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The Best of Reason: These Pro-Lifers Don't Love Abortion Bans 24.09.2024 19:10 ↓

Reason talked with pro-life Americans who are uncomfortable with the post–Roe v. Wade abortion policy landscape.

The Best of Reason: Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic? 17.09.2024 30:12 ↓

America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.

The Best of Reason: How Inflation Breaks Our Brains 10.09.2024 25:16 ↓

From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational.

The Best of Reason: Project 2025 Is No Match for MAGA Dysfunction 04.09.2024 22:03 ↓

Trump promised to hire "only the best people," yet his presidential plans were repeatedly thwarted by his staff. Will a second term be different?

The Best of Reason: The Afghan Allies Left Behind in the Graveyard of Empires 27.08.2024 23:40 ↓

Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.

The Best of Reason: The Fragile Generation 20.08.2024 23:57 ↓

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.

The Best of Reason: Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President 13.08.2024 34:19 ↓

The former California senator and prosecutor has a long record of pushing illiberal policies.

The Best of Reason Magazine: Your Vote Doesn't Count 06.08.2024 18:12 ↓

Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day

The Best of Reason Magazine: A Baby Dies in Virginia 30.07.2024 29:34 ↓

The lethal consequences of a common, obscure hospital licensing law.

The Best of Reason: Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything' 23.07.2024 26:15 ↓

How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause.

The Best of Reason: Why Did Americans Stop Caring About the National Debt? 16.07.2024 33:26 ↓

Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.

The Best of Reason: Child Welfare Systems Are Trapping Innocent Families 09.07.2024 27:35 ↓

Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?

The Best of Reason: What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave? 02.07.2024 19:02 ↓

Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.

The Best of Reason: What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel? 25.06.2024 24:44 ↓

Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That's why it's worth doing.

The Best of Reason: Government Can't Fix America's Baby Bust 18.06.2024 26:11 ↓

The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.

The Best of Reason: American Small Businesses Are Desperate for Foreign Workers 11.06.2024 15:50 ↓

The number of job openings far exceeds the number of unemployed Americans. Seasonal businesses can't get the foreign labor they need.

The Best of Reason: The Mirage of China's I.P. Theft 04.06.2024 16:54 ↓

As allegations of intellectual property theft swirl, a deeper look reveals a tale of phony numbers and twisted data.

The Best of Reason: Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work 28.05.2024 15:21 ↓

Revolutionary AI technologies can't solve the "wicked problems" facing policy makers.

The Best of Reason: 'AI Bullshit' Makes Poets Mad 21.05.2024 6:39 ↓

Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?

The Best of Reason: The Future of Porn Is Consensual Deepfakes 14.05.2024 10:38 ↓

OnlyFans lets women distribute their own porn. Artificial intelligence will give them even more control.

The Best of Reason: The Future of AI Is Helping Us Discover the Past 07.05.2024 12:09 ↓

Historical teaching and research are being revamped by AI.

The Best of Reason: In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment 01.05.2024 19:38 ↓

AI developer Andrew Mayne explains why technology could create more jobs and lead to unprecedented economic growth.

The Best of Reason: A Big Panic Over Tiny Plastics 23.04.2024 6:17 ↓

Science can detect increasingly small particles of plastic in our air and water. That doesn't mean it's bad for you.