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Cheetos in the Capital

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The AI Therapist Will See You Now

Radiation Rules Are Stalling Nuclear Power

California’s Minimum Wage Law Cost 18,000 Jobs

How Stockholm Tamed Traffic

Human Rights Crisis in ICE Detention Centers

Feds Pump the Brakes on Autonomous Trucks

The Report the U.S. Government Doesn’t Want You To Read

Trump Is the Coal President

Q&A Glenn Jacobs

Police Abuse Protected by Federal Immunity

6 Months in Jail for Mountain Running?

CULTURE WAR POLICE STATE • HOW THE CULTURE WAR FEEDS 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.

Golden Ages Don’t Last • BUT THEY CAN TEACH US A LOT ABOUT WHAT MAKES CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND FALL.

REP. CHIP ROY SOMETIMES DISAGREES WITH HIS ‘LIBERTARIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS’ • THE TEXAS CONGRESSMAN ON SPENDING, IMMIGRATION, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

Trump’s War on Chocolate • AMERICAN CHOCOLATIERS NEED IMPORTS, AND TARIFFS HELP NO ONE.

‘THE TENSION BETWEEN TRADITION AND INDIVIDUALISM’ • THE RICH DEBATES OF CONSERVATIVE FOUNDING FATHER FRANK MEYER AND LIBERTARIAN FOUNDING MOTHER ROSE WILDER LANE

What Caused the Serial Killing Spike of the 1970s and ’80s? • A new book offers a rich, informative, but not entirely convincing account of a crime wave.

How ‘National Security’ Came Unmoored From Americans’ Actual Security

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ARCHIVES • Excerpts from Reason’s vaults

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