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Justin Amash on Why the President Isn't Above the Law

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Trump's Dumb Trade War

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the implications of Trump personally suing CBS to obtain transcripts from an interview with Kamala Harris.

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The Cultural Consequences of Trump's Victory

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Donald Trump's Chaotic and Contradictory Day 1

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Why MAGA Is Fighting Over High-Skilled Immigration

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How Elon Musk and DOGE Can Deliver on Smaller Government

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The Impact of Trump's Cost-Cutting Initiative Hinges on What He Means by 'Government Efficiency'

Narrowly understood, the president-elect's familiar-sounding plan to tackle "massive waste and fraud" may not give us "smaller government" in any meaningful sense.

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Trump Won. What's Next?

Plus: A listener asks about Trump's early picks for cabinet positions.

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How Trump and Harris Meaningfully Differ

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The Remarkable Redneck Air Force of North Carolina

The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

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Archaic Federal Law Keeps Alaskans From Using Abundant Natural Gas Reserves

The Jones Act makes the North Slope’s resources inaccessible to the state’s energy-starved residents.

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Harris and Trump's Terrible Tax Ideas

Plus: How will the editors vote in the presidential election?

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Permission Slips for Innovation

Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge.

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Who Decides What Health Care Is 'Needed'?

Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results.

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The Feds Won't Let You Use These Cheap Chinese Cellphones

American cellphone service providers don’t carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate

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Eric Boehm: Why Is American Health Care So Dysfunctional?

The host of Why We Can't Have Nice Things returns to discuss the podcast's second season, which focuses on how government makes Americans poorer and sicker.

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Wait, Democrats Now Say They Love Freedom?

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J.D. Vance's Revisionist History

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Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal

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Weighing Kamala Harris' Veep Options

A very special Reason Roundtable crossover episode with two guests from The Dispatch!

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Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed.

Plus: A listener asks the editors if employers should be held responsible for the speech and actions of employees outside of the workplace.

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Is Violent Rhetoric To Blame for the Trump Assassination Attempt?

Plus: Is Biden fit to be president today, let alone stand for reelection?

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Biden, Cognitive Decline, and the End of American Empire

Plus: The editors reflect on the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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