Free Speech

• Flashing Headlights to Warn About Speed Traps Is Protected Speech, Sez Judge, Katherine Mangu-Ward, May 24, 2012
• DC Capitol Hemp Shutting Down: Obama's War on Drugs to Blame, Joshua Swain, Kennedy & Nick Gillespie, May 21, 2012
• Beach Boy Bruce Johnston Calls Obama (and Romney) an "Asshole", Matt Welch, May 11, 2012
• Arizona Voters Can Wear Their Politics On Their Sleeves (Or Anywhere Else), J.D. Tuccille, May 7, 2012
• 'No Fly Zone' Over Chicago for NATO Summit, Ed Krayewski, May 2, 2012
• Reason.tv: Schools Use GPS Uniforms to Track Students! (Nanny of the Month, April 2012), Ted Balaker, May 1, 2012
• Does the First Amendment Cover the Right to “Like” Something on Facebook?, Damon W. Root, April 30, 2012
• Baseball Morality: You Can Lie to the Taxpayers You Steal Money From, But Just Don't You Go Talking About Fidel Castro!, Matt Welch, April 10, 2012
• U.S. Not Allowing Pakistani Drone Lawyer Into Country, Ed Krayewski, April 10, 2012
• Do You Have a Free Speech Right to Heckle Athletes, Coaches, and Referees at Publicly Financed Stadiums?, Matt Welch, March 29, 2012
• 12 Colleges that Suck When it Comes to Free Speech. Does Your Alma Mater Make the Grade?, Nick Gillespie, March 27, 2012
• Five Ways Citizens United Is Making Politics Better, March 17, 2012
• Dharun Ravi Found Guilty on Most Charges, Tim Cavanaugh, March 16, 2012
• Reason Writers Around Town: Jesse Walker on "Doonesbury," in Newsday, Matt Welch, March 16, 2012
• Does H.R. 347 Change Anything About Your Right to Protest Politicians Under Secret Service Protection? It's All In the Word Change., Lucy Steigerwald, March 1, 2012
• Is It Progress When the Price on Salman Rushdie's Head Declines by $5.2 Million?, Nick Gillespie, February 24, 2012
• Blasphemous Saudi Tweeter Has Been Deported, Supporters Could Be Punished, Nick Sibilla, February 13, 2012
• "This is a sad case of the South Korean authorities’ complete failure to understand sarcasm.“, Lucy Steigerwald, February 9, 2012
• “If the First Amendment means anything, then school officials cannot prohibit students from handing out gifts with Christmas messages due to the religious content of those messages.”, Damon W. Root, January 27, 2012
• Attn: New York Reasonoids! Come See a Benefit Reading of Václav Havel's The Memorandum Tonight!, Matt Welch, January 27, 2012
• Salman in No Rush to Die…., Shikha Dalmia, January 20, 2012
• Urinegate; Binge Drinking; Foreclosures Up; $1.2 Trillion Loan; and More: PM Links, Tim Cavanaugh, January 12, 2012
• Rushdie: Still Hounded After All These Years, Shikha Dalmia, January 11, 2012
• Protecting Venice Beach From Boardwalk Commerce, Protecting Free Speech by Banning T-Shirts, Matt Welch, January 10, 2012
• Josef Škvorecký, RIP, Matt Welch, January 3, 2012
• Not Only Did the Climate of Hate Influence Jared Loughner, Denying That Truism Is "Actively dangerous", Matt Welch, January 3, 2012
• On Christa Wolf, Havel, and the Much-Overused Word Dissident, Matt Welch, December 29, 2011
• South Korea Law Prohibits Praising North Korea, Lucy Steigerwald, December 8, 2011
• Newt Gingrich, Savior of Internet Porn?, Peter Suderman, December 2, 2011
• Occupy L.A. Gets a Reprieve, Poet Laureate Gets Clubbed, Tim Cavanaugh, November 28, 2011
• Don't Let's Discuss the Legitimacy of the Saudi Government, MMkay?, Brian Doherty, November 18, 2011
• Former Ohio Congressman's Lawsuit Will Proceed in Federal Court -- in Spite of the First Amendment, Seth McKelvey, October 26, 2011
• The Solution to Bad Speech Is More Speech, Jesse Walker, October 12, 2011
• Is Kokesh Camera Block About Free Speech or Privacy?, Tim Cavanaugh, October 12, 2011
• Occupy Atlanta’s Rules of Parliamentary Procedure: X-Posed!!!, Tim Cavanaugh, October 11, 2011
• Silencing John Lewis Is What Democracy Looks Like, Tim Cavanaugh, October 10, 2011
• New York State Senators Who Want to Outlaw Cyberbullying Hopefully Just Trolling, Lucy Steigerwald, October 5, 2011
• "My client will not be bullied out of exercising his First Amendment right to make clear his belief that your client is a spoiled, brainless twit who is cheapening the political discourse in this country", Mike Riggs, October 5, 2011
• Hank Williams Jr. To Return Award From Institute for Football Preparedness, Nick Gillespie, October 4, 2011
• There's a Hashtag Goin' On, Jesse Walker, August 11, 2011
• Jewish Groups Speak Out Against Israel's Speech-Killing Boycott Law, Hannah Burak, July 20, 2011
• John Galliano Apologizes for Speaking His Mind at Farcical Anti-Semitism Trial, Mike Riggs, June 22, 2011
• Oh, the Incivility of the Racist, Taliban Right!, Matt Welch, June 21, 2011
• Federal Judge: “Taken seriously, Citizens United requires that corporations and individuals be afforded equal rights to political speech, unqualified.”, Damon W. Root, June 8, 2011
• Jefferson Memorial Dance Dance Revolution - 6/4/2011, Joshua Swain, June 4, 2011
• Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Corporate Contributions to Political Candidates, Damon W. Root, May 27, 2011
• Oh, Goody--France Is Trying to Civilize the Internet, Matt Welch, May 25, 2011
• BHL Update: "Make the Howlers Shut Up"!, Matt Welch, May 24, 2011
• Reason TV: The High Value of Low Speech - First Amendment Attorney Robert Corn-Revere Defends The Right to Offend, Zach Weissmueller, May 23, 2011
• The Joke Is on Stephen Colbert, Damon W. Root, May 19, 2011
• Clarence Thomas and the First Amendment, Damon W. Root, May 11, 2011
• John Paul Stevens Praises Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, Damon W. Root, May 6, 2011
• Reason Morning Links: Who's Tortured, Lobbyists Rub Their Hands, Feds Spook States Over Pot, Matt Welch, May 4, 2011
• More Than 40 Dead In Syria: Censored and Uncensored, Tim Cavanaugh, April 22, 2011
• Worthless Canadian Initiative, Jesse Walker, April 21, 2011
• Angry French Catholics Destroy "Piss Christ", Matt Welch, April 19, 2011
• It Doesn't Get Any Clearer Than That: "Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war", Matt Welch, April 3, 2011
• Reason.tv: Are Dems More Thin-Skinned than Reps? Comedian Sam Tripoli on PC, Ron Paul, and Naughtiness, March 29, 2011
• Media Reformers Push FCC to Track Financial Backers of Political Speech, Peter Suderman, March 24, 2011
• “Why Do Newspapers Support Westboro Baptist, but Not Citizens United?”, Damon W. Root, March 7, 2011
• Wanna Speak at Point Loma Nazarene University? Better Not Be Mildly Pro-Legalization, Even if You Are a Former Head of State, Matt Welch, March 3, 2011
• What Speech Would Be Free In Alitopia?, Tim Cavanaugh, March 2, 2011
• Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Westboro Funeral Protests, Damon W. Root, March 2, 2011
• One Policy Wisconsin Should Not Change, Jesse Walker, February 28, 2011
• Better That 84,000 Be Libeled Than 10 Go Free, Radley Balko, February 17, 2011
• Is There a Charter 77-Type Movement Underneath the People Power Uprising in the Middle East?, Matt Welch, February 11, 2011
• The Keystone KGB and Russia's "Mafia State", Michael C. Moynihan, February 8, 2011
• "This is the first time in my life I get to say what I think in public", Matt Welch, February 8, 2011
• Does the First Amendment Protect the Corporate Speech of the New York Times Company?, Damon W. Root, February 8, 2011
• Fully Isolated Jury Association, Brian Doherty, February 3, 2011