Civil Liberties

• Justin Amash, Come on Down!, Matt Welch, December 9, 2011
• Florida Drug Search Claims Flunk the Smell Test, Jacob Sullum, December 8, 2011
• New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Conservatives' Abandonment of Constitutional Freedoms, December 6, 2011
• "Shut Up. You Don't Get a Lawyer!": The Defense Authorization Act Guts Civil Liberties, Matt Welch & Joshua Swain, December 5, 2011
• National Review on "Rand Paul, Libertarian Extremist", Matt Welch, December 5, 2011
• Appalling Moments in Newtspeak, Jacob Sullum, December 1, 2011
• 'The Bill of Rights Is Not a Trick', Jacob Sullum, December 1, 2011
• Is the President's Indefinite Detention Power Limited to Foreigners?, Jacob Sullum, November 29, 2011
• Don't Worry: The President Will Have Complete Discretion to Imprison People Without Trial, Jacob Sullum, November 28, 2011
• Why Must Prosecutors Be Told to Follow the Law?, Jacob Sullum, November 21, 2011
• Sit on a Sidewalk, Get Pepper Sprayed, Brian Doherty, November 18, 2011
• Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?, Jacob Sullum, November 16, 2011
• Do Catholics Have a First Amendment Right to Ban Gay Marriage?, Jacob Sullum, November 16, 2011
• New York Judge Upholds Eviction of Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park, Mike Riggs, November 15, 2011
• St. Louis Police Object to Collecting Their Own DNA, Jacob Sullum, November 14, 2011
• Supreme Court Mulls Warrantless GPS Tracking, Jacob Sullum, November 10, 2011
• Google Refuses to Remove Police Brutality Video, Jacob Sullum, October 26, 2011
• See-Thru Surveillance: Coming to a Police Department Near You?, Matt Welch, October 18, 2011
• Herman Cain: "there are some Americans, including members of Congress -- who want the terrorists to win", Matt Welch, October 17, 2011
• Jerry Brown Lets Police Rummage Suspects' Mobile Phones Without a Warrant, Jacob Sullum, October 11, 2011
• Wait—There's a Problem With Strip-Searching Students?, Jacob Sullum, October 6, 2011
• 'Welcome to the Upside-Down World of Civil Forfeiture', Jacob Sullum, October 6, 2011
• FBI Investigating LA County Jails for Reports of Deputy Involved Inmate Beatings, Paul Detrick, September 26, 2011
• New Evidence Supports Sequential Presentation of Suspect Photos to Eyewitnesses, Jacob Sullum, September 21, 2011
• Judge Rejects Eavesdropping Charges for Recording Police, Jacob Sullum, September 20, 2011
• Cell Phone Video Contradicts Police, Leads to Acquittal, Jacob Sullum, September 19, 2011
• Obama's Advisers Debate the Limits of His License to Kill, Jacob Sullum, September 16, 2011
• Why Was Shoshana Hebshi Cuffed and Strip-Searched on 9/11? The FBI Doesn't Know, and the Detroit Airport Won't Say, Mike Riggs, September 15, 2011
• Reason TV: Top Threats to Civil Liberties After 9/11 - Q&A with ACLU's Mike German, a former FBI agent, Paul Detrick, September 12, 2011
• Autopsy Results Revealed in Mountain Police-Related Death, Paul Detrick, September 9, 2011
• Tapping Black Power Against the 9-11 Leviathan, Shikha Dalmia, September 8, 2011
• Biden: Tyranny Is Fiscally Unsustainable, Bad for the Economy, Jacob Sullum, September 8, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Whether 9-11 Claimed American Exceptionalism, September 8, 2011
• Judges Don't Need Roe to Overturn Abortion Laws, Jacob Sullum, September 7, 2011
• How We Got to Be a Passport Nation, Matt Welch, September 7, 2011
• Reason.tv: PBS Travel Guru Rick Steves-Smoking Pot is "My Civil Liberty", Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, September 6, 2011
• Torture Update, Matt Welch, September 1, 2011
• New York City: Where Smoking Pot Can Cost You $100—and Your Kids, Jacob Sullum, August 31, 2011
• Lawsuit Filed in Lake Arrowhead Police Related Death, Paul Detrick, August 31, 2011
• Is Rick Perry a Theocrat?, Jacob Sullum, August 31, 2011
• 'FIRE Is Sticking Up for Penises Everywhere', Jacob Sullum, August 29, 2011
• Looking for Consistency in Rick Perry's Federalism, Jacob Sullum, August 26, 2011
• Walker and Moskos Visit Second Life, Jesse Walker, August 25, 2011
• Reason.tv: Fighting Youth Discrimination - Q&A w/ NYRA President Jeffrey Nadel, Joshua Swain, August 12, 2011
• China's Quasi-Official Baby Snatchers, Jacob Sullum, August 8, 2011
• Reason.tv: Jacob G. Hornberger on Obama, Foreign Policy, and Civil Liberties, August 5, 2011
• Judge Rejects Florida's Drug Exception to Due Process, Jacob Sullum, August 4, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Obama's Executive Power Grabs, July 28, 2011
• Allow Me to Introduce My Victim, Jacob Sullum, July 27, 2011
• The Police Say David Lee Turner's Shooting Was Justified, but Their Account Suggests Otherwise, Jacob Sullum, July 27, 2011
• 'I Can Never Have Faith in Justice in This Country Again', Jacob Sullum, July 26, 2011
• If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, Try, Try Again, Jacob Sullum, July 25, 2011
• 'I Should Blast You in the Mouth Right Now', Jacob Sullum, July 22, 2011
• At the University of North Dakota, Yes Also Means No, Jacob Sullum, July 21, 2011
• Arkansas Town Bans Organizations Lest They Cause 'Discourse', Jacob Sullum, July 20, 2011
• If You Want to Keep Your Baby, Steer Clear of the Pasta Salad, Jacob Sullum, July 20, 2011
• Obama Even Disappoints Frederick Douglass: Ranks Preserving Union above Ending Slavery, Tim Cavanaugh, July 17, 2011
• How George W. Bush Fulfilled FDR's Legacy, Jesse Walker, July 1, 2011
• Radley Balko Named "Journalist of the Year," Reason Wins Three Other First Place Prizes at the Southern California Journalism Awards, Matt Welch, June 28, 2011
• Gay Marriage One Vote Away From Legality in New York, Jacob Sullum, June 17, 2011
• Give Your Keys to the City: What Could Go Wrong?, Jacob Sullum, June 16, 2011
• Mitch Daniels Vetoes Codification of Forfeiture Abuse, Jacob Sullum, June 16, 2011
• Fighting the Scourge of Drug-Impaired Scrapbooking, Jacob Sullum, June 15, 2011
• Jefferson Memorial Dance Dance Revolution - 6/4/2011, Joshua Swain, June 4, 2011
• Former Gitmo Prosecutor: "torture has no place as evidence in what purports to be an American military court of justice", Matt Welch, June 3, 2011
• Does Rand Paul Really Want to Imprison People for Attending Speeches?, Jacob Sullum, June 2, 2011
• Supreme Court Says Pretending to Detain People As Material Witnesses Is Constitutional, Jacob Sullum, June 2, 2011
• Shocking FBI Discovery: Austin Is Weird, Jesse Walker, June 1, 2011
• 'It's Almost As If There Are Two PATRIOT Acts', Jacob Sullum, May 31, 2011
• Thank Goodness! Now We're Safe from Terrorism Again!, Jesse Walker, May 26, 2011