The EU is keen on mass surveillance of all social media and private messaging, and that’s gonna be bad for pretty much everybody. reason.com/2025/12/01/t... @reason.com

Most Americans Think Free Speech Is on the Decline, Survey Finds. "Drops in confidence across all political parties contributed to the record-levels of pessimism," writes the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. reason.com/2025/11/24/m...

In its zeal to punish Big Tech, the Federal Trade Commission stuck to a market definition that became more obsolete with every year. reason.org/commentary/f...

In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. education.jhu.edu/edpolicy/pol...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch stated that accepting the Trump administration's logic and the powers they've assumed would result in "a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people's elected representatives."

Trump: "With the 100 percent, I was able to do it instantaneously when we were threatened by the rare earths, as you know, the magnets."

China bought 22,130,000 tons of soy beans from the US last year. This year they bought zero because of the tariffs.

The case of Leo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen arrested twice by immigration enforcement, demonstrates the problem with the government's current strategy on immigration enforcement. reason.com/2025/10/31/i... via @reason.com

A new look at travel data shows how work from home accounts for all of the reduction in auto travel in recent year, and transit accounts for essentially none of it. We keep subsidizing transit to fail instead of reinventing it. tbd.ctr.utexas.edu/wp-content/u...

Study finds state governments have a total of $2.7 trillion in debt, with 26 states exceeding $20 billion in debt each and 10 states over $70 billion. reason.org/transparency... @reason.org

As Kevin correctly notes, this is a template straight from the playbook of the Caesars. It's how the republic became the principate, and how the principate later became the dominate. A military dependent on no other institution except the patronage of the emperor.

Abolish ICE and replace it with nothing.

Big tech companies in the US invest more in R&D than do most nations. This has huge spillover effects on research across the board as well as innovation in all sectors of the economy. itif.org/publications...

When concerned about the impact of AI on jobs, its worth remembering how technological change played a huge role in liberating women. It’s hard to know what good will come when people can do new things. open.substack.com/pub/vpostrel...

“'Poisoning' lets bereaved parents tell the world that their child wasn’t a drug user—they were a good person. But it belies the fact that fentanyl users not only deserve to live, they didn’t have the information they needed either."

this is an all timer of a Florida Man story drunk Florida Man goes to the wrong house, breaks in, is immediately beaten up by an even purer Florida Man who does MMA

Philadelphia's city government can address legitimate quality-of-life concerns like crime and homey in Kensington without constraining lifesaving services. reason.org/commentary/r... @reason.org

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Uber-like ride services focusing on taking kids to and from school are so popular in some places, they are displacing, traditional school buses. Markets for everything… stateline.org/2025/09/30/s...

Astonishing! According to @urbaninstitute, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida lead the nation is 4th grade reading test scores that compare kids of similar demographics. www.urban.org/research/pub...

The Constitution is meant to protect ordinary people from their government rather than the other way around. Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.

Join us to watch @reason and @NRO debate the merits of mass immigration! www.eventbrite.com/e/reason-ver...

Abolish the FCC reason.com/2024/11/14/a... via @reason.com

2022 — a confession:

This is the future a rush to regulate AI will prevent. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/1...

The attorney general is now getting called out by fellow conservatives.

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

this is, I think, the future of american foreign policy the entire weight of the country used to shut down criticism of the president or anyone he likes on a global scale the charlie kirk crackdown applied to random social media users an ocean away

So now the MAGA logic is you can’t force a baker to make a gay wedding cake, but you can force a printer to print pro Charlie Kirk posters. Not a single principle in sight.

An NPR investigation into corporate ownership of rental properties uncovers a lot of surprising progress outcomes. www.npr.org/sections/pla...

A series of unfortunate graphs showing that our school system manages to do worse while spending more.

This is not true. Blackstone owns 0.06% of the single family homes in America. There is no market where they own more than 1% of the homes. Nobody has a monopoly on housing. 2/3 of American households own their homes and rental housing is a VERY diversified and competitive industry.

“In one breath, we say we want to save American democracy from Trump. In the next, we insist on blocking the very thing—housing—that would help the state preserve its political clout and ensure the immigrants we say we want to protect can afford to live here.”

Good cause eviction laws and other renter protections may seem like a boon to renters, but ultimately they are the ones who are going to bear the cost of those privileges. www.city-journal.org/article/new-...

I hope he sues every single person that put their hands on him.

Are Americans stronger, freer, and more prosperous when people from around the world are free to join us? @reason.com takes on @nationalreview.bsky.social in a an Oxford-style clash of wit and worldviews on one of the most consequential issues of our time. www.eventbrite.com/e/reason-ver...

They called Ronald Reagan “the Teflon president“ because fact, checking or accusations, so rarely stuck to him. But he was an amateur compared to this administration which has an impervious “negaphobic” (tm) coating…

The use of government force to achieve political advantage is always a terrible idea. It's dangerous to life and liberty. Once it's normalized, we can expect future politicians to further stretch the limits of their power. reason.com/2025/08/27/w... @reason.com

Florida's book ban law FINALLY deemed unconstitutional in a court of law. www.metroweekly.com/2025/08/flor...

Los Angeles has jealously guarded its local control over land use against state intervention, claiming that the city is best positioned to address its housing needs. But when we look at their actions over the past 7 years, it's clear that they have no interest in actual change.

With costs increasing and transit ridership declining in many cities, Congress needs a more constructive, results-driven approach to federal transit grants.

"Kids are learning the wrong things about sex from porn! We have to ban it!" What if you taught kids the right things about sex? "No! Then they might think it's okay to have sex!"

this is (1) not a distraction, (2) not able to be disentangled from the military occupation of multiple us cities, and (3) the greatest threat to liberty in this country since jim crow

The global “War on Drugs” has served as a mechanism for systemic oppression, disproportionately harming marginalized populations while reinforcing entrenched racial, gender, and economic hierarchies. Learn about the specific impact on women: ssdp.org/blog/impact-...

NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.

Remember, I predicted the White House would conflate arrests (often sloppy or unfounded) as "crime reduction" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Notes on a nonexistent crime wave publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...

When Minneapolis dramatically reduced zoning restrictions home prices fell 16-34% and rents fell 17.5-34%. Powerful stuff. Technical details in great research below.

Judge Carlos Mendoza in Florida has sided with authors and publishers in a lawsuit against the state's book ban, determining that the law violates free speech protections. It was ruled that Florida's ban on books that "describe sexual conduct" is too broad.

Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x