Reason Magazine

11/25/2025

Psychoactive h**p products will be federally prohibited in a year unless Congress intervenes to save the $28 billion industry.

A spending bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown aims to close a loophole that gave birth to $28 billion industry.

11/25/2025

The American people are justifiably concerned that the rights protected by the First Amendment are under threat from both government and some of their fellow countrymen.

"Drops in confidence across all political parties contributed to the record-levels of pessimism," writes the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

11/25/2025

The federal government subsidizing energy projects is a poor use of resources: https://reason.pub/48hPV9W

11/24/2025

William F. Buckley Jr.'s flexible approach to politics defined conservatism as we know it.

The National Review founder's flexible approach to politics defined conservatism as we know it.

11/24/2025

With no passport and no country to return to, Paul Bojerski's attorney says the 79-year-old grandfather has nowhere to go: https://reason.pub/4rgESX8

11/24/2025

"When you open up the option of assisted dying to people who are not dying, things get complicated."

"When you open up the option of assisted dying to people who are not dying, things get complicated," says the author of The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die.

11/24/2025

What do Zohran Mamdani, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Kim Jong Un, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have in common? They understand that Trump respects strength more than flattery.

Donald Trump respects outreach from opponents more than submissive flattery from friends.

11/24/2025

By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party’s future.

By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party's future.

11/24/2025

The Epstein issue wedged the door open for Marjorie Taylor Greene to raise more grievances with Donald Trump, especially the idea that he's been getting distracted from his domestic agenda and hasn't delivered much financial relief to the American people.

Plus: Zohran-Trump lovefest, bitcoin down, Heritage kerfuffle, and more...

11/24/2025

The 9th Circuit made a ruling this year that could allow far-ranging government interference with private health decisions.

11/24/2025

The new issue of Reason is available online now for subscribers: https://reason.pub/48fSOYV

11/24/2025

In the Guillermo del Toro's new Netflix film, humanity is the real monster.

This adaption of the famous novel is gorgeous, but also cloying and self-satisfied. It also almost opposes the idea of human progress itself.