Amanda Winkler
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Past articles by Amanda:
Why Liberals are Winning the Culture Wars
And why the GOP keep starting them. → Read More
DC Prepares for Epic Snowball Fight
Let's hope the police don't bring out their guns this time. → Read More
So Far, the Stock Market is Having the Worst Year Ever
Fed's turned stock market into a "hall of mirrors," Jim Grant says. → Read More
ISIS is Expanding. Should U.S. Military Bases Abroad Expand Too?
Author David Vine says a growth in overseas bases will damage national security and the economy. → Read More
New at Reason TV: Pentagon War Funding Used For All Sorts of Non-War Stuff
How the "Overseas Contingency Operations" fund (OCO) destroys budget discipline and militarizes foreign policy. → Read More
"The Real Threat To Free Speech Now is Conformism and Cowardice"
Spiked's Brendan O'Neill on free expression, environmentalism as "an apology for poverty" and why he is "a Marxist libertarian." → Read More
U.S. Foreign Policy Is Too Militarized
How the military became the most powerful diplomatic tool America has - and why that won't help win the fight against ISIS. → Read More
Canada Welcomes Syrian Refugees. But Is America to Blame for Syria's Disaster?
Late Thursday night Canada welcomed 163 Syrian refugees into the country, the first step in fulfilling its promise to receive 25,000 refugees by March. Prime → Read More
George Washington University Students Take A Stand For Free Speech
This past October, George Washington University (GWU) campus police forced a student, sophomore Ramie Abounaja, to remove the Palestinian flag he → Read More
Not Even a Criminal Referral to the Dept. of Justice Can Get You Fired From the V.A.
Two Dept. of Veterans Affairs officials to return to work after scamming the agency for personal gain. → Read More
Dept. of Veterans Affairs Turns to Private Sector for Help
Network of private hospitals to provide care that VA can't. → Read More
Autistic Student Sues School District Over Drug Sting Entrapment, Judge Dismisses Case
Since being arrested nearly three years ago for buying a half of a joint of pot for an undercover police officer, Jesse Snodgrass and his parents have → Read More
Congress Weighs In on Baseball! Here's the Top 5 Most Pointless Congressional Hearings
Take a break from the World Series and watch Congress go up against Major League Baseball. Originally posted April 6, 2015: Congress has no authority over → Read More
U.S. Sends Ground Troops to Syria. Here Are 3 Reasons Why That's Bad.
On Friday, President Obama announced the deployment of special ops forces in Syria. The decision to commit ground troops stands in direct opposition to → Read More
WATCH: Black Soldiers, Not the Rough Riders, Were the Real Heroes of the Spanish-American War
Originally published on October 1, 2015. Watch above or click below for full text, downloadable links, and more. And subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube Channel to receive immediate updates when new material goes live. → Read More
Donald Trump is 'Very Good at Losing Other People's Money'
Trump biographer Jerome Tuccille on why the real estate tycoon is no capitalist. → Read More
Can Americans Still Take A Joke? Amy Poehler's 'Difficult People' Proves Answer is 'No'
Comedian Amy Poehler has recently taken heat from Twitter for a joke on her new Hulu show, Difficult People. The backlash began when the show's abrasive character, Julie, tweets a crude joke about how she "can't wait" until Beyoncé and Jay Z's young daughter, Blue Ivy, grows up so Kelly can urinate on her. In the series, Julie receives backlash from her Twitter followers who… → Read More
Should Juveniles Be Locked in Solitary Confinement?
Congress is taking steps toward prohibiting the use of solitary confinement against juvenile offenders. Earlier this month U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the MERCY Act, which would ban the use of “room confinement” in federal juvenile facilities. The bill was cosponsored by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Mike Lee (R-UT). “Not only is solitary… → Read More
New York City Goes Nuts Over Topless Women in Times Square
But it's not illegal. → Read More
VID: The U.S. Patent System is Broken: Derek Khanna on Trolling and Low-Quality Patents
Original post from June 17, 2015: Are current patent policies slowing innovation and infringing on economic liberties? Derek Khanna, a tech policy and intellectual property expert, says yes. "A patent is a government-granted monopoly" that gives the owner sole right to profit from making or licensing a product, Khanna explains. "So effectively every week the government says, 'These are… → Read More