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Who Rules America?
Joel Kotkin's new book fingers Silicon Valley as the new elite. Is he right?
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The Scottish Independence Vote Failed, But the Secessionist Movements Live On
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From the Archives: The Best of Reason on Youths
Not just for millennials
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The Slow Creep Toward Saner Alcohol Policies
Success stories, deregulation, and voter-led changes spell (mostly) good news.
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Remy: The ISIS Crisis
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DEA Shoot Grandmother Reaching For Baby During Raid, According to Son
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Millennials Aren't Listening to You: Reason Covers a Rising Generation
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Rand Paul Wants to 'Destroy' ISIS Yet 'Stay the Heck Out of Their Civil War'
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Texas Wants to Execute Man Who Killed Home Intruder Who Turned Out to Be SWAT Member
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Is the Shale Revolution a 'Ponzi Scheme' or the End of Peak Oil?
"Ponzi scheme" or the end of Peak Oil?
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What’s Really Going On With Obamacare Insurance Premiums?
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Can Police Resist Using New Military 'Toys'?
Once they start, it's hard to stop.
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America's Self-Inflicted Economic Wounds
The country may be limping along, but we did it to ourselves.
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With Friends Like These: Bush Lawyer John Yoo Backs Obama's Undeclared War on ISIS
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The Maze Runner and A Walk Among the Tombstones
More teen dystopia, and some middling Liam Neeson crime action.
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Friday Funnies: Space Taxi
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School Insanity: 17-Year-Old Hunter Faces 'Zero Tolerance' Criminal Charges
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The Implications of Scottish Independence
The country that gave us David Hume and Adam Smith could once again be a beacon of liberty, a case study in free minds and free markets.
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Apple’s New Marketing Plan: Screw the Police (UPDATE: Google Agrees)
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Assistant Inspector General Concedes That VA Shenanigans 'Contributed' to Patient Deaths
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Is The Foreign Policy Elite Clueless?
Seems so
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Ann Coulter Wants to 'Drown' Libertarians: Come Try to Drown Me—Address Provided
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The Unlawfulness of Obama's ISIS Plan
Is the White House planning to run this war directly as LBJ did in Vietnam?
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The ISIS Conspiracies
How a century's worth of anxieties about America's southern border are affecting the latest foreign-policy crisis.
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Chinatown Bus Pioneer Fung Wah Strangled by Federal Bureaucracy
The company has burned through $3 million, as regulators spend a year and a half deliberating its fate.
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Rand Paul: "If it was wrong not to protect the consulate in Benghazi, then it's wrong not to protect the consulate in Erbil."
Explains rationale for military action in Iraq.
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Why the Scottish Should Vote 'Yes' on Independence
Scotland gave the world the Enlightenment. It's time for the modern heirs of Adam Smith and David Hume to claim their freedom.
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The Hyped Up Western Jihadi Fear of ISIS
Don't freak out, America has endured worse subversives.
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Child Services to Mom Who Did Nothing Wrong: 'Just Don't Let Your Kids Play Outside'
Cops think letting a kid play outside, within view of the house, is a crime.
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Make Legal Immigration Easier
Immigration bureaucracy makes life harder not just for the immigrants but for the rest of us.
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We Need More Innocence Commissions
It's time to do something about all the innocent people locked up behind bars.
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New NFL Policy Tougher on Wife Beaters Than Pot Smokers, But It's Close
The league had a chance to start changing this perception last week, but unfortunately it dropped the ball.
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Obama's Dumb, Rash, and Unilateral War
Don't buy the president's lame excuses for attacking ISIS without congressional approval.
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Federal Appeals Court Rebukes Florida Cops for Using SWAT-Style Raids to Check Barbers' Licenses
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Steven Salaita and the Tyranny of 'Hate Speech'
"Hate" is in the eye of the beholder.
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Get Ready for Boots on the Ground in Iraq...
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Naomi Klein Changes Nothing With This Changes Everything
The laws of nature do not mandate a progressive paradise.
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Anal Probes Run Amok: Drug-Sniffing Dogs Must Be Stopped.
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Conference on ISIS Excludes Syria, Iran; Iran, U.S. Reject Idea of Cooperating Militarily
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More Obamacare Enrollment Data, More Obamacare Enrollment Questions
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National Academy of Sciences Invites Creationists to Testify on the Validity of Biological Evolution: Well, Actually a Bunch Anti-Biotech Activists
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Doctors Get Stuck with Bills for Deadbeat Obamacare Patients
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My Favorite Millennial!
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TSA Demands to Search Man AFTER Plane Lands. He Filmed His Response.
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Rand Paul: Thin-Skinned, Flip-Flopping, Question-Dodging Candidate?
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Obama's Unnecessary, Unpromising War
We don't know how to conduct a successful war against the Islamic State.
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The Sluggish Economy Slams Recent College Grads
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Student Suspended for Selling Illicit Full-Sugar Pepsi Out of His Locker
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Americans Trust the Government Less and Less
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How Cops Became Robbers
Three features of civil forfeiture law and five Supreme Court decisions make it easy for police to take money from motorists.
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"We Serve Bacon in Our Restaurants for One Reason: We Are a Christian Nation. Not a Jewish or Islamic One. QED."
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America Has a Really, Really Lousy Tax Environment, Says New Report
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Ownership and Ideas
What's an idea worth?
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Soylent Cuisine
The trendy new food substitute is made by people and for people—not of people.
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From Flappers to Hipsters
100 years of mesmerizing, terrifying, cringe-inducing youth icons.
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Hiking the Minimum Wage Won't Help the Poor
Raising the price of labor is likely to do more harm than good.
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3 Reasons to NOT Fight ISIS
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First Annual Food Freedom Fest Offers Reasons for Optimism
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund's first annual Food Freedom Fest, which took place last weekend, was a fantastic event.
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Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
In a thoughtful new book, a philosopher ponders the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
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War/Not War?: Is John Kerry as Stupid as He Sounds? You Be the Judge
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Watch Each of the Last Four U.S. Presidents Announce That We're Bombing Iraq
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What Ken Burns' New Film Gets Right—and Wrong—About the Roosevelts
In his latest documentary, Ken Burns examines the tangled lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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A Welcome Softening of California's Tough-on-Crime Approach
Stay tuned. If Proposition 47 passes, it will be another sign that the days are over of winning political points by promising to execute teens.
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Senate Democrats Fail to Amend the First Amendment
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Will the US Need Troops on the Ground Against ISIS After All?
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The Skeleton Twins and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Them)
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig get serious, Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy sail the sea of heartbreak.
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Video: What We Saw at the Atlas Shrugged Part III Film Premiere
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Past the Primaries: What to Expect When You're Expecting Midterms
The final brackets have all been determined. What is there to learn from how the 2014 primaries played out?
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Constitution Cramp Your Law Enforcement Style? Contract Out Your Civil Liberties Violations!
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Holy Crap: Photographing Fake Blow Job From Jesus Could Land Teen In Jail
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Waging War Is a Decision for Congress Alone
If the political class ignores James Madison's warnings, it will do so at its peril.
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Sarah Palin Facebook Post About ISIS Illustrates Republican Confusion on Obama, Iraq, Foreign Policy
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Obama: Airstrikes in Syria, Train 'Moderate' Rebels, No American Ground Troops
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Not Your Parents' Dystopias
Millennial fondness for worlds gone wrong
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Threat Inflation and Our Next Dumb War: ISIS Edition
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Rand Paul Says Obama's ISIS Plan Definitely Unconstitutional
He still supports it, though.
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Ending Evil vs. Defending the Country
Do the Islamic State's crimes justify Obama's new war?
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Do Researchers Really Know Why Global Warming Is On Pause and When It Will End?
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Did Georgia Drug Warriors Commit a Crime When They Burned and Mutilated a Toddler?
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Common Core's Latest PR Campaign Pathetically Insists: 'It's Better Than You've Heard'
Such high praise.
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3 Problems Libertarians Have with Rand Paul's Foreign Policy
Libertarians who take their ideas seriously have always judged even purported political allies by tough standards, and rightly so.
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Stop Criminalizing Parenting: Free Range Kids' Lenore Skenazy on Our Irrational Fears over Child Safety
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Is It Time to Indict Barack Obama?
The president's misdeeds look suspiciously like those of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
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Al Franken Misrepresents the Censorship Power Democrats Are Demanding
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Nation Building Isn’t Needed to Fight ISIS
The president should focus upon a narrow mission, and resist calls for yet another quixotic crusade in the Middle East.
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Obama Seeking Long War With ISIL—Who Needs Authorization? (Amash Does!)
If it's a rock-paper-scissors war Obama wants, it's a rock-paper-scissors war he'll get.
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