Government Shutdown Did Democrats Blow It on the Government Shutdown? Plus: Obamacare subsidies take center stage, the abundance agenda meets socialism after Mamdani’s win, and the differences between liberals and libertarians Matt Welch | 11.10.2025 9:08 PM
Psychedelics Veterans Are Suffering Because of Government Red Tape Filmmaker Jon Shenk and former Navy SEAL Marcus Capone discuss how psychedelics are helping veterans recover from war trauma. Nick Gillespie | 11.5.2025 11:00 AM
Socialism Will a Mamdani Victory Push the Democrats Further Left? Plus: Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, a court ruling extending SNAP funding during the shutdown, and Trump’s tariff fight reaches the Supreme Court Matt Welch | 11.3.2025 8:12 PM
Government Spending America's $30 Trillion Publicly Held Debt Is 42 Times Larger Than It Was in 1980 Democrats defend every entitlement and dream up new benefits. Republicans demand more defense spending and still more tax cuts. Veronique de Rugy | 10.30.2025 3:15 PM
Health Care Don't Extend Obamacare Subsidies To End the Government Shutdown Government interference in health care should be reduced, not expanded. J.D. Tuccille | 10.22.2025 7:00 AM
Health Care What the Democrats Are Doing Right Now Won't Lower Health Care Costs—but Here's What Actually Would Four ideas that are better than extending Obamacare subsidies and a government shutdown. Veronique de Rugy | 10.9.2025 3:12 PM
Health Care Democrats Shut Down the Government to Obscure Obamacare's Failures The fight over whether to extend "temporary" health insurance subsidies is really a fight over how best to hide the costs created by the Affordable Care Act. Christian Britschgi | 10.1.2025 11:15 AM
Government Shutdown Shutdown Livestream: This Won't Fix Trillion-Dollar Deficits Reason's Peter Suderman and Eric Boehm discuss the government shutdown live at 3 p.m. Eastern time today. Peter Suderman | 10.1.2025 9:00 AM
Robert Kennedy Jr. Can Americans Trust RFK Jr.'s Health Advice? A Breakdown on Vaccines, Autism, Food Dyes, and More As ever, be cautious about what you hear from the Department of Health and Human Services. Ronald Bailey | 9.30.2025 3:10 PM
Department of Veterans Affairs In 16 Years, the V.A. Turned This $450 Million Hospital Project Into a $1.6 Billion Boondoggle What began as a simple hospital project has become yet another example of bureaucratic failure at the Department of Veterans Affairs Jacob R. Swartz | 9.15.2025 4:45 PM
Taxes Washington Says Tax Breaks Help People. Instead, They're Corroding the Tax Code. The expenditures are often costly privileges for special interests that mask the true size of government and fail to deliver the promised bang for the buck. Veronique de Rugy | 9.11.2025 2:45 PM
Science Don't Fear 'Frankenfood.' We're Already Living in the Lab-Grown Future. Many people prefer naturally produced over man-made. But isn't there something just as compelling about the stuff that thousands of people collaborated to make? Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.1.2025 6:00 AM
Government Spending Chip Roy on Why He Backed Trump's Spending Bill Texas Rep. Chip Roy joins Nick Gillespie to talk about runaway spending, the uphill battle for health care reform, and where immigration fits into the liberty vs. sovereignty debate. Nick Gillespie | 8.20.2025 11:00 AM
Public Health Upholding a Vaccine Mandate, the 9th Circuit Embraces an Alarmingly Broad Definition of 'Public Health' The appeals court held that the government may require COVID-19 shots based purely on the benefits to recipients. Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2025 5:25 PM
Sports How Sports Tickets Got So Expensive—Or Did They? Plus: regulating college sports, forgiving baseball’s legends, and Happy Gilmore 2 Jason Russell | 7.29.2025 10:50 AM
Coronavirus Thomas Massie's New Bill Would Let People Sue Pharma for COVID Vaccine Injuries Federal liability protections currently prevent people suing COVID-19 vaccine makers, and instead require them to request compensation from a program that's covered only 39 COVID vaccine injury claims. Christian Britschgi | 7.21.2025 5:10 PM
The Soho Forum Debates Should the U.S. Have a Public Health Insurance Plan? Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan. Gene Epstein | 7.18.2025 3:15 PM
Medicaid Debunking the 100,000 Medicaid Deaths Myth Partisan pundits are misreading statistical estimates and misrepresenting the science to suggest that Trump's Medicaid cuts will kill 100,000 people. That claim doesn’t survive scrutiny. Aaron Brown | 7.17.2025 3:15 PM
Transparency Arizona Just Created, Then Defunded, an Independent Watchdog for Its Troubled Prison System Criminal justice reform advocates are still hopeful the office can secure outside funding and bring much-needed transparency to Arizona's prisons. C.J. Ciaramella | 7.11.2025 1:18 PM
Congress The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Expands Health Savings in a Rare Policy Win In a bill packed with spending, one provision offers real gains for health care choice and savings. Veronique de Rugy | 7.10.2025 10:14 AM
Medicaid 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. Tosin Akintola | 7.1.2025 4:18 PM
Reason 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. Billy Binion | 6.25.2025 3:53 PM
Right to Try Texans Gain the Right To Try Individualized Medical Treatments Ailing Americans are winning expanded freedom to try experimental medicine. J.D. Tuccille | 6.6.2025 7:00 AM
Health How Making GLP-1s Available Over the Counter Can Unlock Their Full Potential Drugs like Ozempic might not only address obesity but also alcoholism, smoking, and drug addiction. Jeffrey A. Singer | 5.31.2025 6:00 AM
Prescription Drugs Trump's Prescription Price Controls Would Lead to Fewer New Drugs The executive order is likely unconstitutional, but if implemented as written, it would be detrimental to the American health care market. Joe Lancaster | 5.22.2025 12:55 PM
Budget The GOP Budget Is Big, Bloated, B.S. Plus: A listener asks if the economic inequality data is bad. Nick Gillespie | 5.19.2025 5:16 PM
Atheism Richard Dawkins: Why Atheism Is Winning The evolutionary biologist challenges modern dogmas, defends scientific objectivity, and warns against the rise of ideological orthodoxy in society. Nick Gillespie | 5.14.2025 11:00 AM
Awards Reason Nominated for 17 Southern California Journalism Awards Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more. Billy Binion | 5.14.2025 9:57 AM
Government Spending What Did We Learn From DOGE? Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers. Nick Gillespie | 5.12.2025 4:39 PM
Abortion The Bad Data Backing Josh Hawley's Attack on Abortion Pills A new study being used to call for mifepristone restrictions relies on vague and dubious definitions of drug-related complications. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.5.2025 11:52 AM
Big Government John Arnold: Government Can't Be Trusted To Fix Any Problems John Arnold argues that private markets solve problems better than government or philanthropy, and that real reform comes from decentralization, incentives, and evidence—not top-down control. Nick Gillespie | 4.30.2025 11:00 AM
Parental Rights Will Florida Teens With Sexually Transmitted Diseases Have To Tell Their Parents Before They Can Get Treatment? These bills would require exactly that—and a lot more. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.23.2025 12:38 PM
Health Care Jeffrey Singer: Get Government Out of Health Care Longtime surgeon and Cato Institute fellow Jeffrey Singer argues that government overreach in health care undermines patient autonomy. Nick Gillespie | 4.23.2025 11:00 AM
Economics Jason Furman: Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Economy Former Obama administration economic adviser Jason Furman explains why both major parties have abandoned economic reality in favor of political fantasy. Nick Gillespie | 4.16.2025 11:15 AM
Organ transplants End Kidney Deaths Act Reintroduced in Congress While not as good as full legalization of organ markets, the act could save lives by giving kidney donors a $50,000 tax credit. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.10.2025 10:15 AM
FDA Federal Court 'Vacates in Its Entirety' the FDA's Costly and Onerous Lab Test Rule RFK Jr. should accept the ruling and instruct the agency to immediately halt all efforts to regulate laboratory-developed and in vitro tests. Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2025 1:30 PM
Health Care The Best Thing About the Proposed California Initiative Named After Luigi Mangione Is the Title The ballot proposition would effectively require health insurers to cover all treatments at any price. Christian Britschgi | 3.31.2025 2:20 PM
Psychedelics James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber: Psychedelics Legalization Will Continue No Matter Who Is President Authors James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber discuss their new book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance. Nick Gillespie | 3.26.2025 11:00 AM
CDC The Trump Administration's HIV Prevention Contradictions Is shutting down the CDC's HIV prevention division a good idea? Ronald Bailey | 3.21.2025 5:15 PM
COVID-19 Do Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin Work? Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency, here's what the research says. Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2025 2:45 PM
DOGE Medicare Deserves Attention From DOGE and Congress Reform could replace an unsustainable boondoggle with lower costs, more freedom, and better care. J.D. Tuccille | 3.7.2025 7:00 AM
Europe America Is Beating Europe A popular narrative says Europeans are better off because of increased regulation. Reality paints a different picture. John Stossel | 3.5.2025 7:15 AM
Civil Liberties The Grassroots Campaign To Save a Man From Court-Ordered Shock Therapy Despite severe risks and without a crime committed, a Minnesota judge authorized doctors to forcibly administer electroconvulsive therapy—while barring key witnesses from the hearing. Michael Simonson | 2.14.2025 11:40 AM
Abortion Louisiana's Puzzling Prosecution of a New York Abortion Doctor Prosecutors claim the case is about coercion. So why isn’t that the charge they are bringing? Autumn Billings | 2.10.2025 2:43 PM
