What kind of monster doesn’t want the federal government to make it easier for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions? That’s the unspoken premise behind basically every headline covering last week’s Federal Trade Communication (FTC) notice of proposed rulemaking to mandate “click to cancel” functionality on companies that use “negative option marketing” tactics such as free […]
If you could power large swaths of the United States with carbon-free energy but had to sacrifice one endangered species in exchange, would you do it? That exact choice may be fantastical, but an episode playing out near Fallon, Nevada, provides a real-world example of the tradeoffs between environmental progress and environmental protections. Last week, […]
In the wake of the ugly freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last month, a bipartisan group of senators has proposed a bill they say would overhaul safety regulations for American railroads. The bill also includes, perhaps unsurprisingly, a number of provisions that seem to have nothing to do with the cause of the […]
It’s a surprise bonus Thursday episode of The Reason Roundtable! Peter Suderman is in the driver’s seat this time, alongside editors Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Robby Soave, who taped this episode live during the recent Reason Weekend in Pasadena, California. Enjoy! 1:13—President Joe Biden and persistent inflation 14:20—The CHIPS Act, and never-ending government […]
It’s a surprise bonus Thursday episode of The Reason Roundtable! Peter Suderman is in the driver’s seat this time, alongside editors Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Robby Soave, who taped this episode live during the recent Reason Weekend in Pasadena, California. Enjoy! 1:13—President Joe Biden and persistent inflation 14:20—The CHIPS Act, and never-ending government […]
In a dispute with Congress over the proper role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in retirement investing, President Joe Biden chose to promote progressive environmentalism. On Monday, Biden vetoed a congressional resolution to nullify a recent Labor Department rule issued that explicitly allows retirement managers to weigh ESG factors in investment decisions. Congress attempted […]
A sitting U.S. president called it the “eighth wonder of the world.” It was a massive factory, to be sited in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, that would make high-end LCD panels. The price tag would come to about $10 billion; local taxpayers would kick in about $4 billion in subsidies over a decade. In return, Wisconsinites […]
A look at the federal government’s expansive designs to pin some sort of wrongdoing on Amazon leaves little doubt this crusade is based in something stronger than a simple quest for justice or consumer protection. Like other big tech companies, Amazon has been branded a “monopolist” by both Democrats and Republicans who—for different reasons—seem to […]
Tariffs raise prices. That’s something that shouldn’t count as news, but sadly qualifies these days. Five years after then-President Donald Trump declared a trade war with China and slapped new tariffs on steel and aluminum, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has found that those tariffs jacked up prices and reduced the availability of tariffed […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman analyze the fallout from the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank and deride a recent congressional hearing concerning the reporting of independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger on the Twitter Files. 0:52: Silicon Valley Bank collapse 26:30: President […]