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Why We Don't Need the Department of Education

Plus: A listener asks the editors whether a Kamala Harris presidency would have been preferable.

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Why MAGA Is Fighting Over High-Skilled Immigration

Plus: A listener asks the editors about subsidies for trains, planes, and roads.

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Biden's Final Insult to Our Intelligence

Plus: A listener asks the editors about the libertarian position on doctor-assisted suicide.

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The Best of Reason: Abolish the DEA, ICE, and the Small Business Administration

In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the DEA, ICE, the SBA, and everything else.

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The Best of Reason: Abolish Amtrak, the FDA, and the TSA

In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else.

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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate

Plus: A listener asks if rebranding tariffs as taxes would make any difference in reducing their appeal to politicians and voters.

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How Should the U.S. Respond to Hamas Executing Americans?

Plus: A listener asks the editors, when it is right to revolt to stop repeated miscarriages of justice?

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Wait, Democrats Now Say They Love Freedom?

Plus: Does the government own too much land in Utah? And the latest response to Friends star Matthew Perry’s drug overdose death.

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Why Libertarians Hate Kamala Harris' Economic Platform

Plus: Special guest Ben Dreyfuss joins the editors this week.

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Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal

Plus: A listener asks the editors about tariffs and subsidies in the manufacture of electric vehicles.

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The Best of Reason Magazine: Your Vote Doesn't Count

Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day

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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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Eating Doritos While Drowning in Debt

Plus: A listener asks if there are any libertarian solutions to rising obesity rates.

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Reason Wins 7 Southern California Journalism Awards

First-place finishes include an investigative piece on egregious misconduct in federal prison, a documentary on homelessness, best magazine columnist, and more.

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Congress Does Not Come Back With a Warrant

Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).

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The White House Lied About Its IRS Funding Only Targeting the Rich

Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of left-leaning thinkers who also hold libertarian ideas.

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Because 'Marijuana Is Dangerous,' 2 Inveterate Drug Warriors Say, 'Legalizing It Was a Mistake'

William Barr and John Walters ignore the benefits of legalization and systematically exaggerate its costs.

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Rank Choices

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Doug Ducey on Budget Cuts, School Choice, and Arizona's Weird Politics

"Governors don't get to print money," the former Arizona governor tells Reason.

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DeSantis Down and Out

Plus: Javier Milei’s powerful speech on economic prosperity in Davos

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Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Loves Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman

The former governor argues that beating up on businesses "is only sharpening the knife that the left will eventually use on us."

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2023's Most Under-Covered Stories

So long, 2023! What fresh hell awaits us all in 2024?

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Campus Speech Restrictions Come Back To Bite Universities

Plus: A listener asks if there is any place libertarians can go to start their own country or city state.

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Goodbye to George Santos and Henry Kissinger

Plus: an unexpected digression into the world of Little Debbie dessert snack cakes.

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Ask Reason Magazine's Editors Anything: Webathon 2023!

Please enjoy our special webathon video episode, where we answer a wide-ranging batch of listener questions!

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