Anna Delvey, a German heiress who claimed a considerable trust fund, floated through New York City’s wealthiest circles in the mid-’10s. She had a habit of forgetting to pay for luxury hotel bills, and once she even stole a private jet. In reality she was Anna Sorokin, a middle-class Russian-born immigrant, loaded with more chutzpah […]
“Don’t believe the claim that the internet has corrupted our public discourse with misinformation,” says Jeffrey A. Singer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and general surgeon in Phoenix, Arizona. “Experts don’t have a monopoly on the search for truth.” In his recent article, “Against Scientific Gatekeeping,” which appeared in Reason‘s May 2022 issue, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, and the U.S. started collecting evidence of possible Russian war crimes in the first week of March. This past weekend, when Ukrainian soldiers recaptured the town of Bucha, just 36 miles from Kyiv, they found themselves in the midst of what Ukrainian authorities […]
Collegiate women’s swimming and diving kicked off its NCAA Division I championships on March 16, and the season has been rife with controversy over Lia Thomas, the first transgender NCAA Division I women’s swimming champion. Thomas, a student-athlete at the University of Pennsylvania, competed on Penn’s men’s swimming and diving team for three years. While […]
On March 14, President Vladimir Putin banned Instagram from being accessed within the country, cracking down on the dissemination of information to the app’s 80 million users about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Later that same day, Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor and producer at the Russian state television’s flagship Channel One decided enough was enough. […]
With Russian President Vladimir Putin sending troops into Ukraine, many journalists and analysts—even former President Donald Trump—have jumped to the conclusion that Taiwan is next. “Russia is in the headlines today, but China will be the spearhead of the authoritarian cause,” writes the Atlantic Council’s Michael Shuman. But there is no direct link between Putin’s invasion […]
It’s no secret that public trust in institutions is in free fall. In 1958, when Americans were first asked by the National Election Study about their trust in the government, 73 percent of respondents said they could trust the government to do the right thing always or most of the time. In 2021, that number […]
