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Why did the FBI investigate a song?!
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- Why did the FBI investigate a song?!
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The FBI opened an official case of possible interstate transportation of obscene matter and spent two years combing through every poorly enunciated lyric of “Louie, Louie” before declaring the song “free of obscenity.” Which was wrong! #music #history #historyfacts #FBI
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- Why do taxpayers pay for stadiums?
- Runtime
- 7:18
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Sports subsidies suck.
If sports is a trillion dollar industry, with billionaire team owners and millionaire players, and hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic fans, and weird pervert mascot creatures, why is the government giving them your money?
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- These climate change charts are wrong. Here are the real versions.
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- 6:41
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The job of scientists isn't to manufacture alarm. It's to communicate the truth.
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Sensible progress requires honestly evaluating climate change and devising realistic strategies to address it, not manipulating data to generate hockey sticks. The job of scientists isn't to manufacture alarm. It's to communicate the truth.
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- What happens when the feds violate your rights?
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- You’ve probably never heard of Webster Bivens, but he was at center of a Supreme Court case that became one of the most important in history. #history #historytime #SupremeCourt #scotus
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- California's $135 BILLION train to NOWHERE
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- How did California spend $15 billion over 16 years building a train to nowhere? Oh wait…There is no train! They haven’t laid a single track. #California #train #transportation
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- What happens when you DOUBLE wealth?
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- If you double the real wealth of everyone in the country, not just adding imaginary fiat money to the supply like we’re currently doing, you will dramatically increase inequality. Is that bad?
#money #finance #wealth #economics
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- What socialists get wrong about "free" daycare
- Runtime
- 6:11
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.
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Mamdani ran on the most ambitious universal child care proposal in the country: free day care for all kids ages 6 weeks and above. Apparently, this pitch was compelling to the city's beleaguered parents: The self-styled socialist won by a hefty margin.
There is a fundamental tension at play in all efforts to make child care cheaper. It is profoundly labor-intensive, requiring great human resources to be expended. The most engaged, most highly qualified people won't be attracted to these jobs. You can sometimes get highly motivated, highly educated, super-qualified workers to perform the labor of child care—if it's for their own kids. That those families are penalized in today's New York, forced to fund the universal child care system with their tax dollars while not availing themselves of it, is wrong and unfair. It's made even mo...
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- When opposites attract
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren are political opposites, right? They’ve been saying mean things about each other for years. But lately we’ve been noticing a lot of similarities in their ideas.
Maybe this explains why so many people are fed up with both major parties. #Republicans #Democrats #politics
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- Why are cops mad about ICE?
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Reason’s Matt Welch shares how even “back the blue” MAGA-type NYPD cops are mad about what’s happening with ICE. Hear more on The Reason Roundtable podcast. #ICE #police #podcast
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- Will A.I. Benefit EVERYONE?
- Runtime
- 1:41:52
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- A Soho Forum debate on artificial intelligence's potential to deliver widespread societal benefits
Technology authors Perry Metzger and Brian Merchant debate the resolution, "Artificial Intelligence will provide enormous net benefits to nearly every member of society."
Metzger is taking the affirmative. He is the co-founder and and chairman of the board of Alliance for the Future, and the author of science comic Computers: How Digital Hardware Works.
Merchant is taking the negative. He is a reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute. He's also the author of two books, The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone and Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
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- The Last Journey
- Runtime
- 27:08
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- In search of emotional healing and inner peace, Lisa joins a weekend psilocybin retreat with two other women also living with cancer. The retreat is guided by Heather A. Lee, a certified psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist in Colorado and a breast cancer survivor herself. Heather is at the forefront of pioneering safe, legal, and compassionate retreats for women at all stages of their cancers. Directed by Arthur Nazaryan and produced by the team at Reason TV, Last Journey is a testament to the strength, resilience, and inner wisdom of women—and to psilocybin’s potential to bring relief, meaning, and beauty to life’s most vulnerable moments.
Director: Arthur Nazaryan
Co-Director: Qinling Li
Producer: Arthur Nazaryan
Director of Photography: Arthur Nazaryan
Cinematographers: Arthur Nazaryan, Mike Shum
Writer: Qinling Li
Editors: Qinling Li, Phoebe McFarb
Associate Editor: Michelle Gao
Story Consultant: Mike Shum
S...
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- How New York made winter roads WORSE
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Did you know NYC buys 300,000 tons of road salt per year?
New York is home to the largest salt mine in the U.S., so politicians had an idea and it made winter roads worse. #NewYork #winter #storm
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- Does America have an inequality problem?
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Concerns about inequality in America are rampant. And they are wrong. America doesn’t have an inequality problem. We have a measurement problem.
#wealth #money #finance #comedy
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- Where does billions in unspent hurricane aid go?
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Thirteen years after Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Transit Administration is sitting on $3.8 billion in unused funds. So what does the government do with billions in unspent hurricane relief money? #hurricane #government
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- The real reason flying feels worse today
- Runtime
- 14:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Sixty years ago, commercial air travel was nothing like how it is today.
Nostalgia for the days of more spacious cabins, dressier passengers, and luxury food service is a common sight on social media. In some ways, those viral posts make a compelling point. Flying is often drudgery today. Long lines and insufficient legroom—and of course the irritating Transportation Security Administration (TSA)—make flying sometimes feel more like a chore than a miraculous accomplishment of human ingenuity.
Who wouldn't rather be on a plane in the 1960s instead of one today?
The answer: you.
Those old-school airlines might have been luxurious, but those flights were unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans. If you lived back then, you wouldn't be flying in style. You'd probably not be flying at all.
0:00- Introduction
1:33- Part 1: "The Good Old Days"
4:33- Part 2: "No Assholes Need Apply"
8:24- Part 3: You...
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- A SECRET bioweapon test in San Francisco?!
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Why did the Navy intentionally blast 800,000 people with a bioweapon in one of America’s biggest cities? #History #HistoryFacts #California #SanFrancisco
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- Why do people want the right to die?
- Runtime
- 14:00
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Medical Aid in Dying was once a felony in the United States. Now it’s legal in a dozen states and the District of Columbia. The latest battleground is New York, where advocates and opponents struggle over the passage of a law 10 years in the making. Is Medical Aid in Dying a fundamental right? Or a slippery slope toward state-supported suicide?
Producer: Kevin P. Alexander
Video editors: Kevin P. Alexander and Daniel Schloss
Graphics: Adani Samat
Camera: Daniel Schloss, Tyler Harmon-Townsend and Kevin P. Alexander
Managing Editor: Natalie Dowzicky
Executive Editor: Jim Epstein
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Music Credits:
“Odd Numbers” by Curtis Cole via Artlist; “Diamonds” by Livingrooms via Artlist; “Fluency” by Piotr Hummel via Artlist; “Trapt” by Philip Daniel via Artlist; “Marakana” Alon Peretz via Artlist; “Pensive Synthesizer” by Kyle Preston via Artlist...
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- Cleveland's balloon drop disaster
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In 1986, the United Way decided to host a fundraising event to set the Guinness World Record for releasing helium balloons. Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong? #ohio #cleveland #history #historyfacts
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- Obamacare has a HUGE fraud problem
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Government auditors signed 24 fake people up for Obamacare subsidies. Guess how many of those fake applications got denied?
Exactly…one. #healthcare #obamacare #health #government
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- If they were honest about the ICE shooting
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Was it murder or self defense? It's like that dress—was it black and blue or gold and white?
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- Joe Rogan REACTS to Reason’s housing interview
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Even Joe Rogan can’t believe Mamdani adviser Cea Weaver’s plan for socialized housing. He reacted to it on Saturday’s episode saying how Weaver’s idea would “jack up interest rates” and called it “moronic.” We’d have to agree. #JoeRogan #podcast #reaction
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- Mamdani adviser Cea Weaver on universal housing
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Mamdani adviser Cea Weaver spoke to Reason in 2021 for our story on New York City’s eviction moratorium. In that interview, she shared her beliefs on universal housing saying, “I believe that anybody who needs housing should get it,” with a rental market financed entirely by the government. #NewYork #NYC #housing #socialism
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- Mamdani adviser’s plan for SOCIALIZED housing
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- On his first day in office, Mamdani appointed Cea Weaver, a tenant activist and one of his campaign advisers, to lead the city's Office to Protect Tenants.
Reason spoke with Weaver in 2021 for our story on the victims of the eviction moratorium. She told us about her vision of "a world in which the housing is owned by a collective" and said "the federal government prints money" so they "can provide money for this." #NewYork #NYC #housing #socialism
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- Should CPS intervene more?
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- 1:50:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Naomi Schaefer Riley and Martin Guggenheim debate the resolution, "Government-run child protective services should intervene more in the lives of children."
For the affirmative is Riley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at the Independent Women's Forum. She's the author of seven books, the most recent of which is No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives.
Guggenheim is taking the negative. He is the Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law Emeritus at New York University Law School and founder of the Family Defense Clinic at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He's also the author of multiple books, including What's Wrong with Children's Rights.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum director Gene Epstein.
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- Fact check: This viral Big Mac claim
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- A viral social media post supposedly shows a menu from an Alaska McDonald’s that closed in 1994. Everyone was astonished by the prices. A Big Mac for $2.45. Today, that same burger will cost you $6.09 in Alaska. So, is McDonald’s ripping you off? #fastfood #food #economics
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- California’s REAL housing crisis
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- California admits they have a housing crisis — so why is the state fining one couple $213,000 for helping solve the problem?
It’s why the Institute for Justice has stepped in, they are now suing in federal court. #California #housing #home #homelessness
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- Why is the city trying to SEIZE 75 businesses?
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Brentwood, Missouri is trying to seize these small businesses because of cracked pavement, tinted windows, and…what might happen in the future?
The city plans to seize these 75 properties and sell them to Green Street, a private development firm that faces a $24,000,000 lawsuit over defaulted loans and has a principal who recently filed for bankruptcy. Truly, the right pick for the job. #Missouri #business #smallbusiness #smallbusinessowner
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- Do we have an income inequality problem?
- Runtime
- 7:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- A lot of people are worried about income inequality. Are they wrong?
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- California’s fast-food disaster
- Runtime
- 2:48
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- 00:53 Correction: The Newsom administration later said Panera was not exempt from the law and franchisee Greg Flynn said his restaurants would comply with the new minimum wage.
California politicians wanted to make sure fast-food employees earned their “fair share”—and that’s when 557,000 workers across 30,000 restaurants got an economic reality check.
Reason's Bess Byers shares what happened after Assembly Bill 1228 implemented a government-mandated pay raise for all fast-food workers. #California #jobs #fastfood #food
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- How is this Iowa town INSIDE Nebraska?
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- How did this town, Carter Lake, Iowa, end up inside Nebraska? The answer is a flood, the U.S. Supreme Court, and a nearly century-long legal battle that raises the question - what are borders anyway? #Iowa #Nebraska #border
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- Why are NYC hotels so expensive?
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Kennedy hits the streets of New York City to ask tourists a simple question: why is visiting NYC at Christmas so outrageously expensive? #travel #newyork #nyc #airbnb #hotel
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- What politicians REALLY want this holiday season
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Need the perfect gift for someone special in your life? Like that very special someone who can make things happen? Come on down to B. Ribe’s Technically Gifts. We take the guesswork out of holiday shopping and government influence because apparently nobody gives a $#!&. #comedy #politics #christmas #satire
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- Deplatforming backfired
- Runtime
- 24:07
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Progressive censors failed to suppress our political demons. It's finally time to confront them.
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When Donald Trump was kicked off social media in 2021, liberal pundit Matthew Yglesias tweeted, "It's kinda weird that deplatforming Trump just like completely worked with no visible downside whatsoever." Two years later, Fox News fired Tucker Carlson, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) celebrated that "deplatforming works," though she worried about the long-term implications.
"I also kind of feel like I'm waiting for the cut scene at the end of a Marvel movie after all the credits have rolled, and then you like see the villain's hand reemerge," said Ocasio-Cortez.
As it turns out, every major star gets a sequel. Trump is back in the White House, and Carlson has a bigger audience than ever before.
What we've learned is that deplatforming doesn't work.
In 2021, I published a video at Reason...
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- Should we REALLY worry about data centers?
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Data centers account for 0.2 percent of the 322 billion gallons of water Americans use every day. The share of electricity used by data centers is much greater—a little over 4 percent of total electricity consumption in 2023, and it’s projected to be as much as 12 percent by 2028. So, should you freak out? #technology #data #AI #energy
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- Birds HATE this California solar project?
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The year? 2010. The problem? The U.S. needs more green energy. The solution? The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility where acres of mirrors focus sunlight onto giant towers, heating boilers up to a thousand degrees to generate electricity. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? #greenenergy #solar #California #climatechange
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- NYC's Airbnb Crackdown Is a DISASTER
- Runtime
- 4:03
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Kennedy hits the streets of New York City to ask tourists a simple question: why is visiting NYC at Christmas so outrageously expensive?
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Drawing on interviews with tourists she meets on the streets of New York, Kennedy explains how city policies have quietly removed tens of thousands of rooms from the short-term rental market while simultaneously making it far more difficult to build or expand hotels.
Producer: Natalie Dowzicky
Video editor: Hana Ko
Color correction: Cody Huff
Audio production: Ian Keyser
Music credits: That's the Way I Twist by The Best Ofs via Epidemic Sound/Circus Beat by Martin Landstrom via Epidemic Sound/Go Tell It On The Mountain (Instrumental Version) by The Snowy Hill Singers via Epidemic Sound/The Christmas Spirit (Instrumental Version) by The Snowy Hill Singers via Epidemic Sound/Christmas With Me (Instrumental Version) by Frizz Oli via Epidemic Sound
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- Is it time to break up Big Tech?
- Runtime
- 1:37:35
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Economic researchers Matt Stoller and Geoffrey Manne debate the resolution, "The U.S. government should break up large technology companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google to protect workers, suppliers, consumers, and democratic institutions."
Arguing in favor of the resolution is Stoller, the director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project and the author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.
Taking the negative is Manne, the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum director Gene Epstein.
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- These HEELS make me a CRIMINAL?!
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Why do these white Christian Louboutin heels make Reason’s Bess Byers a criminal in one California town? Carmel-by-the-Sea is an idyllic town on the NorCal coast, but it’s notorious for nanny-state restrictions on everything from ice cream to high heels. #California #fashion #history
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- What America can learn from Japanese housing
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Why the hell are houses so expensive? You cannot have housing operate as the nation’s principal investment vehicle and have cheap, abundant affordable housing. It's why Reason’s Andrew Heaton thinks America can learn something from Japanese housing. #home #housing #japan #japanese
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- The unintended consequences of free parking
- Runtime
- 7:20
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- When a resource is underpriced, people tend to overuse it. In cities around the world, free or cheap parking leads to a familiar scene: drivers endlessly circling the block, waiting to happen upon someone leaving. Urban planners call it "cruising for parking."
In congested areas, drivers looking for a spot account for nearly 30 percent of traffic. In Los Angeles' Westwood Village, for example, drivers circled for the equivalent of 950,000 extra miles and burned through 47,000 gallons of gasoline in a year, just looking for a place to park.
Wasted time, wasted gas, clogged streets, air pollution—these are the hidden costs of underpricing the curb, as UCLA economist Donald Shoup argued in his 800-page, 2005 classic tome, The High Cost of Free Parking.
In theory, the fix is simple. As Shoup argues, cities should price curb space based on supply and demand and then reinvest the revenue in infrastructure improvements. The price of a spot should be ta...
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- We had THESE on U.S. soil?!
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Did you know America had 11 concentration camps on U.S. soil and it was only 80 years ago? Reason’s Bess Byers shares more about one of the worst executive orders in American history. #history #historyfacts #historytime #WorldWarII
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- What America can learn from Japanese housing
- Runtime
- 7:53
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Heaton explains why houses are so expensive, and suggests some lessons from Japan.
- Title
- What even is a libertarian in 2025?
- Runtime
- 1:31:33
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- It's that time of year again when we ask you to open your wallets, dear listener, and make a tax-deductible donation to Reason's annual webathon:
In this special video episode of The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Robby Soave, and Peter Suderman will respond to your burning questions.
Tune in at 2:30pm (EST) on December 4 for a special live episode of The Reason Roundtable.
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- Behind the scenes with Reason's libertarian journalists
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- 1:10:47
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Reason Roundup newsletter author and associate editor Liz Wolfe goes live with Reason’s writers and producers to give you an exclusive look at what’s coming next from our newsroom.
Donate to Reason's annual webathon: https://reason.pub/3Xp4Iuv
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- LA paid her $2 MILLION for THIS?!
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- If you get let go from your job, you probably won’t collect $2 million from local taxpayers. But that’s exactly what Los Angeles County CEO Fesia Davenport got after L.A. voters decided to eliminate her position.
Even worse, it all went down in secret. The backstory here is pretty wild. #LosAngeles #job #government
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- Real sugar used to be in everything. Then this happened.
- Runtime
- 16:45
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- This is the story of how special interests twisted federal sugar policy to cost consumers $2.5 billion every year.
https://reason.com/2025/11/26/how-special-interests-twisted-federal-sugar-policy-to-cost-consumers-2-5-billion-every-year/
0:00- Introduction
3:02- America's Sugar Rush
9:28- The Sugar Powerbroker
15:37- Conclusion
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With inflation on the rise again, it seems like everyone is looking for someone to blame for higher prices—from grocery stores to the current occupant of the White House.
And while the president doesn't have a big dial on his desk that raises and lowers the price of food or gas, there should be no doubt that government policy has a big influence on where your money goes. Take sugar, for example. Thanks to a series of tariffs and quotas that have been largely unchanged since the 1980s, sugar costs about twice as much in America as it does in most of the rest of the world—and that ...
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- Turkey Pardon and Epstein Island
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The White House Thanksgiving tradition gets weird. #Thanksgiving #turkey #comedy
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- These pickpocket signs aren't helping stop crime
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Does putting up warning signs protect tourists from being pickpocketed? It turns out when people see a sign about pickpockets, they instinctually check their valuables, so thieves know where the good stuff is.
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- What we lost when women went to work
- Runtime
- 9:29
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- When Millennials invented the girlboss, Gen Z responded with the tradwife, complete with homemade Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereals and BMIs of 18 after popping out a half-dozen kids.
It makes them easy to hate.
Typically conservative and Christian, these women have traditional marriages, embracing the idea that it's OK for a woman to stay home, take care of their kids, and tend to the hearth.
It's a mindset, a lifestyle, but also an aesthetic that traffics in 1950s nostalgia.
Tradwives are also magnets for hate and judgment. "I'm sorry, 50 years ago was not a place I ever want to be back," quipped The View's Whoopi Goldberg, mocking these women's embrace of the older ways of structuring homes and marriages.
The critiques aren't totally wrong: Tradwives are sometimes performative, a made-for-social-media phenomenon that can look a little ridiculous. The most successful ones are the most extreme, curated, and out of touch....
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- Should Affirmative Action End?
- Runtime
- 1:37:29
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Princeton University professor Jason Frymer and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley debate the resolution, "The U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision to dismantle affirmative action in American higher education marked a significant regression in the pursuit of racial equality."
Arguing for the affirmative is Frymer, a professor of politics at Princeton. He's the author of Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America and Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party.
Arguing against the resolution is Riley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He's also the author of several relevant titles, including The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences To Succeed and Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed, False Black Power.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum director Gene Epstein
