Neoliberalism Moment

An illustration of Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich Hayek | Illustration: Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher, and Milton Friedman; Joanna Andreasson REASON 27 Source images: Graphic Goods/Creative Market, Mosi/Fiverr

Anyone advocating neoliberal policies is now persona non grata in Washington, D.C.

DANIEL W. DREZNER

We Absolutely Do Not Need an FDA for AI

If our best and brightest technologists and theorists are struggling to see the way forward for AI, what makes anyone think politicians are going to get there first?

KATHERINE MANGU-WARD

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Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – December 2023

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REASON MAGAZINE (DECEMBER 2023) – The latest issue features The Endangered Species Act at 50 – Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?; Dobbs and the abortion debate is reshaping American Politics; Will Russia ever be free?, and more…