On Wednesday, Variety published the headline: “J.K. Rowling Denies Inviting Jeffrey Epstein to ‘Harry Potter & The Cursed Child’ Broadway Opening, DOJ Docs Show He Was Turned Away at Door.”…
Read more The Epstein files are becoming a witch huntThis week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason senior editor Robby Soave to share the stories they believe didn’t receive sufficient media attention in 2025. Each panelist…
Read more What the media didn’t tell you in 2025This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by Reason senior editor Robby Soave to discuss President Donald Trump’s unexpectedly warm White House meeting with New York…
Read more Trump embraces Mamdani socialism as ‘practical’For critics of the mainstream media—myself very much included—it is tempting to always feel some kinship toward independent media commentators, reporters, and influencers. After all, we have lived…
Read more Candace Owens can’t present serious evidence for her Charlie Kirk assassination theoriesThis week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to discuss Paramount’s $150 million acquisition of The Free Press and…
Read more Does Bari Weiss prove woke media is collapsing?What is the Jeffrey Epstein story, and what does it mean? Just asking questions. Today’s conversation is with journalist Michael Tracey, who has been picking apart what he…
Read more Michael Tracey: Cutting through the Jeffrey Epstein fogWhen Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in conversation with Oprah Winfrey last month, she dropped a tidbit that may have come as a surprise. “If somebody breaks in…
Read more Kamala Harris says she owns a handgun—despite fighting to ban others from doing the sameHaving survived a second assassination attempt in as many months, former President Donald Trump knows precisely whom to blame: his political enemies, the media, and the Democrats. (Three…
Read more Heated political rhetoric is usually not fatalThis week’s first and possibly only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was not nearly as consequential as the June debate, which ended…
Read more ABC’s moderators failed to fact-check Kamala HarrisA consensus is swiftly forming among Republican politicians, activists, and media figures that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump can be blamed on the heated, occasionally…
Read more Stop blaming the attempted assassination on heated anti-Trump rhetoricComedian Jerry Seinfeld on Sunday gave the commencement address at Duke University—a ceremony that was dominated by students walking out in support of Palestine. Oh, wait. No, it…
Read more ‘Dozens’ of Duke students walking out of Seinfeld’s commencement speech is not a storyFormer White House coronavirus advisor Anthony Fauci doesn’t believe the lab leak explanation of COVID-19’s origins is a conspiracy theory. He admitted as much during a closed-door grilling…
Read more Lab leak is not a conspiracy theory, Anthony Fauci concedes“America has a life expectancy crisis,” asserted a recent headline in The Washington Post. Why a crisis? Because American average life expectancy has been flat and then declining…
Read more Guns, germs, and drugs are largely responsible for the decline in U.S. life expectancy“Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals” was the headline of a New York Times article looking at the findings of “a major study of…
Read more ‘The New York Times’ misrepresented a shoddy study claiming private equity worsened hospital careRemember when Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) accused then–White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci of funding China’s Wuhan virus lab? Fauci replied, “Senator Paul, you do not know what…
Read more ‘America funded it’: Rand Paul blasts Fauci and the media for suppressing the lab leak theoryThis week’s featured article is “True Crime Distorts the Truth About Crime” by Kat Rosenfield. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music…
Read more ‘The Best of Reason’: True crime distorts the truth about crimeDonald Trump once famously bragged that he could shoot someone on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters. What he didn’t mention was how quickly the news…
Read more Call It Trump’s Coup Attempt, Because It Damned Well Was
