In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman delve into U.S. immigration policy, prompted by the recent lifting of Title 42, a dreadful COVID-era hangover that restricted the ability of migrants to seek asylum.

1:51: Title 42 migrant expulsions finally come to an end.

23:50: The Congressional Budget Office's budget outlook projects a federal budget deficit of $1.5 trillion in 2023 alone.

35:05: Weekly Listener Question

45:53: Donald Trump's CNN town hall appearance

49:04: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Is Biden Replacing Bad Border Policy With Worse Border Policy?" by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"Biden Keeps Another Trump Border Policy in Place," by Fiona Harrigan

"The End of Title 42 Expulsions of Migrants—and What Comes Next," by Ilya Somin

"US Regains Pre-Trump, Pre-Pandemic Immigration Levels," by Ilya Somin

"Biden's New Trump-Lite Asylum Policy Proposal," by Ilya Somin

"A Historic Refugee Crisis Miscast As a Border Emergency," by Stuart Anderson

"Biden's Immigration Plan Lays Out a Tougher Border, New Legal Pathway for Some Migrants," by Fiona Harrigan

"How Immigrants Make America Great Again (and Again and Again)," by Nick Gillespie

"How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism," by Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell

"The GOP's Suicide Pact on Immigration," by Nick Gillespie

"The Debt Ceiling Fight Is a Reminder of America's Dire Fiscal Future," by Veronique de Rugy

"Biden Falsely Bragged About Lowering the Budget Deficit. Now, It Is Predictably Rising Again." by Eric Boehm

"The House GOP Debt Ceiling Plan Would Restore Spending Caps. Good." by Eric Boehm

"Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About the National Debt," by Nick Gillespie

"Nobel Prize–Winning Economist: Democrats Are Committed 'To Spending Other People's Money,'" by Nick Gillespie

"Why We Need To Shrink the National Debt, and Fast!" by Nick Gillespie and Mark McDaniel

"CNN Gave Trump a Megaphone, and He Used It Exactly As You'd Expect," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman take a deep dive into the ongoing controversies around the Supreme Court justices as well as Rochelle Walensky's tenure at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

0:31: Ongoing SCOTUS controversies

24:10: Rochelle Walensky stepping down as head of the CDC

41:43: Weekly Listener Question

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Is Clarence Thomas Ethically Challenged?" by Matt Welch, Liz Wolfe, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie

Supreme Court approval rating hits historic low, according to a Gallup poll.

"Randy Barnett: Abortion, Guns, and the Future of the Supreme Court," by Nick Gillespie

"Justice Thomas Long Ago Explained His Perspective On Disclosure Laws," by Josh Blackman

"Another Judicial Ethics Story About Justice Thomas Falls Apart," by Josh Blackman

"Law firm head brought Gorsuch-owned property," by Heidi Przybyla

All In with Chris Hayes on Twitter

"Rochelle Walensky Leaves a CDC That's Far More Powerful Than When She Entered It," by Robby Soave

"WHO Declares Global COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Over," by Ronald Bailey

"Don't Be Fooled by Randi Weingarten's Rehabilitation Tour," Liz Wolfe

"Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Refuses To Acknowledge the Government's Misrepresentation of Mask Research," by Jacob Sullum

"CDC's New 'Reopening' Guidance Will Keep Schools Closed in the Fall," by Matt Welch

"Democrats attack conservative Supreme Court justices but have long ignored liberal justices' ethical issues," by Joe Schoffstall

"Emails Show CDC Policed COVID Speech on Facebook," by Robby Soave, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller

"The FDA and CDC's Coronavirus Response Is a 'Failure of Historic Proportions,'" by Nick Gillespie

"The CDC Made America's Pandemic Worse," by Peter Suderman

"COVID-19 Exposed the Truth About the CDC," by Justin Monticello

"A quarter of Americans distrust CDC recommendations," by Alexander Tin

"Garden Gnome Politics," by Greg Beato

"HOAs Are Popular Where Prejudice Is Strong and Government Is Weak," by David Montgomery

"Sandy Springs, Georgia: The City that Outsourced Everything," by Paul Feine and Alex Manning

"'Startup Cities,' Honduras, and Experiments in Freedom. Professor Tom W. Bell Talks With Reason," by Zach Weissmueller

"Meet Newton Howard, the Brain Scientist Who Put Giant Transformers in Front of His D.C. Home," by Noor Greene

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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Last week, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman touched the stage at New York City's eminent Comedy Cellar to record an episode of The Reason Roundtable in front of a live audience. Topics ranged from marijuana aromas to terrible 2024 presidential candidates, and included some geographical sparring over contrasting libertarian lifestyle choices. It's a lively NYC vs. D.C. cage match!

02:45—A profusion of high-profile firings on cable news

07:20—NYC smells like weed (finally!)

20:50—Why THIS presidential candidate would be terrible

36:20—NYC vs. D.C.

51:14—New York–centric cultural recommendations

56:40—Audience Q&A

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Why Is Tucker Carlson Leaving Fox News?" by Robby Soave

"Tucker Carlson is More a Symptom of Our Problems than a Cause," by Ilya Somin

"New York City Should Have Always Smelled Like Pot," by Liz Wolfe

"Bill Bratton: Fighting Crime Without Shredding Civil Liberties," by Nick Gillespie & Zach Weissmueller

"What 'Freedom' Means to Ron DeSantis," by Eric Boehm

"The Very Strange New Respect for Authoritarian Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," by Matt Welch

"Nikki Haley Is Running for President," by Scott Shackford

"During Surprise Trip to Kyiv, Biden Promises Endless Support for Ukraine War," by Christian Britschgi

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman puzzle over President Joe Biden's announcement that he's seeking reelection in 2024 and plod through the Republican-controlled House's recently passed debt ceiling plan.

1:46: President Joe Biden announces he's running again.

23:47: House Republicans pass a debt ceiling plan. Now what?

36:38: Weekly Listener Question

46:40: Revisionist history with Randi Weingarten

50:49: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"President Joe Biden Announces He Is Running for Reelection," by Joe Lancaster

"The Very Strange New Respect for Authoritarian Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," by Matt Welch

"Choose Between a Douche and a Turd…or Die (Special Get Out the Vote Edition)," by Nick Gillespie

"Biden Has Added 220 Million Hours of Regulatory Paperwork Since His Inauguration," by Mike Riggs

"Kamala Harris Is a Flop," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"What We Talk About When We Talk About the Debt Ceiling," by Nick Gillespie

"3 Reasons Why the Debt-Ceiling Debate is Full of Malarkey," by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg

"The Cult of the Presidency," by Gene Healy

"Don't Believe the Media Fearmongering About Spending Cuts," by Veronique de Rugy

"The House GOP Debt Ceiling Plan Would Restore Spending Caps. Good." by Eric Boehm

"Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden, and the Deeply Unserious Debate Over the Debt Ceiling," by Eric Boehm

"Randi Weingarten's Hilariously Awful Media Rehabilitation Tour," by Matt Welch

Reason's 1976 review of Bugsy Malone, by Charles Barr

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, Katherine Mangu-Ward is back alongside editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman as they contextualize Fox News' defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems and Tucker Carlson's sudden departure from the network.

01:20: Fox News' defamation settlement

15:55: BuzzFeed News shuts down

29:55: Tucker Carlson out at Fox News

44:35: Weekly Listener Question

50:45: Elon Musk and rapid unscheduled disassembly

52:35: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"The Fox/Dominion Settlement Highlights the Importance of Discovery in Proving 'Actual Malice,'" by Jacob Sullum

"In a $788 Million Defamation Settlement, Fox News Admits That It Spread False Claims About Election Fraud," by Jacob Sullum

"Fox's Excuses Reinforce Dominion's Defamation Case," by Jacob Sullum

"Tucker Carlson on The Daily Caller, His Infamous Jon Stewart Debate, and Walking out of the Ron Paul Convention," by Michael C. Moynihan

"Tucker Carlson Describes the Capitol Riot as 'Mostly Peaceful Chaos.' Is He Wrong?" by Jacob Sullum

"Does Tucker Carlson Get Anything Right About Libertarians?" by Matt Welch

"Tucker: The Man and His Dream," by Matt Welch

"The Death of BuzzFeed News Was a Facebook Murder-Suicide," by Robby Soave

"Democrats Threaten Matt Taibbi With Jail Time Over Twitter Files Testimony," by Robby Soave

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and special guest Liz Wolfe consider the recent revelation that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish trips from his billionaire friend Harlan Crow and contextualize the leak of classified materials by 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira.

0:42: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' controversial friendship with billionaire Harlan Crow

23:15: Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira leaks classified materials to his online friends.

36:25: Weekly Listener Question

44:40: Tax Day animus

50:14: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Oh no! Rich collector of historical items has items by and about bad people!" by Eugene Volokh

"Supreme Court Senility," by Jesse Walker

"Not So Supreme," by Nick Gillespie

"Leaker of Ukraine Intelligence Was Reportedly a Gun Enthusiast Trying To Impress His Discord Friends," by Robby Soave

"Pentagon Leak Reveals 14 U.S. Troops in Ukraine," by Bonnie Kristian

"Massive Leak of Ukraine Intelligence Documents Angers U.S. Allies," by Robby Soave

"Kerry Howley: A Journey Through the Deep State," by Nick Gillespie

"The Degraded Currency of the Shadow Government," by Kerry Howley

"Debate: It's Time for a National Divorce," by Angela McArdle and Zach Weissmueller

"Jayhawk Down," by Nick Gillespie

"IRS Is 48 Days Late To Issue Report Telling American Public How It'll Spend New $80 Billion," by Liz Wolfe

"3 More Reasons to Fear the IRS," by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg

"Taxes: The Price We Pay For Civilization," by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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• Andrew Heaton is one of the funny people in Reason TV videos like "Star Trek: The Libertarian Edition" and "Star Wars Libertarian Special." So it won't surprise you to discover he hosts a science fiction podcast: Alienating the Audience. Alienating the Audience does deep dives into science fiction, like Robert Heinlein's free-love libertarianism, the economics of Dune, Kurt Vonnegut and the warfare state, and how Star Wars: Andor loves public choice theory. Guests on the show have included Peter Boghossian on what first contact with aliens would be like, Jonathan Last from The Bulwark defending the Empire in Star Wars, Tim Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute on Star Trek's Cold War hot takes, and even Katherine Mangu-Ward joining to discuss the work of Dan Simmons. If you don't like science fiction, do not listen to Alienating the Audience, as there's an excellent chance your virginity will grow back. But if you do like science fiction, and with a dollop of politics and economics, served fresh by a mid-level comedian, then check out Alienating the Audience wherever you get your podcasts.

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman question new opposing decisions from federal judges regarding the abortion pill mifepristone and take up the recent expulsion of two Democrats from the Tennessee state Legislature over their roles in a gun control protest.

2:13: New rulings on abortion pill mifepristone

22:07: Tennessee House expels two Democratic lawmakers

35:03: Weekly Listener Question

45:41: Lightning Round: The Trump indictment, continued

52:40: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Dueling Decisions Leave Abortion Pill's Fate Uncertain," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"The Abortion Debate Is Messy. Two Lawsuits Against the FDA May Make It Worse." by J.D. Tuccille

"What 'Freedom' Means to Ron DeSantis," by Eric Boehm

"Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Equality," by Eugene Volokh

"Idaho Takes Aim at Interstate Travel for Abortion. Health Care Providers Are Suing." by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"Blue-State AGs Have A Mifepristone Lawsuit of Their Own," by Jonathan H. Adler

"In Defense of Roe," by Nick Gillespie and Regan Taylor

"Get Ready for the Post-Roe Sex Police!" by Nick Gillespie

"Do 'More Guns Lead To More Deaths'? by Nick Gillespie

"How To Create a Gun-Free America in 5 Easy Steps," Austin Bragg

"3 Reasons Not To Sweat The Citizens United Ruling," by Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie

"The Radical Freedom of Dungeons and Dragons," by C.J. Ciaramella

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman anticipate the historic arraignment on criminal charges of former President Donald Trump this week in New York City, before turning back to the unfolding discussion surrounding potential risks posed by artificial intelligence.

1:07: Former President Donald Trump awaits arraignment on criminal charges.

19:16: Do A.I. systems pose serious risks to humanity and society?

38:48: Weekly Listener Question

43:45: Terrible things about the proposed RESTRICT Act

49:59: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"The Shaky New York Case Against Trump Reeks of Desperation To Punish a Reviled Political Opponent," by Jacob Sullum

"Trump Indictment Could Be the Jolt His Flailing 2024 Campaign Needs," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"Is the Manhattan D.A. Upholding or Flouting the Rule of Law by Prosecuting Trump?" by Jacob Sullum

"Transforming Stormy Daniels' Hush Payment Into a Felony Would Reinforce Trump's 'Witch Hunt' Complaint," by Jacob Sullum

"Elon Musk, Andrew Yang, and Steve Wozniak Propose an A.I. 'Pause.' It's a Bad Idea and Won't Work Anyway." by Ronald Bailey

"Debate: Artificial Intelligence Should Be Regulated," by Ronald Bailey and Robin Hanson

"What Are the Bots Doing to Art?" by Crispin Sartwell

"Introducing AI Progress," by Matthew Mittelsteadt and Brent Skorup

"Mark P. Mills: Get Ready for the Roaring 2020s!" by Nick Gillespie

"Rand Paul Is Right: Banning TikTok Would Be Idiotic," by Robby Soave and John Osterhoudt

"Could the RESTRICT Act Criminalize the Use of VPNs?" by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"Nobel Prize–Winning Economist: Democrats Are Committed 'To Spending Other People's Money,'" by Nick Gillespie and Justin Zuckerman

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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• Andrew Heaton is one of the funny people in Reason TV videos, like "Star Trek: The Libertarian Edition," or "Star Wars Libertarian Special." So it won't surprise you to discover he hosts a science fiction podcast: Alienating the Audience. Alienating the Audience does deep dives into science fiction, like Robert Heinlein's free love libertarianism, the economics of Dune, Kurt Vonnegut and the warfare state, and how Star Wars: Andor loves public choice theory. Guests on the show have included Peter Boghossian on what first contact with aliens would be like, Jonathan Last from The Bulwark defending the Empire in Star Wars, Tim Sandefur of Goldwater Institute on Star Trek's Cold War hot takes, and even Katherine Mangu-Ward has joined to discuss the work of Dan Simmons. If you don't like science fiction, do not listen to Alienating the Audience, as there's an excellent chance your virginity will grow back. But if you DO like science fiction, and with a dollop of politics and economics, served fresh by a mid-level comedian, then check out Alienating the Audience wherever you get your podcasts.

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown unpack the ubiquitous sense that politicians of every stripe have abandoned a commitment to free expression. They also examine the fast evolution of artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT.

0:42: Politicians choose the culture war over the First Amendment

20:04: Artificial intelligence and large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT

36:13: Weekly Listener Question

44:27: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Congress Asks Is TikTok Really 'An Extension of' the Chinese Communist Party?" by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"TikTok Is Too Popular To Ban," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"Utah Law Gives Parents Full Access to Teens' Social Media," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

"Florida's War on Drag Targets Theater's Liquor License," by Scott Shackford

"Welcoming Our New Chatbot Overlords," by Ronald Bailey

"Maybe A.I. Will Be a Threat—To Governments," by Peter Suderman

"The Luddites' Veto," by Ronald Bailey

"Artificial Intelligence Will Change Jobs—For the Better," by Jordan McGillis

"The Robot Revolution Is Here," by Katherine Mangu-Ward

"The Earl Weaver Case for Rand Paul's Libertarianism," by Matt Welch

"Rand Paul Tries (Again!) To Make It Harder for Police To Take Your Stuff," by Scott Shackford

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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It's a surprise bonus Thursday episode of The Reason Roundtable! Peter Suderman is in the driver's seat this time, alongside editors Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Robby Soave, who taped this episode live during the recent Reason Weekend in Pasadena, California. Enjoy!

1:13 - President Joe Biden and persistent inflation

14:20 - The CHIPS Act, and never-ending government subsidies

27:08 - Irrational re-editing of children's literature

38:48 - Cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Biden's 'Economic Plan' Is Industrial Policy That Will Be Terrible for Workers and Consumers" by Peter Suderman

"Inflation Isn't Going Away" by Eric Boehm

"Is Inflation Sneakily Starting To Rise Again?" by Eric Boehm

"America Needs a Better Kind of Capitalism" by Veronique De Rugy

"Politicians Use Subsidies To Squeeze Semiconductor Manufacturers" by J.D. Tucille

"Now the CHIPS Act Is Going To Subsidize Child Care Too" by Eric Boehm

"Kat Rosenfield: Why It's Important for Novelists To Speak Freely" by Nick Gillespie

"Save Roald Dahl Books From the Dreaded Sensitivity Readers" by Robby Soave

Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

Audio production by Ian Keyser

Assistant production by Hunt Beaty

Video edit by Adam Czarnecki

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

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