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Reason is the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets." It covers politics, culture, and ideas through a provocative mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. Reason provides a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity.

Reason

Our Lab-Grown Future

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Strangling AI, One State at a Time

What’s Special About the Fed?

Making Food Out of Thin Air

Let Prisoners Work for Themselves

DOJ Aims To Restore Gun Rights

Chatbots Win the Debate

Cairo: The Unfinished City

Taxing the Poor, Globally

A Spy’s Eye View

Q&A Susannah Cahalan

Poland Climbs, Hungary Slips

Another Expensive Ride for NYC

WHY EUROPEANS HAVE LESS • EUROPE IS POOR BECAUSE IT CHOOSES TO BE.

PUTIN AND THE D-WORD • IN DONALD TRUMP’S VIEW, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY IS A “DICTATOR,” BUT VLADIMIR PUTIN ISN’T.

EDUCATING THE WORLD’S BEST AND BRIGHTEST—THEN SHOWING THEM THE DOOR • AMERICA’S STATUS AS A TOP DESTINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IS AT RISK.

DOGE BEFORE DOGE • BEFORE TRUMP HAD ELON MUSK, NIXON HAD HOWARD PHILLIPS.

Richard Dawkins on the New Enemies of Scientific Thinking • THE LEGENDARY ATHEIST AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST ARGUES THAT TRUTH SHOULDN’T BEND TO FAITH OR FASHIONABLE POLITICS.

LIKE TOLKIEN, BUT THE ELVES HAVE MORE SEX • THE DESIRES REVEALED BY THE RISE OF ROMANTASY ARE MORE THAN JUST CARNAL.

Cracks in the Map

The Depopulation Bomb

REVIEWS

ARCHIVES • Excerpts from Reason’s vaults

Euro Zoned

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