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What I Learned Shadowing California's Katana-Wielding Anti-Squatter Enforcers

California's failure to eject squatters from the properties they've seized undermines the state's new housing laws.

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Donald Trump, Thomas Massie, and the Long, Slow Death of the Tea Party

Whatever happens in Kentucky's GOP primary, the populist right no longer even pretends to care about spending or government overreach.

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Archives: The Best of Brian Doherty

The June 2026 issue's archives are dedicated to longtime Reason editor Brian Doherty, who died in March.

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Maryland's Energy Crisis Was Created In Annapolis

This week, Wes Moore blamed grid operators for high electricity costs, but the problem has worsened because of his own policies

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Thomas Massie's Enemies Are Attacking Him With an Unfair Accusation

Partisan political actors have seized on a vague and unsupported "hush money" allegation.

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Pete Hegseth Can't Explain Why America Needs a $1.5 Trillion Military Budget

Sen. Mark Kelly says it "feels like that number was just kind of pulled out of thin air."

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Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Michigan Man Spends 13 Hours in Vomit and Dies in Jail

A court granted qualified immunity to all 11 deputies accused of violating John Griswold’s 14th Amendment rights.

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Reason Receives 17 Nominations for Southern California Journalism Awards

Nominees include stories on America's gerontocracy, the war on chocolate, how Texas beat California on housing, and more.

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Reform Wins Big in British Local Elections, Reshaping the U.K. Right

Labour and the Tories both suffered huge blows. Is a political realignment underway?

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Secret ICE Memo Tells Local Police Not To Disclose Immigration Enforcement Info Without ICE's Permission

The agency's transparency policies may undermine federal and state laws designed to ensure the free flow of information necessary to hold government actors accountable.

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Republicans Want To Borrow Every Single Dollar of the $72 Billion Bill To Fund ICE and Trump's Ballroom

The party of fiscal responsibility strikes again.

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Gorsuch Says SCOTUS Is Doing 'Pretty Darn Well' in Handling the 'Hardest Cases'

The justice defends the Supreme Court as a model of respectful and principled adjudication.

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Jacob Mchangama & Jeff Kosseff Guest-Blogging About "The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom"

I'm delighted to report that Profs. Jacob Mchangama (Vanderbilt) & Jeff Kosseff (Naval Academy, moving this year to Minnesota) will… The post Jacob Mchangama & Jeff Kosseff Guest-Blogging About "The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Civilians Across the Middle East React to the Iran War: 'A Fear That Settles in Your Heart'

"Now they are hitting everything. Nowhere is safe. But don't worry, we are okay," one Iranian woman texted her American relative.

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The James Comey Indictment Looks Like Vindictive Prosecution

Such claims are hard for most defendants to prove. But most defendants haven't drawn the public ire of the president.

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Is Reason's Video on Climate Change Alarmism a 'Masterclass in Manipulation'?

A response to the popular science communicator Hank Green

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Corn Belt Politicians Are Using High Gas Prices To Push Even More Carveouts for Ethanol

“The sale of E15 year-round would help the ethanol industry and no one else,” says one agricultural policy expert.

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Sabastian Sawe's Sub-2 Marathon Is What Human Progress Looks Like—and Capitalism Helped Build It

Plus: governments get deeper and deeper into horse racing, fiscally conservative Republicans keep subsidizing stadiums, and Full Swing is in a doom spiral

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The Trump Administration Might Send Afghan Refugees to Danger in Congo

About 1,100 Afghans currently stranded at a military base in Qatar could be relocated to the crisis-addled African country.

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The Least Psychedelic President in History Supports Psychedelic Research More Than Any of His Predecessors

Donald Trump is an unlikely but powerful champion of drug reform.

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ICE Is on a $45 Billion Building Spree. Can Small Towns Support These New Migrant Warehouses?

The government is selling the policy with the same arguments you’d expect for subsidized factories or sports stadiums.

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Trump's Pro-Union Labor Secretary Out

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3 Disasters That Legal Weed Didn't Unleash—Despite the Forecasts

From higher crime to teenage stoners, here are things that the weed debate got wrong.

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Federal Judge Delivers Due Process Win Against DOJ Registry Overreach

The Justice Department is permanently blocked from prosecuting Californians who fail to register when the state no longer requires it.

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Another Drug Boat Bombing

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