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PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication
Summary PFAS contamination raises legitimate health and environmental concerns, but this diverse family of thousands of chemicals should not be treated as uniformly dangerous, and some safe uses currently lack viable substitutes.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal: A Bizarre Grab-Bag of Terrible Ideas
Last week, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Senator Edward Markey introduced the Green New Deal, a non-binding resolution that would radically overhaul America's economy in the name of fighting global climate change. The resolution bundled together a variety of big-ticket progressive policy priorities, not all of which were obviously related to climate change, from universal health coverage to a jobs guarantee to subsidized college.
These Doctors Got Fed Up With Insurance. Now They Treat Their Patients Like Valued Customers.
One of the most profound changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act is that it drove thousands of independent doctors to throw in the towel and join large hospital networks. This is particularly true of primary care doctors. As the rules involving medical records, billing codes, and prior authorizations have gotten more complex, physicians find they can't survive without joining large health care networks. And they're becoming increasingly demoralized.
Make It Stick: Six Tips for Students
Several years ago, the three of us embarked on a book project to explain how learning and memory work. Two of us, Roddy Roediger and Mark McDaniel, are cognitive scientists who have dedicated our careers to the study of learning and memory. Peter Brown is a storyteller. We thought a book was needed because people generally are going about learning in the wrong ways.
La ciencia del aprendizaje exitoso eBook: Henry L. Roediger III, Peter C. Brown, Mark A. McDaniel: Amazon.es: Tienda Kindle
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Trump Is Terrible on Trade. Top 2020 Dems Are No Better.
By erecting tariffs and threatening to tear up trade agreements, President Donald Trump has done more to achieve one of the left's longstanding policy goals than any other modern president. For the Democrats running for office in 2020, this creates a conundrum: They can't say they like what Trump is doing, but they're also not really willing to criticize his trade war.
Why We Need To Shrink the National Debt, And Fast!
National Debt Too much debt slows economic growth and reduces living standards. Nick Gillespie and Mark McDaniel | 9.25.2017 1:39 PM HD Download It was big news when our national debt recently passed the $20 trillion mark. What's less understood is exactly why having such a massive debt is a bad thing. The short answer is that too much debt slows economic growth, reducing living standards.
Bill de Blasio Panders To Unions Over Educating Poor Kids
Speaking recently before the country's largest union, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio came out against the very concept of charter schools. "I know we're not supposed to be saying 'hate,' our teachers taught us not to. I hate the privatizers, and I want to stop them," de Blasio said. "Too many Republicans, but also too many Democrats, have been cozy with the charter schools.
The 5 Dumbest Laws Restricting the Sale of Booze
On July 1, Virginia's General Assembly voted to allow bars and restaurants to advertise happy hours, which is the latest in a series of minor victories for the movement to liberalize U.S. liquor laws. In 2019, Congress lifted the ban on distilling spirits on Native American land, and a Supreme Court decision opened the door for constitutional challenges to state laws that restrict liquor sales across state lines.
These People Are Risking Prison To Help Philadelphia’s Drug Users
Addiction advocates in Philadelphia are gearing up for a fight with federal law enforcement over a so-called supervised injection site, where drug use can take place in the presence of medical professionals. Fatal overdoses from opioids in the United States have increased by about 250 percent since 2007. The problem is particularly acute in a handful of states, including Pennsylvania, which has the nation's third highest overdose death rate.
Rep. Justin Amash: The Two-Party System Needs to Die
"Hopefully, over time, [the] two parties start to fall apart," says Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) in an interview with Reason recorded last week at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas.
Hamilton Morris Is Changing the Way We Talk About Drugs
What will American drug culture look like once prohibition is finally over and we can start to use more drugs in more settings? No one is better situated to start that conversation than Hamilton Morris, the 32-year-old host of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, a show that explores what sorts of drugs are available, how they work, and how we might best use them to fulfill our hopes and dreams.
Green New WTF?: Podcast
Green New Deal Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian. Matt Welch and Mark McDaniel | 2.11.2019 4:55 PM Disney Is it kind of missing the point to talk about what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D–N.Y.) Green New Deal (GND) actually contains? That's the meta-question lurking just under the surface of the new Editors' Roundtable version of the Reason Podcast, featuring Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and Peter Suderman.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Actual history tells a different story than the modern-day version
I wholeheartedly agree with Stephen Crane that understanding history is important in improving race relations. Our editor, however, seems to focus more on recent popularly held beliefs of history rather than the actual record. Not all white people have oppressed black people. The record shows that while white people of the Democratic Party have indeed treated people of African descent cruelly, white people of the Republican party, in contrast, historically have been their greatest friend and ally.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We don't need more 'virtue signaling' on inconsequential events
I’m somewhat dumbfounded. Could a “journalist” — you know, the guys who believe in freedom of speech and expression — have these views of censorship? Will your next editorial address Jimmy Kimmel who portrayed Oprah? In the hit Broadway play two years ago of “Hamilton,” both roles of Hamilton and George Washington were played by black actors. Should Eddie Murphy be condemned for wearing white face in a comedy skit? I have never met or talked to Kevin Coryell, nor have I seen the blackface pictures.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: A Bizarre Grab-Bag of Terrible Ideas
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Q&A with economist Veronique de Rugy Peter Suderman & Mark McDaniel | February 14, 2019 Last week, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Senator Edward Markey introduced the Green New Deal, a non-binding resolution that would radically overhaul America's economy in the name of fighting global climate change.
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Green New WTF?: Podcast
Green New WTF?: Podcast Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian Matt Welch & Mark McDaniel|Feb. 11, 2019 4:55 pm Is it kind of missing the point to talk about what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D–N.Y.) Green New Deal (GND) actually contains? That's the meta-question lurking just under the surface of the new Editors' Roundtable version of the Reason Podcast, featuring Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and Peter Suderman.
Don't Fear Independents Like Howard Schultz! Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu: New at Reason
Don't Fear Independents Like Howard Schultz! Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu: New at Reason There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America. Nick Gillespie & Mark McDaniel|Feb. 7, 2019 3:00 pm Nearly a dozen Democrats are already running for president.
Don't Fear Independents Like Howard Schultz! Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu
There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America. Nick Gillespie & Mark McDaniel | February 7, 2019 Nearly a dozen Democrats are already running for president. The highlights so far include an interview about immigration livestreamed from a dental chair, a former Harvard professor popping a beer like jes' plain folks on New Year's Eve, and a draconian former prosecutor pledging her allegiance to Wakanda.
Assault Weapon Bans Are All About Appearance: New at Reason
Assault Weapon Bans Are All About Appearance: New at Reason Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look. Mark McDaniel|Jan. 11, 2019 2:55 pm A string of high-profile mass shootings over the past few years has spawned a movement to outlaw so-called assault weapons, in particular the popular AR-15. On January 9, Sen.
Assault Weapon Bans Are All About Appearance
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look. Mark McDaniel | January 11, 2019 A string of high-profile mass shootings over the past few years has spawned a movement to outlaw so-called assault weapons, in particular the popular AR-15. On January 9, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) introduced a federal bill to ban assault weapons—legislation that's been depicted as life-saving, common sense policy.
Assault Weapon Bans Are All About Appearance
A string of high-profile mass shootings over the past few years has spawned a movement to outlaw so-called assault weapons, in particular the popular AR-15. On January 9, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) introduced a federal bill to ban assault weapons—legislation that's been depicted as life-saving, common sense policy. But its definition of an assault weapon is totally arbitrary. Proposals like Feinstein's latest draft bill leave shooters with plenty of equally deadly alternatives.
Airbnb Made D.C. Affordable for Tourists. The City Council Just Voted to Rein It In: New at Reason
VIDEO Lara Hawketts and her husband, Alex Fuentes-Gonzales, live with their kids in a two-story house in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In 2009, Hawketts lost her job working for a British consulting firm. Looking for ways to pick up extra income, Hawketts discovered that she could host short-term guests for a modest fee through a new service called Airbnb. "They would stay in our basement," Hawketts says. "One person will be on the sofa or two people would be in the queen bed.
Airbnb Made D.C. Affordable for Tourists. The City Council Just Voted to Rein It In.
VIDEO Lara Hawketts and her husband, Alex Fuentes-Gonzales, live with their kids in a two-story house in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In 2009, Hawketts lost her job working for a British consulting firm. Looking for ways to pick up extra income, Hawketts discovered that she could host short-term guests for a modest fee through a new service called Airbnb. "They would stay in our basement," Hawketts says. "One person will be on the sofa or two people would be in the queen bed.
Tom Woods: The Making of an Anti-War Libertarian
Reason's Matt Welch sat down with the popular libertarian writer and podcaster to discuss his ideological journey, his LP plans, and controversial past associations. Matt Welch, Mark McDaniel & Todd Krainin | October 10, 2018 Tom Woods stands accused of many things, but laziness is not one of them. A senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Woods is the author of a dozen books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
Texas says 'Pickles' Only Come From Cucumbers. So This Couple's Farm Went Out of Business.
Anita and Jim McHaney are retirees who moved from Houston to the Texas countryside in 2013. Their plan was to live well and grow food on a 10-acre homestead, earning extra money selling produce at the local farmers market. They grew okra, carrots, kale, swiss chard, and beets. Lots and lots of beets. "That soil out there is very sandy, and those beets just grew like mad," says Anita.
#CatoDigital-The Right to Bear 3D-Printed Arms: A First and Second Amendment Issue
In early May 2013, an online open-source organization called Defense Distributed released design files for the Liberator, the world’s first completely 3D-printable single-shot handgun. In just two days, the plans were downloaded more than 100,000 times.
What We Saw at the Unite the Right II Protest
So what happened at Unite the Right II? The organizer's permit application stated that about 400 attendees would gather outside the White House to commemorate last year's rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The estimate was later downgraded to about 200, but by the time the rain started falling on Lafayette Square, it was clear that fewer than 30 were showing up amid a significant presence of cops and counterprotesters. Most of downtown Washington, D.C., was shutdown.
Trump’s Border Wall Is Destroying Land, Livelihoods, and Butterflies in the Rio Grande: New at Reason
"You may learn about eminent domain, but until you are in the crosshairs of the government, you don't understand how it really works," says Marianna Trevino-Wright, the director of the National Butterfly Center, a 100-acre private wildlife refuge located in Texas near the U.S. border with Mexico."They invoke it, they take your land, and they do what they want." The National Butterfly Center, or NABA, is directly in the path of Donald Trump's planned border wall.
Trump’s Border Wall Is Destroying Land, Livelihoods, and Butterflies in the Rio Grande
VIDEO "You may learn about eminent domain, but until you are in the crosshairs of the government, you don't understand how it really works," says Marianna Trevino-Wright, the director of the National Butterfly Center, a 100-acre private wildlife refuge located in Texas near the U.S. border with Mexico. "They invoke it, they take your land, and they do what they want." The National Butterfly Center, or NABA, is directly in the path of Donald Trump's planned border wall.
How to (Legally) Make Your Own Off-the-Books Handgun
This article is part of Reason's special Burn After Reading issue, where we offer how-tos, personal stories, and guides for all kinds of activities that can and do happen at the borders of legally permissible behavior. Subscribe Now to get future issues of Reason magazine delivered to your mailbox! Let's start with a disclaimer: If you have little to no experience with guns, it's probably not wise to try assembling your own. It can be dangerous to make a mistake—even deadly.
How to (Legally) Make Your Own Off-the-Books Handgun
This article is part of Reason's special Burn After Reading issue, where we offer how-tos, personal stories, and guides for all kinds of activities that can and do happen at the borders of legally permissible behavior. Subscribe Now to get future issues of Reason magazine delivered to your mailbox! Let's start with a disclaimer: If you have little to no experience with guns, it's probably not wise to try assembling your own. It can be dangerous to make a mistake—even deadly.
Improving General Chemistry Performance through a Growth Mindset Intervention: Selective Effects on Underrepresented Minorities
Women and minorities remain underrepresented in chemistry bachelor’s degree attainment in the United States, despite efforts to improve their early chemistry achievement through supplemental academic programs and active-learning approaches. We propose an additional strategy for addressing these disparities: course-based, social-psychological interventions.
Whole Foods’ John Mackey on Amazon Merger: ‘A Meeting of the Souls.’
"We're going to reinvent the supermarket business as we know it," says John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, about his company's recent, controversial merger with online retailer Amazon. If that happens, it means that Mackey will have reinvented the supermarket business twice in his own lifetime, as no individual has done more to revolutionize how Americans shop for groceries than he has since co-founding Whole Foods in 1980.
March for Our Lives Kids Don't Know Just How Safe Schools Are
The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have reenergized the national movement to restrict gun ownership following a mass shooting that claimed 17 lives. Their efforts culminated with the massive March for Our Lives Rally on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The students from Stoneman Douglas have earned praise for demanding that Congress take decisive action. But they also seem to be stoking irrational fear about gun violence in schools.
March for Our Lives Kids Don’t Know Their Schools Are Actually Really Safe: New at Reason
The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have reenergized the national movement to restrict gun ownership following the tragic mass shooting that claimed 17 lives. The culmination of this movement was the massive March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. The students from Stoneman Douglas have earned praise for their leadership in demanding that Congress take decisive action.
Gary Johnson: 'I Always Thought Telling the Truth Would Rule the Day. And It Doesn't.'
"I always thought that honesty would rule the day. I always thought integrity would rule the day. I always thought that telling the truth would rule the day. And it doesn't," says Gary Johnson, the 2016 Libertarian presidential candidate and a two-time former governor of New Mexico, in an exclusive new interview with Reason.
Gary Johnson-'I Always Thought Telling the Truth Would Rule the Day. And It Doesn't': New at Reason
"I always thought that honesty would rule the day. I always thought integrity would rule the day. I always thought that telling the truth would rule the day. And it doesn't," says Gary Johnson, the 2016 Libertarian presidential candidate and a former two-term governor of New Mexico, in an exclusive new interview with Reason.
Guns, Code, and Freedom
Gun control is not dead," says Cody Wilson. "Gun control is undead. We just keep killing it but it keeps coming back." Wilson, a crypto-anarchist and serial troublemaker, launched the age of the digital gun in 2013 when he published files showing how to make the Liberator, a 3D-printed pistol. It set off a panic in the media and in anti-gun political circles.
Kurt Loder on Why the Oscars Always Suck but Movies Are Great: Podcast
Legendary journalist—and Reason's resident movie reviewer—Kurt Loder talks with Nick Gillespie about this year's Academy Awards, which will take place on Sunday, March 4, starting at 8:00 P.M. E.T. The Rolling Stone and MTV veteran discusses why he loved best-picture nominees Lady Bird and Get Out but found The Post a total snooz-fest; ruminates on the singular career of best-actor nominee Gary Oldman, who has played Winston Churchill, Sid Vicious, and Lee Harvey Oswald; describes how Wonder...
After Pablo Escobar: Murder, Chaos, and the Failure of U.S. Drug Policy in Colombia: New at Reason
"The whole premise of the war on drugs is that if you focus on the supply side, you'll solve all of the U.S.'s problems with problematic drug use," says Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.
After Pablo Escobar: Murder, Chaos, and the Failure of U.S. Drug Policy in Colombia
"The whole premise of the war on drugs is that if you focus on the supply side, you'll solve all of the U.S.'s problems with problematic drug use," says Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.
Want to Make an Untraceable Handgun at Home? Cody Wilson Can Help.
"Gun control is not dead, gun control is undead," explains Cody Wilson, the director of Defense Distributed. "We just keep killing it but it keeps coming back." Wilson, a crypto-anarchist and serial "troublemaker," helped launch the age of the digital gun when he published files showing how to make the Liberator, a 3D-printed pistol, in 2013. It set off a panic in the media and in anti-gun political circles, and the State Department demanded Defense Distributed remove the files from their website.
Want to Make an Untraceable Handgun at Home? Cody Wilson Can Help: New at Reason
"Gun control is not dead, gun control is undead," explains Cody Wilson, the director of Defense Distributed. "We just keep killing it but it keeps coming back." Wilson, a crypto-anarchist and serial "troublemaker," helped launch the age of the digital gun when he published files showing how to make the Liberator, a 3D-printed pistol, in 2013. It set off a panic in the media and in anti-gun political circles, and the State Department demanded Defense Distributed remove the files from their website.
Government-Approved Workouts? The Fight Against Fitness Licensing.
Almost everything the federal government has told the public about healthy diets over the past three decades may have been wrong. The U.S. Surgeon General suggested avoiding saturated fats and prioritizing grains and other carbohydrates. Low-fat products started filling the aisles at grocery stores, as families tried to follow the government's infamous food pyramid. Obesity rates continued to climb, and some dissenting scientists and started questioning the consensus.
Grover Norquist: GOP Tax Bill Is Good Enough For Now (He's Planning to 'Whine Later')
Tax reform bills have been approved by both the Republican-controlled House and Senate. Most observers believe the different versions will be reconciled into legislation representing the most thoroughgoing and consequential changes to the U.S. tax code since the late 1980s.
Grover Norquist Says the GOP Tax Bill Is Good Enough For Now (Though He's Planning to 'Whine Later'): New at Reason
To get a sense of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the pending Republican tax reform, Reason's Nick Gillespie sat down with Grover Norquist, the longtime leader of Americans for Tax Reform and arguably the most influential activist over the past 30 years when it comes arguing for lower taxes. Click here for full text, a transcript, and downloadable versions. Like us on Facebook. Subscribe to our podcast at iTunes.
Bitcoin and the Blockchain Will Stomp Out Wall Street Fraud
Bitcoin, the world's first and largest cryptocurrency, and the blockchain, which is its underlying technology, have the potential to change everything from record keeping to the global financial system. The blockchain is a decentralized database that allows individuals to trade directly without the need for a third-party intermediary. Bitcoin is free-market money that runs on the internet, and it isn't controlled by a political entity or central bank.
These Doctors Got Fed Up With Insurance. Now They Treat Their Patients Like Valued Customers.
One of the most profound changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act is that it drove thousands of independent doctors to throw in the towel and join large hospital networks. This is particularly true of primary care doctors. As the rules involving medical records, billing codes, and prior authorizations have gotten more complex, physicians find they can't survive without joining large health care networks. And they're becoming increasingly demoralized.
These Doctors Got Fed Up With Insurance. Now They Treat Their Patients Like Valued Customers: New at Reason
One of the most profound changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act is that it drove thousands of independent doctors to throw in the towel and join large hospital networks. This is particularly true of primary care doctors. As the rules involving medical records, billing codes, and prior authorizations have gotten more complex, physicians find they can't survive without joining large health care networks. And they're becoming increasingly demoralized.
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