The Best of Reason Magazine

The Best of Reason Magazine

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A weekly selection from Reason—the magazine of free minds and free markets—read by AI.

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Apr 2, 2025

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Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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