Los Angeles Airbnb hosts would need permission from the police to do business under an ordinance being considered by the Los Angeles City Council. A “responsible hotel” ordinance that earned the unanimous support of the council Tuesday would require hotel and short-term rental operators to obtain a police permit each year to do business. Getting […]
It’s fashionable to claim that the free market ideas of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman have failed the country, and that it’s time for new policies. Campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden declared that “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” More recently, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt noted that people like Friedman promised that […]
This week’s featured article is “The Endangered Species Act at 50” by Tate Watkins. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: “Deep in Thought” by CTRL and “Sunsettling” by Man with Roses The post The Best of Reason: The Endangered Species Act at 50 appeared first on Reason.com. […]
Just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to more extensive judicial oversight of executive branch agencies’ internal courts, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped dozens of those cases—including one that prompted the Court’s ruling. The sudden mass dismissal of 42 cases within the SEC’s administrative legal system was the result of […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman compare and contrast Florida and California politics ahead of this week’s debate between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. 0:54—Ron DeSantis will debate Gavin Newsom this week. 24:43—Hamas begins releasing hostages. 34:29—Weekly Listener Question 45:35—Elizabeth Warren […]
If I had one chance to show a medieval peasant the glories of the modern world, I wouldn’t take them to a space launch or a science lab. I would take them to a grocery store. What more could you want to awe the medieval imagination? Ginormous, GMO’d strawberries in January? Check. Fifty different kinds […]
Born and raised in Texas, Jeb Bush moved to Florida in 1980. The son and brother of presidents, he was governor of the Sunshine State from 1999 to 2007, where he quickly became known as a champion of school choice and fiscal responsibility. In 2016, he made an unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination […]
On Saturday morning, SpaceX conducted its second test launch of Starship, the super heavy–lift rocket that could one day carry astronauts to the moon and Mars. The vehicle lifted off without incident from SpaceX’s Starbase, on the southern tip of Texas, just after 7 a.m. local time. A new water-deluge system deflected the heat of […]
On Thursday, the fifth best-selling automaker in the United States forged a partnership with the world’s fifth-largest company by market cap when Hyundai Motors announced that customers would soon be able to order cars through Amazon. The move could be a boon for car shoppers and a good first step in undermining the power of […]
Clarence Cocroft is the owner of a legal medical marijuana business in Olive Branch, Mississippi. However, while his business is perfectly legal, the state is hell-bent on making it practically impossible for him to actually stay afloat. How? By making it a felony for Cocroft to advertise his business. Mississippians overwhelmingly voted to legalize medical […]