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Justin Trudeau's 'One Regret' Is Not Implementing Ranked Choice Voting in Canada

Justin Trudeau's 'One Regret' Is Not Implementing Ranked Choice Voting in Canada

Voting Eric Boehm | 1.8.2025 2:15 PM As he heads for the exit, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his "one regret" is not overhauling the...

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With U.S. Steel Decision, Biden Turned His Back on Opposing Monopolies

With U.S. Steel Decision, Biden Turned His Back on Opposing Monopolies

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 1.7.2025 11:30 AM As he signed a sweeping executive order in July 2021 intended to crack down on anticompetitive business...

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Mike Johnson Is Speaker of the House. Again.

Mike Johnson Is Speaker of the House. Again.

Politics Eric Boehm | 1.3.2025 2:20 PM (UPDATE: After seeming to come up short in his bid to be named speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson...

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Blocking the U.S. Steel Sale Is a Perfectly Disgraceful End to Biden's Political Career

Blocking the U.S. Steel Sale Is a Perfectly Disgraceful End to Biden's Political Career

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 1.3.2025 12:30 PM The decision to block U.S. Steel's acquisition by Nippon Steel is the perfect coda to President Joe...

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Will Thomas Massie Get To Pick the Next Speaker of the House?

Will Thomas Massie Get To Pick the Next Speaker of the House?

Politics Eric Boehm | 1.2.2025 3:40 PM It's nearly time once again for everyone's favorite congressional game show: Who Can Get Elected Speaker of...

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Bootleggers and Baptists in the U.S. Steel Deal

Bootleggers and Baptists in the U.S. Steel Deal

steel industry Eric Boehm | 12.31.2024 2:50 PM As President Joe Biden continues to mull whether to allow one private steelmaking company to...

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Final Farewells

Final Farewells

Presidential History Eric Boehm | 12.30.2024 9:30 AM Jimmy Carter, America's 39th president, died Sunday. Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize for his...

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Can Nativists and Dynamists Coexist Within Trump's MAGA Coalition?

Immigration Eric Boehm | 12.27.2024 10:30 AM When President-elect Donald Trump tapped Sriram Krishnan to be a senior policy advisor on artificial...

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Trump's Tariffs Will Shrink the Economy and Reduce Investment, CBO Says

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 12.23.2024 1:45 PM President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs would result in higher prices, lower economic growth,...

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Cancerous Politics

Government Spending Eric Boehm | 12.23.2024 9:40 AM This is why people hate politics: A debate that sprung up in the final hours before lawmakers...

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Joe Biden Once Understood Why Tariffs Are Bad. Then He Got Trade Policy Amnesia.

Joe Biden Eric Boehm | From the January 2025 issue In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we're giving performance reviews of Joe Biden's presidency....

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Taxpayers Outside Maryland Shouldn't Pay To Rebuild a Toll Bridge Inside Maryland

Congress Eric Boehm | 12.18.2024 2:30 PM Federal taxpayers will cover the full cost of rebuilding Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge if Congress...

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Social Security Is Deeply Unfair. The Social Security Fairness Act Won't Fix That.

Social Security Eric Boehm | 12.17.2024 12:55 PM Since publishing an article yesterday about the Senate's upcoming vote on a bill to bestow better...

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Senate Tees Up $200 Billion Social Security Giveaway to Public Sector Workers

Social Security Eric Boehm | 12.16.2024 1:26 PM The Senate is reportedly set to vote on a bill boosting Social Security payouts to public sector...

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Federal Government Has 'Grown Too Big, Promised Too Much, Subsidized Too Many,' Warns Former GAO Boss

Government Waste Eric Boehm | 12.13.2024 10:30 AM The United States is likely to face a debt crisis within the next five years unless Congress...

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The National Debt Just Hit $36 Trillion. Does Trump Have a Plan To Control It?

National Debt Eric Boehm | 11.15.2024 4:30 PM In last week's elections, Americans rejected the status quo in the federal government and asked...

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Rand Paul Will Continue His COVID-19 Investigations From Atop the Senate Homeland Security Committee

Politics Eric Boehm | 11.14.2024 1:05 PM When Republicans officially take control of the U.S. Senate in January, a longtime critic of the national...

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To Succeed at Cutting Government, Musk and Ramaswamy Must Take on Entitlements

Government Spending Eric Boehm | 11.13.2024 12:30 PM Possibly the biggest pile of waste in the federal government is the amount of "improper...

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Democrats Are About to Rediscover the Value of the Filibuster

Filibuster Eric Boehm | 11.12.2024 12:35 PM Three years ago, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D–Wash.) and nearly 100 of her House colleagues signed a...

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If Trump Wins, It's Because Neither Party Had the Guts To Stop Him

Election 2024 Eric Boehm | 11.6.2024 1:20 AM Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021 as a defeated, disgraced figure, soon after the...

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Why Results From Some Swing States Could Take Days

Politics Eric Boehm | 11.4.2024 2:05 PM All votes count equally but not all votes are counted the same. That's why the outcome of key races might...

04.11.2024 3

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What Is the 'Working Class'?

Politics Eric Boehm | From the December 2024 issue Republicans and Democrats alike want to be seen as champions of the working class—understandably...

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The Trump-Harris Debate Featured Two Incumbents Afraid To Discuss Their Own Records

Politics Eric Boehm | 9.11.2024 1:00 PM A lot of American politics has been upended over the past eight years, but here's one constant: a majority...

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The Best of Reason Magazine: A Baby Dies in Virginia

Neonatal care Eric Boehm | 7.30.2024 6:06 PM This week's featured article is "A Baby Dies in Virginia" by Eric Boehm. This audio was generated...

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