The Best of Reason Magazine
A weekly selection from Reason—the magazine of free minds and free markets—read by AI.
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- 🇧🇷Brazil · Politics#14392 to 489
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| 4/2/25 | The Best of Reason: Rise of the Samurai Lawyers | An economist explores how a stable and relatively just legal order emerged in medieval Japan. | — | ||||||
| 3/25/25 | The Best of Reason: When the Government Puts Wolves in Your Backyard | Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina. | — | ||||||
| 3/18/25 | The Best of Reason: Trump's Dramatic Crossroads Between Protectionism and Dynamism | The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward. | — | ||||||
| 3/11/25 | The Best of Reason: Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East? | The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or bullets. | — | ||||||
| 3/4/25 | The Best of Reason: Inside the Russian Occupation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone | Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy's book tells the stories of soldiers, stalkers, and squatters in Chernobyl during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | — | ||||||
| 2/25/25 | The Best of Reason: Surrogacy Is the New Battleground in Reproductive Freedom | Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated. | — | ||||||
| 2/19/25 | The Best of Reason: Javier Milei Ended Rent Control. Now the Argentine Real Estate Market Is Coming Back to Life. | "The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank. | — | ||||||
| 2/11/25 | The Best of Reason: How the Fair Housing Act Gave Us Emotional Support Parrots | The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results. | — | ||||||
| 2/4/25 | The Best of Reason: The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need | How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary "self-licking ice cream cones." | — | ||||||
| 1/29/25 | The Best of Reason: Cutting Off Trade Will Make the U.S. Poorer and China More Totalitarian | Politicians in both major parties see the People's Republic as an economic and military threat. But the real threat is an isolated China. | — | ||||||
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| 1/14/25 | The Best of Reason: 'The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact' | How a 1949 Supreme Court dissent gave birth to a meme that subverts free speech and civil liberties. | — | ||||||
| 1/7/25 | The Best of Reason: The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk | Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration? | — | ||||||
| 12/31/24 | The Best of Reason: Bidenomics Goes Out With a Whimper | There's a good reason Biden eventually stopped saying Bidenomics. Americans didn't like the results of his economic policies. | — | ||||||
| 12/17/24 | The Best of Reason: The Great American City Upon a Hill Is Always Under Construction | American history is often a story of people leaving to try to build their voluntary utopias. | — | ||||||
| 12/10/24 | The Best of Reason: Everybody Hates Prices | How much should a Wendy's Baconator cost? Elizabeth Warren thinks the government should help decide. | — | ||||||
| 12/3/24 | The Best of Reason: The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media | Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions. | — | ||||||
| 11/26/24 | The Best of Reason: Abolish the DEA, ICE, and the Small Business Administration | In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the DEA, ICE, the SBA, and everything else. | — | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | The Best of Reason: Abolish Amtrak, the FDA, and the TSA | In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else. | — | ||||||
| 11/13/24 | The Best of Reason: Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career? | A recent study shows that women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty," but their earnings rebound within a decade. | — | ||||||
| 11/5/24 | The Best of Reason: How the Political Spectrum Turned Inside Out | From 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis moments keep reshaping the political landscape. | — | ||||||
| 10/29/24 | The Best of Reason: Secession Is Back in Style in Texas | Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to. | — | ||||||
| 10/22/24 | The Best of Reason: Big Pot vs. Big Government in Florida | Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design. | — | ||||||
| 10/15/24 | The Best of Reason Magazine: How Did Immigration Politics Get So Toxic? | Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable. | — | ||||||
| 10/8/24 | The Best of Reason: Kamala Harris' Freedom Flip-Flop | Harris is running away from her far-left past. | — | ||||||
| 10/2/24 | The Best of Reason: Can This Psychedelic Help Cure Opioid Addiction? | This Kentucky Republican won't stop until he finds a state willing to make legal room for ibogaine, a drug he calls "God's medicine." | — | ||||||
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Chart history for The Best of Reason Magazine
Peaked at #143 in Brazil, currently #143 in Brazil.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | — | #143 | #143 | — |
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.