Almost 70 years after a U.S.-backed coup deposed the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and replaced him with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran, relations between the two countries remain at a fever pitch. Just days ago, President Donald Trump, responding to unspecified intelligence reports, threatened that “any attack by Iran, […]
“A huge amount of progress has taken place that a lot of people just don’t take into account, especially smart people who are attending to the real problems of the world,” says Ronald Bailey, Reason‘s science correspondent and the coauthor, with Marian Tupy of HumanProgress.org, of Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And […]
In the time of a global pandemic, soaring unemployment, massive wildfires, and racial strife, it feels like the world is going to hell. It’s not, says Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey, the coauthor (with HumanProgress.org’s Marian Tupy) of Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting. “In 1820,” […]
“This is the best we’ve got?” asks podcaster and columnist Bridget Phetasy of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. “Do I poke out my left eye? Or my right eye?” It’s no wonder to her that neither Biden nor Trump can crack 50 percent in approval ratings. They are, she says, cringe-inducing to everyone but hard-core […]
In this month’s issue, we draw on decades of Reason journalism about policing and criminal justice to make practical suggestions about how to use the momentum of this summer’s tumultuous protests productively. Check out Damon Root on abolishing qualified immunity, Peter Suderman on busting the police unions, Jacob Sullum on ending the war on drugs, […]
“Democracy doesn’t die in the darkness,” writes Bridget Phetasy, “it dies when politics become team sports, in full view of a bloodthirsty, cheering electorate.” Phetasy is a popular podcaster, comedian, and writer who a year ago penned a great column titled “The battle cry of the politically homeless.” She followed it up just a few […]
“When terror is seen as justified, I think it’s inevitable that something terrible is going to happen,” journalist Nancy Rommelmann told Nick Gillespie last week about the Portland protests she’s been covering for Reason. (Watch excerpts above, or listen to the full-length podcast interview.) Her pessimism proved prescient: A man was shot and killed in […]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) today advised Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to skip any debates with the incumbent. “I do not think that the president of the United States has comported himself in a way that has any association with truth, evidence, data, and facts,” says Pelosi. Speaker Pelosi: “Don’t tell Joe Biden. I don’t […]
What’s behind the monthslong violent protests in Portland, Oregon, and are they coming soon to a city near you? Since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May, demonstrators in Portland have taken to the streets every night, often smashing windows, setting buildings on fire, and scuffling with local and federal law […]
How biologically different are men and women? In 2017, Google engineer James Damore sparked a controversy for writing a leaked memo arguing that women were underrepresented in tech because of innate differences, not sexist bias. Damore was fired by Google and widely attacked in the media. Debra Soh, a psychologist and journalist whose writings have […]
