Reason Magazine

10/30/2025

GoRemy culturally appropriates Michael Jackson in this updated Halloween classic: "No one's there to save you from a joke that you don't like."

10/30/2025

This week’s Reason Roundtable: Milei’s midterm win in Argentina, Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, continued U.S. strikes in Venezuela, and the rise of socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

On this week's Reason Roundtable, we discuss Argentine President Javier Milei's strong midterm showing and what it says about his libertarian agenda.

10/30/2025

The pie-in-the-sky space system promises to be a government spending bonanza—and might be a very bad idea.

The pie-in-the-sky space system promises to be a government spending bonanza--and might be a very bad idea.

10/30/2025

To fill the roles, the Trump administration is turning to agents from Customs and Border Protection, the agency that has led aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders across the country are being replaced, many with senior Customs and Border Protection agents.

10/30/2025

The DOJ can't turn a local crime into a federal one just because someone used a road.

A sex-trafficking case fell apart after the DOJ's claim that driving on a road put the alleged crime in 'interstate commerce.'

10/29/2025

"I have not seen ever before a direct infringement on the right to free speech like that," says Jake Tapper of the attempt to get Jimmy Kimmel fired.

The CNN anchor says Trump's FCC threats against Jimmy Kimmel mark a 'direct infringement' on free speech unseen in prior administrations.

10/29/2025

Why is New York City spending over $65 million on a trans-only homeless shelter? Ace’s Place is the first fully taxpayer-funded shelter to house only transgender and gender non-conforming people. It’s here in Long Island City, and we wish we could show you, but it’s on a list of protected sites, so despite multiple calls, emails and texts, the city refused to tell us the location.

🎨: Eddie Marshall

10/29/2025

The Trump administration has waived an obscure highway safety rule blocking the rollout of driverless trucks.

Aurora's driverless trucks can now use cab-mounted beacons instead of roadside triangles, after regulators relaxed a long-standing safety rule.

10/29/2025

A new court filing accuses CBP Commander Bovino and other federal agents of brazenly defying a federal judge’s order to limit the use of non-lethal weapons and other crowd control tactics in Chicago that endanger Americans’ constitutional rights.

The actions would violate a federal order imposed by an Illinois judge to limit the use of nonlethal weapons and other crowd control tactics.

10/29/2025

This family-owned electronics retailer based in Charlottesville, Virginia, says the president’s retaliatory tariffs make “rational business planning impossible.”

Crutchfield Corporation, a Charlottesville-based and family-owned electronics retailer, is supporting challenges to the president's tariffs.

10/29/2025

The 6th Circuit upholds a school's censorship of "Let's Go Brandon" sweatshirts, saying the anti-Biden slogan has "a plainly vulgar meaning."

The 6th Circuit upheld a Howard City school's ban on ‘Let's Go Brandon' sweatshirts, rejecting students' free speech claims.

10/29/2025

Will the Gaza strip be split into two, with Israel controlling half and Hamas controlling the rest?

Plus: Venezuelan perspectives on unseating Maduro, Zohran's free-lunch promising, stand-your-ground laws, and more...