The comedian and political satirist Ahmed Albasheer is the most popular media figure in Iraq—half of the country regularly tunes...

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Iraqi Comedian Ahmed Albasheer: The U.S. Invasion Created a Thousand Saddams

In his bestselling books The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now, the Harvard linguist Steven Pinker made the...

Steven Pinker: Rationality Saves Lives

In April 2018, the founders of the online classifieds website Backpage.com, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, and five people who...

The Collapsing Federal Prostitution Case Against Backpage.com

"[The police] asked me, are you knowingly going against Gavin Newsom's orders? And I said, 'Yes,'" says Annie Rammel, co-owner...

California Business Owners Sue Gov. Newsom Over the Lockdowns

The country is currently in the throes of a moral panic over social media, says Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave...

Everybody Is Wrong About Big Tech

"I always had this kind of idea that, 'Oh, magic mushrooms just grow like deep in the forest and they're...

Oregon Legalizes a Breakthrough Treatment: Magic Mushrooms

"History is made by intense, compact minorities," says Washington Post columnist George Will, who believes that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.)...

George Will vs. 1619 Project: The U.S. Founding Is 'the Best Thing That Ever Happened'

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, continue to cast a long shadow over American life. Twenty years later, at...

What Fear Does to Our Freedom

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded and occupied two countries, bombed four others, helped create...

Biden Won't End the Warfare-Surveillance State

"You don't get to lose a war and expect the result to look like you won it," says historian Stephen Wertheim of the violent and chaotic withdrawal of United States forces and personnel from Afghanistan. "Yet some in Washington are denying reality, calling for still more war and blaming Biden for their failure."

9/11's Lesson: War Doesn't Work

Before Los Angeles temporarily eased its zoning requirements and allowed restaurants to expand outdoor seating during the COVID-19 pandemic, the...

L.A. Finally Lets People Eat In Parking Lots

Gov. Gavin Newsom is in trouble, and he knows it. "California and the values we profess would be judged in...

California's Recall Is a Revolt Against Gov. Gavin Newsom's Progressive Agenda

George Hotz, the hacker and entrepreneur who as a teenager became famous as the first person to jailbreak the iPhone...

George Hotz: From Self-Driving Cars to Robots That Cook and Clean

Environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr. says many media interpretations of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are "irresponsible."

Why We Shouldn't Fear a Climate Apocalypse

In 2003, George W. Bush famously declared victory in Iraq, just as the war was about to turn into a...

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