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No One Can Control the Future

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Even Laws That Haven’t Passed Can Backfire

AI Beats Doctors

The Best and Worst States To Be a Smoker

Surveillance Tools Are Used Far Beyond the Border

Who Killed Spirit Airlines?

Tourism to the U.S. Is Declining

Trump Embraces Psychedelic Therapy

Trump Blinks on Doctor Visas

Euclidean Zoning

Gassed Out

Andy Serkis

9/11 and the Surveillance Ratchet • HOW THE CRISIS EXPANDED AND ENTRENCHED THE SECURITY STATE

9/11 Turbocharged American Interventionism • THE ATTACKS ALLOWED OVERAMBITIOUS THEORIES OF GLOBAL PEACE AND CHANGE TO PROLIFERATE.

SAMURAI VS. SQUATTERS • CALIFORNIA HAS FAILED TO PROTECT PRIVATE PROPERTY FROM SQUATTERS. DESPERATE OWNERS ARE TURNING TO KATANA-WIELDING ENFORCERS TO RECLAIM THEIR BUILDINGS.

BUREAUCRACY, LABOR, & TARIFFS: How Government Is Making BLTs More Expensive • AMERICA’S BEST SANDWICH IS UNDER ATTACK BY BAD POLICY.

Labor Unions Hate Robots • DEMOCRATS WON’T DELIVER EITHER AFFORDABILITY OR ABUNDANCE IF THEY KEEP DEFERRING TO LABOR INTERESTS.

John Fetterman vs. the Democrats • THE PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR DISCUSSES THE WAYS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS CHANGED—AND THE WAYS HE’S CHANGED TOO.

Henry Clay’s Failed Compromise Over Slavery • THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 WAS REALLY NO COMPROMISE AT ALL.

How the ACLU Started Defending the Second Amendment • THE CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUP, WHICH LONG MAINTAINED THAT THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ARMS, SANG A DIFFERENT TUNE AT THE SUPREME COURT THIS YEAR.

How To Sell a War • Presidents use a web of private influence to garner support for foreign invasions.

Policing Is Political

Walt Whitman’s American Vistas

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ARCHIVES • Excerpts from Reason’s vaults

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