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Secret Emails Reveal Sketchy Tactics in California Public Health's Tobacco Ban 'Endgame'

Here are the sketchy tactics California’s public health agency is using to convince towns and cities to ban tobacco sales.

Reason · Jun 22

ICE Largely Abandons Plan To Turn Warehouses Into Migrant Detention Facilities

The Department of Homeland Security plans to sell or offload seven warehouses it originally purchased to house migrants.

Reason · Jun 19

ICE Says It's Moved Detainees Out of 'Alligator Alcatraz' For Hurricane Season

Civil rights and environmentalists vowed to keep fighting in court until the detention camp is torn down and returned to its original state.

Reason · Jun 18

2 Texas Grandmothers Who Overcame Addiction Wanted To Become Social Workers. The State Wouldn't Let Them.

Now Katherin Youniacutt and Tammy Thompson are taking their fight to become licensed master social workers to the Texas Supreme Court.

Reason · Jun 11

1776 All-Stars: Why Thomas Jefferson Is the Most Fascinating Founder

The author of the Declaration of Independence may have written "the greatest sentence ever."

Reason · Jun 11

DHS Says It Has 'Zero Tolerance' for Protesters' 'Verbal Assaults.' Here's What the Law Says.

Protesters continue to clash with law enforcement outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility, but questions remain over whether DHS policies comply with First Amendment law.

Reason · Jun 9

Neil Gorsuch on the Declaration of Independence, Originalism, and Separation of Powers

"There was nothing inevitable about it. Absolutely nothing," the Supreme Court justice tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.

Reason · Jun 8

1776 All-Stars: Samuel Adams Was the Most Libertarian Founder

The libertarian rabble-rouser who helped ignite the American Revolution

Reason · Jun 7

More Than 1,000 University of California Professors Want Standardized Tests Back

The letter, penned by U.C. Berkeley professors, claims STEM students are arriving to college severely underprepared.

Reason · Jun 5

D.C.'s Crime Drop Didn't Require a Military Deployment

A new study finds the National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C., cost taxpayers over $300 million and failed to return even $1 for every dollar spent.

Reason · Jun 4