Ontario Ends UBI Experiment Two Years Early

A provincial minister said the basic-income experiment "was certainly not going to be sustainable." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

3 Things People Don't Get About the Homemade Gun Making Story

The government's decision to settle a lawsuit with Defense Distributed doesn't change anything significant. It's not Trump's fault. And the underlying | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Jay Austin, Tiny House Innovator, Killed in Attack Claimed by ISIS

Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

"Every day I ask our prosecutors to keep Manhattan safe and make our justice system more equal and fair." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture Unconstitutional

"There is a realistic possibility that forfeiture officials' judgement will be distorted by the prospect of institutional gain." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All Plan Will Cost $32 Trillion Over 10 Years

Yes, that's trillion with a "t." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Defense Distributed Sues New Jersey, Los Angeles Over Legal Threats

The authorities threatened the gun-making software and hardware company. Now the company is striking back, citing its First and Second Amendment rights. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Liberty Makes Us Unfree, Says the ACLU

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@reason.com | 5 years ago

American Communism (2016)

A million hippie kids shaped modern America by trying to escape it. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor(2016)

Culture and law conspire to make prosecutors hostile to constitutional rights. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

MI Man Files Suit After Waiting 3 Years for a Hearing to Get His Seized Car Back

In Wayne County, Michigan, law enforcement seize cars and make owners choose between paying $900 or waiting months in court to fight it. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

A Strategy for Jury Nullification Victories in Georgia

Catherine Bernard doesn’t ask jurors to “nullify” the laws. She just urges them to perform the full range of their powerful jobs. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Ninth Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Magazine Confiscation in CA

The courts continue to block a California law to confiscate magazines over 10 rounds. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic

A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Marquette is ordered to reinstate John McAdams. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Facebook Algorithm Flags,Removes Declaration of Independence Text as Hate Speech

The social media site has a difficult time telling the difference between white nationalist ravings and the writings of Thomas Jefferson. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Cybergreen: Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future (2004)

Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

How much is an astronaut's life worth?

NASA’s irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

New Drake Equation calculations find that the Milky Way is ours to colonize | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

First Thoughts on Carpenter V. United States – Orin Kerr

A big case. Here's an ongoing Q&A, which I will add to through the day. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

13-Year-Old Charged with Felony for Recording Conversation with School Principal

"If I do go to court and get wrongfully convicted, my whole life is ruined." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

5 Times Child Protective Services Separated Kids from Parents for No Good Reason

"The number of children separated from their parents at the border since April is almost equal to the number taken by CPS every three days." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech

"Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

The company has no legal obligation to let alien hunters harass its customers unless they have a warrant or probable cause. | Continue reading


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My Teenage Video Game Obsession Wasn't 'Gaming Disorder'

I was a gay teen in the 1980s, hiding from a terrifying world in an arcade. The WHO's push to uniquely pathologize gaming won't help people like me. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Do You Have a Right to Repair Your Phone?

Meet Eric Lundgren, who got 15 months in prison for selling pirated Microsoft software that the tech giant gives away for free. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

How to Make a Pension Crisis Worse: N.J. Officials Want Back In, Without Paying

A bill would allow some officials retroactive access to potentially 10 years of pension payments. Guess who would be on the hook for it? | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

A French grocer fought EU food rules and won

Carrefour used artful civil disobedience and smart marketing to challenge ridiculous regulations. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

After Seattle Ditches Its Amazon Tax, Silicon Valley City Mulls a Google Tax

Employee head taxes are enjoying an undeserved popularity. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

23andMe's 'Root for Your Roots' World Cup Promotion

A bioethicist argues that the genetic testing company is fostering pseudoscientific bigotry by urging customers to pick a soccer team based on their ancestry. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

The Fragile Generation: Bad policy and paranoid parenting infantilize

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Carpenter's Pun Problem

Coming to a law review near you. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

N.Y. Set to Criminalize Much “Verbal” “Abuse” of Under-18-Year-Olds Online

The N.Y. Senate just unanimously passed a bill that would do that. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Minor League Baseball Provision Shows How Broken the Legislative Process Is

Congress kneecapped minor league ballplayers' lawsuit with last week's omnibus bill. Even if that was the right thing to do, the way it was done is wrong. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

5 Years After Snowden, Has Anything Changed?

The government still snoops on its own citizens, but we're more aware of it—and we can push back. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Will San Franciscans Vote to Ban Flavored Vaping?

A well-intentioned public health proposal could creation a public health problem by limiting options for smokers who want to quit. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Facebook Friend Requests from Undercover Police and the 4th Amendment

"When a person voluntarily accepts a 'friend' request on Facebook from an undercover police officer, and then exposes incriminating evidence...the Fourth | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

How to Get on a Jury

What you do once you're there is up to you. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

California crazy meets European crazy in the Mugshots.com case

Episode 218 of the Cyberlaw Podcast | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

The'Intellectual Dark Web' Is Just Rehashing Old P.C. Controversies in New Media

The leading figures of the "Intellectual Dark Web" are incredibly popular. So why do they still feel so aggrieved? | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Elite Colleges’ Race-Conscious Admissions Discriminate Against Asian Applicants

Caltech doesn't practice affirmative action, and its Asian American student population has increased. Harvard, on the other hand... | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

How We Screwed Up Nuclear Power

Half a century ago, nuclear power was on track to out-compete fossil fuels around the globe, which would have reduced the price of electricity, the amount | Continue reading


@reason.com | 5 years ago

Google Now Deindexing Some Web Pages Based on FDA Administrative Agency Findings

A new Google policy calls for such deindexing based on administrative agency findings—without a court order—in cases where the agency is “charged | Continue reading


@reason.com | 6 years ago

Global warming likely to be 30 to 45 percent lower than climate models predict

A new study in the Journal of Climate compares global temperature data trends since 1850 with model outputs. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 6 years ago

Which Businesses (or Which Filter Manufacturers) Are Blocking Our Blog?

A customer reports that he was blocked from accessing us at a Nordstrom coffee shop; have you had similar experiences? | Continue reading


@reason.com | 6 years ago

Libel and Antimatter

"[Defendant's] posts inspired viewers’ comments, which read like a nerd’s version of a fist fight." More substantively, "In this context, and considering | Continue reading


@reason.com | 6 years ago

When Do Changes to a Web Page Restart the Statute of Limitations?

The New Jersey Supreme Court answers. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 6 years ago