Reason Magazine

07/26/2025

How a fringe marketing idea became the backbone of airline profits—and a gateway to global luxury travel.

07/26/2025

There's no need to argue over the surgeon general nominee when there's an opportunity to dispose of that office along with its unnecessary bureaucracy and expense.

Congress should consider whether the U.S. really needs the often meddlesome office at all, or the public health bureaucracy it leads.

07/26/2025

It appears that many people are now eager to dispense with due process, or simply do not understand what it is or why it exists.

07/26/2025

The federal government reduces its influence over public media while expanding it over social media.

Politicians' interest in controlling the content you see shifts from public media to social media.

07/26/2025

Stephen Colbert's cancellation has made anti-Trump Democrats suspicious, but there's a less sinister explanation.

Multiple Democratic members of Congress have weighed in to demand Colbert's reinstatement, from Bernie Sanders to Elizabeth Warren.

07/26/2025

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is setting up the federal government as an arbiter of good journalism.

Chairman Brendan Carr thinks his agency should strive to ensure that news coverage is fair and balanced—a role precluded by the First Amendment.

07/25/2025

Trump believes he can deploy tariffs without tradeoffs or distortions. In reality, each new tariff move creates both.

07/25/2025

X Corp., formerly Twitter, has finally scored a win in its decade-long free speech fight against the federal government.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has placed minor restraints on the government’s ability to impose gag orders on secret subpoenas issued to tech companies.

07/25/2025

A judge says the New York State Police must unredact names of officers in a spreadsheet of misconduct allegations sought by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

The New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York State Police have been fighting for years over misconduct records that the state legislature made public in 2020.

07/25/2025

An unholy alliance between MAGA and progressives to ban research on an emergency backup plan to cool the planet may be emerging.

07/25/2025

A food crisis in Gaza has reached "new and astonishing levels of desperation," according to officials from the World Food Program. They estimate that about 20 percent of the 2.1 million people still living in the besieged strip are facing starvation conditions.

Plus: The Columbia settlement as a "blueprint" for going after other universities, 'South Park' lampoons Trump, and more...

07/25/2025

Trump's birthright citizenship order is blatantly unconstitutional, says the first federal appeals court to consider the issue.

The president's reading of the 14th Amendment is contradicted by its text and history, plus 127 years of Supreme Court precedent.