School Made 11-Year-Old Girls Pull Down Their Pants for Disgusting Inspection

"I felt uncomfortable and I didn't want to do it"

Robby Soave | 1.28.2015

5 Facts About Charter Schools

Jason Keisling, Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell | 1.28.2015

Why Rand Paul's Case for 'Judicial Activism' Scares Both Liberals and Conservatives

Damon Root | 1.28.2015

How Obama's 529 College Tax Plan Debacle Proves the Welfare State is Doomed

Someone has to pay for it—but no one wants to foot the bill.

Peter Suderman | 1.28.2015

The Voluntarily Unvaccinated Are Harming Other People in California Measles Outbreak

Anti-vaxxers it's past time for you to get over your superstition and get your kids vaccinated.

Ronald Bailey | 1.28.2015

Teens Shoveling Snow? Without Licenses?? Quick, Call the Cops

Despite government interference, the teens lined up five jobs.

Lenore Skenazy | 1.28.2015

Sen. Marco Rubio: Surveillance Now, Surveillance Tomorrow, Surveillance Forever!

Possible presidential candidate wants NSA mass data gathering made permanent.

Scott Shackford | 1.28.2015

Congress Can Help Fight Police Abuse by Ending Incentives to Seize Assets

The Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act would help take the profit motive out of law enforcement

Scott Shackford | 1.06.2015

Hasty Drug Warriors Are a Menace

Prompted by a raid that gravely injured a toddler, Georgia considers limits on no-knock search warrants.

Jacob Sullum | 1.28.2015

How Obama Could Champion a Real Middle-Class Agenda

Soaking the rich is not a good way to help the middle class

Shikha Dalmia | 1.27.2015

Anti-Vaping Researchers Called Out for Misleading Cancer Exaggerations by New York Times Columnist

By opposing e-cigarettes, anti-tobacco activists are very likely killing people

Ronald Bailey | 1.27.2015

Maryland Parents who Let Kids Walk to Park Still Under Investigation

CPS won't let parents be.

Lenore Skenazy | 1.27.2015

Mike Pence’s ‘Market-Based’ Plan to Reform Medicaid Is Actually a Deal Between Hospital Lobbyists and the Administration to Expand Obamacare

The Republican governor's supposedly free market plan is a big industry giveaway.

Peter Suderman | 1.27.2015

2014 Was Another Banner Year for Letting Innocent People Out of Jail

Last year 125 people were freed from prison due to innocence, including six on death row.

Scott Shackford | 1.27.2015

No, Mass Surveillance Won't Stop Terrorist Attacks

The continued use of digital dragnets is a virtual guarantee of more lethal intelligence failures.

Patrick Eddington | 1.27.2015

District of Cannabis

How will Congress respond to marijuana legalization in the nation's capital?

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2015

Why Jameis Winston Is a Huge Exception in the Campus Rape Debate

Some rape accusations are true. Some are not.

Robby Soave | 1.26.2015

Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Government's Embarrassing Friend

It's time to end support for a regime that sees beating as a merciful alternative to execution for dissenters.

J.D. Tuccille | 1.26.2015

Teen Girl Fatally Shot by Cops at Texas Police Station

It takes multiple cops firing multiple shots to subdue a 17-year-old girl with a knife?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.26.2015

Why the Obama Administration’s New Medicare Payment Reform Plan Won’t Live Up to the Hype

The administration wants to save billions by overhauling Medicare's payment incentives. The evidence shows how hard this is to do.

Peter Suderman | 1.26.2015

U.S. Supreme Court to Review Oklahoma’s Lethal Injection Protocol

One week after allowing an Oklahoma inmate's execution to be carried out, SCOTUS agrees to hear appeal over the state's use of a controversial execution drug.

Lauren Galik | 1.26.2015

How Bureaucracy and Big Government Ruined American Health Care

The price system works. Our health care system does not.

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.26.2015

Charlie Hebdo and the Horrible History of Suppressing 'Blasphemy'

An unwelcome blast from France's oppressive past.

Cathy Young | 1.26.2015

Cops Are Still Robbers

Eric Holder's new forfeiture policy affects only a small share of seizures.

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2015

An Iran Deal Is Nothing to Fear

Such an accord would shelve the option of attacking Iran, a longtime dream of neoconservatives.

Steve Chapman | 1.25.2015

Venerating Lincoln

A history of Abraham Lincoln's critics would be improved if the author weren't so smitten with Lincoln himself.

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel | 1.25.2015

Are Libertarians Looking for Results or Self-Congratulation?

There's a big difference between trying to win people over and merely trying to feel good about ourselves.

Sheldon Richman | 1.25.2015

No Asylum: Immigrants Locked Up in U.S. after Fleeing Violence

Zach Weissmueller | 1.24.2015

"To Obama, the State Can Still Solve Every Problem"

Nick Gillespie | 1.24.2015

Kill Pixels, Not People

Exploding the fake scientific consensus on violent video games

Ronald Bailey | 1.24.2015

What's At Stake for Gay Marriage at the Supreme Court? (UPDATED)

Right now, 39 states have legal same-sex marriage recognition, but there’s a hitch.

Jason Keisling & Scott Shackford | 1.23.2015

Bob Dylan to AARP (!): "The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to."

Nick Gillespie | 1.23.2015

The New Progressive Mitt Romney is the Same as the Old Progressive Mitt Romney

Meet the new Mitt, same as the old Mitt.

Peter Suderman | 1.23.2015

House Leadership Should Thank GOP Women for Thwarting Anti-Abortion Bill

From a political standpoint, the legislation was baffling.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.23.2015

Let Slip the Robots of War

Lethal autonomous weapon systems might be more moral than human soldiers.

Ronald Bailey | 1.23.2015

'Bou Bou's Law' Would Restrict No-Knock Police Raids

A horribly injured toddler inspires legislation to rein in drug warriors.

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2015

California Mulling More Government Access to Cars' On-Board Computers

Will Big Brother monitor our driving habits?

Steven Greenhut | 1.23.2015

Mortdecai and Black Sea

Johnny Depp’s sad career slide continues, Jude Law goes for the gold.

Kurt Loder | 1.23.2015