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reasonFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will ask Congress to rewrite Section 230. That will impose huge new regulatory costs on social media sites that might compete with Facebook.
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Letting America’s feuding tribes ignore each other might be the best medicine.
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reasonElections are no longer about turning out one officeholder and set of policies in favor of another with different schemes; they're existential battles between political tribes who see their enemies as dangerous and evil.
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The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they're optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending.
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reasonThe reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they're optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending
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Prop H will make it easier for businesses to set up shop or readapt their space, all while preventing nosey neighbors from bringing everything to a halt.
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reasonSan Francisco is famous for the miles of red tape and regulation that make it difficult to launch a business. Come November, voters will get a chance to take an ax to those innovation-killing restrictions
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Treating free expression like an instrument of power means that the fight is more about who gets punished most when politicians write new restrictions.
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reasonTrump vs. the media obscures the unhappy fact that free speech is taking it from all sides now.
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reasonThe more politics (and its worst form, war) subsumes life, the more free speech is treated as a means to an end rather than as a magnificent if always-threatened achievement of the Enlightenment.
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American voters deserve careful scrutiny of the candidates' positions on individual conflicts.
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reasonThe final presidential debate is on Thursday. American voters deserve careful scrutiny of the candidates' positions on individual conflicts.
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reasonAfter snatching babies and kids from migrant parents, the Trump admin didn't bother keeping records. More than 3 years later, the parents of 545 kids still can't be found #ReasonRoundup
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The filibuster is not inherently a tool of oppression simply because segregationist politicians in the 1950s and '60s found it useful.
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reasonWhen politicians are in the mood to defend filibusters (i.e., when their party is not in charge of the Senate), they often say the tactic helps ensure that the minority's views receive adequate consideration as legislation is crafted.
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President Donald Trump and Gov. Scott Walker promised thousands of jobs in return for billions of dollars in subsidies from the state. More than two years later, there's little to show for it.
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reasonFoxconn was supposed to hire more than 13,000 people. It currently employs 281. Wisconsin is pulling the plug on the tech giant's subsidies.
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reasonThe Foxconn deal had always been more about economic nationalism and the fetishistic approach to industrial jobs that Trump has elevated to the forefront of the Republican Party.
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San Francisco, New York City, Boston, and other large metro areas have posted double-digit drops in rent.
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reasonThe coronavirus pandemic proves that building more housing is the key to improving affordability in the country's most expensive cities
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reasonThe country's priciest cities are seeing massive declines in rents as people who are now free to work remotely and unable to enjoy the typical amenities of urban living decamp for less expensive metros.
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Plus: Supreme Court won't stop Pennsylvania from counting late ballots, proposed amendment would limit Court to nine justices, and more...
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reasonTwitter and Facebook may have to answer to Senate Republicans for their handling of the New York Post article on Hunter Biden #ReasonRoundup
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