Presidents should try to nudge the world toward more trade and less war whenever possible. Trump is doing the opposite.

The chief justice hails the judiciary as “a counter-majoritarian check on the political branches.”

Where do Americans stand on the Trump administration's nation-building project? reason.pub/3LkIvLq

The president asserted broad powers to deport people, impose tariffs, and deploy the National Guard based on his own unilateral determinations.

After assuring citizens in September that their encounters with immigration agents will be brief and harmless, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is now spelling out for the government what its agents "must" and "must not" do.

Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID.

Despite their general ignorance of constitutional law, bears pose a much less grave threat to your civil liberties than humans do.

It is yet another ruling that shields the government from liability for damages caused by law enforcement.

Federal Medicaid policy creates little incentive for states to stop potential fraudsters. Fixing that should be the priority, not demonizing Somali immigrants.

Critics of cash bail say it creates a two-tiered justice system: Those who can pay maintain their freedom, while those unable to pay remain behind bars.

A SWAT team threw 30+ grenades into an innocent man’s business while chasing a suspect. L.A. left him with a $60,000 bill. His livelihood was destroyed. A federal court says he’s entitled to $0. Whatever your politics, that’s a travesty. reason.com/2025/12/29/i...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s latest is an anti-tech omnibus, combining years' worth of dangerous policy ideas into one big, bad bill.

Free-range parents may remember 2025 as the year that proved just how hard it still is to give kids any independence. Parents faced arrests, investigations, and fear-driven rules—but there was also meaningful progress toward making independence normal again.

The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you might expect. Maybe worse. reason.com/2025/12/29/t...

A federal investigation revealed a long-running scheme in which an Albuquerque defense attorney bribed police to ensure that his clients would not be convicted of DWI charges.

President Donald Trump came into office presenting himself as a peace president. How's that going?

Drugs remain undefeated in the War on Drugs.

The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2025. reason.pub/4jhsVNd

A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.

ICYMI: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considered recording or following law enforcement to be obstruction of justice, and they said "that sure sounds like obstruction." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

The justices suggested the president is misinterpreting "the regular forces," a key phrase in the statute on which he is relying.

History shows clearly that the societies most capable of generosity and liberalism are not those trapped in poverty but those that have escaped it.

America was not founded to be a theocracy and it should not strive to become one.

Should the Supreme Court uphold Trump's tariffs just because it would be "very complicated" to issue refunds? reason.pub/4qqqla9

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."

Reason is hiring an editorial manager, a freelance copy editor, a reporting fellow, and a producing fellow! More info here: reason.org/jobs/

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...