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Psychonaut Hamilton Morris on Drugs After Prohibition
Nick Gillespie speaks with Viceland's Hamilton Morris about why he's so interested in drugs.
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Nick Gillespie speaks with Viceland's Hamilton Morris about the upsides of drug use.
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Trump's Message: If You Hate Me, You Hate America, and You Should Leave the Country
Lindsey Graham, who once called Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot," seems to agree.
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Trump's message: If you hate me, you hate America, and you should leave the country. Lindsey Graham, who once called Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot," seems to agree.
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Republicans Are the Party of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
If Mark Sanford wants to run a presidential campaign on restraining federal spending, he's in the wrong party
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Trillion-dollar deficits don't care about your culture wars. In fact, they depend on them.
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Russian Researcher Plans To Gene-Edit Embryos To Cure Deafness
Is that kind of gene-editing unethical?
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Assuming safety and informed consent, it is not unethical for a Russian reseacher to gene-edit human embryos to cure deafness.
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Unemployment, Underemployment, and the Comprehensive Jobless Rate
When it comes to the health of the labor market, we don’t know the full story.
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With the rise of #NationalConservatism, the right now cares more about "good outcomes" than individual liberty.
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Child Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Down Under Trump
For the second year in a row, federal prosecutions for sex trafficking of children have dropped.
Rhode Island Is the Latest State To Abolish Onerous Hair-Braiding Licensing
Previously, hair braiders were required to spend 1,500 hours taking cosmetology classes.
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Rhode Island is the 28th state to free hair braiders from burdensome occupational licensing regulation.
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Renegade University's Thaddeus Russell Wants To Blow Your Mind
This historian and online-education entrepreneur says runaway slaves, ladies of the evening, bootleggers, and other dropouts and discontents made America free.
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Podcast: @ThaddeusRussell talks about why @realdonaldtrump is the best recent president on foreign policy, how postmodernism fits with libertarianism, and why cryptocurrency might revolutionize the welfare state.
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Amash: Republicans Defending Trump Are 'Hurting Themselves and They're Hurting the Country'
A new book gives insight into Amash's breakup with the Republican Party, which was well underway before Amash said Trump should face impeachment proceedings.
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In a new book by @TimAlberta, Rep. @justinamash accuses his former congressional allies of "lying through their teeth" to protect the president.
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Washington Supreme Court Says Obesity Is a Disability
"It is illegal for employers in Washington to refuse to hire qualified potential employees because the employer perceives them to be obese."
EU Data Privacy Fines Are Getting Steep. Will This Be the New Normal?
And will the end result encourage companies to try to keep cybersecurity breaches secret?
Identity Politics Gone Mad, From Trump to Ayanna Pressley
Identity politics, right and left, is driving the country mad, argue Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, on the Editors Roundtable edition of the Reason Podcast.
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American discourse is careening in an ugly, anti-individualistic direction, argue @kmanguward, @petersuderman, @nickgillespie and @mattwelch on the latest Editors Roundtable edition of the @Reason podcast.
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Libertarian Presidential Candidates Prefer Each Other Over Justin Amash
"I don't think he would be a great candidate for us," says one of the independent congressman's leading would-be competitors
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"So no, I don't think he would be a great candidate for us," @LPNational 2020 presidential candidate @ruffphillips says, of @JustinAmash. "He's got a lot to learn."
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Activists Demand Firing of Feminist Grad Student for Criticizing the Transgender Movement
UC–Santa Barbara's Title IX office is "aware of this matter and actively engaged in a response."
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Activists have demanded the firing of a feminist grad student for criticizing the transgender movement. UC–Santa Barbara's Title IX office may get involved.
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Trump Says Congresswomen He Told to 'Go Back' to Countries They 'Originally Came From' Should 'Apologize to Our Country'
Plus: blockchain battles in Congress, mandating diaper tables in men's rooms, and more...
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Trump & his administration are doubling down, playing dumb, & insisting that it's everyone else who are the real racists #ReasonRoundup
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Another Study Finds Trigger Warnings Are Useless, or Even Harmful
A scientific consensus has emerged that trigger warnings just don't work—and student activists should stop demanding them.
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Another study finds trigger warnings are useless, or even harmful. The scientific consensus now says to stop using them.
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Kamala Harris Is Reimagining Herself as a Progressive Prosecutor
Harris is pitching a carefully constructed narrative that seems to be at odds with her record in many ways.
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Kamala Harris is pitching a carefully constructed narrative that seems to be at odds with her record in many ways.
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City of Everett Can Force Bikini Baristas To Cover Their Butts, 9th Circuit Rules
The law is an ass, cleft and all.
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"[t]he term 'bottom one-half of the anal cleft' is not well-defined or reasonably understandable," reason.com/2019/07/13/cit… via @reason
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Marianne Williamson Wants To Win the Presidency With the Power of Love and Miracles
The long American spiritual tradition that gave us Marianne Williamson—and Donald Trump
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Williamson and Trump represent the left and right wings of New Thought. Of American metaphysical religion. Of the postmodern, consumerist, Oprah-friendly sort of spirituality.
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