- BATF Agent Says Guns Deliberately Allowed by BATF to Cross Border Used to Kill Border Patrol Agent, Brian Doherty, March 4, 2011
- TSA: Still a Menace, Brian Doherty, March 3, 2011
- Prescription Drug Monitoring: Doesn't Save Lives, Causes Unnecessary Pain, but at Least It's Monitoring, Brian Doherty, March 2, 2011
- Wired: It's About the Guilt, Not the Suicides, Brian Doherty, March 2, 2011
- Ron Paul vs. Hillary Clinton, Brian Doherty, March 1, 2011
- Defining the Benefits of Unions Down, Brian Doherty, March 1, 2011
- Total Tax Burdens: Rising on the Richer, Falling on the Poorer, Brian Doherty, February 28, 2011
- The Keynesian Case Against Labor Unions, Brian Doherty, February 28, 2011
- Rand Paul vs. David Letterman, Brian Doherty, February 25, 2011
- How to Make Unions More Powerful, the Libertarian Way, Brian Doherty, February 25, 2011
- Is Advocacy of Jury Nullification a Crime?, Brian Doherty, February 25, 2011
- Don't Mention "Urban Homesteading"™, Brian Doherty, February 19, 2011
- Fully Informed Jury Arrest, Brian Doherty, February 18, 2011
- The 10th Amendment Lives! (Maybe), Brian Doherty, February 18, 2011
- TSA: Keeping The Air Safe From Cash, Brian Doherty, February 16, 2011
- Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Government: Love the Twitter, Hate the Tweet, Brian Doherty, February 16, 2011
- One Thing We Can Apparently Always Afford: The Most Expensive Military in Creation, Brian Doherty, February 15, 2011
- The Pauls: Better Than the Democrats, Brian Doherty, February 15, 2011
- Patriot Act Extension Expected Today, Brian Doherty, February 14, 2011
- Ron Paul: Something is Happening and You Don't Know What It Is, Do You Mr. Right Wing?, Brian Doherty, February 14, 2011
- The U.S.: Helping Egyptians Help American Military Contractors Help Themselves, Brian Doherty, February 14, 2011
- The Trailer for the Atlas Shrugged Part One Movie Out, Brian Doherty, February 11, 2011
- Ron Paul Mainstreams Radical Monetary Economics, Brian Doherty, February 11, 2011
- Making Sure Public Health Authorities Don't Say Anything That Might Help Public Health, Illegal Drug Edition, Brian Doherty, February 10, 2011
- Rand Paul: Breaking the Lame Tradition of Freshman Senators, Brian Doherty, February 10, 2011
- You Know Who Else Used Rockets? Hitler!, Brian Doherty, February 7, 2011
- Rand Paul: Laser Pointers Not Federal Business, the Life of the Unborn Is, Brian Doherty, February 7, 2011
- Food Safety: Who Cares?, Brian Doherty, February 7, 2011
- Screw You, Ronald Reagan!, Brian Doherty, February 4, 2011
- Portrait of a Provocateur, Brian Doherty, February 4, 2011
- Rand Paul, the "Great No-Compromiser"?, Brian Doherty, February 4, 2011
- Former Libertarian Party VP Candidate Wayne Root: Decent Egyptians Love Mubarak, Brian Doherty, February 3, 2011
- Inflation Watch: Food Prices, Brian Doherty, February 3, 2011
- Fully Isolated Jury Association, Brian Doherty, February 3, 2011
- The FBI's War on Your Civil Liberties Going Just Swimmingly, Brian Doherty, February 2, 2011
- Former Treasury Secretary is A-Scared; Should You Be?, Brian Doherty, February 2, 2011
- Economist vs. the Ferocious Tiger Mother, Brian Doherty, February 2, 2011
- Great Stagnation or Return to Normalcy?, Brian Doherty, February 1, 2011
- Tuesday Fun Link: Bad Libertarian Conversion Techniques, Brian Doherty, February 1, 2011
- GOP Race 2012: Huckabee vs. Egyptian People, Brian Doherty, January 31, 2011
- Father and Son Paul Out to Audit the Fed, Brian Doherty, January 28, 2011
- The Minuteman Murder Case, Brian Doherty, January 28, 2011
- Egypt Said to Have Cut off Facebook and Twitter, Brian Doherty, January 27, 2011
- Rand Paul: End Aid to Israel, Brian Doherty, January 27, 2011
- The U.S.: Promoting Democratic Values Around the Globe, Brian Doherty, January 27, 2011
- How the Legal System (and Media) Deals with Teen Prostitution, Brian Doherty, January 26, 2011
- They've Got a D.C. Eye on You, Brian Doherty, January 26, 2011
- How Ideologues Choose Their Own Enemies, or "The Voldemort Effect", Brian Doherty, January 26, 2011
- Libertarian Activist Dragged to Floor, Cuffed, and Dragged Out of Court for Not Taking Off Hat, Brian Doherty, January 25, 2011
- L.A. Pot Stores Just Must Be Criminal, L.A. Weekly Snorts, Brian Doherty, January 25, 2011
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Brian Doherty
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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.
Doherty is author of the books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006), Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007), and Gun Control on Trial (Cato, 2008).
From 1994 to 2003, Doherty worked as associate editor and reporter for Reason, writing a variety of stories on topics ranging from the Americans with Disabilities Act to pollution-credit trading to the independent rock scene.
Doherty's work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Spin, National Review, The Weekly Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and dozens of other publications.
He has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor and CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck Show. Doherty was the Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 1999 and served as managing editor at Regulation magazine from 1993-94.
Doherty received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida. He lives in Los Angeles.
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