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In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt WelchKatherine Mangu-WardNick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman chime in on the ongoing online debate over a federal visa program for high-skilled workers and look back at the legacy of former President Jimmy Carter.

04:04—H-1B visa debate

21:07—Biden blocks sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel

30:49—Weekly listener question

41:13—Former President Jimmy Carter dead at 100

57:59—This week’s cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

Can Nativists and Dynamists Coexist Within Trump’s MAGA Coalition?” by Eric Boehm

Bernie Sanders Is Still Wrong About Immigration,” by Joe Lancaster

Trump Promised More Legal High-Skilled Immigration. His Record Says Otherwise,” by Kevin Garcia-Galindo

Trump Suddenly Loves Immigration,” by Liz Wolfe

Democrats Learned that Voters Don’t Like Border Chaos,” by Alex Nowrasteh

Don’t Blame Melania Trump for Breaking Immigration Laws: CHANGE THE DAMN LAWS,” by Nick Gillespie

Miller outlines how Trump administration would prioritize mass deportations,” by Rebecca Falconer and Russell Contreras

The U.S. benefits from immigration but policy reforms needed to maximize gains,” by Daniel Costa, Josh Bivens, Ben Zipperer, and Monique Morrissey

Blocking the U.S. Steel Sale Is a Perfectly Disgraceful End to Biden’s Political Career,” by Eric Boehm

Corpse President Says Companies Can’t Do What They Want,” by Liz Wolfe

Bootleggers and Baptists in the U.S. Steel Deal,” by Eric Boehm

Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel Merger Poses No National Security Threat,” by Jack Nicastro

Trump’s Vow To Block U.S. Steel’s Sale Sends Stock Tumbling,” by Eric Boehm

Abolish Amtrak,” by Jason Russell

Privatize the Postal Service, Amtrak, Airports, and More,” by Veronique de Rugy

This Company Is Running a High-Speed Train in Florida—Without Subsidies,” by Natalie Dowzicky

How Are Your State’s Roads Funded?” by Janelle Fritts

Congressional Testimony: The Long-Term Solvency of the Highway Trust Fund,” by Robert W. Poole

How Do Long Distance Trains Perform Financially?” by Amtrak

Why Can’t We Build Anything?” by Katherine Mangu-Ward

The $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Spends a Lot More Money on the Same Old Highway Programs,” by Christian Britschgi

America’s Highways Need That Trillion Dollars Congress Already Spent,” by Matt Welch

Road to Ruin,” by Robert Poole

RIP Jimmy Carter, the ‘Passionless’ President,” by Gene Healy

Jimmy Carter, ‘The Great Deregulator,’ 1924–2024,” by Nick Gillespie

Jimmy Carter Supported Federal Pot Decriminalization for Half a Century. It Still Has Not Happened,” by Jacob Sullum

Jimmy Carter’s Gift to Hollywood Was No Gift to Georgia Taxpayers,” by Joe Lancaster

Jimmy Carter Sparked a Craft Beer Explosion by Getting Government Out of the Way,” by Eric Boehm

What Jimmy Carter and Jerry Brown Can Teach Us About Deregulation,” by Matt Welch

Energy and the National Goals—A Crisis of Confidence,” by Jimmy Carter

Why Do We Have a Department of Education? Jimmy Carter’s Debt to a Teachers Union,” by Anthony Fisher

Tom Wolfe, RIP,” by Matt Welch

Tom Wolfe Is Dead but the ‘Me Decade’ Lives On (and That’s a Good Thing),” by Nick Gillespie

Tom Wolfe on 2012 Election: ‘I Wrote in Ron Paul,’” by Brian Doherty

Does Bob Dylan Have a Politics and if Yes, What the Hell Are They? by Nick Gillespie, Brian Doherty, and Andrew Kirell

Jeffrey Edward Green: Why Bob Dylan’s Prophecies Continue To Fascinate,” by Nick Gillespie

Positively Fourth Rate,” by Nick Gillespie

Send your questions to roundtable@reason.com. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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Audio production by Ian Keyser

Assistant production by Hunt Beaty

Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve

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Source: https://reason.com/podcast/2025/01/06/why-maga-is-fighting-over-high-skilled-immigration/


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