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The State of the Union Is Shouty

Plus: A listener asks the editors a question about progressive taxation in the United States.

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Rank Choices

Plus: A listener asks the editors for short quotes from fictional works that are representative of libertarian ideas.

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Biden Pours Out Another $6.5 Billion for the CHIPS Act's Costly Protectionism

It's part of the government's expensive public-private partnership meant to address concerns over a reliance on foreign countries, like China, for semiconductors.

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Goodbye, Navalny

Plus: A listener asks if the editors have criteria for what constitutes a good law.

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Biden's Cognitive Shrinkflation

Plus: A listener asks if the state of Oregon’s policy on drug decriminalization should be viewed as a success.

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Immigration Could Reduce the Deficit by at Least $1 Trillion Over the Next Ten Years

But the Congressional Budget Office projection assumes we will not cut immigration levels, as is likely to happen if Trump returns to power.

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Trump's Terrible, Popular Tariffs

Plus: A listener asks if it should become the norm for all news outlets to require journalists to disclose their voting records.

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The Trump Train Rolls Through Iowa

Plus: A listener asks the editors if there are any bad laws that might discourage people from having kids.

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2023's Most Under-Covered Stories

So long, 2023! What fresh hell awaits us all in 2024?

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Welcome to the Hyperbole Factory

Plus: A listener asks the editors to consider the libertarian argument against shopping local.

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A Bonus Reason Roundtable. Live From Washington, D.C.!

Plus: Is Veep more realistic than House of Cards?

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Blessed Are the Shitposters

Plus: Hospital raid, Eric Adams' fondness for Erdogan, open carry at the makeup counter, and more...

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The Two-Party System Abides

Plus: A listener asks the editors why the Libertarian Party waits until election year to nominate its presidential candidate.

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Don't Believe Janet Yellen's Shoddy Wartime 'Girl Math'

Plus: President Joe Biden’s weird economy and Rep. Mike Johnson as the unlikely new speaker of the House of Representatives.

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What Joe Biden Got Right—and Wrong—Last Week in the Middle East

Plus: A listener asks the editors about mandatory maternity leave.

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1 Million Told To Flee

Plus: Inflation issues, California's "Ebony Alerts," and campus macroaggressions...

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Bring It On

Plus: War with cartels, France-level union activity, and more...

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The 'Whack Jobs' Were Right

Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.

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Congressional Clown Show

Plus: Dianne Feinstein's replacement doesn't even live in California, New York's biblical floods, and more...

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Can You Afford Tariffs on Tin Cans?

"There's nobody that says, wait, is this good for America? Is this good for the American consumer?"

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GOP Debate Stuff We Didn't Hate

Plus: A listener question about the continued absurdity of sports stadium subsidies

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Eric Boehm: How Protectionist Trade Policies Screw Us All

The host of Why We Can't Have Nice Things explains how indefensible tariffs cause baby formula shortages, screw Hawaii residents, and increase traffic in the Northeast.

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Ghosts of Protectionism Past

The U.S. tariff code is "quite regressive and somewhat misogynist" because the most powerful lobbyist in Washington is muscle memory.

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Great Baby Formula Shortage of 2022

A combination of "absurdly high" federal tariffs and excessive FDA regulations created the conditions for a crisis.

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The Fed Won't Save Us From the Inflation Iceberg

Plus: Was Gerald Ford right to pardon Richard Nixon?

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