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Final 40 Hours of Reason's Annual Fundraising Webathon Gets One Last $25,000 Matching Grant!

08.12.2025 1

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Reason Webathon Woodchips Through $400,000 Goal Before the Halfway Point!

06.12.2025 20

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Help Reason Be Your Antidote to Lousy Journalism!

05.12.2025 2

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The Art of the Presidential Health Cover-Up

15.11.2025 3

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Review: 'The Greatest Songwriter of All Time' Finally Gets a Biography

14.11.2025 5

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The Democratic Thrill for Mamdani Is a Tell

03.11.2025 8

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Is Republican Nominee Curtis Sliwa a Spoiler in NYC?

22.10.2025 2

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What If We Acted Like Political Violence Was a Problem?

11.09.2025 2

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RFK Jr.'s Defenders Are Right To Attack the Public Health Establishment. They're Wrong To Embrace Kookery.

30.08.2025 3

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Trump: The Erratic but Potentially Effective Peacemaker

20.08.2025 20

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Trump Has Issued More Executive Orders So Far This Term Than Biden Did in His Whole Presidency

13.08.2025 30

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Trump Calls Zelenskyy a 'Dictator' but Not Putin. Does He Know What a Dictator Is?

07.08.2025 2

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Trump Is Openly Using the Presidency To Enrich the Trump Brand and Republicans Don't Care

02.08.2025 7

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Baseball, and the Vanishing Art of Forgiveness

25.07.2025 4

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How Trump's Travel Crackdown Is Hurting Americans at Home and Abroad

19.07.2025 30

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The People Who Wrecked N.Y. Schools Love Zohran Mamdani

11.07.2025 10

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Rand Paul Blasts 'Knucklehead' Stephen Miller

13.06.2025 30

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The Tom Cotton Do-Over

11.06.2025 20

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With Trump's Support, Will Pete Rose Finally Make It Into the Baseball Hall of Fame?

14.05.2025 3

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Trump's War on Childhood

06.05.2025 6

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Trump Is Wrong About McKinley's Tariff Legacy

06.04.2025 20

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NATO Could Effectively Die This June

28.02.2025 2

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Trump's Role Model McKinley Tariffed His Way to Imperialism

31.01.2025 2

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How Awful Policies Fueled the L.A. Fires

14.01.2025 10

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Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence

10.01.2025 3

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Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target

Free Speech Matt Welch | 1.7.2025 1:22 PM There is a plausible theory of the case for the dramatic rise in illiberal, speech-stultifying wokeness...

07.01.2025 5

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Why MAGA Is Fighting Over High-Skilled Immigration

H-1B visas Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 1.6.2025 5:00 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

07.01.2025 2

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2024's Most Undercovered Stories

The Reason Roundtable Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 12.30.2024 4:44 PM HD Video Download In the last...

31.12.2024 5

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The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media

Politics Matt Welch | From the January 2025 issue On September 25, more than two months after entering the presidential race, Democratic nominee...

30.12.2024 9

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Was Biden Right to Take Prisoners Off Death Row?

Death Penalty Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Timothy Carney | 12.23.2024 5:06 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

24.12.2024 2

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Biden's Messy Mercy

Clemency Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Jacob Sullum | 12.16.2024 5:18 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt...

17.12.2024 20

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Why Socialists Are Cheering the Death of an Insurance CEO

Health Care Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 12.9.2024 5:21 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

10.12.2024 6

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Help Reason Help Individuals Crushed by the State

Webathon Matt Welch | 12.8.2024 8:00 AM During Reason's annual Webathon, in which we ask our most loyal customers to consider making...

08.12.2024 10

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Help Reason Thrive While Legacy Media Die!

Webathon Matt Welch | 12.4.2024 8:00 AM It is Day 2 of Reason's 17th annual (no, really!) Webathon, that magical time of year when we ask you,...

04.12.2024 5

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The Best of Reason: The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media

Media Criticism Matt Welch | 12.3.2024 6:50 PM This week's featured article is "The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media" by Matt...

04.12.2024 3

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Libertarians Answer Your Questions: Webathon 2024!

Podcasts Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman | 12.3.2024 10:45 AM In this special live episode of The Reason...

03.12.2024 3

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Biden's Final Insult to Our Intelligence

Pardons Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 12.2.2024 4:30 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt...

03.12.2024 7

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Trump's Chaos Cabinet

Federal Agencies Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.25.2024 5:09 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

26.11.2024 4

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How Elon Musk and DOGE Can Deliver on Smaller Government

Law enforcement Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.18.2024 5:17 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

19.11.2024 10

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Trump Won. What's Next?

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.11.2024 5:21 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

12.11.2024 4

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The Alarmingly High, Frustratingly Unknown Stakes of Election 2024

Election 2024 Matt Welch | 11.5.2024 10:35 AM There are three good reasons why Democrats and Republicans alike are using apocalyptic,...

05.11.2024 10

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Live On Election Eve With The Reason Roundtable!

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.5.2024 1:00 AM Will Election 2024 result in an orderly...

05.11.2024 5

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Newspaper Endorsements Die in Daylight

Media Criticism Matt Welch | 10.31.2024 1:53 PM It sure has been a banner week for the triple haters. Just when you thought that Donald Trump had...

31.10.2024 4

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Live On Election Eve With The Reason Roundtable!

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.31.2024 11:15 AM Will Election 2024 result in an orderly...

31.10.2024 3

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How Trump and Harris Meaningfully Differ

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.28.2024 5:24 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

29.10.2024 3

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Show Us Your Votes, Cowards!

Media Criticism Matt Welch | 10.24.2024 3:09 PM Oh, the joys that our more cowardly news brethren miss out on by declining to disclose how their...

24.10.2024 4

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Should We Trust the 2024 Election Polls?

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Stephanie Slade | 10.21.2024 5:15 PM HD Video Download In this week's The Reason...

22.10.2024 4

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Harris and Trump's Terrible Tax Ideas

Taxes Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.14.2024 5:02 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt...

15.10.2024 20

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Why Federal Disaster Relief Is a Disaster

Terrorism Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.7.2024 5:15 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

08.10.2024 5

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Eric Adams and New York City's Corruption Problem

New York City Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 9.30.2024 5:00 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

01.10.2024 5

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