Politics
The Epstein files are becoming a witch hunt
[ad_1] 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…
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Politics
What the media didn’t tell you in 2025
[ad_1] This 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…
Politics
Trump embraces Mamdani socialism as ‘practical’
[ad_1] This 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…
Politics
Candace Owens can’t present serious evidence for her Charlie Kirk assassination theories
[ad_1] 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.…
Politics
Does Bari Weiss prove woke media is collapsing?
[ad_1] This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to discuss Paramount’s $150 million acquisition…
Politics
Michael Tracey: Cutting through the Jeffrey Epstein fog
[ad_1] What is the Jeffrey Epstein story, and what does it mean? Just asking questions. Today’s conversation is with journalist Michael Tracey, who has…
Politics
Kamala Harris says she owns a handgun—despite fighting to ban others from doing the same
[ad_1] When Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in conversation with Oprah Winfrey last month, she dropped a tidbit that may have come as a…
Politics
Heated political rhetoric is usually not fatal
[ad_1] Having survived a second assassination attempt in as many months, former President Donald Trump knows precisely whom to blame: his political enemies, the…
Politics
ABC’s moderators failed to fact-check Kamala Harris
[ad_1] This week’s first and possibly only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was not nearly as consequential as…
Politics
Stop blaming the attempted assassination on heated anti-Trump rhetoric
[ad_1] A consensus is swiftly forming among Republican politicians, activists, and media figures that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump can be…
Politics
‘Dozens’ of Duke students walking out of Seinfeld’s commencement speech is not a story
[ad_1] Comedian Jerry Seinfeld on Sunday gave the commencement address at Duke University—a ceremony that was dominated by students walking out in support of…
Politics
Lab leak is not a conspiracy theory, Anthony Fauci concedes
[ad_1] Former 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…
Politics
Guns, germs, and drugs are largely responsible for the decline in U.S. life expectancy
[ad_1] “America has a life expectancy crisis,” asserted a recent headline in The Washington Post. Why a crisis? Because American average life expectancy has…
Politics
‘The New York Times’ misrepresented a shoddy study claiming private equity worsened hospital care
[ad_1] “Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals” was the headline of a New York Times article looking at the findings…
Politics
‘America funded it’: Rand Paul blasts Fauci and the media for suppressing the lab leak theory
[ad_1] Remember 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,…
Politics
‘The Best of Reason’: True crime distorts the truth about crime
[ad_1] This week’s featured article is “True Crime Distorts the Truth About Crime” by Kat Rosenfield. This audio was generated using AI trained on…
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Call It Trump’s Coup Attempt, Because It Damned Well Was
[ad_1] Donald Trump once famously bragged that he could shoot someone on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters. What he didn’t mention…