The Biggest NFT Video Game's Economy Is Collapsing

Some NFT assets held their value during January's crypto crash, but not the video game monsters in Axie Infinity. | Continue reading


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Price Controls Were a Disaster in the 1970s. They Would Be a Disaster Today Too

The idea would benefit central planners and grow the ranks of bureaucrats while making the poor even poorer. | Continue reading


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U.K. Officials Want Even More Power to Punish You for Being Mean Online

A Scottish man was just convicted for tweeting an insult about a dead person. The authorities already have too much power to censor. | Continue reading


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Microschools Have a Big Future

Small-is-beautiful education avoids conflicts that plague larger one-size-fits-few institutions. | Continue reading


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The city's restrictions threaten one of the world's most vibrant music scenes. | Continue reading


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Weather and climate disasters are declining globally

"The number of weather, climate and water extremes are increasing and will become more frequent and severe in many parts... | Continue reading


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Why Are So Many Prominent Journalists Abandoning Journalism?

We seem to be entering a new era of yellow journalism, in which ad hominem attacks and conspiracy-mongering are more valued than truth and accuracy. | Continue reading


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US Foreign Policy: A Big, Dumb Machine

It is common to chalk up America's failures in Afghanistan to incompetence, ignorance, or stupidity. Yet The Afghanistan Papers, by... | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Entrepreneurship Is on the Rise, Despite Covid-19

Necessity became opportunity for many who started businesses. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Twitter's New 'Privacy' Policy Destroys Its Value for Decentralized Journalism

We are already seeing various ideological sides trying to weaponize this policy against their enemies. | Continue reading


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Turks Flee to Gold, Bitcoin, and Foreign Currency as Government Devalues Lira

The rising price of everything is hard to miss when you see it in the groceries, holiday gifts, and the tab at the fuel pump. Inflation isn't just an | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Jack Dorsey's Exit from Twitter Could Worsen Tech Censorship

Jack Dorsey has resigned as CEO of Twitter, having served in various leadership roles at the company since its inception in 2007. "I've decided to leave | Continue reading


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Shortage of Adult Workers Makes Teens Employable Again

My son recently underwent what was once a common rite of passage: his first job. He now balances the demands of schooling with cleaning toilets, stocking | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

The First Amendment Protects Everyone, Even Facebook and Twitter

The last few years have seen a flurry of efforts from both right and left to regulate how social media platforms police their users. These laws and | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

What Is Web3 and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About It?

Technological improvements have tended to follow a predictable pattern of initial excitement, subsequent disappointment, and eventual resurgence called a | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Covid Made Democracies More Authoritarian and Authoritarian Regimes Even Worse

The COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to a significant decline in democratic values across the globe as many countries have taken aggressive and | Continue reading


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After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA

On this day in 2001, in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in a demonstration | Continue reading


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The ACLU Thinks Kyle Rittenhouse's Civil Liberties Got Too Much Protection

Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot and killed two men during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer, was acquitted on Friday. Prosecutors | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

San Francisco Considers Two Bills Legalizing 'Missing Middle' Housing Citywide

In what might seem like a Christmas miracle come early, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering not one, but two, bills that would legalize | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

He Sold $20 Worth of Drugs. Prosecutors Want Him in Jail for Almost 10 Years

That's illegal, says a new lawsuit. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Developers Halt Projects After St. Paul Voters Approve Rent Control

Unlike almost every rent control law in the country, the ordinance passed by St. Paul voters includes no exemption for new construction. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Next Car May Refuse to Start If It Thinks You've Had a Drink

Get ready to pay for new nanny-state technology and for bypassing the unwelcome intervention. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

5th Circuit Extends Stay of OSHA's Vaccine Mandate

A unanimous three-judge panel concludes that the decree "grossly exceeds OSHA's statutory authority." | Continue reading


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Videos Are Making It Hard to Trust the Cops

It’s difficult to avoid the suspicion that the powers-that-be habitually lie about their conduct. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

The Arguments That Persuaded 5th Circuit to Block OSHA Vaccine Mandate

The appeals court said the rule, which was published on Friday, raises "grave statutory and constitutional issues." | Continue reading


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Performative Pandemic Panic – Reason.com

Officials’ cynical manipulation of the public damaged their own credibility as well as the world at large. | Continue reading


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Beware People Trying to Dismiss Jack Dorsey's Inflation Tweet as Disinformation

A good way to know you’re living through high inflation is when you’re discouraged from talking about it. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Kisses, Huma Abedin, and Gradual Escalation

What are the social norms? | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

The Facebook papers are a “big fat nothingburger”

The mainstream media's fear of Mark Zuckerberg is not supported by the documents. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Whistleblower Absurdly Attacks Facebook's Privacy-Protecting Encryption Efforts

When "protecting users' safety" actually means the opposite | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Gun Rights Activists Join Abortion Rights Activists to Fight Texas Abortion Law

The Texas law “could just as easily be used by other States to restrict First or Second Amendment rights,” the Firearms Policy Coalition tells SCOTUS. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Lockdowns' High Costs and Murky Benefits: Review of “Economics in One Virus”

Cato economist Ryan Bourne's new book is a much-needed rejoinder to the obtuse economic reasoning of many pandemic-era policy makers. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Social Media Isn't to Blame for the Deadly Stabbing of a British MP

Attempts by British lawmakers to erase online anonymity would lead to radical speech being pushed underground. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

In Gavin Newsom's California, Covid Rules Are for Those Without Political Power

Newsom's opposition to a judge's order requiring vaccinations for prison staffers lays bare the hypocrisy of the governor. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Facebook's Blacklists Are Another Way to Constrain Competition

Upstart competitors can’t hope to match the resources required to compile a list of banned individuals and organizations. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

A Different Approach to Anti-Racism

"If you want to fight the impulse that we human beings have to feel better than others," says Chloé Valdary, "it's a bad idea to make people so insecure." | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

The Government's 'Google Search' Warrant Trap

With “keyword warrants,” anyone who queries certain terms on search engines will get caught in the surveillance dragnet. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

As Facebook Crumbles, the Case for Breaking It Up Is Weaker Than Ever

The site is clearly in trouble and the government doesn't need to step in. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

San Francisco's Private Police Force (2015)

The City by the Bay has a second, private police force...with a better record than the government cops. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

A Disinvitation at MIT

The Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes MIT for capitulating to the cancel mob | Continue reading


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California Business Owners Sue Gov. Newsom over the Lockdowns – Reason.com

How far do "emergency powers" really extend? | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Jailing Florida Man for 'I Eat Ass' Sticker

Dillon Shane Webb will thus not be able to sue for the alleged violation of his free speech rights. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Biden's Infrastructure Plan Would Overturn 'Right-to-Work' Laws in 27 States

In his speech on Wednesday, the president called for the passage of the PRO Act, a grab bag of policies that labor unions have been pushing Congress to pass for years. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

California Will Let 'Violence Prevention' Researchers Know That You Have a Gun

An academic field rife with hostility to private gun ownership now gets to know the address of every California owner of a weapon, a weapon part, or ammo. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Biden’s Total Financial Surveillance

What if every one of your noncash financial transactions was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS? | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

‘Covid-19 Hospitalizations’ Are Increasingly Misleading Measure Severe Disease

New research shows incidental and mild infections account for a large and rising share of that widely cited number. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

Senegalese app developer sees Bitcoin as way to end “monetary colonialism”

Senegalese app developer Fodé Diop sees bitcoin as a way to end "monetary colonialism" in the developing world. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 2 years ago

The Media Fell for a Hoax About Ivermectin Overdoses Straining Rural Hospitals

Some people are self-medicating with a dubious COVID-19 treatment, but they aren't overwhelming doctors and nurses. | Continue reading


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