Driverless Cars The New Luddites Want To Pump the Brakes on Driverless Cars To fully realize human flourishing, America must embrace the future—not fear it. Ed Tarnowski | 11.13.2025 10:46 AM
Technology Pablos Holman on AI, the Future, and Why the World Needs More Energy "We've made enough energy for all the people in the West and north of the equator, but we just haven't finished the job," says the author of Deep Future. Nick Gillespie | 11.9.2025 6:00 AM
Climate Change Bill Gates Admits That Climate Change 'Will Not Be the End of Civilization' The Microsoft co-founder recently penned a letter arguing that increasing global prosperity is the best way forward on the issue. Jeff Luse | 10.28.2025 4:31 PM
Artificial Intelligence Maybe AI Therapists Will Suck. That Doesn't Mean We Should Ban Them. It is possible to be both skeptical of the supposed effectiveness of AI therapy and wary of sweeping state regulations. Emma Camp | 10.25.2025 6:00 AM
Innovation Empower Stays on D.C. Streets as Appeals Court Weighs Future of Rideshare Company The D.C. Superior Court found Empower still in contempt of court despite updating its software-as-a-service agreement and will reconvene in January. Jack Nicastro | 10.17.2025 1:15 PM
Economics This Year's Nobel Winners for Economics Explained How Innovation Makes Us Rich Joel Mokyr has long made the case against technophobia, including in the pages of Reason. Billy Binion | 10.13.2025 5:16 PM
Artificial Intelligence Democrats Are Proposing a 'Robot Tax' To Save Jobs From AI. Here's Why It Won't Work. The policy would slow innovation, reduce competitiveness, and leave American workers unprepared for the future. Kevin Frazier | 10.7.2025 4:50 PM
Artificial Intelligence Photo: Artificial Intelligence Tattoos Are Here The makers of this AI-powered robot promise greater precision and less pain. Bekah Congdon | 9.22.2025 6:00 AM
Innovation California's Tech Regulations Could Strangle AI Innovation for the Whole Country Federalism works best when state-level policy experiments stay contained. Jack Nicastro | 9.16.2025 6:00 AM
Artificial Intelligence AI Chatbots Might Already Be Better Than Humans at Debating In a recent study, participants were paired with either a human or an AI debate opponent. The results confirm AI's power of persuasion. Ronald Bailey | 9.15.2025 6:00 AM
Innovation This Protein Powder Is Made Out of Air and Uses 600 Times Less Water Than Beef The Finnish startup Solar Foods has received a "Generally Recognized as Safe" designation from the FDA. Jeff Luse | 9.13.2025 6:00 AM
Artificial Intelligence Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley Are Borrowing Joe Biden's Playbook To Regulate AI Republican AI opponents sound an awful lot like Democrats. Jack Nicastro | 9.10.2025 3:30 PM
Driverless Cars Josh Hawley's Anti–Driverless Cars Policy Would Kill a Lot of People Tens of thousands of people die each year in crashes where human error was the cause or a contributing factor. Jennifer Huddleston | 9.5.2025 5:05 PM
Google Google's Industry Dominance Isn't Unprecedented—and It Isn't Forever Failure of imagination drives the bipartisan energy around busting so-called Big Tech monopolies. James Czerniawski | 9.5.2025 11:15 AM
Antitrust Trump and Biden Tried To Break Up Google. Now, They've Both Failed. A federal judge rejected the proposed structural remedies in the Google search engine monopoly case. Jack Nicastro | 9.3.2025 5:00 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
Innovation Review: Detroit's Ford Rouge Factory Reveals Just How Far American Industry Has Come The factory has changed a lot, from making Model T parts to making Mustangs to assembling electric Ford F-150s. Jason Russell | 8.22.2025 6:00 AM
Travel The Final Vacation Frontier For just $55 million, you can book a weeklong vacation on the International Space Station. It's not exactly an all-inclusive beach resort. Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.16.2025 6:00 AM
Economy Trump's War on Economic Data Is a Dangerous Move for MAGA's Own Agenda The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is modern, agile, and protected from political interference. Veronique de Rugy | 8.7.2025 1:35 PM
Artificial Intelligence The Coming Techlash Could Kill AI Innovation Before It Helps Anyone Power-hungry data centers, disappearing jobs, and billions of dollars in subsidies are fueling resentment. If developers and policymakers don’t change course, Americans may reject AI before it ever delivers on its most significant promises. Kevin Frazier | 6.29.2025 7:00 AM
Food Lab-Grown Salmon Gets FDA Approval States keep banning lab-grown meat. Entrepreneurs keep innovating anyway. Emma Camp | 6.17.2025 11:12 AM
Elon Musk Helen Lewis: The Dark Side of Genius In The Genius Myth, the journalist delivers a sharp, funny takedown of our obsession with "brilliant" men, showing that behind every so-called genius is a crowd and a big PR machine. Nick Gillespie | 6.4.2025 11:00 AM
Technology Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Weird Plus: A listener asks if the "big beautiful bill" will decrease the deficit. Nick Gillespie | 6.2.2025 5:15 PM
Science Photo: Dire Wolf De-extinction A biotech company used DNA from thousands of years ago to clone three wolf pups that resemble the extinct dire wolf. Ronald Bailey | 6.1.2025 6:00 AM
Antitrust A Judge Blocked Apple From Collecting These Commissions "It's hard to see how completely ripping [the system] apart will be helpful to consumers," warns one economist. Jack Nicastro | 5.21.2025 3:52 PM
Artificial Intelligence A 10-Year Pause on State AI Laws Is the Smart Move A proposed federal moratorium on state-level AI regulations is a necessary step toward a unified strategy that protects innovation and equity alike. Kevin Frazier | 5.21.2025 12:50 PM
Artificial Intelligence Texas Could Blow Its Shot at Leading the AI Revolution A bad bill inspired by European tech panic threatened to drive out Tesla, Meta, and Nvidia. Lawmakers in the House improved it—but now the bill is stalled in the Senate. Devin McCormick | 5.19.2025 11:30 AM
Artificial Intelligence Will AI Kill Our Freedom To Think? Algorithmic systems increasingly shape what we know, see, and question. To preserve free inquiry, we need transparency, competition, and a commitment to timeless principles of open debate. Philipp Koralus | 5.16.2025 8:59 AM
Tariffs Tariffs Won't Fix What's Ailing American Men in the Work Force If anything, they sabotage the very forces—dynamism, adaptability, innovation—that create the economic opportunities struggling workers need. Veronique de Rugy | 5.1.2025 2:15 PM
History Researchers Accidentally Discovered an Ancient Megacity in a Mexican Jungle Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought. Katarina Hall | 4.27.2025 6:00 AM
Technology Virtual Fencing Can Help Buffalo Roam and Antelope Play Hundreds of thousands of miles of fences ensnare and sometimes kill wild animals. GPS technology offers an alternative. Ronald Bailey | 4.24.2025 6:00 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
Food Freedom North Carolina Is the Latest State To Try To Restrict Lab-Grown Meat Cultivated meat isn't challenging slaughtered meat anytime soon. But states keep trying to restrict competition. Emma Camp | 3.27.2025 4:00 PM
Science This Mouse Has Two Biological Dads?! An experiment with staggering implications for the future of human reproduction. Ronald Bailey | 3.25.2025 11:30 AM Technology The European Commission Is Assaulting American Tech Companies Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and others have all faced legal action from the European Union in recent years. Jack Nicastro | 3.23.2025 6:00 AM Science Researchers Used Mosquitos To Deliver Malaria Vaccines What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually? Ronald Bailey | 3.16.2025 6:30 AM Innovation Review: Another Tasty but Imperfect Meat Alternative Prime Roots deli-style meat alternatives are made of koji, the fungi that make soy sauce delicious. Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.7.2025 6:30 AM Science Is Science Rigged for the Rich? A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless. Aaron Brown | 3.6.2025 12:20 PM Innovation Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential in Early Trial The five-year survival rate of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is currently 13 percent. Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2025 2:25 PM Philosophy Jim O'Shaughnessy: Don't Squander This Age of Innovation Wall Street legend Jim O’Shaughnessy discusses how to live well and innovate boldly during the age of Trump, Musk, and AI. Nick Gillespie | 2.19.2025 11:00 AM Nuclear Power Photo: The First Nuclear-Powered Battery A radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond has the potential to power devices for thousands of years. Bekah Congdon | 2.13.2025 6:00 AM Artificial Intelligence Will Trump Embrace the AI Future or Succumb to His Protectionist Impulses? Trump and Biden both backed trade restrictions that ultimately lead to higher prices for the computer chips necessary to power artificial intelligence. Jack Nicastro | 2.4.2025 6:00 AM Taxes Congress Should Extend the Trump Tax Cuts. The Path Won't Be Easy. Not doing so could be harmful for just about everyone. Veronique de Rugy | 1.23.2025 4:10 PM Driverless Cars The Slow Approval of Self-Driving Cars Is Costing Lives Laws requiring a "driver" in driverless cars make as much sense as requiring a horse to be yoked to the front of an automobile, just in case. Steven Greenhut | 1.17.2025 7:30 AM Innovation A Rancher Cloned a Giant Sheep. The Feds Jailed Him for Allegedly Risking Ecological Disaster. Federal prosecutors said creating hybrid animals is "unnatural," yet the practice is common in the game industry. Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2025 6:00 AM Cryptocurrencies Photo: The Disappearing Satoshi Nakamoto Statue An Italian bitcoin enthusiast pays homage to the person or people who started the cryptocurrency revolution. Joakim Book | 1.2.2025 6:00 AM Capitalism Review: Arena Magazine Is Embracing Capitalism and the Future "Our mainstream media is hell-bent on tearing down the future before we can get too good a glimpse," the publisher wrote in the debut issue. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.13.2024 6:00 AM Labor Unions Union Workers Are Fighting To Keep U.S. Ports More Dangerous and Less Efficient Union president Harold Daggett says longshoremen will strike again in January if they don't get a ban on automation. John Stossel | 12.4.2024 12:30 AM More
Technology The European Commission Is Assaulting American Tech Companies Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and others have all faced legal action from the European Union in recent years. Jack Nicastro | 3.23.2025 6:00 AM
Science Researchers Used Mosquitos To Deliver Malaria Vaccines What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually? Ronald Bailey | 3.16.2025 6:30 AM
Innovation Review: Another Tasty but Imperfect Meat Alternative Prime Roots deli-style meat alternatives are made of koji, the fungi that make soy sauce delicious. Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.7.2025 6:30 AM
Science Is Science Rigged for the Rich? A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless. Aaron Brown | 3.6.2025 12:20 PM Innovation Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential in Early Trial The five-year survival rate of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is currently 13 percent. Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2025 2:25 PM Philosophy Jim O'Shaughnessy: Don't Squander This Age of Innovation Wall Street legend Jim O’Shaughnessy discusses how to live well and innovate boldly during the age of Trump, Musk, and AI. Nick Gillespie | 2.19.2025 11:00 AM Nuclear Power Photo: The First Nuclear-Powered Battery A radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond has the potential to power devices for thousands of years. Bekah Congdon | 2.13.2025 6:00 AM Artificial Intelligence Will Trump Embrace the AI Future or Succumb to His Protectionist Impulses? Trump and Biden both backed trade restrictions that ultimately lead to higher prices for the computer chips necessary to power artificial intelligence. Jack Nicastro | 2.4.2025 6:00 AM Taxes Congress Should Extend the Trump Tax Cuts. The Path Won't Be Easy. Not doing so could be harmful for just about everyone. Veronique de Rugy | 1.23.2025 4:10 PM Driverless Cars The Slow Approval of Self-Driving Cars Is Costing Lives Laws requiring a "driver" in driverless cars make as much sense as requiring a horse to be yoked to the front of an automobile, just in case. Steven Greenhut | 1.17.2025 7:30 AM Innovation A Rancher Cloned a Giant Sheep. The Feds Jailed Him for Allegedly Risking Ecological Disaster. Federal prosecutors said creating hybrid animals is "unnatural," yet the practice is common in the game industry. Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2025 6:00 AM Cryptocurrencies Photo: The Disappearing Satoshi Nakamoto Statue An Italian bitcoin enthusiast pays homage to the person or people who started the cryptocurrency revolution. Joakim Book | 1.2.2025 6:00 AM Capitalism Review: Arena Magazine Is Embracing Capitalism and the Future "Our mainstream media is hell-bent on tearing down the future before we can get too good a glimpse," the publisher wrote in the debut issue. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.13.2024 6:00 AM Labor Unions Union Workers Are Fighting To Keep U.S. Ports More Dangerous and Less Efficient Union president Harold Daggett says longshoremen will strike again in January if they don't get a ban on automation. John Stossel | 12.4.2024 12:30 AM More
Innovation Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential in Early Trial The five-year survival rate of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is currently 13 percent. Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2025 2:25 PM
Philosophy Jim O'Shaughnessy: Don't Squander This Age of Innovation Wall Street legend Jim O’Shaughnessy discusses how to live well and innovate boldly during the age of Trump, Musk, and AI. Nick Gillespie | 2.19.2025 11:00 AM
Nuclear Power Photo: The First Nuclear-Powered Battery A radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond has the potential to power devices for thousands of years. Bekah Congdon | 2.13.2025 6:00 AM
Artificial Intelligence Will Trump Embrace the AI Future or Succumb to His Protectionist Impulses? Trump and Biden both backed trade restrictions that ultimately lead to higher prices for the computer chips necessary to power artificial intelligence. Jack Nicastro | 2.4.2025 6:00 AM
Taxes Congress Should Extend the Trump Tax Cuts. The Path Won't Be Easy. Not doing so could be harmful for just about everyone. Veronique de Rugy | 1.23.2025 4:10 PM
Driverless Cars The Slow Approval of Self-Driving Cars Is Costing Lives Laws requiring a "driver" in driverless cars make as much sense as requiring a horse to be yoked to the front of an automobile, just in case. Steven Greenhut | 1.17.2025 7:30 AM
Innovation A Rancher Cloned a Giant Sheep. The Feds Jailed Him for Allegedly Risking Ecological Disaster. Federal prosecutors said creating hybrid animals is "unnatural," yet the practice is common in the game industry. Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2025 6:00 AM
Cryptocurrencies Photo: The Disappearing Satoshi Nakamoto Statue An Italian bitcoin enthusiast pays homage to the person or people who started the cryptocurrency revolution. Joakim Book | 1.2.2025 6:00 AM
Capitalism Review: Arena Magazine Is Embracing Capitalism and the Future "Our mainstream media is hell-bent on tearing down the future before we can get too good a glimpse," the publisher wrote in the debut issue. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.13.2024 6:00 AM
Labor Unions Union Workers Are Fighting To Keep U.S. Ports More Dangerous and Less Efficient Union president Harold Daggett says longshoremen will strike again in January if they don't get a ban on automation. John Stossel | 12.4.2024 12:30 AM
