Politicians bully homeowners off their land for a computer chip factory
New York's "investment of the century" comes at a high cost for the people whose homes must be bulldozed to make way for a Micron semiconductor plant.
Stossel: The Breakfast Myth
People claim breakfast is the "most important meal of the day.” But it's not.
Gun control is 'the most racist practice in America,' says Maj Toure, the Philadelphia native and community leader.
https://reason.pub/3TvWuMt
From Reason’s archives: We spoke with Mike Rowe in 2013 about the high cost of college.
Tuition rates and student debt loads have only grown since this interview took place. While some hailed Biden’s debt forgiveness plan this year as a welcome remedy, it would have done nothing to contain college costs.
And now a federal judge has ruled that President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt is unconstitutional.
https://reason.pub/3ToDiAo
Watch Florida cops arrest a legally blind man after confusing his walking stick for a gun
This man knows his rights. In Florida, people are only required by law to show police officers their ID when they are stopped on suspicion of a crime. Nevertheless, the two officers handcuff Hodges and pull his ID from his pocket to run a check on him.
Read more: https://reason.pub/3UsXiD7
Libertarian PBS
Howdy neighbor. Do you have a warrant?
Let's Scrap the Jones Act
A few highly motivated special interests can inflict great economic damage on the country despite broad—but less-intense—opposition to their cronyist policies.
This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now
Environmental Progress founder Michael Shellenberger believes the Green New Deal’s focus on wind and solar is a waste of time and money.
Remy: Better Now?
Promised an improved way of life, GoRemy does everything he can to believe in a new ideology–except the math.
Why I Left California for Florida
"As goes California, so goes the nation," Gavin Newsom once said, following the state supreme court's legalization of same-sex marriage. Is that still true, or is it Texas now? Or is the importance of geography simply diminished in the networked age? Is Florida the future?
Forget the Great Reset. The Great Escape is Here.
Expecting governments and international bodies to orient every large company toward some widely agreed upon "common good" assumes that many of the very institutions that bungled the COVID-19 response can competently handle the planet's most intractable problems.
Instead of the Great Reset, in which sclerotic 20th-century institutions accumulate even more power, perhaps we're entering… the Great Escape.
The Lab Leak Deception
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.
How’s the new Libertarian Party doing? Live with Angela McArdle
Angela McArdle became the head of the Libertarian Party (LP) in May 2022 at the national convention in Reno, Nevada. She represents the Mises Caucus, a group that aims to take the LP in a new direction. Under McArdle's leadership—officially, she's the chair of the Libertarian National Committee—the LP's social media messaging has angered some members, and a handful of state chapters have disaffiliated or dissolved.
What's been going on behind the scenes at the LP? Is the party growing or shrinking? How did LP candidates fare in the midterms? What's the plan looking ahead to 2024?
Join Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller for a live conversation with McArdle about all this and more on Thursday, November 10 at 1 pm Eastern. You can watch it above, on Twitter, or at Reason's page. We welcome comments and questions at YouTube and Facebook, and we'll put the best to McArdle.
Maj Toure: Why Black Guns—and Libertarianism—Matter
Gun control is 'the most racist practice in America,' says Philadelphia native and community leader Maj Toure.
Here’s a scenario for election theft allegations that might pass for optimistic in a political environment as dysfunctional as our own: A few more years of this onslaught of bipartisan and demonstrably groundless accusations and the charge might cease to be a serious thing.
https://reason.pub/3UIbg3E
The Nuclear Threat
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and former Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis warn about the grave danger of escalating the war in Ukraine.
Grammarly: Government Edition
Whether you want to spin your way out of a recession, walk back your support of rioters, or simply rile up your donor base, Grammarly's helpful suggestions make your political messaging as clear—or murky—as you need.
"We see a lot of health editors and health reporters prioritizing a tidy narrative about Anthony Fauci over providing the truth to their readers,” says health reporter Emily Kopp, who works at the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know, an organization that has obtained thousands of pages of official documents and correspondence, some of which reveal an orchestrated effort by scientists to downplay the lab leak theory.
https://reason.pub/3UgSfp0
Why Millennials and Gen Z Hate Boomers, and What To Do About It
Meet "Generation Disaster."
A look at the cumulative impact of being raised in a relentlessly apocalyptic social and political environment, the role that Boomer and Gen X parents and authorities play in stoking anxiety, and how new forms of technology and media have influenced the worldviews of millennials and Generation Z.
10 Fun Facts About the Police
Do you have questions about law enforcement? Here are some fun facts:
• Police officers have no legal obligation to protect you from imminent harm!
• You can be too smart to be a police officer!
• Cops aren't required to know the law even as they arrest people for breaking it!
John Cleese's War on Wokeism
The "Monty Python" legend says political correctness is ruining creativity in all aspects of human activity.
How Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela's Spectacular Oil Wealth
Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves and yet the country has run out of gasoline! This in turn has crippled the economy, made travel prohibitively expensive, and increased prices of basic goods.
How Biden's Agenda Is Causing Inflation
Joe Biden and his crew are delusionally pronouncing that we can tame inflation by pumping massive amounts of government money into the economy—a course of action that will almost certainly make everything more expensive.
Libertarian Horror Movies
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the voting booth...
The Lab Leak Deception
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.
Livestream: Homeland Security's Backdoor Social Media Censorship
The Department of Homeland Security has greatly expanded its efforts in recent years to control the flow of information across major social media platforms, documents obtained and published on Monday by Lee Fang and Ken Klippenstein of The Intercept reveal. Texts and emails show tech executives in regular communication with government agents about their efforts to battle "misinformation" related to topics ranging from the pandemic to U.S. elections to the war in Afghanistan. One document shows that Facebook even created a special portal for government agents to report problematic posts.
"Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse," write Fang and Klippenstein.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Robby Soave, and Zach Weissmueller on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET will discuss these revelations, what it means for free speech on the internet, and what steps might be taken to counter these attempts by the national security state to police American political discourse by exerting pressure out of the sight of the American people.
Libertarian Horror Movies
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the voting booth...
Science writer Mick West examines alleged UFO sightings. He finds they almost always have far more obvious explanations. 🛸👽
https://reason.pub/3gRH0Vw
To many drug policy reform activists, Biden's recent proclamation does precious little for those imprisoned—some with life sentences—for nonviolent marijuana-related charges. Rather than make good on his campaign trail promises, Biden has done the bare minimum, attempting to garner political goodwill without actually freeing anyone imprisoned by policies Biden himself once heralded.
https://reason.pub/3TJhroa
Do Studies Show Gun Control Works? No.
Out of 27,900 research publications on gun laws, only 123 tested their effects rigorously.