Just Asking Questions
Interrogating current events, challenging assumptions, uncovering facts, and exposing realities that the government and the media would rather not talk about. Reason’s "Just Asking Questions" is a weekly show for honesty and open inquiry. We're skeptics of unexamined power. We don't want to be told what to think. But we do want to know which questions to start asking. Hosted by Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller. Produced by John Osterhoudt. Just Asking Questions is published by the Reason Foundat...
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Brian Trascher: Has FEMA failed North Carolina?
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Michael Brendan Dougherty: How Will Immigrants Reshape America?
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Ford Fischer: What's the Untold Story Behind 'Stop the Steal'?
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Richard Staropoli: What's Wrong With the Secret Service?
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Erika Sanzi: What Are Schools Really Teaching?
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Glenn Greenwald: Why Did Brazil Ban X?
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Bob Murphy: How Bad Is the National Debt?
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Kyla Scanlon: What's Actually Wrong With the Economy?
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Jane Coaston: What Is 'Freedom' to Democrats?
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César Báez and Daniel Di Martino: What Happened in Venezuela's Election?
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Nate Silver: How Likely Is a Kamala Harris Presidency?
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Vivek Ramaswamy: Is There a Libertarian-Nationalist Alliance?
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Alex Thompson: Why Did Biden Drop Out?
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Mary Katharine Ham: What's Trump's Agenda?
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Dave Weigel: What If Biden Quits?
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Ruth Whippman: How Is Masculinity Changing?
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Trent Horn: Can a Catholic be a Socialist?
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Ian Vasquez: What Has Javier Milei Accomplished in Argentina?
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Diana Fleischman: Are Designer Babies The Future?
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Mike Solana: Can San Francisco Be Saved?
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Chase Oliver: What Does the Libertarian Presidential Candidate Really Believe?
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Ted Nordhaus: How Bad Is Climate Change?
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Phil Magness: Who Really Pays the Most Taxes?
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Nico Perrino: When Does Protesting Become a Crime?
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Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition?
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David Beito: Was FDR a Tyrant?
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Elica Le Bon: Is War with Iran Coming?
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Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff?
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Ethan Mollick: How Will AI Change Us?
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Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman: What's the Ideal Immigration Policy?
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Peter Moskos: What Does Good Policing Look Like?
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Coleman Hughes vs. Radley Balko: Who's Right About George Floyd?
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Patri Friedman and Mark Lutter: Does a City Need a State?
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Bryan Johnson: Can This Rich Transhumanist Beat Death?
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Michael Moynihan: What's Up With Tucker Carlson?
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Curt Mills: Should America Police the World?
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Peter Meijer: Can the GOP Change?
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Do New Documents Prove a COVID Lab Leak?
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Milei vs. the WEF: Who Wins?
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Matt Welch: What's Wrong With Populism?
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Aaron Sibarium: Did Harvard's Plagiarism Scandal Doom DEI?
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Tim Carney: Why Aren't People Having More Kids?
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Russ Roberts: Life in Israel Since October 7
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Stella Assange: Why Isn't Julian Assange a Free Man?
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Thomas Massie: Why Not Vote 'No'?
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Dave Smith: What Is a Libertarian?
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