Is war with Iran coming? Last Saturday, Iran launched hundreds of armed drones and missiles to attack Israel in retaliation for an airstrike on an Iranian consulate in Syria that killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, including a general. Israel and the U.S. report that they intercepted most of the drones, and the sole known casua…

At least 40 U.S. colleges still require a COVID vaccine, according to nocollegemandates.com, an initiative that tracks and opposes the mandates. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine and biostatistician who lost his job at Harvard for refusing the vaccine even though he'd already survived a COVID infection, says such mandates are "unscientific"…

"I discovered something remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence," wrote Ethan Mollick in his new book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, describing the "sleepless nights" he experienced upon first encountering ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022. Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of th…

Immigration ranks as the second-most important issue among registered U.S. voters and the top issue for Republican voters, according to a Marist Poll/PBS NewsHour/NPR poll released last month. Perhaps that's because of the 3.2 million border encounters documented by Border Patrol in 2023—a new record high that's so far being outpaced this year. Tex…

Are American cities crime-ridden hellscapes right now? Have cities rebounded from pandemic-era homicide spikes? Why do subway shootings in New York and carjackings in D.C. keep making the news? "I think a lot of this has to be disaggregated: There is a public order problem, and there is a violent crime problem, and they're not necessarily the same …

Writer and podcast host Coleman Hughes published a column in The Free Press in January entitled, "What Really Happened to George Floyd?" in which he analyzes a documentary called The Fall of Minneapolis, which has racked up more than 6 million views on YouTube and Rumble. The documentary makes the case that former Minneapolis police officer Derek C…

In a special edition of Just Asking Questions recorded before a live audience on the Honduran island of Roatán, Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe talk with Mark Lutter, founder of the Charter Cities Institute, and Patri Friedman, founder and board member of Pronomos Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in charter cities. The conversa…

Bryan Johnson made his fortune when he sold his company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million, netting about $300 million for himself. He spends about $2 million a year creating a system to reverse his "biological age." He's 46 years old, chronologically, but claims he's de-aged himself following a program he's branded "the Blueprint protocol." "I w…

"One of the ways you understand a society is through its infrastructure," said Tucker Carlson as he stood in front of a Moscow subway station in a video he posted after his two-hour interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In contrast to America's public transit, Moscow's "is perfectly clean and orderly," explained Carlson. "How do you expl…

"The greatest risk of a Republican administration is a war with Iran, and the greatest risk of a Democratic administration is a war with Russia," says Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, a magazine for the types of conservatives who are skeptical of foreign military intervention. Mills joined Reason's Zach Weissmueller and …

"We're in dark and uncertain times, but we've made it through worse," writes Peter Meijer in a November 6 announcement that he's running for a Senate seat in Michigan soon to be vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow. Meijer is a former Republican representative for Michigan's third Congressional district—a position once held by Justin Amash, the Repu…

A recently published document reveals "smoking gun" evidence of COVID-19's lab-based origin, according to Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers and one of the earliest proponents of the lab leak hypothesis. Ebright is referring to an invoice that shows an order for a particular enzyme that he believes scientists used to stitch together the g…

Marcos Falcone, a political scientist, project manager at Argentina's Fundación Libertad, and podcast host, joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions to watch and analyze Argentine President Javier Milei's speech at the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland. They also disc…

Matt Welch, editor-at-large for Reason and podcaster on The Reason Roundtable and The Fifth Column with Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan, joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions to discuss the recent Iowa caucus results and talk about what it means for the 2024 election going forward. They also…

Aaron Sibarium, a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon, whose work has been widely credited for exposing the plagiarism of former Harvard President Claudine Gay, joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz …

"To be a sane and happy parent, you need to be counter-cultural in our family-unfriendly culture," writes Tim Carney in his forthcoming book Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be. Carney, senior columnist at the Washington Examiner, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the father of …

When Russ Roberts, an economist and host of the podcast EconTalk, received a job offer to become president of Jerusalem's Shalem University, it seemed like "a no-brainer," he wrote in his 2022 book Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us. Giving up his ability to work from his home in America on whatever interested him intellectually…

Julian Assange was arrested outside England's Ecuadorian embassy after Ecuador's president revoked his political asylum. The U.S. unsealed an extradition request outlining Espionage Act charges, and U.K. authorities moved him to London's Belmarsh Prison in April 2019, a maximum security facility where inmates are held in small single cells. Amnesty…

"I have a history of being the only vote that was a 'no,'" says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). "I've developed some trust with my constituents on those lone votes." In the second episode of Just Asking Questions, Massie joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe to talk about his recent votes against aid to Ukraine and Israel, as well as a controv…

In this inaugural episode of Just Asking Questions, podcaster Dave Smith joins the show to tackle a fundamental question: "What is a libertarian?" Smith spearheaded the Mises Caucus takeover of the Libertarian Party (L.P.), telling Reason's Nick Gillespie at the party convention in 2022 that the new L.P. needs "a game changer," someone capable of "…

For the past several months, Reason Associate Editor Liz Wolfe and Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller have co-hosted a show on Reason's YouTube channel and on The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie podcast feed called The Reason Livestream. The show has featured discussions with economist Russ Roberts about life in Israel after October 7, Rand Pau…

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The one thing we all have in common is that we’re alive. Besides that, our experiences may vary. So how do we make the best of our time here? This week, we discuss the three things we all need to live a happy, healthy and balanced life.Follow me on Social:Facebook: @StevenIngMFTTwitter: @StevenIngMFTSoundcloud: Just Asking with Steven Ing -Stevenin…

Drama is the needless escalation of a problem, and there are people who thrive on it. So, how do we handle drama and the people who perpetuate it in our own lives?Follow Steven on Social:Facebook: @StevenIngMFTTwitter: @StevenIngMFTSoundcloud: Just Asking with Steven Ing -https://soundcloud.com/stevening…

Religion’s relationship with sexuality is precarious to say the least, but does God accept us regardless of our orientation? How about religion? This week, we discuss faith, religion, sexuality and community with Kathy Baldock, an expert on the historical religious discrimination against members of the LGBTQIA+ community. She is the author of “Walk…

The #MeToo movement has shined a light on sexual harassment and gender equality in the workplace. It has also encouraged some men to step up and demand equality in areas like paternity leave and child support. But what about ladies night at the local bar? Is that worth suing over? Some of these are complicated issues with complicated answers, which…

Do you remember “the talk”, sex ed, figuring out sexuality and how awkward it all was? Shouldn’t we be able to make it easier for the next generation? This week Steven and Jackie sit down with Nicole Howes from Reno Moms Blog and Jonathan Salkoff from Reno Dads Blog to discuss when, where and how we can do a better job teaching kids about sexuality…

President Trump is appointing another judge to the Supreme Court. What will this mean for our reproductive rights? In this podcast, Steven and Jackie discuss the advantages of planning our parenthood and what could happen to our ability to control when we have children.Follow me on Social:Facebook: @StevenIngMFTTwitter: @StevenIngMFTSoundcloud: Jus…

Parenting is already a huge challenge, but how do you parent children whose life experience is so different from your own? In this podcast, we bring in members of the LGBTQIA+ community to share their thoughts on how moms and dads can be better parents to their LGBTQIA+ kids.Follow me on Social:Facebook: @StevenIngMFTTwitter: @StevenIngMFTSoundclou…

Social media has changed how we communicate and interact with one another, but is that always a good thing? This week, we talk about how social media might seem convenient and easy, but it may not be the best way to create or maintain any relationship.Follow me on Social:Facebook: @StevenIngMFTTwitter: @StevenIngMFTSoundcloud: Just Asking with Stev…

Religion has a lot to say about sex, but the big question is whether or not God wants us to have fun in the bedroom. This week Steven and Jackie talk about religion, many of its rules about sexuality, whether those rules are reasonable, and how our own sex lives are intertwined with our beliefs.Follow me on Social:Facebook: @StevenIngMFTTwitter: @S…

We all want to be comfortable with ourselves and our sexuality, but how do we do that? This week Steven Ing talks with Courtney Smith Kramer, author of “21 Reasons Creativity is Like Sex,” about how she became comfortable with talking about sexuality, why she wrote a book about it and the creative industry’s intersection with sexuality.Follow Steve…

Conflict is an inevitable and necessary part of any intimate relationship, but it should never be about destroying one another. Consent is obviously mandatory during sex, but how can it lead to more productive arguments?Door Steven Ing

Early childhood trauma can lead us to do some crazy stuff later in life, whether that’s drugs, drinking to excess or blowing up a school with the fire coming out of our fists. How can we help people move on with their lives in a healthy and productive way?Door Steven Ing

In this week’s “AskING for a Friend,” we bring the friend into the studio. Kurt Thigpen discusses his experience as a gay youngster in the Boy Scouts and what the Scouts could do to truly celebrate diversity.Door Steven Ing

Do you feel like you’re superior, or inferior, to your mate? In today’s podcast we talk about how equality can affect our relationships. Give it a listen and let us know your thoughts.Door Steven Ing

Are you ready to proactively take control of your romantic life? In this podcast we talk about Steven Ing’s “30 Days to Reclaim Your Mojo” and how it can help you think more rationally about love and sex.Door Steven Ing

When affairs happen in 50% of marriages, what can you do to protect yours? The key is intimacy, but probably not the way you’re thinking of it.Door Steven Ing

We love weddings (especially the royal kind!) as much as the next person, but it can be a problem when the wedding becomes more important than the relationship or, eventually, the marriage.Door Steven Ing

Congress recently approved spending $100 million on abstinence-only sex education in 2018. This is on top of $2 billion already spent, even though research proves it not only doesn’t work, but it can be downright dangerous.Door Steven Ing

In this podcast, we discuss Amy Schumer’s new movie, “I Feel Pretty.” What does it mean to be pretty? Is it about how you look? Or how you act?Door Steven Ing

The age-old concept of “friends with benefits” is now sometimes called “the new monogamy,” but the idea is the same: Find someone you like, but not “in that way,” and agree to a casual sexual relationship. Sounds simple, but it can be fraught with potential problems, most likely that the two people involved are not on the same page. In this week’s …

In this podcast, we discuss the recent terrorist attack in Toronto, what motivates #Incels (involuntary celibates) and what we can do to help prevent more men from turning to this dangerous and self-defeating worldview. Magic Sex Number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOtDSknAOYTalked about in this podcast:Men and Their Friends: http://stevening.…

The median age for marriage is now 30, compared to 23 in the 1970s. Increased gender equality, advances in technology and different goals are part of the reason younger generations are putting off “settling down,” but what is the rest of the equation? Join our conversation, where we discuss what we can we learn from some new philosophies about comm…