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No porn. No sex ed. No queer content. That’s the promise of Radiant Mobile, a new cellphone network that launched this month. And I’m so into it. Not because I’m personally offended by any of those things, mind you. Regular readers of Reason and/or this newsletter know that I’d be the last to advocate for government bans on such material. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. But that’s what makes Radiant Mobile’s scheme so great: It doesn’t rely on the government. It’s a…
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Call it what it is: a heist. The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government—under Donald Trump in particular—amount to a slow-motion stick-up carried out in broad daylight. But here’s the trick: it’s a heist hidden behind spectacle. The Trump administration is flooding the stage with noise so “we the people” don’t notice what’s happening behind the curtain. We’re being manipulated into watching the wrong thing. The distractions are part of the plan to rob us blind. You don’t have to look far to see how the con works. Nowhere is the…
Newsletter On 2026-05-13 For the better part of two decades, Democrats, journalists, and progressive academics have marshaled data seeming to show that consumption of conservative media (for much of that time, this mostly meant Fox News) was likely to harbor warped views of the world. To wit: In 2004, a University of Maryland study reported that regular viewers of Fox News Channel and its affiliates had basic misconceptions about the U.S. war in Iraq. Two-thirds of them believed Saddam Hussein was working closely with al-Qaeda, for instance, while 33% of the regular Fox audience believed the U.S. military had located…
Alligator Alcatraz Has Been a Shameful Nightmare. Shut It Down Source link
Mainstream media are widely promoting a study claiming that community water fluoridation has no effect on IQ, but critics told The Defender the study contains fundamental methodological errors that invalidate the authors’ conclusions. The Defender asked to be included in a media call with the study’s author, but was denied access. Experts who analyzed a recent study claiming that fluoride exposure from drinking water doesn’t affect IQ told The Defender the study was deceptive and relied on a flawed methodology. The “highly anticipated long-term study,” published April 13 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was widely cited by media and proponents of water…
How do you bring an American-history textbook up to date when the country’s past has become a political battleground? Source link
Senior administration officials concluded the commissioner was out of step with President Trump’s priorities Source link
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Since Trump began his war on Iran, there have been a number of occasions where the price of oil futures tumbles just before Trump issues one of his “peace is at hand” proclamations on Truth Social. These drops have been driven by very large trades, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. There are two possibilities here. One is that a major trader in the futures market has a sixth sense that tells them when peace is in the air. The other possibility is that someone in Donald Trump’s inner circle is…
Starmer May Survive, But His Moves Signal Decline Source link
Our fertility president: Self-declared “father of fertility” (ewwww) President Donald Trump announced new rules on Monday that would make it easier for employers to provide standalone health insurance coverage for fertility benefits. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. “The rule would create a supplemental insurance option employers could offer, similar to vision or dental insurance, for in vitro fertilization services and other fertility treatments,” reports PBS. “Currently, most health insurance plans don’t cover IVF or related benefits.” It’s not exactly a pro-IVF move, though, at least according to…