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Joe Biden Wants To Reform the Criminal Justice System He Helped Create
June 04, 2020 18:23 - 7 minutes - 27.3 MB VideoDuring a week of protests, looting, and violence ignited by the murder of George Floyd, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden...
Hong Kong Protesters Stand Up to China's 'Draconian' Takeover
June 03, 2020 18:50 - 22 minutes - 86.9 MB VideoA week before protests and riots broke out in American cities as a response to the police killing of George...
Violent Protests in 1968 Helped Elect Richard Nixon. Will Today's Protests Help Trump?
June 02, 2020 19:45 - 51 minutes - 205 MB VideoPrinceton's Omar Wasow talks about the complicated effects of civil rights demonstrations, police brutality, and racial fears on public policy.
Are the COVID-19 Lockdowns Constitutional?
May 29, 2020 19:00 - 7 minutes - 73.9 MB VideoMichigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she's fighting a war. And she's using emergency powers in that fight. But governors are...
How Edward Snowden Revealed the 'Dark Mirror' of the Surveillance State
May 27, 2020 19:20 - 55 minutes - 215 MB VideoWhen Edward Snowden decided to reveal constitutionally dubious mass surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013,...
Sen. Ron Wyden Wants to Stop the Government From Spying on Your Internet Searches
May 25, 2020 18:15 - 7 minutes - 77.4 MB Video"We've reached kind of an inflection point in the privacy debate," says Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). With Americans spending more...
Sen. Ron Wyden Wants To Stop the Government From Spying on Your Internet Searches
May 25, 2020 18:15 - 7 minutes - 77.4 MB Video"We've reached kind of an inflection point in the privacy debate," says Senator Ron Wyden (D–Ore.). With Americans spending more...
Joe Biden's 'Bold' Thinking Shredded Civil Liberties and Destroyed Lives
May 22, 2020 15:00 - 20 minutes - 71.3 MB VideoJoe Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2020 election by running as a moderate unifier, hoping to win...
'The Welfare-Warfare State is Anti-American': L.P. Presidential Hopeful Jacob Hornberger
May 21, 2020 16:05 - 1 hour - 240 MB VideoJacob Hornberger, who's running for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, has a message for Americans under 40: "Right now, the...
Red Bull Is Disgusting. And It Perfectly Captures Why Capitalism Is So Great.
May 19, 2020 18:05 - 34 minutes - 139 MB VideoWith unemployment at 15 percent and rising and the hashtag #RIPcapitalism trending on Twitter, libertarian ideals of free minds and...
The Immigration Law Nobody's Heard of That Changed America
May 13, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 272 MB VideoWhat will the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown of our society mean for the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers,...
How Fashion Designers Are Thwarting Facial Recognition Surveillance
May 11, 2020 18:01 - 11 minutes - 115 MB VideoEvery day, your movement is tracked. Your purchases are logged, your searches saved. And increasingly, your face is scanned. Facial...
Were the COVID-19 Lockdowns a Mistake?
May 08, 2020 18:00 - 5 minutes - 58.5 MB VideoMany Americans are losing patience with statewide shelter-in-place orders. "We don't have months or weeks—businesses are hurting," says Jim Desmond,...
Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex Speech in the Age of Coronavirus
May 06, 2020 18:00 - 2 minutes - 19.4 MB VideoIn his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against federal overreach during times of national crises. "Whether foreign...
How to Track COVID-19 Without Mass Surveillance
May 04, 2020 18:00 - 9 minutes - 97.6 MB VideoWith lockdowns still in effect across the country, Americans are growing angry and restless. They want to resume their lives....
Justin Amash: People Want a President 'Who Is Normal, Honest, Practical, Capable.'
May 01, 2020 14:30 - 58 minutes - 230 MB VideoFive-term Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has announced that he's running for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, which will be decided...
Should the Coronavirus Lockdowns End Immediately? A Soho Forum Debate
April 24, 2020 13:45 - 1 hour - 340 MB VideoThe U.S. economy should be liberated from governments' lockdowns right away. That was the resolution of a virtual debate hosted...
How To Save the Economy From COVID-19
April 22, 2020 19:55 - 48 minutes - 193 MB VideoHow do we reopen American society in a way that keeps people safe but also puts them back to work...
Will New York Ever Recover From COVID-19?
April 21, 2020 18:00 - 8 minutes - 91.3 MB VideoIs COVID-19 the "end of New York" as we know it? That's what urbanist Joel Kotkin argued in a recent...
Snorkel Respirators, 3D-Printed Masks, and Other Grassroots Efforts To Fight COVID-19
April 20, 2020 14:10 - 5 MB VideoThey're sewing face masks, 3D-printing ventilator valves, converting snorkeling gear into respirators, and crowdsourcing research into diagnosis and treatment. In...
Why Voluntary Compliance Is Key To Fighting COVID-19: Dr. Jeremy S. Faust
April 18, 2020 13:01 - 33 minutes - 131 MB VideoWhat's it like serving on the front lines of the response to the coronavirus pandemic? And what have the federal,...
Capitalism vs. Slavery…and The New York Times' 1619 Project
April 16, 2020 17:30 - 1 hour - 311 MB VideoWhen The New York Times launched its 1619 Project last year, it sought to "reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of...
How China Corrupted the World Health Organization's Response to COVID-19
April 15, 2020 17:40 - 5 minutes - 22.2 MB VideoThe World Health Organization (WHO) put out questionable guidance on how to deal with the coronavirus, it was slow to...
Hospital Technicians Ignore Copyright Law to Fight COVID-19
April 13, 2020 20:50 - 6 minutes - 23.8 MB VideoDressed in his blue medical mask and scrubs, Justin Barbour looks like a doctor on a break from treating COVID-19...
Will Coronavirus Fears Lead to an Assault on Gun Rights?
April 09, 2020 19:35 - 3 minutes - 12.5 MB VideoDraconian bills to restrict self-defense rights have a life of their own in Congress. There's always one lurking in the...
How Coronavirus Is Kickstarting the 21st Century
April 06, 2020 15:00 - 4 minutes - 18.8 MB VideoWe were once told that nothing could replace sitting down with a teacher, the camaraderie of an office, a face-to-face...
How 'Price Gouging' Helps Consumers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
April 03, 2020 20:05 - 1 hour - 245 MB VideoAs the COVID-19 pandemic prompted shoppers to clear out supermarkets of toilet paper, rice, and canned vegetables, two brothers set...
Matt Ridley: The Coronavirus Pandemic Shows 'That There's No Monopoly on Wisdom'
April 01, 2020 17:35 - 54 minutes - 214 MB VideoMatt Ridley is one of the best-selling—and best-regarded—science writers on the planet. He wrote recently that in the face of...
The Response To Coronavirus 'Is Central Planning on Steroids': Rep. Thomas Massie
March 31, 2020 21:05 - 38 minutes - 152 MB VideoLast week, Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) became the most-hated man in Washington when he unsuccessfully tried to force a recorded...
Health Care Workers Need Masks (and the Rest of Us Need Them, Too)
March 31, 2020 17:31 - 8 minutes - 87.4 MB Video"Everyone at this point is kind of on their own, making ready for being able to reuse―especially masks―but also things...
How the Government Bungled the Coronavirus Response
March 31, 2020 12:40 - 1 hour - 252 MB VideoBelieve it or not, we're still in the month of March. On March 1, New York City recorded its first...
When It Comes to Coronavirus, Nobody Knows Anything
March 27, 2020 23:50 - 30 minutes - 320 MB VideoHow many people are infected with the coronavirus, what will it mean for our hospitals, and how many will die? Nick Gillespie talks with Reason's science correspondent, Ronald Bailey, about the constantly changing, often contradictory information coming from official channels.
The Coronavirus Testing Debacle Stems From Decades of Bad FDA Policy
March 27, 2020 12:45 - 5 MB VideoThe delay in COVID-19 testing in the United States meant that for weeks doctors and public officials were flying blind...
The FDA and CDC's Coronavirus Response Is a 'Failure of Historic Proportions'
March 25, 2020 22:35 - 34 minutes - 358 MB VideoThe U.S. government's response to the coronavirus has been nothing less than catastrophic, including weak, delayed, and incompetent actions by...
China's Censorship Helped Start a Pandemic. Can Free Speech End It?
March 23, 2020 21:15 - 16 minutes - 1.21 GB VideoLi Wenliang…died at 2:58 on February 7, 2020…We deeply regret and mourn this. When Wuhan Central Hospital announced the death...
Should the Government Break Up Big Tech? A Soho Forum Debate
March 20, 2020 16:15 - 1 hour - 873 MB VideoAntitrust should take the initiative to control the size of big tech companies. That was the resolution of a public...
Impossible Foods: Capitalism Is the Most Powerful Lever To Fight Climate Change
March 19, 2020 17:45 - 8 minutes - 91.4 MB Video"We don't have time to wait for an international consensus on something as disastrous as climate change. We need to...
Don't Expect Millions To Die From Coronavirus, Says Richard Epstein
March 18, 2020 22:28 - 38 minutes - 150 MB VideoHow many people worldwide will die from COVID-19, the disease caused by a novel coronavirus? Estimates range into the millions,...
Coronavirus Is the Health of the State
March 16, 2020 17:25 - 2 minutes - 10.3 MB VideoThe coronavirus pandemic threatens a world-wide wave of sickness, but it's the healthiest thing to happen to government power in...
Biohackers Are on a Secret Hunt for the Coronavirus Vaccine
March 13, 2020 18:53 - 12 minutes - 133 MB VideoA collective of biohackers has begun circulating a document proposing a plan to create, test, and distribute a vaccine to...
Why You Can't Solve a Public Health Problem With Economic Stimulus
March 11, 2020 19:00 - 16 minutes - 62.8 MB VideoCoronavirus isn't just a threat to your health, it's also a threat to the economy. As infection numbers ticked up,...
Trump's Tariffs Are Hiking the Price of Your Favorite Whisky
March 10, 2020 20:22 - 2 minutes - 9.25 MB VideoA bottle of your favorite Scotch whisky might cost a bit more this year, thanks to new tariffs imposed by...
Why Are Public Schools Fighting To Keep Home School Kids Off Their Teams?
March 06, 2020 13:01 - 9 minutes - 35.4 MB Video"I am a home-schooler trying to play sports at high levels in order to get into college," says Caleb Carter,...
Is Bernie Sanders a Democratic Socialist? Or Just a Socialist? Q&A With Jim Pethokoukis
March 03, 2020 15:34 - 16 minutes - 63.7 MB VideoSen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has rocketed to the top of the Democratic presidential primary field by proposing a massive expansion...
Gloria Alvarez Is Fighting Socialism in Latin America
March 02, 2020 15:37 - 18 minutes - 129 MB VideoGloria Álvarez became one of the best-known libertarian personalities in Latin America in 2014, after she gave a talk arguing...
Density or Sprawl? How To Solve the Urban Housing Crisis
February 28, 2020 16:00 - 15 minutes - 155 MB VideoThe mass migration of human beings from the country to the city started with the Industrial Revolution. According to the...
George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a 'Scam' and Silicon Valley 'Needs To Die'
February 24, 2020 16:46 - 5 MB VideoIt seems like self-driving cars have been five years away for at least 15 years. But now, major players in...
Is Trump's Trade War on China Good for America? A Soho Forum Debate
February 17, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 950 MB VideoPresident Trump's trade-related initiatives against China deserve broad public support. That was the resolution of a public debate hosted by...
Michael Bloomberg and the Imperious Presidency
February 13, 2020 19:44 - 4 minutes - 17.2 MB VideoIf Donald Trump could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it, what brazenness might...
In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
February 05, 2020 16:30 - 7 minutes - 77.8 MB Video"As a freelancer, I have the flexibility to do work while I'm at school, or do work late at night,...