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Reason Magazine – December 2025 Preview

REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features

‘He Never Got To Go Home’

Justin Sanchez is one of more than 6,000 Americans indefinitely detained in a system that wastes money and doesn’t make us safer.

How Weed Surveillance Drones Destroyed the Lives of These Californians

California tried to use drones to find illegal marijuana operations, but they found building code violations instead.

You Can Thank This Ohio Klansman for Expanding Your Freedom of Speech

Brandenburg v. Ohio established the “imminent lawless action” standard. More than 50 years later, partisans keep trying to apply it selectively. Jacob Sullum

How the Punisher, a Murderous Anti-Hero, Became the Mascot for Increasingly Militarized Police Forces

“He is breaking the very laws…that cops are supposed to uphold.”

Reason Magazine – November 2025 Preview

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REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Culture War Police State’

Culture War Police State

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

‘Botched’ Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless Violence

The war on drugs authorizes police conduct that otherwise would be readily recognized as criminal.

How Civilizations Lose Their Spark—and How We Might Keep Ours

Golden ages teach us a lot about what makes civilizations rise and fall.

Trump’s War on Chocolate: ‘There’s No Way for Us To Source This Domestically’

American chocolatiers need imports, and tariffs help no one.

Reason Magazine – June 2025 Opinion Preview

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REASON MAGAZINE (April 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘What If’ – The president doesn’t want to spend money…

What if the President Doesn’t Want to Spend Money?

Impoundment, line-item vetoes, and the tricky problem of cutting spending through the executive branch

What if the President Tries to Annex Greenland and Canada?

Trump’s new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.

Are the News Media in Their Onion Era?

The lessons “America’s Finest News Source” could offer the rest of the press

How Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Perverse Pardons Undermined the Rule of Law

Biden’s pardons for friends and Trump’s blanket pardons for January 6 participants set terrible precedents.

Reason Magazine ————April 2025 Preview

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    REASON MAGAZINE (February 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads’…

    Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads

    The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward. Stephanie Slade

    How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor

    “Officially, it was a voluntary departure. But I sure felt like I’d been pushed out.” Roger Pielke Jr.

    The American Right Is Abandoning Mises

    The Austrian economist’s principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right. Brian Doherty

    Reason Magazine – March 2025 Opinion Preview

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    REASON MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘You Can’t Evict Polly’ – How the Fair Housing Act enabled the rise of emotional support parrots, frogs and emus….

    Javier Milei Deregulates Food Imports and Exports 

    The move “seeks cheaper food for Argentines and more Argentine food for the world.” 

    Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Americans, Mexicans, and Canadians Poorer

    American tariffs will increase the price of final and intermediate goods, hurting our own consumers and domestic manufacturers.

    Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – February 2025

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    REASON MAGAZINE (December 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Maga Musk’….

    The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk

    Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?

    Finding Trillions in Federal Cuts Is Easy. But Will Trump and Musk Follow Through?

    DOGE won’t necessarily have to kill any of Republicans’ sacred cows—but they will have to be put on a diet.

    ‘The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact’

    How a 1949 Supreme Court dissent gave birth to a meme that subverts free speech and civil liberties

    The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn’t Need

    How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary ‘self-licking ice cream cones’

    Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – September 2024

    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

    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

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    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’

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    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

    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?

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    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

    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

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    Historical teaching and research are being revamped by AI.

    VIRGINIA POSTREL

    Will Antitrust Policy Smother the Power of AI?

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

    PATRICK HEDGER