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Streaming Music Isn't a Free Market. It's a Regulated Monopoly.

Rock legend David Lowery draws on his decades in the music industry to explain how government-imposed licensing fees and price controls helped streaming platforms flourish while eroding artist rights and income.

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Pentagon Awards up to $200 Million to AI Companies Whose Models Are Rife With Ideological Bias

The Department of Defense awarded contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. The last two are particularly concerning.

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The CEO of NPR Made the Best Case for Defunding It

The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.

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Americans Don't Party Enough. Here's How To Change That.

In our increasingly antisocial world, the best way to bring people together is a good party. This weekend, if possible.

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Georgia Couple Whose Daughters Were Taken After False Child Abuse Claims File Lawsuit

Matt and Tuckey Hernandez lost their daughters for two years after their infant's medical issues were misidentified as abuse.

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'The Only Winner Is the Government,' Says American Bow Tie CEO Facing Higher Tariff Costs

Scenes from a trade war.

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There's No Good Reason for Cities and States To Build or Subsidize Sports Stadiums

“There's no such thing as a free stadium,” says J.C. Bradbury. “You can't just pull revenue out of thin air.”

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Under the 'Big, Beautiful Bill,' Car Companies Won't Be Fined for Failing To Hit Arbitrary Fuel Efficiency Goals

CAFE standards try to accomplish a reasonable goal but in an ineffective way.

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Ed Clark, RIP

His 1980 presidential campaign put the Libertarian Party on the map in a year rich in libertarian cultural clout.

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Medicaid Work Requirements Are a Short-Term Fix to a Long-Term Problem

A more effective reform is to let the market curb waste and reward innovation.

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Why Free Movement Is Essential to a Free Society

Reason's 2025 travel issue takes seriously the idea that the right to roam is inseparable from the right to speak, to work, to love, and to associate freely.

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Legalize All Drugs! Reason Versus City Journal

City Journal's Rafael Mangual and Charles Fain Lehman debate Reason's Billy Binion and Jacob Sullum on legalizing all drugs.

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My private nondelegation article and Reason Foundation amicus brief cited in FCC v. Consumers' Research

Justice Jackson cites my Notre Dame Law Review article, and Justice Gorsuch cites the amicus brief I wrote for the Reason Foundation.

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Reason Earns 15 Southern California Journalism Awards

First-place finishes include a piece on the Dutch "dropping" rite of passage, a documentary exploring citizen journalism and free speech, and a long-form interview with exoneree Amanda Knox.

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How LSD Helped Launch a Radical Libertarian Counterculture

Drug Smuggler. Fugitive. Icon. Meet The Acid Queen.

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Stealing the Farm

Plus: housing reform is killed in Connecticut, bonus ADUs are gutted in San Diego, and two decades of Supreme Court-enabled eminent domain abuse.

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Just Don't Call It a War

Plus: The Trump administration toys with regime change in Iran, our own constitutional regime takes another hit, a mystery driver joyrides on the National Mall, and more...

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Trump's Immigration Crackdown Is Overwhelming ICE Facilities and Running Up Huge Bills

The cost of Trump's immigration crackdown keeps going up.

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Scott Barry Kaufman: Incels, Narcissists, and the Victim Mindset

Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman joins Nick Gillespie to discuss toxic identity politics, the rise of grievance-based thinking, and why true self-actualization requires moving beyond victimhood.

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Las Vegas Police Arrest TikTok Livestreamers and Tell Them 'You Should've Shut Your Mouth'

"You need to learn the rules," an officer says. "You run your mouth at me. Now you're on your face."

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New Jersey Business Owners Sue City of Perth Amboy Over Bogus Blight Designation

Two business owners are suing the city of Perth Amboy for using eminent domain to seize their property based on unsubstantiated allegations of blight.

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Would Releasing the Martin Luther King Files Help Curb the Surveillance State?

The FBI spied on the civil rights leader for years. Would releasing its surveillance files just be a further violation of King's privacy, or would it make future abuses less likely?

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New Orleans Police Officer Who Shot a Puppy Will Face Trial

This is far from the first time a cop has shot a dog for seemingly no reason.

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Missouri Town Wants To Seize Local Businesses Over Chipped Paint and Cracked Sidewalks

Brentwood business owners are challenging the city’s definition of blight in an ongoing lawsuit against city officials' use of the dubious designation to invoke eminent domain.

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Fake Immigration Crisis Triggers Actual Violence

Are outdated laws ripe for abuse? A listener asks whether it's time to sunset certain old laws.

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