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The Ethics of Egg Freezing

Ronald Bailey | May 22

What's wrong with women resetting their biological clocks?

Reason.tv: Joel Stein on His "Stupid Quest for Masculinity"

Tim Cavanaugh & Zach Weissmueller | May 22

The Amazingly Bogus Scott Walker 'Divide and Conquer' Video

Kevin Binversie | May 22

If the complete clip is so damning, why won't Walker's opponents release it?

Gary Johnson Marches Up Another Mountain

A. Barton Hinkle | May 22

Gary Johnson is not viewed with gravity by a great many people these days. This is too bad, because he should be.

Is the GOP an Echo or a Choice?

Tim Cavanaugh | June 2012

Republicans won’t let principle stop them from losing.

Islamist Extremism Is Not Driving Egypt's Presidential Election

Shikha Dalmia | May 22

How Egyptians are trying to divide power between the country's problematic players

Eduardo Saverin And Echoes of the Reichsfluchtsteuer

Ira Stoll | May 21

The Reich flight tax that the Nazis imposed on Jews trying to flee in the 1930s was 25 percent. Democrats want Saverin to pay 30 percent.

DC Capitol Hemp Shutting Down: Obama's War on Drugs to Blame

Joshua Swain, Kennedy & Nick Gillespie | May 21

America’s Small-Business Fetish

Veronique de Rugy | June 2012

When it comes to job creation, size doesn’t matter.

China and the Lure of the Status Quo

Steve Chapman | May 21

China in 2012 is a lot like Japan in the 1980s.

King-Sized No More

Greg Beato | June 2012

Michelle Obama shrinks your snickers

Is There a Libertarian Case for Organized Labor?

Sheldon Richman | May 20

Individualism, trade-unions, and “self-governing combinations”

The Swing Vote: Why Independents Will Decide the 2012 Election

Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg | May 19

Opt Out of School Lunch

Baylen Linnekin | May 19

Should schools force kids to eat USDA-approved food, or should families take back control of what their kids are eating?

NATO Comes to Chicago

Ed Krayewski | May 18

NATO's summit this weekend in the Windy City will produce a lot of hot air, but what the aging alliance really needs is a douse in cold water.

What is an Astronaut's Life Worth?: An Interview with Robert Zubrin

Anthony L. Fisher & Matt Welch | May 18

The Case for a Romney-Paul Ticket

A. Barton Hinkle | May 18

Paul's presence would give the ticket something it has lacked up to this point: spine.

Jerry Brown's Broken Budget

Steven Greenhut | May 18

The California governor betrays his promise to deliver an "honest" budget.

Nicholas Kristof's Bogus Anti-Beer Crusade

Walter Olson | May 18

The New York Times columnist launches a sloppy attack against Anheuser-Busch based on beer sales to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation.

The Samaritan and Lovely Molly

Kurt Loder | May 18

A crime thriller from Samuel L. Jackson, a horror show from the director of The Blair Witch Project

Friday Funnies

Chip Bok | May 18

How Obama saved 20-somethings from the bad economy.

The Terrible Truth About the TSA

J.D. Tuccille | May 17

It's a failure at everything it does.

3 Lies About the Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Recall

May 17

How Pat Buchanan Conquered America

Brian Doherty | June 2012

Reliving the 1990s in the 2012 GOP race

Making Life Fair

John Stossel | May 17

Wealth disparity is not unfair—if it results from free exchange.

The Implausibility of Nuclear Terrorism

Steve Chapman | May 17

The worst eventuality is one that will likely never happen.

‘The Financial Crisis Was the Result of Government Housing Policy’

Anthony Randazzo | June 2012

The American Enterprise Institute’s Peter Wallison on how government, not greed, was the essential ingredient in the 2008 meltdown.

Is There a Drone in Your Backyard?

Andrew Napolitano | May 17

Even when we don't have an expectation of privacy, we do have a right to be left alone.

Liberal Intolerance and the Firing of Naomi Schaefer Riley

Cathy Young | May 16

Left-wing academics silence a critic.