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How to Go From Government Shutdown to National Emergency in Just Two Weeks: Reason Roundup
Plus: Congress forgets to fund the First Step Act, The New York Times chastises smug politicians over Amazon, and what if the U.S. were 100 city-states?
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What a weird two weeks it has been.
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Report from 'Alienated America': Podcast
For his new book, Timothy Carney toured parts of the country that are working and parts that are not. What he found is deeply disturbing.
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Podcast: @tpcarney talks with @nickgillespie about his new book Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, whether @realdonaldtrump can revive the American Dream, and the future of the @dcexaminer.
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Violent Video Games Don't Make Players More Violent IRL
New study trashes crappy consensus correlating gaming violence and violence in real life
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Their top-line finding is that their study "did not support the position that violent gaming relates to aggressive behaviour."
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Spending Bill Ignores Promised Funding for Major Criminal Justice Reform Passed Last Year
The FIRST STEP Act was supposed to get $75 million to fund reentry programs and job training. That's missing from the budget bill being voted on Thursday.
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The FIRST STEP Act was supposed to reduce the federal prison population, but President Donald Trump's big accomplishment apparently got shortchanged by Congress.
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Last Year Saw ‘Furthest-Reaching Attempt to Censor Online Speech’ Since the 1990s, Say FOSTA Challengers
As the lawsuit against FOSTA hits appeals court, three essays about the law that everyone should read.
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2018 saw the "furthest-reaching attempt to censor online speech since Congress first attempted to regulate the Internet" in the '90s, say challengers to #FOSTA
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The Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal Thinks Mitch McConnell’s Plan to Hold a Vote on It Is 'Sabotage' and a 'Republican Trick'
Ed Markey believes the time to vote on urgently necessary climate change legislation is...later.
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The Green New Dealer who said "we need bold action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and we may have as few as 12 years to achieve it" doesn't want a speedy vote on the plan.
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Lobbyists Are Making Bank on Trump's Steel Tariffs
Steel manufacturers spent $12.2 million lobbying the federal government in 2018, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the previous year.
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The more control government has over which businesses succeed and which fail, the greater the demand for access to the halls of power.
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Donald Trump and Social Justice Warriors Are "Unmaking America": Podcast
Noah Rothman says the right and the left are using appeals to victimization and identity politics to gain political power.
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Podcast: @NoahCRothman, author of Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America, tells @nickgillespie that right is following the left's lead in using identity politics and appeals to victimization to gain political power.
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Los Angeles Demanding That City Contractors Disclose Ties to the NRA
But the new ordinance violates the First Amendment, because it tends to deter (and deliberately so) association with an advocacy group.
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The new ordinance violates the First Amendment, because it tends to deter (and deliberately so) association with an advocacy group.
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One Cheer for Kamala’s Cannabis Candor
The presidential contender is a johnny-come-lately on legalization, but she is right about the importance of fun.
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Kamala Harris is a johnny-come-lately on marijuana legalization, but she made a point that is too often ignored in discussions of drug policy: Fun is important.
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American Commuters Lose 97 Hours, $87 Billion to Traffic Congestion, Says New Report
INRIX's 2018 Global Traffic Scorecard highlights the need for congestion pricing and new lanes to combat rush hour traffic.
Kamala Harris Got So High Smoking Weed in College She Thought She Was Listening To Snoop Dogg and Tupac
The senator is already lying about her record as a drug warrior, but she's also dissembling about what music was around during her college and law school
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.@kamalaharris is already lying about her record as a drug warrior, but she's also dissembling on what music was around during her college and law school years, notes @nickgillespie.
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A Border Wall Is a Bad Idea, but so Is the "Border Security" Democrats Say They Want
Until we fundamentally reframe the immigration debate in terms of human freedom rather than fear, we're not going to see real reform.
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.@realdonaldtrump is profoundly wrong when he talks about the need for a wall, but so are @senschumer @speakerpelosi and other Dems who talk about the need for "border security," says @nickgillespie.
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Students Fight to Free Contraception From Vending Machine Laws: Reason Roundup
Plus: Russian "spy" Maria Butina, Baton Rouge cops in blackface, good news for California sex workers, and a new FDA crackdown.
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Some states still ban vending machines from selling non-prescription drugs. Students seeking emergency contraception are trying to change that #ReasonRoundup
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London To Require GPS Trackers for Certain Residents Convicted of 'Knife Possession'
The latest in London Mayor Sadiq Khan's war on knife ownership.
Arizona Could Become the First State to Recognize Occupational Licenses From Other States
Licensing laws tend to lock workers in place, but Gov. Doug Ducey says it's time to stop that foolishness.
Kamala Harris Says Her Opposition to Marijuana Legalization Is 'Not True.' We Have the Receipts!
For most of the presidential candidate's political career, she was absolutely dead set against full legalization.
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Sen. Kamala Harris, now that she's running for president, is trying to erase her lengthy history of opposing marijuana legalization.
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Critiquing Israel Policy Worse Than White Nationalism, Says GOP Leader: Reason Roundup
Plus: Klobuchar and Warren join Democrat 2020 contest and AOC retracts "Green New Deal" draft.
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Israel comments from new Muslim members of Congress were worse than Steve King's defense of white nationalism, says Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy #ReasonRoundup
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Tyler Cowen's Gospel of Prosperity
The George Mason University economist and Marginal Revolution founder explains why a richer world is a better world.
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Over the past 20 years, arguably no libertarian thinker has cut a broader or deeper intellectual swath across American public policy and culture than Tyler Cowen.
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