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SUMMARY:Webinar: How State and Local Governments Can Manage Their $5 Trillion in Debt
DESCRIPTION:Webinar: How State and Local Governments Can Manage Their Debt \n\n\n\nState and local governments have a total of over $5 trillion in long-term liabilities. Join public finance experts for a webinar on how governments can manage their growing debt costs while still funding essential public services\, keep pension promises made to workers\, manage financial risks\, improve financial reporting\, and move toward more sustainable budgets and debt levels. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAndy MatthewsNevada State Controller\, and former assemblymember\, Nevada Legislature \n\n\n\nElaine LuChair of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management\, and director of the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University \n\n\n\nFarhad OmeyrProgram director of research and data at the National League of Cities\, including NLC’s City Fiscal Conditions research \n\n\n\nDon BoydCo-director of the Project on State and Local Government Finance at the University at Albany\, SUNY \n\n\n\nMariana TrujilloManaging director of government finance at Reason Foundation \n\n\n\nDate and Time \n\n\n\nThursday\, May 21\, 2026 \n\n\n\n2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT \n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\nRegister to watch and attend via Zoom here. The panelists will take questions from attendees. \n\n\n\nCan’t join us live? Register\, and we’ll send you the recording.
URL:https://reason.org/event/webinar-how-state-local-governments-manage-5-trillion-debt/
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SUMMARY:The Soho Forum Debate: Simon Hankinson vs. Bryan Caplan
DESCRIPTION:Resolution: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should complete its mandate to deport all illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFor the affirmative: \n\n\n\nSimon Hankinson is a senior research fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation and author of The Ten Woke Commandments—You Must Not Obey. From 1999 to 2022\, he was a Foreign Service Officer serving in India\, Fiji\, Ghana\, Slovakia\, Togo\, Washington\, D.C.\, Marseille\, and Nairobi. \n\n\n\nFor the negative: \n\n\n\nBryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University\, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center\, and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is the author of several books\, including the graphic novel\, Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration\, and editor of Bet On It\, a project of the Salem Center for Policy at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 PMMeeting Convenes on the Main Stage: 6:30 PMReception: 8:30 PMModerated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein. \n\n\n\nUse REASON discount code for 25% off
URL:https://reason.org/event/the-soho-forum-debate-hankinson-vs-caplan/
LOCATION:The Sheen Center\, 18 Bleecker St\, New York\, NY 10012\, New York\, New York\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Who Was America’s Best Founder? A Boozy Debate
DESCRIPTION:Are you a Benjamin Franklin fanboy? An Alexander Hamilton stan? Then you’re going to want to fly your favorite Founder’s freak flag at Reason’s upcoming debate to determine who was the best founder! \n\n\n\nTickets are limited. Save your seat now!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAVE YOUR SEAT!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExpect heavily biased opinions from your favorite Reason journalists\, including Ronald Bailey\, Eric Boehm\, Reem Ibrahim\, Jason Russell\, Mariana Trujillo\, and of course\, Katherine Mangu-Ward. Moderator Peter Suderman will keep the focus tight and the boozy references flowing. And because it’s at Pubkey\, you’ll find plenty of tasty beverages and nibbles to keep you satiated all night long. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 p.m.\, with the show kicking off promptly at 7:00 p.m. Your ticket includes complimentary\, bar-style refreshments. And for those who want to drink along\, there will be a cash bar available throughout. \n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of spirited argument\, historical hot takes\, selective quotation of the Federalist Papers\, and at least one person insisting that the real answer is Gouverneur Morris. We can’t wait to see you there! \n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN:Thursday\, June 18\, 2026Doors open at 6:00 p.m.Show is from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHERE:Pubkey410 7th St NWWashington\, DC 20004(Penn Quarter; Metro: Judiciary Square) \n\n\n\nCOST:$10! $15 after June 11. (Venue has a two-item-per-person purchase minimum.) \n\n\n\n\nSAVE YOUR SEAT!\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine Mangu-Ward\, Editor-in-Chief\, Reason\n\n\n\nReem Ibrahim\, Research Fellow\, Policy and Media\, Reason\n\n\n\nEric Boehm\, Reporter\, Reason\n\n\n\nJason Russell\, Managing Editor\, Reason\n\n\n\nMariana Trujillo\, Managing Director\, Government Finance\, Reason Foundation\n\n\n\nPeter Suderman\, Features Editor\, Reason\n\n\n\n\nSAVE YOUR SEAT!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPast Reason Events\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSAVE YOUR SEAT!
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SUMMARY:The Soho Forum Debate: Michael Tracey vs. Marcella Szablewicz
DESCRIPTION:Resolution: The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has become a case of moral panic.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFor the affirmative: \n\n\n\nMichael Tracey is an independent journalist\, political commentator\, and media critic. He is the cohost\, alongside Matt Taibbi\, of Today’s News\, a podcast by Racket News. His writing can be found on Substack and at Unherd. \n\n\n\nFor the negative: \n\n\n\nMarcella Szablewicz is an associate professor of communication and media studies at the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese media and youth culture\, digital leisure culture\, digital games\, and media moral panics. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 PMMeeting Convenes on the Main Stage: 6:30 PMReception: 8:30 PMModerated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein. \n\n\n\nUse REASON discount code for 25% off
URL:https://reason.org/event/the-soho-forum-debate-michael-tracey-vs-marcella-szablewicz/
LOCATION:The Sheen Center\, 18 Bleecker St\, New York\, NY 10012\, New York\, New York\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Soho Forum Debate: Aaron Brown vs. Robert Spitzer
DESCRIPTION:Resolution: Until there is convincing evidence that government-imposed gun control brings a net reduction in harm\, all legal restrictions on adult possession of guns should be abolished.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor the affirmative: \n\n\n\nAaron Brown is a statistician\, Bloomberg opinion columnist\, and author of Wrong Number: How To Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation. He is the former head of financial market research at AQR Capital Management and has taught statistics at New York University and the University of California\, San Diego. \n\n\n\nFor the negative: \n\n\n\nRobert Spitzer is a distinguished service professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York at Cortland and an adjunct professor at William & Mary Law School. He is the author of 16 books\, including 6 on gun policy\, most recently The Gun Dilemma and the 10th edition of The Politics of Gun Control. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:00 PMMeeting Convenes on the Main Stage: 6:30 PMReception: 8:30 PMModerated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein. \n\n\n\nUse REASON discount code for 25% off
URL:https://reason.org/event/the-soho-forum-debate-brown-vs-spitzer/
LOCATION:The Sheen Center\, 18 Bleecker St\, New York\, NY 10012\, New York\, New York\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sponsor "Winds of Change: Advancing Liberty in Argentina and the Americas"
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