Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year: Reason‘s annual webathon, our end-of-year fundraising drive. All year long, we offer investigative reporting, sharp analysis, and arguments for free minds and free markets. We offer cheap subscriptions and give most of our content away for $0.
So why are we asking for your donations this week? Because Reason is stubbornly independent.
We don’t take government money (gross), and we don’t tailor our journalism to please anyone (as my inbox demonstrates every single day).
Your donations support high-quality journalism covering such important areas as civil liberties, free speech, the rule of law, politics, criminal justice, economics, innovation, and more. (Plus we cover a bunch of fun stuff, including video games, books, movies, and new tech.)
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- $50—Reason Plus subscription: ad-free browsing, early access to the magazine, commenting privileges, exclusive live online events, and archive access
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This Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern, we’re doing the LIVE annual “Ask Us Anything” webathon episode of The Reason Roundtable with Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Robby Soave, and me (Nick Gillespie will be on paternity leave!) and we want your questions.
Email them to podcasts@reason.com with “webathon” in the subject line. If you’ve donated, tell us (and include proof if you can), because Suderman usually prioritizes donor questions.
In conclusion: Give us your money (voluntarily), make us answer your weird hypotheticals on Thursday, and grab some swag.
P.S. Today, you can head on over to a special livestream hosted by the Reason Roundup‘s Liz Wolfe featuring a bunch of our excellent journalists talking about their work at 2:00 p.m. ET.
