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NATO Could Effectively Die This June

28.02.2025 2

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Trump's Role Model McKinley Tariffed His Way to Imperialism

31.01.2025 2

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How Awful Policies Fueled the L.A. Fires

14.01.2025 10

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Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence

10.01.2025 3

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Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target

Free Speech Matt Welch | 1.7.2025 1:22 PM There is a plausible theory of the case for the dramatic rise in illiberal, speech-stultifying wokeness...

07.01.2025 5

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Why MAGA Is Fighting Over High-Skilled Immigration

H-1B visas Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 1.6.2025 5:00 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

07.01.2025 2

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2024's Most Undercovered Stories

The Reason Roundtable Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 12.30.2024 4:44 PM HD Video Download In the last...

31.12.2024 5

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The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media

Politics Matt Welch | From the January 2025 issue On September 25, more than two months after entering the presidential race, Democratic nominee...

30.12.2024 9

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Was Biden Right to Take Prisoners Off Death Row?

Death Penalty Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Timothy Carney | 12.23.2024 5:06 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

24.12.2024 2

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Biden's Messy Mercy

Clemency Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Jacob Sullum | 12.16.2024 5:18 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt...

17.12.2024 10

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Why Socialists Are Cheering the Death of an Insurance CEO

Health Care Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 12.9.2024 5:21 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

10.12.2024 6

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Help Reason Help Individuals Crushed by the State

Webathon Matt Welch | 12.8.2024 8:00 AM During Reason's annual Webathon, in which we ask our most loyal customers to consider making...

08.12.2024 10

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Help Reason Thrive While Legacy Media Die!

Webathon Matt Welch | 12.4.2024 8:00 AM It is Day 2 of Reason's 17th annual (no, really!) Webathon, that magical time of year when we ask you,...

04.12.2024 5

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The Best of Reason: The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media

Media Criticism Matt Welch | 12.3.2024 6:50 PM This week's featured article is "The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media" by Matt...

04.12.2024 3

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Libertarians Answer Your Questions: Webathon 2024!

Podcasts Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman | 12.3.2024 10:45 AM In this special live episode of The Reason...

03.12.2024 3

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Biden's Final Insult to Our Intelligence

Pardons Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 12.2.2024 4:30 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt...

03.12.2024 5

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Trump's Chaos Cabinet

Federal Agencies Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.25.2024 5:09 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

26.11.2024 4

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How Elon Musk and DOGE Can Deliver on Smaller Government

Law enforcement Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.18.2024 5:17 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

19.11.2024 5

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Trump Won. What's Next?

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.11.2024 5:21 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

12.11.2024 4

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The Alarmingly High, Frustratingly Unknown Stakes of Election 2024

Election 2024 Matt Welch | 11.5.2024 10:35 AM There are three good reasons why Democrats and Republicans alike are using apocalyptic,...

05.11.2024 7

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Live On Election Eve With The Reason Roundtable!

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.5.2024 1:00 AM Will Election 2024 result in an orderly...

05.11.2024 4

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Newspaper Endorsements Die in Daylight

Media Criticism Matt Welch | 10.31.2024 1:53 PM It sure has been a banner week for the triple haters. Just when you thought that Donald Trump had...

31.10.2024 3

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Live On Election Eve With The Reason Roundtable!

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.31.2024 11:15 AM Will Election 2024 result in an orderly...

31.10.2024 3

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How Trump and Harris Meaningfully Differ

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.28.2024 5:24 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

29.10.2024 3

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Show Us Your Votes, Cowards!

Media Criticism Matt Welch | 10.24.2024 3:09 PM Oh, the joys that our more cowardly news brethren miss out on by declining to disclose how their...

24.10.2024 3

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Should We Trust the 2024 Election Polls?

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Stephanie Slade | 10.21.2024 5:15 PM HD Video Download In this week's The Reason...

22.10.2024 4

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Harris and Trump's Terrible Tax Ideas

Taxes Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.14.2024 5:02 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt...

15.10.2024 6

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Why Federal Disaster Relief Is a Disaster

Terrorism Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.7.2024 5:15 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

08.10.2024 3

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Eric Adams and New York City's Corruption Problem

New York City Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 9.30.2024 5:00 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

01.10.2024 5

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Get Your Gross Sex Out of My Sick Politics!

Sex Crimes Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.23.2024 5:10 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

24.09.2024 3

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Why Do They Keep Shooting at Donald Trump?

Donald Trump Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 9.16.2024 5:44 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

17.09.2024 2

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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate

Russia Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 9.9.2024 5:13 PM HD Video Download In this week's The Reason...

10.09.2024 3

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We Have Already Passed Peak Public School

Public schools Matt Welch | 9.6.2024 11:05 AM As back-to-school week wheezes into gear for the nation's 54 million or so children between the ages...

06.09.2024 2

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How Should the U.S. Respond to Hamas Executing Americans?

Israel Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Charles C.W. Cooke | 9.3.2024 5:09 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

04.09.2024 5

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When Biden's 'Bubble Wrap' Burst

Politics Matt Welch | From the October 2024 issue The political/media establishment that lied to you about President Joe Biden will lie to you...

03.09.2024 30

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Wait, Democrats Now Say They Love Freedom?

Democratic Party Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 8.26.2024 6:08 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

27.08.2024 1

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Manufacturing Joy at the DNC

Democratic Convention 2024 Matt Welch | 8.23.2024 12:49 AM Democrats this week in Chicago almost pulled off an impressive, arena-sized trick. They...

23.08.2024 10

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Party of COVID-19 Authoritarianism Improbably Rebrands as 'Party of Freedom'

Democratic Convention 2024 Matt Welch | 8.22.2024 12:45 PM For a while there last night, it looked like variations on the word joy had a puncher's...

22.08.2024 1

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America Is Ready To Party

Democratic Convention 2024 Matt Welch | 8.21.2024 1:15 PM If you were either viewing or attending the second day of the Democratic National...

21.08.2024 20

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Democrats Just Can't Quit Saving Our Souls

Democratic Convention 2024 Matt Welch | 8.20.2024 12:51 PM Say what you will about the otherwise calorie-lite first fortnight of the Kamala...

20.08.2024 3

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Democrats Unburdened by What They Have Done to Chicago

Democratic Party Matt Welch | 8.19.2024 12:12 PM A few hours before touching down in Chicago Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris, in one of her...

19.08.2024 20

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Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal

Tim Walz Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 8.12.2024 5:23 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, Katherine...

13.08.2024 3

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Weighing Kamala Harris' Veep Options

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Jonah Goldberg, and Kevin D. Williamson | 8.5.2024 5:06 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...

06.08.2024 20

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What Kamala Harris' Coronation Says About the Democratic Party

Media Criticism Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 7.29.2024 6:26 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

30.07.2024 20

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Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed.

Election 2024 Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 7.22.2024 5:00 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable,...

23.07.2024 2

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