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."

Nations that moved air traffic control out of politics have better tech, no shutdown chaos, and stable funding. Congress keeps choosing dysfunction instead.

Zohran Mamdani's message was, to quote a former president, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

New York voters were right to decide that they don't want a disgraced politician with a bad record, a worse attitude, and no vision running their city government.

What political insurgencies can teach us about major parties.

The former vice president liked being compared to the supervillain as a joke. But he had seriously villainous effects on millions of people in real life.

Justin Sanchez is one of more than 6,000 Americans indefinitely detained in a system that wastes money and doesn't make us safer.

Bizarre how sure Oklahoma lawmakers seemed that they banned drag performers with a law banning obscene performances ... Now that they found out that, no, it doesn't work like that, they're trying to convince local governments that they have to pretend it does reason.com/2025/11/03/o...

"If the Supreme Court decides one person, the president, is allowed to flip the switch on tariffs overnight, every day, any day they want, that is going to create such a volatile and unstable and untrustworthy market. We can't build a business around that. We can't plan for that."

How much debt is embedded in your state and local budgets? Reason Foundation’s new analysis finds $6.1 trillion in combined state and local debt, about $18,400 per American. 16 states exceed $100B; California surpasses $1T. See where your state ranks:

The Trump administration's emphasis on immigration enforcement is sparking disagreement within the executive branch between those who want to target criminals and officials who are more interested in driving up the numbers of deportations.

Cities and states promised to use opioid settlement money to fight addiction. Instead, they’re spending it on concerts, police cars, and political perks.

The Pentagon is directing every state and U.S. territory to create "quick reaction forces" within their National Guards, which will be trained to respond to civil disturbances and emergencies.

Reporting by Reason revealed that former Prince Andrew had been in contact with Jeffrey Epstein much later than he admitted. This week, Buckingham Palace announced that he would now be an ordinary citizen and lose his taxpayer-funded home. reason.pub/3LfqNZA

There are several problems with the president's math, which suggests he has accomplished an impossible feat.

Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record. But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...

Trump says his tariffs protect American businesses, but more than 700 small businesses represented by We Pay The Tariffs beg to differ.

Larry Bushart was arrested on a $2 million bond for posting a meme on Facebook. He was released this week, after more than a month in jail. "A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts."

Tomorrow is Halloween, so let's talk about monsters. Specifically, let's talk about the monstrous government censors who once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywood's original horror classics.

An alleged sexual predator may escape conviction because the feds couldn't just leave local crime to local authorities. Arkansas had a case against the guy for trying to pay a 15-year-old for sex. Then DOJ tried to make it a federal case.... because he drove on a road reason.com/2025/10/29/m...

The pie-in-the-sky space system promises to be a government spending bonanza—and might be a very bad idea.

To fill the roles, the Trump administration is turning to agents from Customs and Border Protection, the agency that has led aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.

"The reality is horrific things like this happen all the time in prisons, and the public only hears about it if—and only if—information about what happened reaches the right set of ears."

Crutchfield Corporation, a Charlottesville-based and family-owned electronics retailer, has submitted an amicus brief in support of challenges to the president’s reciprocal tariffs.

No single person should have the unitary authority to impose tariffs on other countries.

A police officer had a woman jailed for over two years on false charges in connection with a bogus sex-trafficking ring. But the officer, Heather Weyker, cannot be sued, because a court ruled in July that she was acting under color of federal law.

Most of the knobs and levers a modern president uses to bully companies, police speech, or move bodies around aren't new laws—they're standby powers that switch on with a magic word: "emergency."

State governments across the U.S. hold $2.7 trillion in debt, with California topping the list, according to a new report by Reason Foundation.

Vaccine skeptics claims have been proven wrong time and again.

After a local media outlet asked about arrests, a Florida immigration enforcement dashboard was quietly edited to remove evidence of officials arresting U.S. citizens. @cjciaramella.bsky.social reports:

ICE's budget has nearly tripled in Trump's second term and the agency is rapidly amassing an arsenal of weapons.

Latest: Florida scrubbed arrests of U.S. citizens from an online immigration enforcement dashboard after a reporter for the @miaminewtimes.com asked about it reason.com/2025/10/24/f...

The guy who falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating cats is upset that media reported on young Republicans chatting about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. reason.pub/3WUxcf7

Socialism is government control of the means of production. When the government becomes your largest shareholder, that's a strong first step.

State and local debt is over $100 billion in 16 states and exceeds $50 billion in 27 states. California leads the nation with more than $1 trillion in total state and local debt. Read the full report ⬇️

It remains genuinely astonishing that someone as obsessed with tariffs as President Donald Trump can also be so maddeningly ignorant about how they actually work.

ICE is amassing sophisticated surveillance technology, and is using it to target American citizens with little to no oversight.

Once more with feeling: "It matters when the government lies, because a democratic government that destroys the presumption that it's accountable for its actions will soon either stop being democratic or stop being a government." reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

A Washington, D.C., resident who was handcuffed and detained in September for mocking National Guard soldiers by playing "The Imperial March" from Star Wars on his cellphone is suing the soldiers and police officers for their stormtrooper-like behavior.

Singling out porn for special, extra taxes is both an unconstitutional singling out of speech the government doesn’t like + completely at odds with typical social concerns re: porn, like preventing sex worker exploitation and underage performers reason.com/2025/10/22/p...

"When I email DHS for comment about things like the detention of U.S. citizens, I'm given statements contradicted by clear evidence."

The decision “erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States’ control over their States’ militias and the people’s First Amendment rights,” Judge Susan P. Graber warned in her dissent.

Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

The potential for deadly error underlines the lawlessness of the president’s bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy.

Police officers took Jeana Gamble to the ground on the side of the road because they found her costume "obscene."

Will the Supreme Court grant President Trump the overwhelming judicial deference he demands?

Legal or not, it's completely inappropriate for the sitting president to sue media companies he doesn't like and use the levers of government to force them to settle.

Pete Hegseth and company's foolish hostility to the press might result in closer scrutiny of military mischief.

What a wild story. The DOJ failed to convince *three* grand juries to indict a woman for felony assault of a police officer. So they refiled the case as a misdemeanor. A jury acquitted her. Is this what a responsible use of law enforcement resources looks like? reason.com/2025/10/17/w...

"We have allegations that government agents are enforcing the law in a way that violates the Constitution."