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Still Fronting

How the George Floyd uprising was framed

Kyrsten Sinema – Shape Shifter

From Green Party rabble-rouser to Senate power broker, Kyrsten Sinema’s rise is a political fairy tale—and nightmare.

Geared Up Los Deliveristas

After work conditions deteriorated, New York’s immigrant bicycle couriers united to bring a revolution to the gig economy.

The Four Americas

Competing visions of the country’s purpose and meaning are tearing it apart. Is reconciliation possible?

Boris Johnson – Inside The Controlled Chaos Of Downing Street

Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing

71 minutes with … Andrew Giuliani

A failson sets his sights on Albany.

A Climate To Fear

Central America’s subsistence farmers are fleeing increasingly severe droughts and storms

A Superhero's New Mission

Chris Evans hung up his Captain America shield. Now he and his partners want to help Generation Z reshape the U.S. political landscape

2021 New York City mayoral election – Rank Me

Fifteen candidates for mayor, each selling a different vision of the city. Choose your top five.

Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits

The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.

Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke

A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.

The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary

Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.

Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech

IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”

The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away

While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.

How To End Extreme Child Poverty

Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.

Purgatory At Sea

Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the mediterranean.

Whose Side Is Kavanaugh On?

Conservatives hope to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner.

Stars and Strife

How two feuding tea party leaders helped lay the groundwork for the insurrection

The “Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland”

After decades of discriminating against Black farmers and ignoring their complaints, the USDA is promising to do better. Again.

Total Recall

California Republicans’ hopes are riding on the “superhero pirate” leading a mutiny against the governor.

Biden's Muse

Can America’s problems be fixed by a president who loves Jon Meacham?

Andrew Yang's Insider Campaign

How did a former CEO of 100 employees become the front-runner to govern a city of 8.5 million? Not simply by being a national celebrity and an excellent campaigner.

6 Creative Ways Workers Are Taking Back Power

When workers align with local constituents to fight for shared goals, it strengthens their campaign.

30 minutes with … Eric Adams

Eight weeks before the mayoral primary and second in the polls, Brooklyn’s borough president sharpens his case for more cops.

The Era of Small Government Is Over

Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?

‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers

“Hero Pay” Laws, which require big wage increases for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, are sweeping the West Coast. Store closures, unemployment, and lawsuits have followed in their wake.

An $86 Billion Moral Hazard

The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.

The Power of the First Lady

How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own

The Diplomat Who Disappeared

In 1974, John Patterson, an american diplomat on his first assignment abroad, was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000 and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.

The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful

The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.