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How To Ruin a Shutdown

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The Art of the Presidential Health Cover-Up

Inside Vernor Vinge’s FBI File

Will Tariffs Steal Christmas?

‘Trump Invasion’ of American Cities

An Alarmingly Broad View of ‘Public Health’

Chipping Away at CHIPS

Less Indictable Than a Ham Sandwich

Politicians Make Political Tensions Worse

Q&A Katie Engelhart

Don’t Send Cubans and Venezuelans Back To Suffer Under Communism

Knitters Need Free Trade

AI vs. Paperwork

Speak Up

INSIDE TEXAS’ SECRETIVE “CIVIL COMMITMENT” SYSTEM

THEY THOUGHT LEGAL WEED MEANT FREEDOM. THEN THE DRONES CAME. • A CALIFORNIA COUNTY TRIED TO USE DRONES TO FIND ILLEGAL MARIJUANA OPERATIONS, BUT IT PUNISHED BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS INSTEAD.

Boycott Dystopia • HACKER PABLOS HOLMAN KNOWS THE FUTURE NEEDS MORE ENERGY.

Thank This Klansman for Your Freedom of Speech • A TWO-BIT BIGOT’S SUPREME COURT VICTORY REVERBERATES IN CONTEMPORARY DEBATES.

THE PUNISHER IST'T A ROLE MODEL • MARVEL’S POPULAR VIGILANTE SAYS SOMETHING TROUBLING ABOUT THE STATE OF AMERICA’S MILITARIZED POLICE.

What Happened After Greta Rideout’s Husband Raped Her

Algorithmic Censorship Is Changing the Way We Talk • How slang emerges from social media rules

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ARCHIVES • Excerpts from Reason’s vaults

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