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12/01/2025

Sen. Rand Paul has a foreign policy warning for Donald Trump.

🎨: Eddie Marshall

12/01/2025

Federal data covering the first eight months of the year show that the government collected more than $1.1 billion in tariffs on toys, dolls, and games.

"Maybe the dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally," the president warned in April. That's an understatement.

12/01/2025

Trump was on solid ground when he told Congress to get rid of the CHIPS Act. Yet in the months since, Trump has made use of CHIPS funding not to reduce the debt, but to pursue his own questionable industrial policy.

Biden said "companies are investing in America again." Instead, America is investing in companies--and getting little in return.

12/01/2025

Friedrich Hayek's most popular work was dedicated to "the socialists of all parties." That phrase perfectly captures politics in 2025.

12/01/2025

Tomorrow at 2 pm ET, Reason Roundup newsletter author and associate editor Liz Wolfe goes live with Reason’s writers and producers to give you an exclusive look at what’s coming next from our newsroom. Tune in!

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12/01/2025

A forgotten Guinness brewer's alternative approach could have prevented 100 years of mistakes in medicine, economics, and more.

From medicine to economics, significance testing misleads. Estimation offers a clearer way forward.

12/01/2025

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's order to "kill everybody" reportedly led to a second strike on survivors of a Caribbean boat attack.

Plus: War with Venezuela looms, a National Guard member shot in D.C. dies, and Sean Duffy wants you to stop flying in your pajamas.

12/01/2025

A new THC limit buried in the funding bill threatens to wipe out nearly the entire h**p market, while restrictive state laws are already choking small producers.

A new federal THC limit threatens to wipe out nearly the entire h**p market, while restrictive state laws already choke small producers.

12/01/2025

Critics see Big Tech as a destabilizing force in culture, a source of privacy risk, and maybe even an enemy of innovation.

Proponents point to positive contributions: more convenience, connectivity, creativity, and economic growth.

Who's right?

Join us for the next Reason Versus debate on Wednesday, Dec. 10 in Washington, D.C., featuring , , , and .

More: https://reason.pub/3Xjmsr1

12/01/2025

Kevin Roberts' decision to stand with Tucker Carlson was the last straw for many people affiliated with the Heritage Foundation.

Heritage and ISI face internal revolt as leaders align with New Right figures, sparking resignations and warnings of an ideological break.

12/01/2025

Whether or not the lab leak theory is correct, it's now clear that a number of public officials and influential scientists concealed their conflicts of interest with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and minimized their own roles in providing government funding for unsupervised gain-of-function research that may have led to the pandemic.

12/01/2025

In San Francisco, a Waymo killing a single cat is being treated as a tragedy.

But human drivers killed 43 people in the city last year, and no one batted an eye.

The accidental death of one cat in San Francisco is triggering calls for banning Waymo. That would be a huge mistake.