What I Learned Shadowing California's Katana-Wielding Anti-Squatter Enforcers California's failure to eject squatters from the properties they've seized undermines the state's new housing laws. Reason · May 19
Donald Trump, Thomas Massie, and the Long, Slow Death of the Tea Party Whatever happens in Kentucky's GOP primary, the populist right no longer even pretends to care about spending or government overreach. Reason · May 18
Archives: The Best of Brian Doherty The June 2026 issue's archives are dedicated to longtime Reason editor Brian Doherty, who died in March. Reason · May 17
Maryland's Energy Crisis Was Created In Annapolis This week, Wes Moore blamed grid operators for high electricity costs, but the problem has worsened because of his own policies Reason · May 15
Thomas Massie's Enemies Are Attacking Him With an Unfair Accusation Partisan political actors have seized on a vague and unsupported "hush money" allegation. Reason · May 15
Pete Hegseth Can't Explain Why America Needs a $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Sen. Mark Kelly says it "feels like that number was just kind of pulled out of thin air." Reason · May 14
Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Michigan Man Spends 13 Hours in Vomit and Dies in Jail A court granted qualified immunity to all 11 deputies accused of violating John Griswold’s 14th Amendment rights. Reason · May 14
Reason Receives 17 Nominations for Southern California Journalism Awards Nominees include stories on America's gerontocracy, the war on chocolate, how Texas beat California on housing, and more. Reason · May 12
Reform Wins Big in British Local Elections, Reshaping the U.K. Right Labour and the Tories both suffered huge blows. Is a political realignment underway? Reason · May 8
Secret ICE Memo Tells Local Police Not To Disclose Immigration Enforcement Info Without ICE's Permission The agency's transparency policies may undermine federal and state laws designed to ensure the free flow of information necessary to hold government actors accountable. Reason · May 8
Republicans Want To Borrow Every Single Dollar of the $72 Billion Bill To Fund ICE and Trump's Ballroom The party of fiscal responsibility strikes again. Reason · May 6
Gorsuch Says SCOTUS Is Doing 'Pretty Darn Well' in Handling the 'Hardest Cases' The justice defends the Supreme Court as a model of respectful and principled adjudication. Reason · May 5
Jacob Mchangama & Jeff Kosseff Guest-Blogging About "The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom" I'm delighted to report that Profs. Jacob Mchangama (Vanderbilt) & Jeff Kosseff (Naval Academy, moving this year to Minnesota) will… The post Jacob Mchangama & Jeff Kosseff Guest-Blogging About "The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom" appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · May 3
Civilians Across the Middle East React to the Iran War: 'A Fear That Settles in Your Heart' "Now they are hitting everything. Nowhere is safe. But don't worry, we are okay," one Iranian woman texted her American relative. Reason · May 3
Reason · Apr 29 The James Comey Indictment Looks Like Vindictive Prosecution Such claims are hard for most defendants to prove. But most defendants haven't drawn the public ire of the president.
Reason · Apr 29 Is Reason's Video on Climate Change Alarmism a 'Masterclass in Manipulation'? A response to the popular science communicator Hank Green
Reason · Apr 29 Corn Belt Politicians Are Using High Gas Prices To Push Even More Carveouts for Ethanol “The sale of E15 year-round would help the ethanol industry and no one else,” says one agricultural policy expert.
Reason · Apr 28 Sabastian Sawe's Sub-2 Marathon Is What Human Progress Looks Like—and Capitalism Helped Build It Plus: governments get deeper and deeper into horse racing, fiscally conservative Republicans keep subsidizing stadiums, and Full Swing is in a doom spiral
Reason · Apr 23 The Trump Administration Might Send Afghan Refugees to Danger in Congo About 1,100 Afghans currently stranded at a military base in Qatar could be relocated to the crisis-addled African country.
Reason · Apr 21 The Least Psychedelic President in History Supports Psychedelic Research More Than Any of His Predecessors Donald Trump is an unlikely but powerful champion of drug reform.
Reason · Apr 21 ICE Is on a $45 Billion Building Spree. Can Small Towns Support These New Migrant Warehouses? The government is selling the policy with the same arguments you’d expect for subsidized factories or sports stadiums.
Reason · Apr 21 Trump's Pro-Union Labor Secretary Out Plus: Scandal at the Department of Labor, the real reasons people use psychedelics, more problems with Trump's triumphal arch, and more...
Reason · Apr 20 3 Disasters That Legal Weed Didn't Unleash—Despite the Forecasts From higher crime to teenage stoners, here are things that the weed debate got wrong.
Reason · Apr 16 Federal Judge Delivers Due Process Win Against DOJ Registry Overreach The Justice Department is permanently blocked from prosecuting Californians who fail to register when the state no longer requires it.
Reason · Apr 16 Another Drug Boat Bombing Plus: The U.S. blockade widens, Los Angeles teachers get a pay bump, the sunny side of a treeless national mall, and more...