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Hypocrisy on Bodily Autonomy at the DEA • Trump’s pick for federal drug enforcement was ousted for not respecting personal freedom. Too bad that that’s a job requirement.

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Election Reforms Blocked by Elections

The Banks Are Narcing on You

The Case of Robert Roberson

The SEC’s War on NFTs

Setbacks for Drug Policy Reform

It’s Still the Economy, Stupid

Rancher Jailed for Cloning Giant Sheep

The Fragile U.S. Refugee Resettlement System

Q&A Penny Lane

DATA • People Overestimate How Many Immigrants Live in Their Country

Educulture Wars

A Free-Range Family

THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF MAGA-MUSK • IS ELON MUSK A REACTIONARY WITH A DEFECTIVE BULLSHIT METER OR THE BEST PART OF THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION?

HOW MUSK CAN HELP TRUMP CUT TRILLIONS

‘NOT A SUICIDE PACT’ • HOW A 1949 SUPREME COURT DISSENT GAVE BIRTH TO A MEME THAT SUBVERTS FREE SPEECH AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

MATERIEL LOSS • HOW THE U.S. MILITARY BUSTS ITS BUDGET ON WASTEFUL, CARELESS, AND UNNECESSARY ‘SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONES’

‘THE POLITICS HAVE COME TO US’ • HOW A CHRISTIAN CHARITY IN EL PASO ENDED UP AT WAR WITH THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT FOR HELPING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS

‘Against Our Own Best Souls’ • SISTER HELEN PREJEAN ON HER LIFE AS A WITNESS ON DEATH ROW

COMIC: IT’S AMERICA’S FOUNDING GRANDFATHER, JOHN LOCKE

THE REAL THREAT IS AN ISOLATED CHINA • DECOUPLING FROM TRADE WILL MAKE THE U.S. POORER AND CHINA MORE TOTALITARIAN.

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Rise of the ‘Constitutional Sheriffs’

Pulp Pleasure and Political Propaganda

REVIEWS

ARCHIVES • Excerpts from Reason’s vaults

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