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Chuck Klosterman’s obsessive, passionate new book Football makes many arguments about the national game, including a prediction of its... Read More

America’s biggest media event no longer produces a shared culture. Read More

When asked if he would apologize for an overtly racist video clip of the Obamas posted on President Trump's Truth Social, the president... Read More

Whether it's "fake outrage" or not. Read More

Trump called the reaction “surprising,” and falsely claimed his vice president “doesn’t get booed in this country.” Read More

Freestyle skiers say pride in competing clashes with concerns over ICE raids and political tensions back at home. Read More

Olympic hockey great Mike Eruzione slammed US skier Hunter Hess for dissing the Stars and Stripes while on the press podium in Milan. Read More

Roughly a decade and a half ago, I authored a Republican House policy paper identifying “sanctuary cities” as being ideologically... Read More

There’s a bigger story behind the Minnesota fraud scandal. Read More

Rahm Emanuel is likely to run for president in 2028. Even his long-shot candidacy will shape the debate and the future. Read More

It is difficult, especially in higher education, for legislatures to control the academic curriculum while maintaining a veneer of academic... Read More

Just a little PSA for the folks who are clearly confused... Read More

Interview by Jerry Rogers with Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Services. Arthur discusses the role of ICE within the government... Read More

Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and RCP White House reporter Phil Wegmann discuss the president stealing the show at the annual World Economic... Read More

Plus: Iran’s struggle for freedom and the police lies about Maccabi Tel Aviv. Read More

Threats of new tariffs on NATO allies, masked federal agents stir unrest in Minnesota, and more in this episode of The Reason Roundtable. Read More

Energy affordability has become a top concern for  .... Read More

Voting by the non-citizen mayor of Coldwater, Kan., highlights a problem created by Congress. Read More

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) appliance efficiency standards program has been in place for decades, subjecting nearly every major... Read More

Download I am Brian Blase, founder and president of Paragon Health Institute. From 2017 through 2019, I served as a Special Assistant to the... Read More

Introduction In August, AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies representing the industry’s top players, announced... Read More

Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvin’s knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a week’s worth of rallies... Read More

In a statement issued last week, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman once again called for an end to Governor Sisolak’s indefinite... Read More

While New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the closing of certain grocery stores over COVID-19 concerns, she spent $16,248 in... Read More

Officials from Petaluma, California have decided their city has enough places to fill up gas-powered cars. Last week, the local city council... Read More

The chaos in Minneapolis shows what happens when nobody is willing to turn down the temperature. Read More

The Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and an administrative arrest and removal process that provides greater constitutional protection than... Read More

NPR was eagerly touting their new NPR/PBS Marist Poll to underline the effectiveness of their advocacy: 65 percent of Americans, up from 54... Read More

Which Democrats may immediately fumble away. Read More

Democrats’ recent hysteria over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act has unsurprisingly manifested in claims that... Read More

There’s a bigger story behind the Minnesota fraud scandal. Read More

Over the past year, Minnesota has become a national symbol in political rhetoric about government waste and fraud. Republican lawmakers and... Read More

Marxism has become a catch-all accusation, but the real problem is not rhetorical excess—it is analytical failure. While Marx was a... Read More

Robert Nisbet saw their struggle coming—and showed how to help. Read More

My last two posts have been about the new Federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, just out (December 31) from the Federal Justice... Read More

Fox Varian’s successful lawsuit against the doctors who removed her breasts needs to be a turning point. Read More

The SAVE America Act, up for a vote next week in the House, has been a rare rallying point for a divided GOP. Read More

Trump is again talking about controlling and stealing elections. History suggests Democrats should worry—but not panic. Read More

Without reform, the price pressures will only intensify. Read More

After years of confusion and regulatory hostility to crypto assets, Washington is finally waking up to what President Trump understood on the... Read More

Billionaires are hastening the decline of institutional media — and independent writing won't fix it. Read More

Over the past decade, The Washington Post has been one of the leading culprits in the collapse of public trust in journalism. Read More

The White House and Senate Democrats reached a deal Thursday to separate the fight over ICE funding from the threat of a broader... Read More

The deeper significance of California's billionaire tax is in how it redefines what it means to own property in the United States. Read More

For many decades now a federal policy called the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has raised gas prices and transferred billions of dollars from... Read More

Conservatives have long stood for a simple but powerful idea: prosperity is achieved through freedom, competition, and growth. That principle... Read More

We like the Trump Accounts because they are designed to create a nation of owners and it democratize stock ownership allowing today’s... Read More

Family farmers are among the great guardians of the sovereignty of the United States. By putting American grown and... Read More

Only in America, with the army of lawyers looking for opportunities to make money, could an industry crop up to promote litigation. There is... Read More

Changes in supply and demand—plus the toll of a million deaths—have disrupted the fentanyl market, writes Sally Satel about the dramatic... Read More

What’s the best thing to do if you’re in a life-threatening emergency? Read More

On the contrary, notwithstanding various ongoing problems in the real economy, the US is a gathering economic success story. Read More

All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological... Read More