Reason Magazine

12/15/2025

Supply and demand are not optional. It governs both human and giant-monster economies. We can't have cheap, abundant housing and also rely on home equity as the main driver of middle-class wealth.

12/15/2025

Gov. Greg Abbott has added two organizations to his state's list of terrorist organizations: https://reason.pub/4583Zlo

12/14/2025

Despite ongoing due process violations, the DHS plans to spend nearly $140 million on a fleet of aircraft to speed up deportations.

In its latest splurge, the Department of Homeland Security will spend nearly $140 million on six Boeing 737 planes to deport immigrants.

12/14/2025

The MAHA administration continues a long tradition of subsidizing the things it tells Americans to eat less of: https://reason.pub/48y9f47

12/14/2025

A look at our favorite holiday fare, while throwing lumps of coal at the most un-libertarian Christmas movies and specials of all time.

12/14/2025

The strange new alliance between democratic socialists and nationalist populists isn't a sign of political healing. It's a sign that people have lost their grip on basic economics.

The strange alliance between democratic socialists and nationalist populists is a sign that people have lost their grip on basic economics.

12/14/2025

Can you solve the latest Reason crossword?

12/14/2025

Let's look at the facts on soybean trade: https://reason.pub/3MGNrdU

12/14/2025

When Millennials invented the girlboss, Gen Z responded with the tradwife.

Typically conservative and Christian, these women have traditional marriages, embracing the idea that it's OK for a woman to stay home, take care of their kids, and tend to the hearth.

Tradwives are also magnets for hate and judgment.

But this cultural movement warrants celebration, not contempt. Tradwives don't want domestic servitude. They want the roles of wife, mother, and homemaker to count as respectable options for the 21st-century woman.

Tradwives are feminists, too.

12/14/2025

CBP agents detained a U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his smartphone and computer. His lawsuit argues that such invasions violate the Fourth Amendment.

A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

12/14/2025

'Project Mind Control' tells the story of the federal government's failed MKUltra program.

12/14/2025

The federal government is on track to borrow nearly $2 trillion this year.

Higher debt means lower wages, higher interest rates, and fewer opportunities.