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D.C. Will Arrest This CEO if His Rideshare Alternative Doesn't Shut Down by Friday

Empower CEO Joshua Sear is guilty of providing a cheap, popular alternative to Uber in the nation's capital.

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Reason Versus National Review: Is Mass Immigration Good for America?

Katherine Mangu-Ward and Alex Nowrasteh squared off against Rich Lowry and Steven Camarota to debate immigration.

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Americans Are Turning Against Sports Betting—But It's Not Going Anywhere

Plus: World Cup ticket prices, Michael Jordan against NASCAR, and The Smashing Machine

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How Oregon's Drug Experiment Backfired

The lesson isn’t that decriminalization can’t work. It’s that Portland-style governance is broken.

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‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right

After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turn

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Amazon Is Being Forced To Pay $2.5 Billion for Making It Easier To Sign Up for Prime

The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Amazon in its yearslong lawsuit against the company for "dark patterns" in Prime sign up and cancellation.

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After Deinstitutionalization, America's Mental Health System Struggles To Protect the Public

Decades after closing state psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. still struggles to “find a middle ground—an institutional arrangement that recognizes both the dignity of the mentally ill and the public’s right to be safe.”

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Why Did a Florida Sheriff Accuse a Group of Fishing Guides of Inciting Threats Against Public Officials?

The Hendry County Sheriff accused Captains for Clean Water of "fuel[ing] hostility and provok[ng] violent rhetoric," but a free speech advocacy group says they were well within the First Amendment.

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Brendan Carr Says Networks Must Serve the 'Public Interest.' What Does That Mean?

Congress placed the term in the law but chose not to define it, leaving that task for future regulators.

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The Ryder Cup Was a Cakewalk—Until America Let the Rest of Europe Play

Plus: Fewer people are betting, and did ABC pick Jimmy Kimmel over the NFL?

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These 2 Terrible Tech Bills Are on Gavin Newsom's Desk

One limits children’s access to mental health services, the other mandates a black box warning, and both undermine users’ digital privacy.

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The Government Was Lying to You About Afghanistan. Dan Krauss Has the Receipts.

Reason is sharing an exclusive clip from Bodyguard of Lies, an upcoming documentary about the failed war in Afghanistan.

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David Kopel Makes the Oxford English Dictionary Examples

From the usage examples for the word Hitlerist; the quote is from David's post Data on Mass Murder by Government in the… The post David Kopel Makes the Oxford English Dictionary Examples appeared first on Reason.com.

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J.D. Vance Is Among the Latest Conservatives to Turn Their Backs on Free Speech for Their Political Opponents

Vice President J.D. Vance and Sen. Cynthia Lummis are among the latest conservatives to turn their backs on free speech when it comes to their ideological opponents.

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The Trump Administration Misses Key Deadlines for Imposing Restrictions on Gain-of-Function Research

Biosafety advocates worry the administration is backtracking on its promise to implement meaningful restrictions on the type of research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fact Check: Did Trump and RFK Jr. Hide the Link Between Alcohol and Cancer?

No. Federal dietary guidelines have made that connection since the 1980s, but some anti-alcohol activists are mad they didn't get to rewrite the rules this year.

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Social Media Didn't Kill Charlie Kirk

Plus: Trump says he "may let [TikTok] die," the SoHo Forum debates paying for sex, the administration calls birth control "abortifacients," and more...

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How We Criminalized Childhood

Journalist and activist Lenore Skenazy explains how fear and over-parenting left kids more anxious and less independent, and and how a movement to restore that independence is gaining ground.

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Judge Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 'Cop City' Defendants

Two years after the state attorney general charged dozens of protesters with racketeering, a judge found the case unconvincing.

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Americans Don't Actually Like Trump's Bad Guy Posturing on Immigration and the Military

Shows of force and mass deportations play well to the base, but they’re falling flat with the public.

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Republicans Say Gmail Is Blocking Their Fundraising Emails. We Recreated Their Test To See If That's True.

There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman.

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If You Don't Like Socialism or the Establishment, Curtis Sliwa Wants Your Vote

The Guardian Angels founder and New York mayoral candidate talks about crime, drugs, zoning, and what the government could learn from squatters.

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FBI Spied on Libertarian Sci-Fi Author Vernor Vinge In 'Espionage' Case

The late friend of Reason, who coined the term "technological singularity," landed on the feds' radar for his association with a foreign policy dissident.

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Federal Funding for Universities Comes With Strings. Now Trump Is Pulling Them.

The potential nationalization and forced revenue sharing of university patents makes a strong case for the separation of economy and state.

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No, These New Studies Don't Show an AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Coming

Economists at the Federal Reserve and Stanford University recently published studies investigating how AI affects employment in different industries.

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