Plus: A listener asks if the economic inequality data is bad. 

The Reason Roundtable

The GOP Budget Is Big, Bloated, B.S.

Plus: Trump's E.U. trade deadline, masked ICE agents, and Elon Musk's third party

The Insanity of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill

Plus: Senate GOP releases version of “Big Beautiful Bill” and Republicans shift on gay marriage

Did NYC Vote for Socialism or Against the Establishment?

The Iran bombings, public land selloffs, and the collapse of big city governance

Anti-War President Starts New War. Again.

U.S. involvement in the new Middle East conflict, political violence at home, and the No Kings protests

Israel Strikes Iran. Is Escalation Inevitable?

Are outdated laws ripe for abuse? A listener asks whether it's time to sunset certain old laws. 

Fake Immigration Crisis Triggers Actual Violence

Plus: A listener asks if the "big beautiful bill" will decrease the deficit. 

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Weird

Plus: A listener asks how to reasonably cut government spending.

Trump's War on Harvard

Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers.

What Did We Learn From DOGE?

Plus: A listener asks if we're finally defunding NPR and PBS. 

Trump's War on Childhood

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Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all.