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Why Don’t Prison Reforms Ever Work?
Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella on 250 years of American attempts to build a better penitentiary.
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Where Does the Godfather of the Post-Liberal Right Come From?
A new book details how an early National Review editor and Barry Goldwater ghostwriter blazed the trail for libertarian-hating characters like J.D…
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Idiocracy Predicted Our World, But Not in the Way You Think
Mike Judge's cult classic turns 20 and remains prescient about how we live today, especially outside of politics.
Aug 27
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Richard Dawkins: Why Atheism and Science Are Winning
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Kennedy's Gen X Journey From MTV to Fox News
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What I Saw at the No Kings Rally in New York City
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Mamdani's Mayorship Won't Kill New York, But Will Make It a Worse Place To Live and Work
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The Very Best Sort of Travel
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Blame Canada? Or Donald Trump?
The president’s newest trade war is as stupid and impotent as his threat to rename the smallest Great Lake to ‘Lake America.’ Plus: How America got $40…
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Kurt Andersen: Can America Survive Political Polarization?
The Spy cofounder talks Trump, the twilight of the Boomers, and his brilliant new novel set in the near future, The Breakup
Aug 19
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What If the Future is Actually Good?
Jason Silva has seen the future. It's fueled by psychedelics and AI, and should be ecstatic, if we can get out of our own way.
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Reason Roundtable: Are Socialists Really Leaving Woke Behind?
The successor to AOC's Woke 1, affordablity politics is generational warfare, does capitalism work if I lose my job, and how to preserve the internet's…
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Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, and the Last 50 Years of American Greatness
Half-a-century ago, Jenner won the Olympic Decathlon in a record-setting triumph over a Soviet 'machine.' Eleven years ago, she transitioned, defining…
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Evan Barker Raised $50 Million for Dems, Voted for Trump in 2024, and Is Now Politically Homeless
The Nothing Left author talks about class in a party obsessed with identity.
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Is New York City's Democratic Socialism Going National?
Plus: AI and mergers going to ruin our 'culture'? And why do I like paintings of burning banks? New Reason Roundtable is up!
Aug 4
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Do the Democrats Have a Socialism Problem?
And do the Republicans have a similar malady? Plus, The Odyssey, Obsession, and Pale Fire.
Jul 28
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Don't Blame AI for Your Own Medical Problems
A former pastor suing ChatGPT says the chatbot gave him life-threatening medical advice. But tech-enabled healthcare is not the problem.
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