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Why Trump's China Tariffs Won't Work

Why Trump's China Tariffs Won't Work
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Alex Garland's Warfare Refuses To Soften the Blow of Combat

Alex Garland's Warfare Refuses To Soften the Blow of Combat
10.04.2025 5

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Review: Is the New Captain America Movie an Allegory for Donald Trump?

Review: Is the New Captain America Movie an Allegory for Donald Trump?
04.04.2025 5

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Time for a DOGE Dance Party

01.04.2025 3

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Trump's War With the Courts

25.03.2025 9

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Forget Woke Snow White. Disney's Remake Is More Like Socialist Snow White.

21.03.2025 3

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Review: A TV Spy Thriller About Psychological Consequences of Going Undercover

21.03.2025 4

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Why We Don't Need the Department of Education

18.03.2025 7

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It's Trump's Economy Now

11.03.2025 4

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Mickey 17 Is a Misbegotten Sci-Fi Trump Satire

07.03.2025 3

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Trump vs. Zelenskyy: Democracy Dies in Drama?

04.03.2025 4

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Are Democrats Actually in Disarray?

25.02.2025 9

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Justin Amash on Why the President Isn't Above the Law

19.02.2025 6

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DOGE vs. Deep State

11.02.2025 3

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Review: Gladiator II Is a Historical Epic About the Dangers of Political Power

07.02.2025 5

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Trump's Dumb Trade War

04.02.2025 10

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In Companion, the Killer Robot Is the Hero 

31.01.2025 3

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The Cultural Consequences of Trump's Victory

28.01.2025 4

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Steven Soderbergh's Presence Is a Stylish, Experimental Ghost Story

24.01.2025 4

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Donald Trump's Chaotic and Contradictory Day 1

22.01.2025 4

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Biden's Legacy: He Didn't Build That

16.01.2025 10

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Bye, Biden

16.01.2025 7

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The Brutalist Is Great American Cinema

10.01.2025 3

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Why the Race and Gender Politics of White Dudes for Harris Failed

Politics Peter Suderman | From the February 2025 issue Leading up to the 2024 election, pundits, pollsters, and political operatives discussed the...

07.01.2025 10

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The Best of Reason: Bidenomics Goes Out With a Whimper

Biden Administration Peter Suderman | 12.31.2024 5:06 PM This week's featured article is "Bidenomics Goes Out With a Whimper" by Peter Suderman....

01.01.2025 3

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Everybody Hates Prices

Economics Peter Suderman | From the January 2025 issue The Wendy's Baconator is a beast of a burger. Introduced in 2007 as part of a back-to-basics...

29.12.2024 10

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Make Cars (and Everything Else) Cheap Again

Free Trade Peter Suderman | 12.27.2024 9:30 AM Tariff price shock absorbers: In 2019, the average price of a new car in America was less than...

27.12.2024 10

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Holiday Stress Test

Federal Reserve Peter Suderman | 12.26.2024 9:30 AM Banks are Fed up: In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...

26.12.2024 10

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Do You Have To Choose a Side in Politics? Reason Versus The Bulwark

Politics Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch | 12.20.2024 4:15 PM HD Video Download For the very first Reason Versus debate this week,...

21.12.2024 4

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Kraven the Hunter Is a Fittingly Terrible Send-Off to the Worst Superhero Movie Franchise

Movies Peter Suderman | 12.13.2024 8:15 AM It's time to say goodbye to the SUMC superhero movie franchise. Just days before the release of Kraven...

13.12.2024 6

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Bidenomics Goes Out With a Whimper

Economics Peter Suderman | From the January 2025 issue In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we're giving performance reviews of Joe Biden's...

12.12.2024 7

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The Best of Reason: Everybody Hates Prices

Price controls Peter Suderman | 12.10.2024 6:00 PM This week's featured article is "Everybody Hates Prices" by Peter Suderman. This audio was...

11.12.2024 10

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Support Reason To Support Free Speech and Open Debate

Webathon Peter Suderman | 12.10.2024 8:00 AM Reason 's 17th annual Webathon is just about over. But it's not too late to give! So before this...

10.12.2024 5

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It's Been a Big Year for Feminist Body Horror

Movies Peter Suderman | 12.6.2024 10:45 AM It's been a banner year for feminist body horror, even if that only means there were two movies to fall...

06.12.2024 5

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Donate to Reason To Keep the New Prohibitionists at Bay

Webathon Peter Suderman | 12.5.2024 8:00 AM In the years before Prohibition, antialcohol activists made two sweeping arguments for making liquor...

05.12.2024 6

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Gladiator II Is a Lavish, Empty Spectacle

Movies Peter Suderman | 11.22.2024 10:13 AM When Gladiator hit theaters in the summer of 2000, there were no post-credits scenes teasing sequels....

22.11.2024 8

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Cable News Is Over

Journalism Peter Suderman | 11.21.2024 2:59 PM When the Cable News Network (CNN) launched on the evening of June 1, 1980, it was a youthful upstart...

21.11.2024 2

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Abolish Obamacare

Health Care Peter Suderman | From the December 2024 issue When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, passed...

14.11.2024 8

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Sean Baker's Anora Is a Riotous Celebration of Working-Class Life

Movies Peter Suderman | 11.8.2024 10:29 AM Just a few minutes into Anora, there's a small but telling detail in a small but important moment: The...

08.11.2024 4

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America's Unserious Presidential Policy Agendas

Election 2024 Peter Suderman | 11.4.2024 10:00 AM One of the strangest aspects of this election is that supporters of both Donald Trump and Kamala...

04.11.2024 3

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In Juror #2, Clint Eastwood Puts American Justice on Trial 

Movies Peter Suderman | 11.1.2024 10:27 AM What is justice?  For as long as Clint Eastwood has been making movies—which is to say, a very long...

01.11.2024 8

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Review: An Action Movie About Civil Asset Forfeiture

Police Abuse Peter Suderman | From the December 2024 issue Netflix's  Rebel Ridge  is the rarest of things: a taut, tense thriller packed with rip-...

01.11.2024 10

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This Election Has Been Defined by Presidential Policy Pandering

Election 2024 Peter Suderman | 10.29.2024 10:47 AM In June, former President Trump traveled to Las Vegas where he unexpectedly revealed a new tax...

29.10.2024 4

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Venom: The Last Dance Is a Camp Buddy Comedy Disguised as a Comic Book Movie

Movies Peter Suderman | 10.25.2024 10:31 AM Who says the rom-com is dead? Venom: The Last Dance is a slapstick, silly, oddly sweet romp about a...

25.10.2024 10

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Kamalacare Is Just Bidencare

Health Care Peter Suderman | From the November 2024 issue Kamala Harris' most notable foray into health care policy was when she endorsed an idea...

20.10.2024 10

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Review: Sunny Is a Techno-Satire About Violent Robots

Science Fiction Peter Suderman | From the November 2024 issue The first of Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics held that robots cannot harm a...

18.10.2024 10

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Neal Stephenson's Polostan Is a Compact Epic About Communism, Science, and the Dawn of the Atomic Age

Neal Stephenson Peter Suderman | 10.16.2024 10:26 AM Critics sometimes gripe that Neal Stephenson's sprawling, discursive, episodic, prop-up-your-...

16.10.2024 20

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A D.C. Cocktail Bar Takes on Taboos

Alcohol Peter Suderman | From the November 2024 issue One of Washington, D.C.'s best cocktail bars is Silver Lyan, the only U.S. outpost for award-...

14.10.2024 10

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Joker: Folie à Deux Is a Miserable, Musical Slog

Movies Peter Suderman | 10.4.2024 10:30 AM Sometime over the past several years, a particular meme-like social media post format became popular:...

04.10.2024 5

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To Get Through the Election, Drink Chartreuse

Election 2024 Peter Suderman | 10.4.2024 7:45 AM The presidential race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is...

04.10.2024 6

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