Age verification is quickly going to take over the whole internet reason.com/2025/12/22/s...

The divisions are no longer just between pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives.

Latest: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considers recording or following federal law enforcement to be obstruction of justice. DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

Some people are calling it "Total Boomer Luxury Communism."

Larry Bushart's lawyers argue that his arrest for constitutionally protected speech violated the First and Fourth amendments.

Trump's fentanyl fantasies reached a new level of absurdity this week.

Americans want border enforcement. But they're not overall hostile to immigration—they favor increased legal immigration. They want ICE to target human predators who crossed the border illegally, not workers and their families.

OF COURSE it was going to come to this... Indiana now saying it's not enough for adult websites to block people in response to state age-verification law—since VPNs exist, they're still in violation. That leaves 3 options for porn platforms: check IDs, don't exist, or block all VPNs...

The Trump administration doesn't want to win these cases. It wants to intimidate Americans who oppose its immigration policies.

From immigration crackdowns to trade policy, the Trump administration is increasingly centralizing power in Washington, D.C.

Latest: A report by the Cato Institute, a new AP investigation, and reams of court documents show how DHS is abusing a law about impeding federal law enforcement to threaten and arrest people for protected First Amendment activity. Those cases are falling apart in court reason.com/2025/12/18/t...

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech."

Americans are worried about high prices, housing, and whether Washington is planning on going to war. Trump’s national address didn’t offer answers on any of that. Read more: reason.pub/454HHB2

Trump's targeted metrics are meaningless as proxies of prosperity. But the fact that his protectionist policies are failing to achieve their stated goals shows just how flawed they—and their justifications—always were.

"It was a perfectly pointless speech, and that's the best we could have hoped for," writes @enbrown.bsky.social. reason.pub/454HHB2

the only thing we had to fear was an insanely inflated annual performance review reason.com/2025/12/17/n...

The defense secretary claims the video, which shows a second strike that killed two floundering survivors, would compromise "sources and methods."

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Donald Trump failed a not particularly challenging moral test.

There's an appealingly simple logic to anti-tech arguments: phone & social media use went up, so did bad things. Ergo, the phones & Instagram did it Correlation is 9/10 of moral-panic law But a growing body of research challenges easy narratives about young people & tech

A real affordability agenda would unleash free markets, not constrain them.

Trump claims the U.S. has taken in $18 trillion because of tariffs. But what does that mean? Actually, tariff revenue this year totaled less than $300 billion, and his claim is fantastical in other ways too.

College students’ mental health is improving. Depression, anxiety, loneliness & suicidal thoughts all drop for third year in a row. Some is just reversing pandemic trends but in some cases we’ve seen even further declines in prevalence, back down to 2018 or 2014 levels reason.com/2025/12/15/y...

The main practical benefits would be tax relief for the cannabis industry and fewer barriers to medical research.

A federal lawsuit argues that the agency's policy of perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

I wrote a bunch of long stories this year, but I think my best was this short one. It’s about an innocent guy who fought the City of Chicago for nearly a decade to get his beloved Cadillac out of impound. The city waited him out until he died. reason.com/2025/04/16/t...

A years-long scheme to defraud $1.5 billion from federally subsidized social services is fueling a wave of xenophobia against Minnesotans of Somali descent. The real culprit is Uncle Sam.

The mortgage fraud charges against New York's attorney general are legally shaky.

DHS released a new database highlighting "the worst of the worst criminal aliens arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." The data categorize just 4 percent of immigration arrests since President Donald Trump took office as "the worst of the worst." reason.pub/4pEs4Zw

Congress is once again giving the military more money than it asked for and barring the armed forces from discontinuing unnecessary projects.

Corn, sunflower, canola, rapeseed, and safflower farmers—growers of the most common seeds used for seed oils—will be included in the Trump administration's new $12 billion bailout. reason.pub/3XNNd7b

American farmers exported more than 26 million metric tons of soybeans to China annually during Biden's term. Trump's deal with China would cover less than half that amount.

The Trump administration continues a long tradition of subsidizing the things it tells Americans to eat less of.

The party in power changes. The pressure to silence critics doesn’t.

So far, by the president's reckoning, he has prevented 650,000 U.S. drug deaths—eight times the number recorded last year.

The footage shows what happened to the survivors of the September 2 attack that inaugurated the president's deadly campaign against suspected drug boats.

It remains insane to me that the govt can try you for one crime and then just punish you for entirely different crimes reason.com/2025/12/08/t...

For Trump, tariffs are a solution to every problem, and his trade war is more about the vibes than the economics.

Leaders are muddying the waters about who our Afghan allies are.

You don't have to like the Muslim Brotherhood or the Council on American-Islamic Relations to think the government should be required to prove accusations before punishing people.

The logic of Trump's policy and Hegseth's implementation of it effectively blesses what the law of war theoretically forbids.

Months after his 7-year-old was struck and killed, prosecutors are still treating a tragedy as a crime—holding a bereaved father under surveillance and keeping the grieving family apart.

When voters believe they're living through an economic apocalypse, they're willing to embrace the very policies that would create one.

The Trump administration is using an isolated act of violence to justify sweeping crackdowns on refugees and wartime allies who were already thoroughly vetted.

Adm. Frank Murphy's defense of his second strike on a suspected drug boat is incomprehensible unless you accept the idea of "combatants" who are not engaged in combat.

United States District Judge Beryl A. Howell said the Department of Homeland Security’s own statements about its policy and practice reveal an “abandonment of the probable cause standard.”

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The 3rd Circuit's ruling against Alina Habba's U.S. attorney appointment highlights Trump's attempts to install loyalist prosecutors without Senate approval.

FinCEN's involvement expands the war on terror into the war on immigration. And like the war on terror, this new campaign is already expanding past its original targets, as the government uses its power to inconvenience ordinary Americans.