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Raised Hands Violate University Safe-Space Policy
And no shaking your damn head, either!
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Policing Students' Sex Lives Costs Colleges Millions, But Nobody's Happy With Results
When stopping sex discrimination requires more sex discrimination, how can anyone win?
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Pot Smokers at White House Protest Obama's Disinterest in Reclassifying Marijuana
The president prefers to pretend that rescheduling requires congressional action.
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The Walking Dead: Anarchy, State, and Zombie Dystopia
Civilization and its discontents in AMC's hit series.
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Former New York Times Editor: 'Hillary Clinton Is Fundamentally Honest and Trustworthy'
Reputation-laundering from the elite press almost as nauseating as the candidate's own easily provable lies
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Merrick Garland, Extremist
Garland looks like a moderate because he tends to side with the government irrespective of who's in charge.
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Movie Review: Everybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater goes to college.
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Movie Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice
Ben Affleck dons the crusader’s cape, but the movie’s real wonder is a woman.
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The Ranch Offers a Conventional Sitcom, but You Won’t Find It on Primetime
Netflix lands a show that would not have looked unusual on the major networks.
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If You Think Life Was Better 50 Years Ago, You're Voting Republican. Or Democratic.
And you're probably betting that your life will suck even more in 2066.
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Lawsuits, Legislation Threaten the 'Sharing' Economy
California legislators want to create union privileges for independent contractors, like Uber drivers.
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Are You Ready for the First Nationally Televised Libertarian Party Presidential Debate?
Tune into Stossel Friday at 9 pm ET on Fox Business Network to watch Gary Johnson, John McAfee, and Austin Petersen debate war, Nazi wedding cakes, and legalizing heroin
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Roy Choi and the Next Street Food Revolution
Popular chef wants to bring healthier choices to the inner city with new restaurant LocoL.
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The Clinton Investigation Enters a Dangerous Phase
The presumptive Democratic nominee faces a prudent legal but treacherous political decision.
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GOP’s 2012 Rule to Thwart Ron Paul Now Inconvenient for Thwarting Donald Trump
A frantic establishment reaches for any club in a political brawl, intellectual consistency be damned
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On Taxes, Economics, and Trade, Trump Is an Incoherent Mess
The reality TV star's policy positions are all over the place.
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What Do Terrorists Want?
Terrorism, if it to have any meaning, is a political, not a sadistic, act.
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A Better Choice for 2016
The Libertarian Party is selecting a nominee too.
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Gary Johnson Has High Hopes President Obama Will Reclassify Marijuana
The once and possibly future Libertarian presidential candidate thinks Obama will remove marijuana's Schedule I classification before he leaves office.
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America Would Be Richer and Safer If Europe Paid For Its Own Defense
Europe can afford to defend itself.
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President Obama Announces 61 New Commutations
Total for his administration: 248.
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Obama Screws, Skewers the Media, But They Do Love Him So
The president who has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other combined tells the press to do its job better.
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Donald Trump Has Wrecked the Republican Party. Here’s What a Better GOP Could Look Like.
Three senators offer models for the future.
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Donald Trump Revealed To Be Most-Successful Troll-Bot Ever Created
At last night's town hall on CNN, the billionaire developer sounded less like a living, breathing human being & more like a genius chatbot.
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Watch a Black Student Assault White Teen Because His Dreadlocks Are Cultural Appropriation
So much for safe spaces at San Francisco State University.
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Ted Cruz Endorses Mass Surveillance
The presidential candidate's plan to snoop on Muslims is neither fair nor smart.
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Donald Trump, Mystified by Pen, Responds to Reporter Michelle Fields
After his campaign manager was charged for grabbing Fields, Trump taunted the reporter on Twitter, asking "Can I press charges?" against her.
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SCOTUS Divides 4-4 in Public-Sector Union Dues Case, Affirms Pro-Union Lower Court Decision
Supreme Court decides Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
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Ham-Handed Arrest at Pediatric Clinic Highlights Official War on the Powerless
Forget that "war on cops." Unaffordable penalties, incompetent courts, and heavy-handed tactics are all evidence of an official assault on regular Americans.
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Scripps College Student Body President Says 'Trump 2016' Whiteboard Message Is 'Intentional Violence'
Like Emory University, except stupider.
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Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Private Email Server Perfectly Explains Why People Don’t Trust Her
The Democratic presidential candidate ignored the rules when she set up the system—and has refused to play it straight during the investigation.
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Climate Campaigner Bill McKibben's Misleading Anti-Fracking Crusade
"We closed coal plants and opened methane leaks, and the result is that things have gotten worse."
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Why Yale Should Move to Boston
Perhaps even a threat by Yale to move would force Connecticut to rethink its endowment tax plan.
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The Fourth Branch of Government is Out of Control
Regulators and other bureaucrats form a fourth branch of government with elements of the other three, but little public influence.
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The Mystery of New York City's "Cop Cabs"
Neither the taxi commission nor the NYPD wants you to know much about them.
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Knocking Smokeless Tobacco Out of the Ballpark
Liberty suffers another blow in Chicago 'for the children.'
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Equating Vaping With Smoking Is Medical Malpractice
Celebrity doctor Margaret Cuomo falsely claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
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Libertarian Family Values
Progressives and conservatives both get families wrong.
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In Defense of Freelancing
A critique of the gig economy misses the mark.
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Maine Food Rules Handcuff Amish Sausage Maker
Meddling and oppressive safety regulations threaten shop's survival.
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Remembering Tibor Machan
One Reason co-founder remembers another.
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Bob Poole Remembers Tibor Machan, A Fellow Founding Co-Editor of Reason Magazine
Machan was one of the libertarian community's most prolific writers and thinkers.
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Anti-Partying Law Turns Innocent Kids Into Criminals
Expanded ordinance criminalizes kids for merely showing up to a loud party
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Libya: It Was About Regime Change, and It Was a Disaster
Hillary Clinton was part of a campaign to mislead us about the purposes of the Libyan intervention.
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How Rock Music (Mostly) Defeated Castro’s Censorship
The Rolling Stones prepare their historic concert in a country that once banned the Beatles and still harasses artistic free expression
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The 'Trump 2016' Emory Chalking: Vandalism? Maybe. Violence? No Way.
Students said they feared for their lives. They shouldn't.
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Reforming Corporate Taxation Is a Bipartisan Issue
The U.S.'s insanely high corporate tax rate is bad policy.
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The Trump-Cruz (and Clinton) Police State Is Already Alive in France
But does it work? And should we import it to the United States? No and no.
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Ted Cruz Wages Jihad on Truth
Senator scaremongers to deflect from his lack of a real plan to deal with ISIS.
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Why Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Team Baffles the GOP Establishment
Conservative foreign policy counsels are stacked with status quo hawks, so Trump's less interventionist crew draws from the fringes.
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Paul Ryan's Refusal to Criticize Donald Trump By Name Gives Trump a Pass
The House Speaker’s speech on the state of American politics made no direct mention of the GOP frontrunner.
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Physicians Face Moral Dilemma In Conscription on War on Drugs
In the government's new war on opiates, physicians and their patients find themselves caught in the crossfire.
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12-Year-Old Girl Arrested for Pinching Boy's Butt, Sent to Juvenile Detention
"I regret it because I didn't know it would lead to this."
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The Art of Trump
Free markets and the private sector make America great.
